Senator Craig (R-ID) Joins the Democrats

Why bother voting for Republicans, when they act like Democrats? You can see Senator Craig's support for this insane immigration proposal here. My wife and I just sent him this letter:

To say that we are disappointed that you are backing this immigration amnesty (and that is what it is) barely touches the surface. Why bother to obey laws if you will be rewarded later for breaking them? I can understand why Democrats want this--so that they can bring in vast populations who speak little English, and can therefore be persuaded to vote without a full understanding of the issues--but why are helping them?

Cheap labor may be good for businesses, but the costs of that cheap labor, for medical care, and in the criminal justice system, gets stuck on all of us in higher taxes. It also puts large numbers of unskilled and low skilled American citizens and LEGAL residents at an enormous economic disadvantage, as the flood of cheap labor drives down wages. This is tremendously destructive to our society, because it discourages the bottom of our society from work. What are you thinking?

Low wages also discourage the mechanization of the low skilled jobs. In the 19th century, the U.S. led the world in inventing devices such as the sewing machine and the harvester because we were short on labor. There's no incentive to invent robotic vegetable harvesters when cheap labor is so easy to get.

Finally, there's the national security question. At least of the suspects in the Fort Dix plot were illegal aliens, and groups such as MS-13 benefit from being able to hide in the sea of illegal aliens. Why make this easier?

The Republican National Committee hasn't received a penny from me for two years because of their insistence on encouraging illegal immigration. Why vote Republican when Republicans act like Democrats?

I am beginning to wonder: should some real Republicans (not the pretend kind, like Senator Craig seems to be turning into) run in the primaries next year?

UPDATE: Coincidentally, I received a fundraising letter from the Republican National Committee today. I usually just ignore these now--but today I wrote, "No money for amnesty" on the letter, stuffed all of the paperwork back in the Business Reply Envelope, and sent it back. What I should have written is, "No money for the RNC until conservatives control it again."