VDARE.com: Joe Guzzardi Says: Give NOW To Ensure VDARE.COM's Happy (Or Any) New Year!

Joe Guzzardi Says: Give NOW To Ensure VDARE.COM's Happy (Or Any) New Year!

Joe with Hoppy, his three-legged Labrador-Chow mix. We'll link to the story tomorrow—if donations restart!

This is my renewed urgent appeal that I originally made exactly one year ago:  give generously to my VDARE.COM if you want my columns to continue to appear.

Only with your generous financial aid can we continue to report on breaking, behind-the-scenes news in our vitally important fight to save America and beat back the Treason Lobby.

Your contributions will help keep me, America's most prolific immigration analyst—twenty-five years and counting—on the beat!

VDARE.COM Editor Peter Brimelow has insisted that I be candid with you. So I'll remind you that, for nearly a decade, I've accurately predicted, with remarkable regularity, and exclusively at VDARE.COM, the outcome of events that influence our battle to save America—going against the Main Stream Media's conventional wisdom (and often against my colleagues) every time.

Tooting my own horn, if you will, is a departure in form for me.

But desperate times call for desperate measures!

So here goes. I'll begin with a recent example that you have not, I'm sure, read or heard one single word about in the notoriously inept print and broadcast media. That's because the only place you would read about it is right here at VDARE.COM!

Back in October, when Rep. Luis Gutierrez began threatening to introduce his amnesty legislation, I predicted that I expected the White House to put a clamp on him.

Here's what I wrote:

"Gutierrez's amnesty bombast hurts the Democrats at a time when they can't afford to take further body blows in the shape of more poorly-conceived liberal programs they can't deliver on.

"What the Democrats should do with Gutierrez is follow the lead set by Karl Rove when he thought Rep. Tom Tancredo's immigration enforcement stance undermined President George W. Bush. Rove telephoned Tancredo to order him to "never darken the doorstep of the White House again."

"White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel should threaten to muzzle Gutierrez. Since leaning on a fellow party member indicates dissent, a silencing maneuver would be tricky. An experienced hatchet-man like Emmanuel could pull it off easily, however."

That's exactly what happened ten days ago!

But you didn't read about it in the Washington Post or the New York Times. You didn't hear it reported by CNN, Fox News or any of the outlets supposedly responsible for delivering important news.

You will, however, read about it here in my column right now!

This is the story of what happened between Gutierrez and Emmanuel and how H.R. 4321 was side-tracked:

As I anticipated, Emmanuel leaned on Gutierrez not to introduce his bill—too much uncertainty about the fate of health care legislation, too much erosion of public support for President Obama,  zero enthusiasm among true Americans for amnesty.

Gutierrez took Emmanuel's message, that his bill would be on hold for the indefinite future, back to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

But the members said: "No way!"

Then, in a none-too-smooth move that had to rouse the White House's ire, the caucus' senior member Solomon Ortiz (grade: F-) sponsored H.R. 4321. Officially, the bill is Ortiz's; unofficially, it's Gutierrez's.

I'm right again!

So now, for your review, and with the confident expectation that it will encourage you to dig deeply into your pockets, I offer a partial list of my accurate, against the grain forecasts. A complete accounting would take up too much of your valuable Christmas time! Feel free at any juncture to stop reading to make out a large check!

Dating back to November 2006, I have insisted that, despite all the evidence that indicated an amnesty was in the wings, none would pass. And they didn't. But there was real reason for concern, starting most specifically in 2006 when a Democratic Congress joined up with Republican Open Borders president George W. Bush.

Although I've been correct in my multitude of "no amnesty" columns, my insistence did make me the object of considerable scorn and the target of angry email from some readers. Nevertheless, the facts are that I have been right all along—and others were wrong.

In my other columns, I insisted that partial amnesties—the dreadful Senator Dianne Feinstein's AgJobs and Senators Orrin Hatch and Richard Durbin's repeatedly promotion of  the DREAM Act—would fail.

And they did! In fact, they never came to the floor for a vote.

I told readers that Governor Eliot Spitzer was "not gone yet...but going" when he publicly came out in favor of driver's licenses for illegal aliens. Shortly thereafter, Spitzer was indeed gone.

While some may point to the direct cause of Spitzer's exit, his extramarital philandering, the reality is that his support in Albany, even among Democrats, eroded beyond repair when he promoted alien licensing.

How was I so sure that Spitzer would lose his job over driver's licenses for illegal immigrants? In 2003, just before the special California election, then-governor Gray Davis signed a bill giving aliens the right to drive. At the time, Davis was an even-money choice to win out over his challengers. I said that he doomed himself---and he had.

Sticking with California politics: earlier this year I handicapped the 2010 gubernatorial election. I forecast that many of the popular candidates would never make it to the finish line. As of today, gone are Los Angeles and San Francisco mayors Antonio Villaraigosa and Gavin Newsom as well as Lt. Governor John Garamendi.

Knowing that Garamendi would soon drop out to run for the Congressional seat vacated by Ellen Tauscher, I projected that the initial move in State Senator Abel Maldono's quest to become the state's first Hispanic governor in more than a century would occur when Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him Lt. Governor. On cue, Schwarzenegger named Maldonado.

Meanwhile, back in New York: when Caroline Kennedy announced her intention to run for the U.S. Senate after Hillary Clinton was named Secretary of State, the MSM (and especially the outlets based in New York) labeled her a "slam dunk". I, however, correctly told you that Kennedy would drop out.

In August 2007, during the heated 2008 Republican presidential primaries, when former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani was polling far ahead of the pack, I said that he wouldn't make it. He didn't.

While I'm (justifiably) proud of my prognosticating record, it's not my only contribution to VDARE.COM.

I've also added an important "from the front perspective" on the immigration war, exclusively for VDARE.COM readers.

Drawing from more than 20 years of experience as a California adult English As A Second Language instructor, I've used my columns to alert readers that promises from the left that amnesty legislation would include provisions that the illegal immigrants must learn English and assimilate were unenforceable.

Based on my first hand experiences, I have detailed how false, empty and hurtful these political deceptions are.

It has been uncomfortable to write this, because I've placed the spotlight on me.

But before wrapping it up, let me now continue my plea for your generosity by shifting the focus away from me (whew!) to put it where it really deserves to shine: on my dedicated colleagues.

Steve Sailer: when the mainstream media was in a tizzy over then-candidate Barack Obama, Steve exposed him for his radical roots. Then Steve wrote, in several segments, the most detailed analysis of the minority-fueled mortgage meltdown that the Main Stream Media refused to report.

Brenda Walker: her courageous reporting on illegal alien crime and Muslim non-assimilation, two of our most vexing challenges, is without parallel.

Edwin S. Rubenstein: his National Data column's breakdown of employment statistics that reveal the extent to which immigrant, many illegal, have displaced American workers is invaluable. We call it the VDAWDI  (the VDARE.COM American Worker Displacement Index). Ed also dissects the misguided reports issued by ethnic identity lobbyists who disguise themselves as impartial economic think tanks.

Allan Wall: as a former resident of Mexico now back in his native Oklahoma, Wall's columns uncover what really goes on in Mexico and its government's openly hostile attitude to all things American.

Nicholas Stix: his hard hitting commentary on the role race plays in America's grizzliest crimes picks apart the Main Stream Media's deceptions and lays out the real facts for VDARE.COM readers.

Of course, VDARE.COM offers you more: our syndicated columnists, daily letters, Saturday Readers Form and our constantly update breaking news blogs.

We depend on you to keep all of this, and all of us, going.

Since you have nowhere else to turn if you want the truth about the immigration crisis, please give generously and give often.

Think of your donation to us as the gift that keeps on giving.

VDARE.COM needs your help—now!

Merry Christmas—and every good wish for a Happy New Year!

Sincerely,

Joe Guzzardi

 

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