Apparently Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee has become another of those positions, like being head of an Ivy League school or Governor of the Federal Reserve, to which white men of Christian heritage Need Not Apply.

The clique which controls the RNC has just ordained failed Maryland Senate candidate and professional Black Michael Steele: Michael Steele becomes first black RNC chairman By Liz Sidoti Associated Press January 31 2009-01-31

Steele was preceded by professional Hispanic Senator Mel Martinez (R-Cuba) who has apparently found masquerading as a Republican Senator - now the brilliant leadership supplied by his cronies has cost the GOP the House, Senate, and White House - too much like work. (Martinez dropped out of the RNC position in late 2007 and his assistant Mike Duncan served as stop-gap.) Martinez succeeded hereditary open borders fanatic Ken Mehlman.

There is an irony here. Steele was already being prepared for Coronation in 2006 when the Rove/Mehlman crowd realized that somebody has put some sensible immigration remarks on Steele’s Senate Campaign website. So he was dumped.

Some VDARE.com readers might hope that this means Steele will actually alter the RNC Establishment’s line on immigration. That is very dubious. He has spent the last two years licking boots in preparation for this role. As Marcus Epstein noted in his VDARE.com report on the event, Steele opposed Ward Connerly’s raising of Affirmative action at National Review’s so-called Conservative Summit in 2007

only Connerly, who has heroically led two successful state wide ballot initiatives against affirmative action, made opposing the policy a top priority. Michael Steele said affirmative action was a side issue—we needed to revitalize the black culture and it will go away.

And after the Paul/Guliani South Carolina confrontation, Pat Buchanan reported

…Michael Steele, GOP spokesman, was saying that Paul should probably be cut out of future
debates…

adding

By all means, throw out of the debate the only man who was right from the beginning on Iraq.

The childishly credulous AP report parrots Steele’s boasting

The choice marked no less than “the dawn of a new party,” declared the new GOP chairman, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele

But notes

Steele, an attorney…was considered the most moderate of the five candidates running.

The truth is, Steele’s selection means no change. The RNC remains controlled by a faction which under the guise of “outreach” is determined to block any policy which could mobilize the GOP’s key constituency: White men of Christian heritage – and the women who love them. Their job is to contribute, vote – and shut up. The new Slave class!

In the post-Reconstruction South, there was the phenomenon of “Post Office Republicans”. These people maintained the local party machinery, did nothing, and every few years got to gobble federal patronage when the ebb and flow of national politics put the Republicans in the White House.

When politically serious white men started migrating into the Republican Party as the Democrat’s anti white bias became intolerable, their first task was to eliminate this group of parasites. It was quite difficult.

Now it needs to be done at the national level.

As I moused around the internet today, looking for a local appearance of Vicente Fox to harass as he travels America to flack his book, I noticed the San Francisco Commonwealth Club has a four-person forum on immigration tomorrow, with not a single friend of sovereignty invited to speak.

The title gives a hint of the agenda: Immigrants and What They Bring with Them.

With record numbers of legal and illegal immigrants crossing U.S. borders every day, immigration is an increasingly hot-button issue. Though the current debate often centers on what immigrants take from the United States, many immigrants bring with them skills, talents, a unique story and the potential for a significant contribution. Panelists will highlight benefits of empowering immigrants to become economically self-sufficient and integrated members of society.

Balanced immigration debates are becoming as rare as a mile of border fence these days.

A common match-up now is three open-borders cheerleaders vs. one sovereigntist, such as at the recent Notre Dame forum (watch it). Lou Barletta defended our national honor against Archbishop
(and pedophile protector) Roger Mahony, amnesty honcho Sen Mel Martinez and reluctant border state governor Janet Napolitano.

Another uneven debate was common-sensical Tucker Carlson on the Bill Maher show, where the assisting moonbats were trash-talking Joy Behar and New York Times economist Paul Krugman. (You can watch here to see general shrieking against reasonable arguments, but there is no immigration content.)

Yet another one-sided event was the elite-centered technology discussion recently held in Berkeley to be shown on PBS’ Charlie Rose Show, One-Worlder Economy Celebrated.

The point is that the leftist anti-nation-state crowd knows they cannot win in a fair fight, so they rig the debate whenever they can.

Back to the Commonwealth Club, you can listen to the merciless thrashing of fact-challenged Mexophiles in 2005 by Peter Brimelow and Ira Mehlman: Audio here.

You may politely castigate the Commonwealth Club for their fear of robust debate at club@commonwealthclub.org, and even suggest they fly in Peter Brimelow for a livelier forum than tomorrow’s diversity-fest will surely be.

Having been distracted this week by the need to earn a living – a requirement which constantly restricts the range and content of VDARE.com’s output – I have only just found these two excellent posts by our old friend A Certain Slant Of Light:

“Health Windows” — A Window To The World Of Taxpayer-Subsidized Healthcare For Illegals discusses the spectacle of what ACSL correctly calls “Mexico’s fast-growing network of Consulates” blatantly inciting US-resident Mexican citizens to steal health care from the American taxpayer. Several valuable articles are cited, including a Los Angeles Times article quoting FAIR’s Ira Mehlman:

“Clearly it is a policy of the Mexican government … to get all the institutions in the U.S. to provide services to their citizens who are living here illegally.”

Mehlman said Los Angeles County, especially, should not be partnering with the consulate to provide health services. “The county is broke, they are cutting back on services, they are closing emergency rooms, yet they are dreaming up new ways to provide benefits to illegal aliens,” he said. “It’s lunacy.”

Also a lucid discussion of the issue from the Corruption Chronicles blog:

Mexico’s government operates programs in about a dozen American cities that refers its nationals–living in the U.S. illegally–to publicly funded health centers where they can get free medical care without being turned over to immigration authorities.

The program is called Ventanillas de Salud (Health Windows) in Spanish and its mission is to help illegal immigrants find U.S. hospitals, clinics and other government programs where they can get free services without being deported for violating federal immigration laws.

VDARE.com has long been interested in health care costs and the way they are shunted – among other consequences it is probably the heaviest burden mass immigration places on the Middle Class via the radical reduction in the practical extent of insurance coverage available to them, a fact of which most members are generally ignorant.

Ted Kennedy’s Shadow-Dwellers Not Shy About Freebies

pivots off a human interest story in The Philadelphia Inquirer to demonstrate the massive cost of this country’s strange policy of paying foreign women to have citizenship-entitled babies here:

Undocumented women constitute 60 to 65 percent of about 3,000 prenatal patients treated at city health clinics yearly, said Kate Maus, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s director of maternal, child and family health. Eight years ago, she said, “all of them were insured.”

ACSL goes on to present a number of articles explicating the Anchor Baby problem.

A wonderful service to his country by ACSL’s proprietor, which I would guess from experience took most of a weekend. Carlos Sanchez is right to be impressed.

I hadn’t seen this, (it was published on Tuesday–these are the “Conservatives” who wanted to pass amnesty.

Conservatives: We must band together on immigration bill | Dallas Morning News

June 5, 2007

The choice we face on immigration isn’t between the Senate bill and perfection; it’s between the Senate bill and the unacceptable status quo.

This is the most far-reaching and thoughtful reform of our immigration system in four decades and one that will significantly enhance American competitiveness. As with any political compromise, improvements can be made. But the basic framework is one that conservatives should support. Indeed, for conservatives who opposed last year’s immigration bill, this package represents a step forward.

And more sickening excuses, along with the idea that amnesty would help gain control of the borders, that the fence would really be built, et cetera.

What’s fun with this kind of open letter is to go down the list of signers and make fun of them.

• Jack Kemp, who thinks that when George Washington said that the United States should be an asylum for the “virtuous and persecuted part of mankind,” he was talking about Mexican illegals.
• Linda Chavez
• Ken Mehlman who lost his job to a guy named Martinez.
• Jeb Bush, father of George P. Bush, whose mother told him ” We have to fight for our race.”
• Hector Barreto, chairman of The Latino Coalition, Bush administration hack, and holder of the Order Of The Aztec Eagle. [PDF]
• Max Boot, who wants to recruit an American Foreign Legion.
• Michael Gerson, “Mr. Compassionate Conservatism, ” last seen attacking “nativists” in the Washington Post for their “rage” and “national chauvinism,” (or patriotism, as it’s known outside the Beltway.)
• Some guy named Pancho.

Oh, and Tamar Jacoby signed it, too. That’s really reassuring.

In the WSJ, the former Florida Governor, along with discredited ex-RNC head Ken Mehlman, drags out the Pete Wilson myth to explain why the Republican Party needs the Kennedy-Bush bill. No mention of Jeb’s highly ambitious half-Mexican son George P. Bush, whom George W. Bush calls “44″, needing a new improved electorate to better his chances of carrying on the Bush dynasty.

By the way, George P. has finally shown a little noblesse oblige and joined the military. Well, kind of sort of. He signed up for the Naval Reserve.

To show how a real hereditary royal family works, Mayor Daley of Chicago’s son Patrick, who is about the same age as George P., enlisted as private in the Army back in 2004 after getting his U. of Chicago MBA. He’s now with the 82nd Airborne.

Two columnists normally numbered as leftish or “Progressive” have weighed in with valuable and distinctive attacks on the Bush Amnesty/Immigration Surge Bill.

Paul Krugman has generally been MIA on Immigration. How immigration bill could make things worse The Arizona Daily Star May 27 2007 begins almost apologetically with the usual ritual incantations

My own grandparents came to this country during that era, which ended with the imposition of severe immigration restrictions in the 1920s. Needless to say, I’m very glad they made it in before Congress slammed the door.
As supporters of immigrant rights rightly remind us, everything today’s immigrant-bashers say — that immigrants are insufficiently skilled, that they’re too culturally alien and, implied though rarely stated explicitly, that they’re not white enough — was said a century ago about Italians, Poles and Jews

Then veers abruptly into relevance:

Today, there’s a highly technical controversy going on among economists about the effects of recent immigration on wages. No matter how that dispute turns out, it’s clear that the earlier wave of immigration increased inequality and depressed the wages of the less skilled.
For example, a recent study by Jeffrey Williamson, a Harvard economic historian, suggests that in 1913 the real wages of unskilled U.S. workers were around 10 percent lower than they would have been without mass immigration

Of course, this is in principle exactly the present day finding of the Statistics Canada paper I blogged about on Saturday (and which still has yet to see any US MSM coverage).

Krugman then goes on to make an ingenious argument. He suggests that the non-citizen status of so much of the population in the early 20th Century “diluted democracy”

In 1910, almost 14 percent of voting-age males in the United States were non-naturalized immigrants. (Women didn’t get the vote until 1920.) Add in the disenfranchised blacks of the Jim Crow South, and what you had in America was a sort of minor-key apartheid system, with about a quarter of the population denied any political voice.
That dilution of democracy helped prevent any effective response to the excesses and injustices of the Gilded Age, because those who might have demanded that politicians support labor rights, progressive taxation and a basic social safety net didn’t have the right to vote.
Conversely, the restrictions on immigration imposed in the 1920s had the unintended effect of paving the way for the New Deal… by creating a fully enfranchised working class.

For this reason Krugman rejects any guest worker program. He, in effect, fears it is a trick by the GOP to avoid the Brimelow/Rubenstein prediction.

While abrasively self interested, this analysis is correct: it is the mechanism by which the Swiss keep tight control of their country despite an alien population proportion similar to the US.

Froma Harrop, while far less show-cased than Paul Krugman, has written much valuable work on immigration. Her May 22 column The Working Class Is Not Stupid About Immigration highlights a key reason why the American immigration disaster has gone so far: Worker Organization leaders betraying their followers:

The Service Employees International Union is backing a proposal to greatly expand the supply of low-cost labor pouring into the United States. The reason why is close to crazy…First off, any self-respecting union would blow its top at the very suggestion of a massive new guest-worker program. The AFL-CIO adamantly opposes the idea. Its president, John Sweeney, complains that the program gives employers “a ready pool of labor they can exploit to drive down wages, benefits, health and safety protections, and other workplace standards.”
It seems curious that the union does not mind adding another half million workers a year to compete with its own members. Its Website contends that America has a shortage of 10 million workers and that “nearly half of all jobs created from now until 2012 will be held by workers with a high school diploma or less.”
Duh — but don’t worker shortages cause wages to rise?

Harrop seems genuinely puzzled at the behavior of the SEIU

…one can’t be sure whether the SEIU aspires to be a union representing workers or an arm of the National Council of La Raza, a group that claims to further the interests of Hispanics — and does a lousy job of it.

VDARE.com has noted the odd stance of the Service Employees International Union and its grandstanding President, Andrew Stern before, for instance here and here. In all probability, as with the execrable former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, what we have here is a case of obsessive ancestor worship – from which Paul Krugman, thankfully, appears to have freed himself.

The Human Rights crime which is constituted by Affirmative Action in America has been an interest of VDARE.com’s right from the start. Indeed, our founder, Peter Brimelow, was writing hostile articles whenever he could for years previously–for instance here and here.

So it was that, and with RNC member Curly Haugland’s luminous assessment that the Republicans are pandering too much to minorities which I blogged on earlier in mind, that I read Now the GOP Is For Affirmative Action? Harry Stein City Journal Autumn 2006

Imperative reading for anyone concerned for anyone concerned with the direction of the American polity, this article is a lucid documentation of the Bush Administration’s reversal of the slow and painful efforts begun under Reagan to contain and repair the damage this iniquitous policy has wrought on the core Republican constituency–white men and their families.

A grim tale with a couple moments of wry amusement:

Ward Connerly, the black leader of the State Ballot Initiatives against Affirmative Action–including this year’s in Michigan - reports that an initially favorable reception by Texas Governor George W. Bush came to nothing:

“I was told that Karl Rove doesn’t  think that’s a good idea right now, we’ll get back to you later. To this day, it’s never happened.”

(Amnesty, accelerated immigration, Affirmative Action: why does this guy hate his own people so much?)

Senator Barack Obama is referred to as GOP chairman Ken Mehlman’s “Harvard Law School pal”. So that’s why Mehlman bailed out–no doubt he plans to run Obama’s Presidential campaign!

But otherwise it is a sordid tale of betrayal, at best stupid and cowardly, but probably in my view rooted in something worse.

However, the fact is that Connerly and the new American heroine, Jennifer Gratz, did actually win in Michigan. The campaign is extensively discussed in the article, which however went to press with their victory uncertain.

That they could win, in a Democratic year and a fairly liberal state, shows that Haugland is right. The issues are there. Properly presented, they can produce victory.

The problem is, that would entail policies which the gang controlling George W. absolutely does not want.

VDARE.com wishes it could have given more coverage to the Michigan effort, which might turn out to be the most important vote of the year. It is a matter of scarce resources!

Hat Tip, View from the Right, which has its own, characteristically acidic, analysis.

Evidently someone at the RNC got round to noticing that Michael S. Steel, the defeated black GOP Maryland Senate candidate, who was under consideration to replace the awful Ken Mehlman as party Chairman, had strayed off the Plantation on Immigration.

Gonzo!

Instead we are getting one of the Plantation overseers, Senator Mel Martinez (R-Cuba). Martinez has a D grade in the Americans for Better Immigration rankings. (Martinez to be face of GOP By Anita Kumar St Petersburg Times November 13 2006)

(Rep Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Miami, quoted gushing

�Sen. Martinez is superbly qualified to lead our party at this challenging time�Mel personifies the American Dream, as well as our party�s commitment to diversity.�

has an F. )

Martinez can be counted on to systematically neglect the interests of the core Republican vote, white men of Christian heritage.

So Ken Mehlman steps down.

Mehlman Won’t Seek Another Term as Republican Party Chief By Dan Balz W shington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 10, 2006:

Mehlman is leaving his position voluntarily and has not come under any pressure from the White House or state party leaders to vacate his position as a result of Tuesday’s elections.

In any normal American business environment, resignation would be an automatic and expected response to the election catastrophe. Disaster is not rewarded.

Those experienced with the Neoconservative tradition, however, might suspect that Mehlman is simply relinquishing a no-longer-profitable relationship. The RNC job now needs work.

One might also suggest that neoconservative purposes have been served.

This suspicion is intensified by the sudden avalanche of stories about Mehlman being homosexual. VDARE.com is not going to bother linking to these, which anyone with the brains to access Google News can find. The allegation has been long known. The issue a political mind will consider is, why now? Could the Bush White House be miffed? Even bitter?

The more important political question is, is the RNC really going have Michael S. Steele, the recently heavily defeated black Republican Senate candidate in Maryland,succeed Mehlman? (RNC asks Steele to replace Mehlman By Ralph Z. Hallow The Washington Times November 10 2006)

Why not a typical Republican voter? Perhaps that would encourage the others.

The reality is that the current Republican leadership refuses to promote the interests of their key supporters: White men of European heritage, and their families.

No doubt they are hostile to the policies this would entail. But if so, what are they doing in the Republican party?

In a year when White House blunders appear to have created a formidably lethal undertow for GOP House candidates, one might expect that the national party leadership would be extra alert for races where local circumstances have created favorable possibilities.

If the circumstances involve immigration policy, one would be dead wrong.

Democratic Congressman John Spratt�s hold on South Carolina�s 5th District has become quite anomalous in recent years. Although from a local patrician family and solicitous of business interests, Oxford-educated Spratt has moved steadily left � his ADA rating finally hit 100% in 2005. Meanwhile, his district, always pretty conservative in the old Southern style, has increasingly experienced heavy suburbanization from Charlotte, N.C. � right on the north eastern border.

Charlotte, and surrounding Mecklenburg County, is not only the stronghold of Representative Sue Myrick (ADA rating: 0%) but has also emerged as a hotbed of immigration patriotism, as exemplified by local Sheriff Jim Pendergraph. This followed a number of immigration atrocities, and caused a dramatic improvement in Congresswoman Myrick�s Immigration record from poor to excellent.

Spratt�s record is no good.

The Republicans produced a candidate willing to use the issue � see for instance U.S. House: Candidates trade barbs over immigration issue By Matt Garfield heraldonline.com 10/30/06.

The National Republican Campaign Committee�s response? As Treason Lobby organ The Charlotte Observer gleefully notes:

Last month, the National Republican Campaign Committee canceled $820,000 of the $1.3 million worth of TV advertising time it had reserved for Norman .

(Starting with hopes, ending with struggle � by Henry Eichel Sunday November 05, 2006.)

Just as in the Graf race, it is easy to see why. Absolutely the last thing RNC head Ken Mehlman and his cronies want is a handful of immigration-reform driven victories against a background of disaster. Victories like that in the �64 Goldwater debacle gave the GOP Southern Strategy decisive momentum. The national GOP establishment would rather lose.