Regarding Congressman Jim Kolbe's decision not to run for reelection, in a word, "Hallelujah."
When someone retires or passes away, we try to say something nice about that person, we downplay his negatives and point out his positives. I would like to do the same for Congressman Jim Kolbe, but I really don't have the time to do that much research, other then to say, I wholeheartedly approve of his decision to leave Congress.
I'm sure Kolbe will be missed by Mexican President Vicente Fox, he is one of the best members of Congress Mexico has ever had in the United States.
Kolbe was one of the leading members of Congress responsible for the passage of NAFTA and CAFTA. NAFTA has resulted in the loss of thousands of American jobs to Mexico and CAFTA will help export American jobs to Central America. Kolbe is also a strong supporter of FTAA, (Free Trade Area of the America's), which will further lessen American sovereignty, advance globalism and cause the loss of even more American jobs.
I know that Kolbe's announcement will sadden cheap labor advocates, drug smugglers and traffickers in human beings.
What Congressman Tom Tancredo is to securing America's borders and controlling illegal immigration, Kolbe is to open borders and uncontrolled illegal immigration. The departure of Kolbe from Congress signifies the beginning of the removal from office of Members of Congress that are obstructing the securing of our borders and the enforcement of our immigration laws. Kolbe may be responsible for exporting American jobs but he has also helped to import; cheap labor, along with crime and poverty and the resulting cost to the taxpayer.
Republican social conservatives may be singing, "Happy days are here again,' on learning of his retirement. Jim Kolbe is the, only, openly, homosexual Republican in Congress. Kolbe is not only pro-abortion, he is one of the few Republicans to vote against the partial birth abortion ban. He will be surely missed by the gay community and Planned Parenthood.
In Kolbe's announcement, he states that he is, "Confident that he would win reelection if he chose to run." That statement would be true if he had no opponent in the Republican primary, but Kolbe did have a challenger for the GOP nomination for Congress from Southern Arizona.
Randy Graf, a former member of the Arizona House, had decided to challenge Mr. Kolbe for the GOP nomination. Graf's candidacy may have been the deciding factor in Kolbe's surprise decision, not to run for reelection, along with the passage of Proposition 200, which Kolbe had opposed.
Graf is everything Kolbe is not. Where Kolbe has become the poster boy for illegal immigration, Graf has become the poster boy for securing America's borders and was a leader behind the passage of Proposition 200. Where Kolbe is a pro-abortion liberal, Graf is a solid, pro-life, social conservative.
It seems that Jim Kolbe was reading the writing on the wall and figured that he is out of step with Republican voters in Southern Arizona and that this would be a good time to call it quits.
Copyright by Bob Haran, www.Bob-Haran.info
