Breaking News!! Soap Opera Politics Vol 1 Issue 23: The GOP - A Party Divided!!

The GOP is a Party - Divided!

After eight long years under George Bush´s regime, the country is in turmoil! The American Public is wracked with anger due to the Economy and Other Issues. Gas prices are going through the roof, we have a senseless war in Iraq with no end in sight, in-fighting across the nation over everything from Health Care, Illegal Immigration, Religion and Global Warming. Most Citizens, including members of the GOP, are blaming the problems on President Bush and the GOP.

The Republican Party has always had various factions, from the Christian Right to the Neocons, Global Business to the ANTI Immigration Reformist and finally to the Extremists. In previous elections, the Republican Party united across all groups. In this election year, they are clearly divided.

Case in Point 1: Refusals to Support McCain (examples)

1. Ron Paul refuses to endorse McCain

2. At least 14 Republican members of Congress have refused to endorse or publicly support Sen. John McCain for president, and more than a dozen others declined to answer whether they back the Arizona senator.

3. Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recently declined to answer whether he will support Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president. (payback)

Case in Point 2: The Battle in Arizona - Russell Pearce vs Other Republicans

"There is a growing sense among people who are mainstream, pro-business Republicans, who believe Russell Pearce is leading our party into a permanent wilderness if we don't act," saidNathan Sproul, a former executive director of the state Republican Party and chairman of the Mesa Deserves Better committee.
Sproul is also running a ballot campaign this fall that would loosen some of the state's employer sanctions, but he says the critique of Pearce goes far beyond illegal immigration. Sproul said Pearce leads an extremist faction of the party that, if not called out, will take over the state GOP."

Many GOP groups are angry at Pearce for a variety of reasons, including:

1. Pearce disses John McCain (see video). Response to New York Times reporter asking if he was claiming that John McCain is “treacherous, treasonous”: “Yes, I am.”

2. Pearce links himself to Nazis and Racists. Distributes an article from the neo-Nazi National Alliance website.

3. Pearce requests a reprisal of "Operation Wetback," and claims his GOP peers are "sissies" for not using the racist term themselves because "You don't use it today because people have tried to make it offensive. Things change, and you know what? Who cares?"

Pearce has lost several key endorsements from GOP leaders including that of U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.), and Arizona State Sen. Carolyn Allen (R) who said Pearce had "lost his moorings. He's driving himself mad about this [immigration debate]."

These are but examples. Other GOP contenders are jumping on the ANTI Immigration Reform platform and attempting to use it as a stepping stone, including Tom Tancredo, Joe Arpaio and Jim Gilchrist. In the meantime, GOP Leaders are desperately attempting to keep the whole Immigration debate undercover until after the election.

Some of the ANTI Immigration reform groups are not standing still for this attempt at a cover up of their primary cause! NumbersUSA, Alipac.us and a Congressman are advocating "Operation Calm Before the Storm." They are asking their members to sign a petitition and deluge Congress with their message. The mission: "To position every activist group in the nation on the same "Playing Field" with its' opposition, by providing access to, and the facilitation of, currently available technology based “Tools” and information resources necessary to effectively combat illegal immigration on an individual community basis."

These ANTI groups provide free form letters and faxes and encourage their members to overwhelm Congress with these messages. In the past, their members, primarily retirees, have been quite successful with their use of internet tools. However, now, Congress and all those that oppose their agenda are fully aware of their tactics. During their last "National Rally" only 2 dozen people marched. The reality is, they have very few supporters!

The question today is, will the GOP continue to splinter? Will those with specific agendas continue to disrupt the vast majority? Will they continue to refuse to support their candidate? We will see at the GOP Convention!

The Republicans have to make a decision. Either they want a chance at winning in November or they don´t.

RNC Crony ´Agriprocessors´ Still in Business. Owners Unpunished!

Craig from ProjectUSA (an ANTI website) wrote a brilliant blog about the heinous Employer ´Agriprocessors.´
As I wrote a few weeks ago, on May 13, ICE swept through the Agriprocessors´plant and swept 390 migrants away in the largest raid in US History. As Craig wrote, "The 390 detainees who were working in Agriprocessors’ slaughterhouse are the vanilla surface of a much darker story underneath—a deeply troubling story that demands the owners of Agriprocessors, among others, be prosecuted under the full weight of the law."
Craig´s research indicates the Agriprocessor owners have a much darker history.

Agriprocessors..have two lucrative and pernicious schemes going:
Scheme 1: The recruitment, hiring and exploitation of desperate Guatemalans and other Latino workers, driving wages down to bare subsistence to work in its slaughterhouse.
Scheme 2: The Fraudulent Sale of EW-3 Visas to Chinese Nationals. The Chinese Nationals pay $30K for each visa, through which they may obtain a Green Card. This results in thousands of green cards delivered each year through fraudulent means -- fraudently claiming the United States has run out of native-born meat-cutters and then, with the help of American Immigration Lawyers Association member Christopher Teras, securing work visas for foreigners worth $30,000 each on the street in Guangzhou. The end result is millions of dollars in profit for Agriprocessors.
Please read Craig´s detailed report for the full report.

I agree with Craig. "If this story doesn’t end with significant prison sentences handed down for Agriprocessor owners, there is, as they say, no justice."

I again say, ANTIs and PROs should come to agreement on sanctioning, imprisoning the Business Owners, particularly Agriprocessors for their heinous crimes!

LATE BREAKING NEWS: from The Jewish Press
Agriprocessors Founder Orders Shake-Up
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Mounting pressure from Jewish groups and members of Congress has led the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States to start searching for a new CEO less than two weeks after federal agents arrested nearly 400 of its employees in a massive immigration raid. Aaron Rubashkin, the founder of Agriprocessors, announced May 23 that he intends to find a replacement for his son Sholom as company CEO.


Note: Some Blogs are reporting this is Agriprocessors way of hiding the owner´s son in Israel to avoid Legal Action against him!

Soap Opera Politics Vol 1, Issue 5: Is John McCain Still Up for the Job?

John and Cindy McCain Meet the Press to defend against accusations of McCain´s marital and lobbying indiscretions.

The New York Times Reports:
For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk
By JIM RUTENBERG, MARILYN W. THOMPSON, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and STEPHEN LABATON
Published: February 21, 2008
WASHINGTON — Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers. A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity. When news organizations reported that Mr. McCain had written letters to government regulators on behalf of the lobbyist’s client, the former campaign associates said, some aides feared for a time that attention would fall on her involvement.
note: The NY Times says this story has been a long time in the works. The story speaks for itself. No one has challenged what their report says.

Wikipedia Reports:
McCain Spouses:
1. Carol Shepp (1965-1980) (divorced)
2. Cindy Hensley McCain (1980-Present)
In April 1979, while attending a military reception for senators in Hawaii, McCain met and fell in love with Cindy Lou Hensley, 17 years his junior, a teacher from Phoenix, Arizona who was the daughter of James Willis Hensley, a wealthy Anheuser-Busch distributor, and Marguerite Smith Hensley...McCain filed for and obtained an uncontested divorce from his wife Carol in Florida on April 2, 1980. He gave her a generous settlement, including houses in Virginia and Florida and financial support for her ongoing medical treatments resulting from the 1969 automobile accident; they would remain on good terms. McCain and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona, with Senators William Cohen and Gary Hart (another well known cheater) as best man and groomsman. McCain's children were upset with him and did not attend the wedding.
3. Ms Vicki Iseman (illicit affair) (1990´s)
NY Times reports said affair with Ms. Vicki Iseman. Salon.com reports that during this same period, Cindy McCain confessed her Percocet and Vicodin drug addiction to Jane Pauley on Dateline and Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America and the fact that she stole the drugs from her own nonprofit medical relief organization.