Thread: JD Hayworth, R-Az.

Did anybody see Hayworth on Lou Dobbs tonight? He was also on Hannity & Colmes last night.

He's written a new book, "Whatever It Takes". It all about controlling illegal immigration & securing the border. Sounds like he's telling it like it is.

I'll post the transcript when available.

Originally Posted by had_enuf

Did anybody see Hayworth on Lou Dobbs tonight? He was also on Hannity & Colmes last night.

He's written a new book, "Whatever It Takes". It all about controlling illegal immigration & securing the border. Sounds like he's telling it like it is.

I'll post the transcript when available.

yeah I saw it. I don't think he cares to much about Rove.

Originally Posted by Scubayons

Originally Posted by had_enuf

Did anybody see Hayworth on Lou Dobbs tonight? He was also on Hannity & Colmes last night.

He's written a new book, "Whatever It Takes". It all about controlling illegal immigration & securing the border. Sounds like he's telling it like it is.

I'll post the transcript when available.

yeah I saw it. I don't think he cares to much about Rove.

A man after my own heart!

From Lou Dobbs, Jan 17th:

DOBBS: My next guest has written a new book that among other things, blasts the White House and Congress for failing to take on our broken border crisis.

Congressman J.D. Hayworth of Arizona is the author of the new book, "Whatever It Takes: Illegal immigration, border security and the war on terror." Congressman Hayworth joins us tonight here in New York. Good to have you with us.

REP. J.D. HAYWORTH (R), ARIZONA: Lou, good to be here with you.

DOBBS: Congratulations on the book.

HAYWORTH: Thank you.

DOBBS: The idea, as you deal with in your book, that this administration will not focus in real terms about a real threat and that's a lack of border security.

HAYWORTH: The biggest problem we have, and it goes for the administration and my colleagues in Congress. It seems all of official Washington views this as a political problem to be managed, rather than an invasion to be stopped.

And what I'm trying to do with this back is issue a wake-up call to all of America to get behind real enforcement, get behind interior enforcement and make the difference. It's time to do whatever it takes.

DOBBS: But you know, you've just described, trying to manage a political problem. That is the reflex of members of Congress, the U.S. Senate, the White House, both parties, no matter what the issue. Their first reaction, it seems, is to manage the problem, not solve it.

HAYWORTH: And this is what is so dangerous with this. I mean, who would have thought in the wake of 9/11 that four and half years later, you'd have the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security say late last year, it would be his goal to have operational control of the borders in five years. So then a decade passes in the wake of 9/11? We can't have that type of situation.

DOBBS: It is remarkable. I don't know what you're hearing from your constituents, but the congressmen, the senators I talk with are hearing a real wake-up call from the people who are going to be voting come November of this year.

HAYWORTH: People will remember in November -- and I have to tell you, I parted company with a lot of my friends with the bill that was brought before the House just before the Christmas break. In my opinion, despite all the concentration on the perfecting amendment about the border wall, what we had there was not enforcement first. It was enforcement maybe.

Keep your eye on the Senate. I believe the Senate and the administration will try to ram through and ram down the throats of the American people a guest worker amnesty plan. As far as I'm concerned, guest worker equals amnesty equals surrender. It is the wrong thing to do. We tried that in 1986. It only increased illegal immigration.

DOBBS: Now, you've -- in the past you had supported guest worker program.

HAYWORTH: Yes.

DOBBS: You're not pleased with the Sensenbrenner legislation?

HAYWORTH: No.

DOBBS: The fact is, at what point do you say we've to do something now, let's put up a fence, whatever it takes. Whatever it takes. Would you like that?

HAYWORTH: That's the title of the book which we hope is selling briskly right now, Lou. Listen, this is such a major problem that I guess the big thing I'm saying, and maybe it's a cry in the wilderness, we can't afford business as usual. We can't afford politics as usual on this. Powerful interests are allied. You have a situation with agribusiness and big business saying they get cheap labor. The left believes it will get cheap votes. In the meantime, the American people are left paying a huge bill.

DOBBS: Absolutely. In the book, you recount the conversation you had with the president, Karl Rove, early last year. You said, the president thanked me for being candid, Karl Rove then just sputtered to you -- you just don't want to help brown people, do you?

HAYWORTH: Well, let me set up the circumstances.

DOBBS: Well -- I tell you, the White House denies that that occurred just that way.

HAYWORTH: I first spoke to the president dealing with Social Security totalization, told him I had filed a resolution of non- approval on that issue, explained my concerns. He thanked for me for that a few days later in West Virginia at the Republican retreat.

DOBBS: He thanked for the explanation, not parting company with him on...

HAYWORTH: I saw Karl and I recounted that brief conversation and then he responded as I said.

DOBBS: Well, that's a really ignorant comment. HAYWORTH: Well -- and again, I'm not inside Karl's mind. He may have meant that -- sometimes people deal with difficult issues in a jocular fashion. I think there is an over-concern and there is the myth of the monolith, that if people have Hispanic surnames, instantly they embrace the notion of illegal immigration. We know that's not the case and we've proven that in Arizona. Prop 200, 47 percent of self-identified Hispanics voted in favor of Prop 200, more than the 42 percent voting for President Bush.

DOBBS: And I think that just about half of the population, which does fall pretty much into the general overall canvas of the vote -- I think that shocked a lot of politicians in the state of Arizona. It shocked the dickens out of the so-called comfortable elitists in your fair city, Washington, D.C.

HAYWORTH: Well, my fair city is really Scottsdale. I just happen to work in Washington.

DOBBS: Oh, don't try that. You're from Washington!

HAYWORTH: And, of course, for purposes of full disclosure, you used to work in Yuma, Arizona.

DOBBS: And proud of it.

"Whatever It Takes" is the name the book and J.D. Hayworth, we thank you very much for being here. Good luck with the book. Good luck with your colleagues in Congress and your Republican president who doesn't want to secure the borders that you so aptly focus on in this book.

HAYWORTH: Lou, thanks.

DOBBS: Take care. J.D. Hayworth.

Hayworth may talk tough on illegal immigration, but he's tainted as he's been caught up in the Jack Abramoff scandal. He accepted $100,000 of his money and he's gone on some of Abramoff's golfing junkets.

My brother called me yesterday to tell me he had just mailed me Hayworth's book! He KNOWS how bent out of shape I get over illegal immigration! He also told me a horror story about someone he knows who had been to Alabama for Christmas and were on their way back to South Carolina when they were REAR-ENDED by a van FULL of hispanics. He said 6 of them jumped out of the van after they hit this person. The husband asked them if they had drivers' licenses and the one driving said he did. The husband then asked to see their insurance information and they said they didn't have an insurance card but they DID have insurance. SO, they called the Alabama Highway Patrol who showed up at the scene. IN THE MEANTIME, after the husband had asked about drivers' licenses, FOUR of the men just AMBLED OFF DOWN THE ROAD. Just LEFT THE SCENE. OBVIOUSLY, THEY had something to hide. So, anyway, the HP arrives, checks the license and SAYS it's legit though how would he know whether it was a counterfeit or not. He asked about insurance and the hispanic man gave him the name of his insurance company. It was some company in Florida. The husband then asked the HP for an accident report and was told that he would have to wait for a couple of weeks then send $15 to DMV to get a copy. This husband was BOILING by this time. So, they finally rent a car and drive on back to SC where they started trying to file a claim for their car which was totaled. The first thing they found out was that the license plate did not match the VIN of the vehicle. THEN they found out that the insurance company that the ILLEGAL provided didn't EXIST. So, they are EVER SCREWED. Based on all of the OTHER FAKE information, you could almost BET that the drivers' license was also a fake one.

I told my brother that we had several members from Alabama so I would love to hear some feedback about the situation there especially in regards to the law enforcement.

Will let you know about Hayworth's book! I HOPE he is innocent of the Abramoff scandal because he SURE WOULD MAKE A GOOD CANDIDATE for us to support!