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Bill Kristol has hilariously bad advice for Sarah Palin (John McCain) - 11/20/2009

... interest. Discussing the fact that John McCain is currently just barely beating JD Hayworth in the 2010 primary, he says: Still, who could help McCain beat back a populist conservative challenger? Sarah Palin. I predict that Palin will come to Arizona next summer to campaign for McCain, will make an impassioned case for him, and will help him win. She will thereby repay McCain for his confidence ...

Carly Fiorina supports massive skilled immigration ("There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore") - 11/06/2009

Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina recently announced her candidacy as a Republican for senator from California; she's trying to unseat Barbara Boxer. While the latter is a highly worthy goal, she appears to be a globalist, profits-at-any-cost supporter of massive immigration at least of the skilled variety. Her position on low-skilled immigration isn't known, but generally speaki...

Senators complain about DHS plan to reduce Border Patrol agents on southern border - 10/10/2009

A group of senators - mostly of the "secure the border first, then amnesty" variety - have sent a letter to Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security complaining about her plan to reduce the number of Border Patrol agents on the Mexican border. The letter is at [1], excerpted below:

Obama health care speech: September 9, 2009 - 9/09/2009

... was a good idea when Senator John McCain proposed it in the campaign, it's a good idea now, and we should embrace it. Note also that Obama is - at least in this speech - not misleading about the numbers of those who are uninsured: if you're one of the tens of millions of Americans who don't currently have health insurance In the past, Obama has falsely claimed that 47 million "...

John McCain still confused over Hispanic vote - 8/03/2009

... "news", but yesterday John McCain said the following on "State of the Union" with John King of CNN (video might be here but it won't play for me): "On the issue of the Hispanic voter, we have to do a lot more. We Republicans have to recruit and elect Hispanics to office... And I don't mean just because they're Hispanics, but they represent a big part of the...

White House immigration meeting of amnesty all-stars: Obama, McCain, Graham, Cornyn, Gutierrez - 6/26/2009

Yesterday, Barack Obama met with various members of Congress to discuss comprehensive immigration reform. His remarks are at [1], a list of attendees is at [2], and some quotes from attendees is at [3]. Nothing very important appears to have happened or been said. Note also that before the meeting, Rahm Emanuel said, "If the votes were there [for amnesty], you wouldn't need to have the m...

Republicans that Obama administration listens to include McCain, Schwarzenegger, and Mel Martinez (on immigration) - 6/10/2009

... Snowe, followed by Dick Lugar and John McCain, the latter two on foreign policy. Those stellar lights are followed by David Brooks of the New York Times and Harvard University law professor Jack Goldsmith. Ambinder also lists others including Chuck Grassley, Judd Gregg, Orrin Hatch, Mel Martinez on immigration matters, the National Association of Manufacturers, Lindsey Graham, and governors Charl...

John McCain not invited to Obama immigration "reform" confab on June 17; Obama not serious about "reform"? - 6/04/2009

... Committee chairman. Not invited: Sen. John McCain, who introduced an immigration bill with Sen. Edward Kennedy and played a central role in the debate in recent years... [One senior GOP aide, whose boss had been involved in recent immigration debates] suggested the White House might be using the meeting as a "smokescreen to cover Obama’s campaign promise," giving proponents of immigra...

"National Council for a New America": new GOP, same old amnesty? (Jeb, McCain, Romney) - 4/29/2009

... Of Experts" will include John McCain, Jeb Bush, and Mitt Romney. The first two are obviously strong amnesty supporters; the last came out for it recently. Others on the panel include Haley Barbour and Bobby Jindal; their positions aren't known. Others signing on include John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, Lamar Alexander, and two who had their own amnesty plans: Mike Pence and J...

John McCain calls for closing the Mexican border over swine flu, but only "if it would prevent further transmission" - 4/29/2009

When even John McCain calls to close the Mexican border over the potential swine flu pandemic, you know it's serious. Except, he left himself an out indicating that he might just be blowing smoke (link): "At the same time, many questions still remain, including the question of why the cases of the H1N1 influenza in Mexico appear to be more severe and deadly than the cases seen in the U.S...

John McCain: "some of the 9-11 hijackers did come through Canada" - 4/24/2009

Speaking on Fox News earlier today, John McCain made the same mistake as Janet Napolitano did a few days ago. In an attempt to defend her, McCain said: "Well, some of the 9-11 hijackers did come through Canada, as you know." The Canadian ambassador corrected him as he had done with Napolitano: "As the 9-11 Commission reported in July 2004, all of the 9-11 terrorists arrived in the U...

McCain won't support union-driven immigration "reform" push; other uncertainties - 4/19/2009

... immigration reform. Now. per this, John McCain says: "The current plan being developed by the administration and organized labor calls for immigration reform that does not adequately address either securing the border or a legal temporary worker program and is a plan I cannot support... We need to act on the pressing issue of border security now, and then seek comprehensive immigration legis...

John McCain using support for Obama's amnesty to raise re-election funds (John Cornyn, Jason LeVecke) - 4/13/2009

... Obama was going to push amnesty, John McCain's Senate re-election finance committee co-chair Jason LeVecke sent out an email to supporters in Houston asking for money so that McCain could help Obama push amnesty (link):

McCain lashes out over leading on immigration "reform" and not getting "Hispanic vote"; not a moment of clarity - 4/03/2009

... pandering in vain takes a toll, and John McCain can't keep things bottled up for long. From this: John McCain sounds angry and frustrated that, despite the risks he took in pushing immigration reform, Hispanic voters flocked to Democrat Barack Obama in last year's presidential contest. McCain's raw emotions burst forth recently as he heatedly told Hispanic business leaders that the...

"Latino Voting in the 2008 Election: Part of a Broader Electoral Movement" - 1/28/2009

The Center for Immigration Studies has released a new report on the so-called Hispanic vote in the 2008 elections (link). A few key points: * The drop in support among Latinos for Republicans between 2004 and 2008 was part of a broad-based electoral movement away from the GOP, and was hardly specific to that demographic group. McCain received only 57 percent of the white male vote, compared with 6...

Juan Hernandez to lobby Obama for immigration amnesty (still with Reform Institute) - 1/25/2009

... official who later worked with the John McCain campaign doing outreach to (U.S.) Hispanics - was interviewed by the Al Dia (owned by the Dallas Morning News) and said he'll be staying in Washington DC to lobby the Barack Obama campaign to pass comprehensive immigration reform, aka an amnesty. Hernandez is still a Senior Fellow of the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Initiative" at...

McCain blames low Hispanic vote on those who weren't running for president - 1/08/2009

Yesterday was a special day for John McCain, where he went back to the Senate and immediately engaged in his own version of bi-partisanship: by stabbing his supporters in the back (link): At the all-day, private GOP meeting at the Library of Congress, McCain told colleagues their poor image among Hispanics, which he attributed to bitter intra-party squabbles over immigration reform, dealt his cam...

Right after election, Harry Reid called McCain and they pledged to work for amnesty - 1/06/2009

... after the election, Reid called John McCain and they pledged to work together on comprehensive immigration reform, aka amnesty. Reid doesn't know whether McCain has contacted Barack Obama with a similar pledge or not. The transcript is here, excerpt and video below. Note that David Gregory lets the provisions of "reform" pass right by him without noting how deceptive they are. ...

Juan Hernandez: McCain wishes he could have pushed my agenda (and, Ruben Navarrette is soft on divided loyalties) - 12/07/2008

Ruben Navarrette writes about John McCain's Hispanic outreach director Juan Hernandez, a dual citizen (U.S.-Mexico) with clearly divided loyalties who's a former cabinet-level official with the Mexican government. In Navarrette's creative re-telling of McCain's loss (link), he could have won if McCain's advisors had only let him be himself. I.e., by supporting Hernandez�...

John McCain/Barack Obama townhall debate live coverage (10/7/08) - 10/07/2008

Live coverage of the John McCain/Barack Obama town hall "debate" - concomitant with me weeping for those who want to turn our political system into something closely approximating the Soviet Union - begins now. The questions I've seen so far are simply allowing them to replay their stock speeches. You bet BHO supports nuclear energy. His contributors depend on it. Tom Brokaw has a f...

CNN "fact check" misleads about John McCain comprehensive immigration reform stance - 9/24/2008

Dear CNN: JOHN MCCAIN SUPPORTS AMNESTY/COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM. Sorry to shout, but I see that your "Fact Check: Is Obama ad right on McCain's immigration stance?" (link) continues the same lie that several of Barack Obama's other minions have tried to promulgate. While McCain has said a wide range of things (including support for "reform" one day before you ...

Barack Obama Spanish-language ad continues misleading about McCain economy "strong" comment - 9/23/2008

... context. In this case, it concerns the John McCain quote "the fundamentals of our economy are strong", which is followed immediately - literally without a pause - by "but, these are very very trying times" (video here). He's not only right about that, but to say something else would be to undermine confidence in the U.S. economy, something that could have far-reaching sid...

Jake Tapper "news" is two months old; ABC News deletes comment pointing that out - 6/11/2008

For an unknown reason, on June 10, 2008 Jake Tapper of ABC News posted an entry entitled "Dragged Kicking and Screaming, Tancredo Will Pull Lever for McCain". The reader might remember that from a couple months ago, yet Tapper posted it like it happened just recently and with no acknowledgement that it was old news (link). The Tancredo quote referencing Hillary Clinton as a contender sho...

John McCain back to supporting "comprehensive immigration reform", "guest" workers, H-1B visas - 5/22/2008

... people have tried to say that John McCain turned his back on "comprehensive immigration reform", i.e., a massive amnesty for illegal aliens. In a Silicon Valley speech today, McCain clarified the matter (link): After several of the business leaders complained about the difficulty in obtaining temporary H1B visas for scientists and engineers, something the Senate immigration bill was su...

Follow the lettuce: Western Growers endorses John McCain - 3/18/2008

... voted to endorse Arizona's John McCain in his bid to become the 44th president of the United States. "Senator McCain has shown courage, determination and exceptional leadership skills in support of policies and principles important to Western Growers' members in Arizona and California," said Western Growers President and CEO Tom Nassif. "He has steadfastly promoted fr...

John McCain would sign his own amnesty bill as president; tries co-opting attrition - 1/28/2008

Yesterday, Tim Russert asked John McCain: "If the Senate passed your bill, S.1433, the McCain/Kennedy immigration bill, would you as president sign it? McCain replied: "Yeah. But look, the lesson is, it isn't - one, it isn't going to come. It isn't going to come." Video here. In other news, McCain is now trying to pretend to embrace the attrition concept, where...

Supporters of immigration laws threatened by John McCain - 8/16/2007

Senator John McCain claims that he's received death threats over his immigration stance and Associated Press writer Steven Paulson, while noting that McCain "declined to elaborate on the threats" otherwise took him at his word and refers to the threats as "unprecedented". He probably isn't lying, but then again he's probably received such threats over the course ...

Senate immigration amnesty bill: the supporters - 5/21/2007

... course: president Bush, Sens. John McCain and Ted Kennedy * From "Few senators support the illegals bill" (link): Sen. Arlen Specter, one of the Republicans who helped craft the deal, said it's the best they could do... "It will treat the 12 million undocumented immigrants in a constructive way. It is not amnesty. They'll have to pay a fine. They'll have to earn thei...

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops supports Senate amnesty (Part #44849) - 9/27/2006

... conference organized by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass... ...In an interview before the news conference Soto, who was representing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, defended the involvement of the church in a political issue. "I think that the church is a very important part of what makes America strong," Soto said. "We're just lending our ...

EFE admits Goldwater "concentration camps" smear - 6/28/2006

... they print. * Jim Kolbe and John McCain, who tripped over themselves to condemn Goldwater Now, we get to the small-time smearers: * David Weigel at Reason Magazine with "In Your Heart, You Know He's Batshit Insane": How much of this has been hyped by the "Mexican news service"? Apparently not much; Goldwater has said the same thing before. * "Joe in DC&qu...

Don Goldwater's "concentration camps": a setup by illegal immigration supporters - 6/23/2006

... from such stalwart Americans as John McCain (R-AZ) and Jim Kolbe (R-AZ). However, there's just one problem: Goldwater didn't call for "concentration camps"; that phrase came from the state-run Spanish news agency EFE when reporting on his comments. The original article is at efe.es/includesasp/noticias.asp?opcion=4&id=1225615. Their report reads like something from a t...

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