In a week which, as many thinking Republicans realize, may have sealed the doom of their party’s national prospects for a generation, there was some comfort from the House. The GOP leadership evicted Rep. Jeff Flake (AZ – 6th District) from his seat on the Judiciary Committee. He claims it was because of his enthusiasm for immigration “reform”, meaning the Bush-Kennedy Amnesty/Immigration acceleration bill of last year. (Rep. Flake loses his Judiciary seat by Billy House Azcentral.com January 11 2007)

This gives some hope that the Republican House leaders are resuming the role I noted before the election, effectively functioning as a 3rd political force, as distinct from the White House as they are from the Democrats.

Flake needed to be evicted. With a career and recent C grade in the authoritative Americans for Better Immigration rankings, he is the worst member of the Arizona Republican delegation on the issue - excluding Senator John McCain (R –Main Stream Media). Repeatedly involved promoting various immigration-acceleration measures, he is already boasting about working with open-borders Democrats on a reprise of Bush-Kennedy. There is every likelihood he will be seduced by the wealth and patronage commanded by the Treason Lobby to become another Mike Pence.

Interestingly, The Wall Street Journal, predictably springing to Flake’s defense (GOP Flake Out January 12 2006 – access requires subscription) completely omitted the immigration angle. Their assertion is that Flake’s stance on “Earmarks” and “Pork” caused his demise (which is not at all what Flake himself says). The WSJ managers clearly realize being pro-amnesty is decisively unpopular amongst House Republicans. Consequently fall they back on threats about ethics issues.

Probably we will see a lot more of this tactic as the Treason Lobby struggles to retain control of Congress.

Robert Spencer discusses the foolish idea of Democrats that sensible, lawful profiling is somehow racist. (The new Congress is putting Keith Ellison, America’s first Muslim Congressman, on the Judiciary. His mission–stamp out profiling!)Along the way, he mentions several Muslims recently in the news for terrorist activities.

[2] Mohammed Yousuf Mullawala, a Muslim citizen of India, is the subject of a continuing investigation in Rhode Island after enrolling in a truck driving school, inquiring about getting a permit to carry hazardous materials, and telling instructors that he did not need to learn how to back up. Also, Rhode Island State Police Major Steven O’Donnell revealed that “we’ve tied some of his cell-phone records to people of interest nationally” –that is, people who are suspected of terrorist activity. “They’re not your typical person’s cell-phone history … the volume of contacts obviously raises the level of suspicion.” [...]

[3] Imam Fawaz Damra, the former leader of the largest mosque in Cleveland, was deported to the West Bank last Thursday. When he arrived, Israeli authorities promptly arrested him for his ties to the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. His failure to disclose those ties got him deported in the first place. He was also captured on videotape telling an Islamic audience that “the first principle is that terrorism, and terrorism alone, is the path to liberation…. If what they mean by jihad is terrorism, then we are terrorists” — despite having been a signer of the Fiqh Council of North America’s much lionized condemnation of terrorism.

[4] On Monday, a Pakistani Muslim, Shahawar Matin Siraj, was sentenced to thirty years in prison for his plan to blow up a Manhattan subway station.

[5] Last Friday in Palm Springs, a man named Haider Mohammad, who claimed to be an Al-Qaeda operative, was arrested in a bar after threatening to “kill all Jews.”[The Anti-Profiling Agenda FrontPageMagazine.com | January 12, 2007]

As I’ve noted before, there have been literally hundreds of foreigners prosecuted, deported and imprisoned on terrorist charges since 9/11, yet the media and Congress act like there’s not a serious infiltration problem brought on by permissive immigration laws and open borders.