Well, if you watched the debate between Democratic candidates, you found out that Mr. John Dougherty will be aggressive, Ms. Cathy Eden will be exact, and Mr. Randy Parraz will be a good union leader and Mr. Rodney Glassman is the proud Vice-Mayor of a sanctuary city. They will all get us out of the war even though they are running for Senator and not Commander-in-Chief. Frank Camacho hosted the debate. Oh, yeah. And they also know all Arizonans don’t like SB-1070. Yet, one of them mentioned the 70% approval rating.
All of them carefully stayed away from the subject of Obamacare, but you can expect the Republicans to be asked about it. They, also, carefully avoided telling you that they are going to push to pass cap-and-trade to fight the evils of global warming, or climate change, or weather re-enhancement, or whatever they are calling it these days.
I tried to get through much of the rhetoric as possible—I really did. It was next to impossible to follow. I’ll try to make some sense of some of the debate.
The first question from Comocho, “Sir, many American voters are angry! People here in Arizona are upset with candidates who promise change, but once they get to D.C., they immediately work on their re-election campaign and cater to lobbyists. And all the while, nothing changes. If Arizona sends YOU to Washington, What are you going to do to change the status quo?”
John Dougherty, investigative reporter for the New Times, said,
“The first thing I will do is no longer be influenced or under the control of any lobbyist what-so-ever.”
Well, are you now?
“My job as the United States Senator is to gather the most important information and to use fact-based solutions to determine where we should go forward. We will keep an open-door to all sorts of information. I will be an aggressive Senator. I will hold oversight hearings and agressively look across the wide gammat of issues facing this country. We will not close the door to any kind of input that could provide us information that could lead us to workable solutions.”
Except that input from, say, Lord Monckton.
“It’s exremely important that we break the pattern of the past which has been major corporations using lobbyists to influence the legislator who write the laws, and those laws then are implemented often times not in the best interest of the American people. In addition, too many congressman just slap themselves on the back and congratulate themselves after they pass a law and pay no attention to the regulatory process. That is a crucial part. I would have strict oversight of the regulatory process to make sure that the laws are implemented properly. There would be no more BPs on my watch. We will hold BP accountable before such type incidents occur, not after.”
I’m not sure I understand. Do you mean like the health insurance industry that wrote Obamacare? And my favorite:
“And finally, here’s an alternative. Instead of trying to fight an ideological war with guns and bombs and, uh, and tanks, we might think about fighting an ideological war with information. And it might not be a bad idea to give everybody in Afghanistan a laptop, put a satellite over the country, give ‘em free wireless and move this nation forward with ecommerce and education for children and women, especially.”
Well, move over T2 Satellite Provider. They already provide wireless in Afghanistan. I am trying to find a way to illegally immigrate to Afghanistan to get me one of those Chinese-child-labor-made laptops that I cannot afford right here in the good old US of A! Don’t worry. I’ll be back. Although that may not be pleasing news to some of you. Hey, how about dropping them in Mexico so the drug cartel has a better communication system! See. I can be a Democratic Senator!
As for border security, all of them said that we don’t need troops on the border, but we need to bring our troops home to protect the border. Only two of the candidates, Dougherty and Glassman, exceeded the soothing, democratic phrase of Comprehensive Immigration Reform and said amnesty.
“But it needs to be teamed up with a way for to individuals to come here legally and pay taxes and work as well as a pathway for the eleven- to twelve-million people that are already here,”
was the way that Glassman, ex-councilman of the sanctuary city of Tuscon, put it. But the Democrats are proud to say that the illegals are the true patriots (Nancy Pelosi) and that they work hard doing the jobs Americans don’t want to do and pay taxes and social security that they cannot benefit from. Parraz correctly identified our northern border as that we share with Canada. So, I guess he won’t star in any Youtube videos.
Dougherty said,
“What we need to do is document the flow of workers from Mexico in the United States; who they are; bring them out of the shadows. Get the black market off the books. The black market is allowed employers in this State to profit immensely by offering lower wages and shoving off health care costs on the rest of us. Document the people who are here, put visas in place to, uh, to provide low wage jobs to meet economic demand in the State. And once we have that one in place, create a pathway for permanent residency for otherwise law abiding citizens. The last thing we should do is force deportations of hundreds of thousands of people who are otherwise contributing to this economy. We can solve this problem with a rational economic approach.”
So there are only hundreds of thousands of people to deport, not eleven- to twelve-million. And their health care costs are shoved off on the rest of us, so the answer is amnesty so they can reap the benefits of Obamacare. I think I’m followin’ ya so far. No, I’m not.
Dougherty responded to another question on the economy, “We can created hundreds-of-thousands of jobs and Arizona should be the center of that effort. That way we can have stimulus spending, increase the, uh, uh, job creation without increasing the deficit. There’s plenty of money in Washington to do that right now.”
Presumably for the hundreds of thousands of people we don’t want to deport. Only Parraz noted that five-million illegals that are here came here on a visa and overstayed it. You know, those that want the “Dream” legislation passed.
ON border security, Parraz said,
“Actually Look at FBI statistics, uhmm, crime along the border is actually down and and it’s actually a safer place to be. We need to do is figure out what is… You can’t talk about border security unless you talk about comprehensive immigration reform in its entirety. I mean, you can put the tallest wall up if you want, but still over five-million people who are here on an undocumented status came here legally. In other words, they came here on a visa and overstayed it. So border security has to be an honest discussion not just about, its about, keeping people out, but how can we create a process where we understand and deal with immigrants who are here and have been here for decades. The other thing is if you look at the resource, over eighty-five percent of the border patrol officers and agents are positioned on the south-west border. A border that’s less than two-and-a-half times the size of our northern border. Which is with Canada. So if you look at terms of per-mile in terms of agents we have about eight agents per-mile that’s already on the border. Now you want to multiply it with National Guard to go down to the border. The issue is that, what is the crisis taking place at the border? We need to step back and look at what’s really happening and put our… Do you want to put 500 million dollars in a fence and mobilize the military? Or do you want to put 500 million dollars in education here in Arizona? I want to put the money here in education for Arizona.”
Emphasized remarks mean amnesty, of course. As for education, you mean like for the La Raza classes that teach the The Nation of Aztlan? Or the civics classes that teach that the government will take you from your family and take care of you?
All of them say that we have to boost the economy right here at home and give all of our resources away to the world while not raising the deficit with their stimulus packages that they all promise. I’m not sure if they know this, or not, but the only agency in America that “coins money and regulates the value thereof” is the the private Federal Reserve. They are the only agency that can make money out of thin air with the blessing of the Congress that shirked their duties under Article I., Section 8, Clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States. Congress does not make money, they take money—take it from you—to “spread the wealth.”
Dougherty’s answer, in part, to the “redistribution of wealth,” was,
“Well, the redistribution of wealth has already occurred. The redistribution of wealth has gone from the working people and the middle-class of this country to the upper income, ah, the very, very small percentage of people at the top…This last recession, this last recovery that we just went through, prior to the uh, prior to the 2006, 2007 collapse, this was the first time in the history of this nation that working men and the middle-class did not see an increase in wages… and in addition, the lax regulatory oversight of Congress, particularly of the Savings and Loan, or the financial industry on wall Street allowed for a massive housing bubble that further made the middle-class and working men and women in America deeper in debt and, frankly, facing a rather hopeless situation.”
The New Times don’t pay so good, huh? (See also: Fannie Mae and the Vast Bipartisan Conspiracy, Obama Sued Citibank Under CRA to Force it to Make Bad Loans – UPDATED. See also this video and this video)
Only Dougherty broke the carefully observed rule that you don’t mention Obama which he, I believe, four times. Especially when he glorified Obama’s stimulus package—proposed by George W. Bush—that saved us from a depression! You’ve seen a lot of people happy about the economy, have you? (Michael Barone has an answer for that. Even the Gallup Econonic Confidence Index is at -37 percent.)
While Glassman’s web site declares him the “clear winner” in the debate, I beg to differ. First off, Parraz, of all of them, had most of his facts straight. He’s “progressive” through-and-through, but he did have his facts straight. And he is the only one to use the tried-and-true tearjerker of all; For the children. In his closing statement he related the sad tale of how his children came home with a petition to save the music teacher at their school.
Beat that, Glassman!
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