ALABAMA’S JEFF SESSIONS OFFERS A NEW VISION FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
|| By RICK MANNING || A parade of Washington, D.C. and state politicians came to speak before a throng of mostly 20-something conservatives at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this past week. Many of those who think they are going to run for president spoke, with personalities ranging from Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina to Rand Paul, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal.
One senator who has been at the vanguard of the illegal immigration fight however, was strangely missing from the official program – Jeff Sessions from Alabama.
In a not-authorized-by-those-who-run-CPAC speech that Breitbart.com hosted, Senator Sessions laid out the case for a new Republican Party, a party of the people rather than the big corporate interests that use their financial power to choose nominees. Cigar smoke-filled backroom deals are no longer de rigueur of the ruling class, but in today’s modern world of communications that image is passé.
The Washington Times shed light on the modern manipulation of the political process by men of money in an article titled, “GOP must embrace pro-immigration policy, big donors say,” quoting Mitt Romney’s 2012 finance director Spencer Zwick as saying, “If someone wants to be taken seriously running for president, in my opinion, they need to be in a similar place.”
Sessions responded forcefully to the donor community’s push for Republican candidates for president to toe their amnesty line saying, “Contributions and supporters are always important in presidential elections and other elections too, but votes trump money.”
Continuing in his presentation, Sessions answered Zwick’s statement with basic truths that the American worker’s wages have declined, workforce participation has shrunk and that the U.S. Congress owes its allegiance to the American people, not corporate interests. He went on to argue that a Republican candidate for President who supported the big donor immigration policies would find him or herself on the wrong side of Americans who work for a wage or a salary on a core personal pocketbook issue.
“The American people are pleading for their country to do something about their problems for a changes, wages are down, we’re down nearly $4,000 in median income since 2007. This is a catastrophe. Middle class Americans have had a $4,000 decline in their wages. This needs to be the party for the working American.”
In a 2013 memo to his fellow Senators urging opposition to flooding the legal workforce with millions of new workers, the senator from Alabama argues that Republicans will win elections if they can appeal to “working Americans of all backgrounds,” pointing out that, “Low-income Americans will be hardest hit.”
Sessions’ message of conservative populism, putting the needs and concerns of the people who have become increasingly alienated from their own government, must be heeded …
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Rick Manning is president of Americans for Limited Government. Follow him on Twitter @RManning957. This piece (reprinted with permission) originally appeared on NetRightDaily.
48 comments
There can’t be a fight over something that doesn’t exist.
Republicans can have this fight-they actually have a ‘Soul’…the democrat party lost its soul decades ago…
“the Washington Times shed light…” that is the most hilarious line published on the web today.
Why can’t anyone understand that you can favor emigration as long as it’s legal emigration.
Because of the huge restrictions placed on people coming here legally and the desperation of those who want to come here? Becoming a citizen is very expensive and takes forever, and there is no guarantee you will get it. If illegal immigrants had that much time money and willpower they would not have to come to America to work under the table for less than minimum wage to survive.
Will power? Walking through the desert demonstrates will power.
Way more power will power than commenting on FitsNews 24/7.
Walking across a desert takes willpower and a few days. Getting citizenship takes extreme willpower and up to 25 years.
Nobody cares about Emigration.
You are so wise. I always appreciate your salacious correction. ;-P
There have been enough comments discussing souls on this website recently. “Sad souls” “black souls” “lying souls” “dark souls” “pitiful souls”. These are comments typically discussing biblical scripture and an elected official. I think we need a “soul” break.
Brutha ain’t got nothin’ if he ain’t got soul!
Maybe we need to re-evaluate and discuss who is getting and/or needing the soul pole.
Don’t forget “withered” and “doomed souls.”
Well, I see the immigration boogy man is back. Go Jeff, Go Jeff – Madam President is counting on you.
That 5-legged elephant is back! This must be some sort of bad omen?
“Congress owes its allegiance to the American people, not corporate interests.” – uh, did Jeff get the Memo? Guess not. Anyway – Plan C – let’s schedule another recess.
So the take away from the article:
Jeff Sessions, who’s proven racist past prevented him from being appointed to the Federal Bench is the soul of the Republican party.
The 2014 election resulted in a mandate against Obama’s executive action on immigration. This is the second time in as many days I’ve seen this wholly erroneous statement from Republicans trying to justify their shut down of Homeland defense. Obama’s executive action came AFTER the mid terms, and no amount of saying otherwise can change that bit of history. The lesson form the mid terms was that Republicans vote, and if the majority of voters stay home Republicans can win.
Wrong again.Obama’s poll numbers plummeted AND the voters were horrified by the thousands of illegals with children that were allowed to cross the border early last year.
That is why Obama and the Democrats were routed in November, AGAIN.
That and only 28% of voters showed up to vote. And those were the ones upset over brownie coming across the Rio Grande at night.
In ‘battleground’ states with close congressional elections over 50% voted INCLUDING the new Republican governor in Texas getting almost 50% of the Hispanic vote.
Can’t have 130% black turnout in every county in America every election cycle-DOJ gets suspicious…
50% of near zero is about 50% of – well – zero. 33% total turnout in Texas, of which only 15% was Hispanic. To put that into real numbers, out of 100 stand against a wall, only 33 voted, of that 33, on 4 were Hispanic. As the President said to latinos on Telemundo last week – you want change, you need to vote.
And since the vote was split – it means of that 4, the GOP got 2.
No.
75 house seats
11 senate seats
Once again Flip, missing the point.
Your point?That Democrats can’t win elections anymore?
Flip has never even met me before.
Think they were upset Obama was apparently letting Muslim terrorists cross the river…kinda like Obama threatening to shoot down Israel planes if they took out Obama’s Iran buddies nuke plants people have had enough of the liar in chief.
Liar in Chief – I thinks you needs to look in da mirror. Shots down Jewish planes, ISIL in Mexico. Where’z you gets yo news?
1. Louisiana: +12.9% (38.9%-43.9%)
2. Nebraska: +10.1% (37.5%-41.3%)
3. Arkansas: +9.9% (37.5%-41.2%)
4. Wisconsin: +9.4% (52.0%-56.9%)
5. Maine: +7.4% (55.2%-59.3%)
6. New Hampshire: +6.8% (45.7%-48.8%)
7. Alaska: +6.6% (51.9%-55.3%)
8. Washington, D.C.: +4.8% (28.9%-30.3%)
9. Colorado: +4.7% (50.6%-53.0%)
10. Kentucky: +4.2% (42.4%-44.2%)
11. North Carolina: +3.8% (39.2%-40.7%)
12. Florida: +3.4% (41.7%-43.1%)
13. Kansas: +2.6% (41.7%-42.8%)
14. Iowa: +1.4% (49.9%-50.6%)
15. Oregon: +0.2% (52.6%-52.7%)
In 15 states turn out was actually higher than 2010.
15 out of 50 – impressive. Of course most of those had Govorner races. Hey, why isn’t our own SC on this list?
Why are the children of immigrants so against immigrants? And don’t use that old bullshit everybody’s ancestors came here ‘legally’.
Because they preferz white immigrants over tan. And they believe that Great Grandpa Genovese and his wife Maria Pelotzi Genovese came here speaking flawless English and immediately developed a Southern accent and moved to Lexington and joined the Baptish church. When in fact they settled on the east side of Manhatten in a decidedly Italian neighborhood, and never spoke English even when they moved out to Passiac to live with their kids in the early 1970s, and continued to shop in Italian markets and attend the local Italian catholic church.
Bingo.
And belonged to the Sons of Italy (which is OK because it is not a black something or another).
My guess is they have watched the Democrat Party and the race hustlers like Jackson and Sharpton enslave blacks to generations of perpetual poverty and are saying no more.
Democrat Party could care less about Hispanics except they need votes in the future now that the black population is declining with the despair of poverty and abortion.
Who is left to pay for all of this???…the children of the immigrants that have always payed the bills in this country…
Democrats could care less, but that would make them Republicans.
When you see “Democrat Party” you know nothing else is worth reading.
What the new aged immigrants need to do is what our ancestors did, come in with guns, murder us in droves and drive the remnants of us into reservations they continue to step on for hundreds of years. It’s the American thing to do.
Anyone want free blankets?
soul?? I did not think these greedy, selfish people had a soul. They never display it but they can sure go to church !
Actually both parties need to reform. The GOP needs to accept the government the Founding Fathers put in the Constitution and Dems need to encourage more work and less handouts.
“…The GOP needs to accept the government the Founding Fathers put in the Constitution and Dems need to encourage more work and less handouts…”.
Well, you got it half right – “…the government the founding fathers put in the constitution…“?!? Did you really mean to imply that Republicans believe in extra-constitutional government on the order of your current occupant (or every Democratic occupant in the last 30 years) of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, or for that matter, nearly every Democrat in the House and Senate?
Your current occupant, an alleged “constitutional scholar” has violated it more time than I can count in the last couple of years slick.
The person residing in the White House is the President of the United States. He was elected to that office. Unlike that time Baby Bush was anointed.
As for violation of the Constitution, go hang out with the other Tea Nuts who know little or nothing about the Constitution, and choose to interpret it to be the way they want it to be.
“The layman’s constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn’t like is unconstitutional.”
Hon. Hugo L. Black
That sums up the tea nuts in a nutshell.
Thanks George, I never knew any of that, your post was so informative, I just can’t get over how much I learned, I’d like to hear more of what you think.
I’m rooting for injuries.
And the last man only barely standing.
The give away Democrats and the Rich Republicans have turned the so called Middle Class(Working Class) into the slaves of America.
Gee, Sessions sounds like a Democrat!
To start with, the GOP would need to have a soul before beginning a struggle.
Individually, GOPers must have souls. Something must go to Hell.