Dividing the Conservative Coalition
- amnesty for illegals [1]
- Barack Obama [2]
- Eric Cantor [3]
- GOP Civil War [4]
- Gov. Rick Snyder [5]
- Immigration reform [6]
- John Boehner [7]
- Kevin McCarthy [8]
- Paul Ryan [9]
- Rep. Raul Labrador [10]
- Tea Party [11]
- US Chamber of Commerce [12]
House Republican “leaders” including Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy, and Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan are preparing to unveil a major package of immigration bills this week that is backed by the US Chamber of Commerce and the cheap labor wing of the business community.
We can pretty well tell that this is going to be a cave-in just by looking at the way it is being sold; “immigration reform,” not border security.
Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder pretty well summed-up the big business arguments in favor of so-called comprehensive immigration reform at a recent forum on immigration: "We need comprehensive immigration reform. To be blunt, we have a dumb system," said Snyder, who according to NewsMax then described efforts in Michigan to grant visas to immigrants for work. He said immigration reform would "turbo-charge" the economy in places like Detroit.
Of course our "dumb" system would be a lot smarter if it was actually enforced by President Obama, but that is another column.
So help us out here Governor Snyder.
According to John Gallagher of the Detroit Free Press, at 8.4%, Michigan’s unemployment rate remains well above prerecession levels. In 1998, the monthly unemployment rate dropped to a low of 3.7% in Michigan.
After the state’s economy bottomed out in 2009, Michigan added 57,200 jobs in 2010, 97,000 in 2011, and 37,400 in 2012, reports Gallagher.
Michigan gained 64,000 jobs in 2013; that number of jobs wouldn’t even fill the stadium for the Michigan State Spartans (capacity 74,000) and falls far short of a capacity crowd of over 100,000 for the University of Michigan Wolverines.
And Governor Snyder thinks adding more low wage workers to Michigan’s declining labor force will “turbo-charge” the economy?
As our friend Dr. Lee Edwards of the Heritage Foundation once put it, nothing matches the fury of a woman scorned except the fury of a conservative betrayed.
Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy and Ryan have concocted a plan to move the big business cheap labor bill after the bulk of the Republican primaries have passed. They don’t seem to grasp the lesson the conservative grassroots offered Republicans in 2006 and 2008 when the House Republican establishment was tossed out of power for betraying conservative principles. In caving in to the cheap labor wing of the business community and the Democrats race-baiting they are destroying the coalition that brought them to power in the Tea Party Wave election of 2010.
In 2009 and 2010 the Democrats under President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drove millions of voters right back into the arms of the Republicans. But if Republicans return to their bad habits—if they start working for K Street lobbyists instead of Main Street—they will, in our estimation, pay a terrible price.
Rep. Raúl R. Labrador (ID-1), once a leading immigration negotiator in the House, recently told The New York Times it would be a mistake to push forward on a package of immigration reform bills.
"The president has shown he’s not willing to work with us on immigration,” Labrador said. “It’s not worth having a party divided when we have so many issues we can come together on."
Congressman Labrador has it right.
People are already beginning to say: Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, and the Republican Party is dead.
In 2010 voters gave Republicans one more chance to get it right. They have been on probation. If they made any effort at all to hold the 2010 Tea Party Wave coalition together it would realign American politics for a generation or more in favor of Republicans. By passing an amnesty bill they are violating their probation. The limited government constitutional conservative coalition that brought them to power in 2010 will undoubtedly form again to throw them out if they pass an amnesty for illegal aliens bill.
Links:
[1] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/amnesty%20for%20illegals
[2] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Barack%20Obama
[3] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Eric%20Cantor
[4] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/GOP%20Civil%20War
[5] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Gov.%20Rick%20Snyder
[6] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Immigration%20reform
[7] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/John%20Boehner
[8] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Kevin%20McCarthy
[9] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Paul%20Ryan
[10] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Rep.%20Raul%20Labrador
[11] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Tea%20Party
[12] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/US%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce
[1] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/amnesty%20for%20illegals
[2] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Barack%20Obama
[3] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Eric%20Cantor
[4] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/GOP%20Civil%20War
[5] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Gov.%20Rick%20Snyder
[6] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Immigration%20reform
[7] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/John%20Boehner
[8] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Kevin%20McCarthy
[9] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Paul%20Ryan
[10] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Rep.%20Raul%20Labrador
[11] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Tea%20Party
[12] http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/US%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce
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