Thursday, June 3, 2010

Arizona Governor Responds to Senator Schumer

Governor Brewer responds to Senator Schumer's letter (Real Courage and Leadership)
June 3, 2010
Read Senator Schumer's letter

The Honorable Charles E. Schumer
Chairman
Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Refugees
United States Senate
313 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Re: Correspondence on Border Security

Dear Senator Schumer:

I appreciate your interest in helping us secure our border and recognizing my duty as Governor to address the public security concerns of Arizonans.

Arizona's border regions, extending into metropolitan Phoenix and Tucson, have become increasingly lawless because the federal government has not effectively controlled our international border and enforced its immigration laws. The federal government's policy of securing the border in the El Paso and San Diego areas has turned Arizona into the superhighway of illegal drug and human smuggling activity. The City of Phoenix has earned the dubious distinction of being the kidnapping capital of the United States, ranking only second behind Mexico City in the world. Busts of drop houses, where illegal immigrants are often held for ransom and otherwise severely abused, are not uncommon occurrences in some Arizona neighborhoods.

Given these circumstances, I am sure you can understand that waiting a year or more based on another federal promise of getting serious this time is not an option for Arizona. As has been said here, calling for comprehensive immigration reform before securing the border is like asking for comprehensive energy policy reform before stopping the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

Here is my diagnosis of the problem and the way forward. Congress and successive Administrations (both Republican and Democrat) have lost all credibility with the American people, and Arizonans in particular, regarding border security and interior enforcement of federal immigration laws.

Unfortunately, I understand that the consensus in Washington D.C. is that nothing will be done legislatively on immigration this year and any promises of action for the rest of the year are part of some national political strategy. Neither side of the immigration debate will be fooled by that strategy. This non-action will only build the sense of alienation that Americans feel toward a federal government that won’t solve problems that affect their everyday lives. It will be more of the same “promise something, do nothing, blame someone” political spin from Washington.

How do you build credibility on immigration issues? You need to show that the federal government can do something immediately to address border security and restore interior enforcement. We do not need new federal laws, but rather action by President Obama and sufficient funding from the Congress to secure the border and enforce our current laws.

The action taken must also be significant. To that end, I would propose that the federal government adopt a “surge” strategy. The Border Surge would continue until the border is secured as demonstrated by facts on the ground and integrity is restored to our interior immigration enforcement. Thereafter, the federal government would need to keep the resources necessary on the ground to maintain a secure border and enforce its immigration laws.

What would the federal Border Surge consist of? A good place to start would be the Border Security Plan that I announced in April and the multiple requests I have sent to President Obama and his administration regarding specific, immediate actions that should be taken. I have attached those for your review.

In addition, I ask you to give another look at the ten-point border security proposal by Senators McCain and Kyl. It is based, in part, on the border security plan of the Arizona Cattlemen’s Association developed in reaction to their everyday experiences of living and working on the border and in tribute to their fellow member, the late Robert Krentz, who was killed on his ranch earlier this year.

In summary, I would highlight the following four categories of actions that would prove very helpful to the State of Arizona in the proposed Border Surge:

1. Send the National Guard troops back to the border and increase the number of Border Patrol agents. The bi-partisan group of border governors requested the redeployment of the National Guard over a year ago. Then-Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano believed the National Guard was very helpful on the border under Operation Jump Start and unsuccessfully fought the Bush Administration when they were removed. Border governors renewed their joint request in April of this year. A particular need that has been identified is for more aerial support. My border security plan announced last month has redeployed Arizona’s very limited aerial resources to the border regions, and I have asked for additional support. I am happy to hear the President recently recognize that our border challenges require a National Guard response. However, I am not satisfied with the lack of specifics in his proposal. I hope to hear more when I meet with him today.

2. Complete a real border fence. The President's proposed budget provides no funds for completion of the border fence. Arizona's problem was caused in large part by the federal strategy of building a border fence only in the El Paso and San Diego areas in the 1990s. The construction and continual repair of a secure, and complete, border fence has to be part of the solution. The State of Arizona stands ready to assist in this effort. We have state prisons near the border and will supply inmate labor to build these fences in a cost-effective manner.

3. Fund federal agencies to be able to enforce current immigration laws. The McCain-Kyl Plan has a whole series of proposals to increase resources to under-manned and under-coordinated federal agencies. These proposals include funding additional Border Patrol stations in the Tucson Sector, increasing aerial assets along the border, and improving real-time radio/electronic communications capability among the different federal agencies and with state and local law enforcement agencies. Congress should also ensure adequate funding is appropriated to meet detention, processing, prosecution and other costs that result from a legitimate commitment to securing the border and enforcing federal immigration laws.

4. Reimburse Border States for costs related to the federal government’s failure to secure the border. For example, Congress has failed to reimburse the States and localities for their costs of incarcerating criminal aliens under the existing State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. The State of Arizona and localities spend upwards of $150 million per year for criminal aliens in our prisons and jails. Another example is the burden on our county sheriffs dealing with all this drug and human smuggling activity. The federal government should fully fund the existing Operation Stonegarden, a program that provides funding to border law enforcement agencies. Senators McCain and Kyl have proposed increasing federal funding by $40 million for a total of $100 million.

As you know, problems do not wait for when it is politically convenient to address them. When I assumed office over a year ago, Arizona faced the worst budget deficit in the nation on a per capita basis. I proposed, and the Arizona Legislature passed, a budget that made many painful cuts. The State of Arizona has reduced its workforce by over 10 percent and cut over $2 billion out of roughly a $10 billion budget. State employees, including myself, are taking a 5% pay cut to balance the state budget. And on May 18, Arizona voters overwhelmingly approved increasing the state sales tax by 1% for three years to support education, public safety and heath needs.

Arizonans, and I believe all Americans, expect their leaders to make the tough calls whether on the budget or on securing our border. If the federal government won’t secure the border, the State of Arizona will step in to complement federal efforts in a constitutional manner and protect the security of its citizens.

I believe the Border Surge strategy is the only way forward. Everyone agrees that our border is broken. Let’s do something. I sincerely desire to work with the Arizona delegation, you and your colleagues in Congress and the Obama administration on this strategy.

Sincerely,



Janice K. Brewer
Governor
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Will CALIFORNIA Vote to EXPAND MEX SUPREMACY?

PLEASE POST THIS AS THE CL FLAGGER, RICHARD HILARY GIBSON DELETES ALL POSTS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

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AS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of AMERICAN – LA RAZA “THE (MEX) RACE” ORGANIZES FOR ILLEGALS’ VOTES, HERE’S WHO IS HISPANDERING AND WHO THINKS THIS STATE IS NOT REALLY A MEX WELFARE – GANG ZONE:



Immigration issue could be key in state primary

Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Spanish-language ads on Facebook and radio that attack GOP gubernatorial front-runner Meg Whitman's immigration position began Wednesday in a preview of what may await her if she wins next week's primary election against state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner.
At the same time, Democrats and their union-backed allies aren't waiting to hammer California's Republican Senate and gubernatorial nominees for taking the most conservative stances since former Gov. Pete Wilson led the charge for Proposition 187 during his 1994 re-election campaign.
Democrats see the issue as a way to rally Latino and liberal white voters that they need to win statewide elections. The California Nurses Association created Spanish-language ads that aired on the program of popular radio DJ Piolin Wednesday featuring Wilson endorsing Whitman.
"This rhetoric, of trying to appeal to very conservative voters, is galvanizing Latino voters," said Jesus Malverde, a Southern California representative for the nonpartisan Voto Latino, which is focused on increasing turnout.
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50% OF CALIFORNIA (THE OTHER 50% ARE ILLEGALS) SUPPORT ARIZONA’S LAW!!!
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Also helping stir emotions, Malverde said, is the Arizona law that requires police to stop any person who they have a "reasonable" suspicion is undocumented. However, a USC/Los Angeles Times poll found that 50 percent of California voters support the law.
Voter participation has increased as Latinos have migrated toward the Democratic Party since Prop. 187, which would have prohibited illegal immigrants from using social and health services and public schools in the state, was approved by voters but struck down by a federal judge.
Latinos are not sure-fire Democratic voters. Many of them are frustrated that the Obama administration has not carried out its promise to pass immigration reform, Malverde said, and some may not vote.
"You don't know where (Democratic gubernatorial candidate) Jerry Brown stands - on this or much of anything," said Louis DeSipio, a professor of political science at UC Irvine. Brown doesn't have a well-funded primary opponent and has barely campaigned.
Still, immigration resonates with many of the 22 percent of California's registered voters who are Latino. Immigration is an important issue to 78 percent of Latinos, according to a national poll last year by Bendixen and Amandi, a leading pollster of the Latino market.
That poll found that 72 percent wouldn't vote for a candidate who supported efforts to force most of the undocumented population to leave the country.
POIZNER WOULD ALLOW NO BENEFITS TO ILLEGALS!
WHITMAN SAYS “CHEAP” MEX LABOR MUST BE SUBSIDIZED BY MEX WELFARE TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED FOR EMPLOYERS ILLEGALLY HIRING ILLEGALS. THERE ARE ONLY EIGHT STATES WITH A GREATER POPULATION THAT MEX OCCUPIED L.A. COUNTY, WHERE 47% OF THOSE EMPLOYED (GO TRAY TO FIND THE 53% AMERICAN BORN!!!) ARE ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. THIS COUNT PAYS OUT $600 MILLION IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS AND IS INFESTED WITH THOUSANDS OF MEX GANG MEMBERS! YOU REALLY WANT MEG WHITMAN, Inc.?)
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Immigration probably wouldn't have been much of an issue in the state's GOP primary if Poizner's campaign hadn't strategically staked out a hard-line position early, DeSipio said, to appeal to conservative primary voters. As governor, Poizner said, he would allow no benefits to undocumented immigrants in the state.
As Poizner repeated this position during his widespread TV advertising campaign, it became a dominant theme in the campaign, forcing the U.S. Senate primary candidates to assume more conservative stances, analysts said.
In describing the financial impact of immigration on the state, Whitman told an audience in Roseville (Sacramento County) last month that "30 percent" of state prisoners are undocumented.
While that line may play well with the conservative voters who dominate a GOP primary, only 11 percent of the state's prisoners are undocumented, said H.D. Palmer, a spokesperson for the state Department of Finance.
Whitman has brushed off suggestions that her immigration position may hurt her should she win on Tuesday. Polls show that voters rank immigration far below the economy and jobs as the issues that they are most concerned about.
"As we go forward in the general (election in November), I think Latinos will support my candidacy because of jobs and education," Whitman said last week.
-- Where the candidates for governor and U.S. Senate stand on services for illegal immigrants, citizenship. C6
Where the candidates stand on immigration
Would you support ending health and welfare benefits to children who are illegal immigrants? Would you allow illegal immigrants to attend public universities in California? Do you support allowing those in the U.S. illegally to register, pay taxes, and pay a fine in order to get on a path to citizenship? Reality Check
Governor
Jerry Brown, Democrat No Yes "I support comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level." There is little detail or discussion on his positions regarding a crucial issue to the state's voters.

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Steve Poizner, Republican Yes. "The state should not provide taxpayer-funded benefits to any illegal immigrant." He also supports passage of a law to cut benefits to illegal immigrants. "We must end in-state tuition for illegal immigrants." He does not support any program that would allow those here illegally to remain in the country; he is opposed to any form of amnesty.



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While accusing Whitman of flipping on the issues, he has flipped on amnesty since his 2004 run for state Assembly.
Meg Whitman, Republican No. She does not support denying undocumented children health care benefits. No. She supports policies to bar undocumented immigrants from admission to state-funded universities. No reforms should be considered until the federal government adequately secures the U.S. border and employers have a reliable system for verifying status.




* She flipped on amnesty and has greatly overstated the number of California inmates who are illegal immigrants.
Senate
LA RAZA ENDORSED BOXER
Barbara Boxer, Democrat (Inc.) No. She opposed Proposition 187, which called for denying services to undocumented kids and was struck down by a federal judge. Yes. Boxer co-sponsored the Dream Act, which allows more children of undocumented immigrants to go to college. She supports "comprehensive immigration reform," including allowing a path to citizenship by paying taxes and fines, learning English and waiting in line.



* So far, the Obama administration has not moved on comprehensive immigration reform.
Tom Campbell, Republican No. It is unconstitutional to do so for minor children, and denial of services poses a possible public health risk. No. Any benefit for those who enter illegally constitutes lack of respect for our own rule of law.


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Until the border is secure, any discussion of these items will attract more illegal entry. The former law professor takes pragmatic views but "secure border" is in the eyes of the beholder.
Chuck DeVore, Republican Yes. Taxpayer-supported benefits are for citizens and legal residents only. Illegal immigrants should receive only what's "necessary for strict purposes of public health." Anyone may attend a public university who can pay, but he opposes giving illegal immigrants in-state benefits such as reduced tuition and subsidized loans.





* Persons wishing to legalize must voluntarily repatriate and get in line behind those who respect our laws. He's a Tea Party favorite on this issue, but would he be weakened in general because of it?
Carly Fiorina, Republican No. She does not support denying emergency medicine or food to children, but says money is better used "to address the serious needs of our citizens." No. But she supports allowing any U.S. citizen, legal resident or appropriately documented foreign student to attend public universities. She does not support amnesty, saying "the federal government should fulfill its most fundamental responsibility and secure the border." Calls to "secure the border" are common - but open-ended: When is the border really "secure?"

CATALINA ISLAND Off Mexifornia - UNDER MEX OCCUPATION

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CATALINA ISLAND UNDER MEXICAN OCCUPATION

THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HAS NEARLY 50 CONSULATES SCATTERED AROUND THE COUNTRY TO HAND OUT PHONY I.D, SO LA RAZA DONOR BANKS LIKE WELLS FARGO and BANK of ILLEGALS CAN ILLEGALLY OPEN BANKS ACCOUNTS FOR ILLEGALS.

IN CONTRAST, THE UNITED KINGDOM HAS ONLY 8 CONSULATES.
THE EVER EXPANDING MEXICAN SUPREMACY – HOW SOON WILL IT BE “PUSH ONE FOR SPANISH, TWO FOR STUPID GRINGOS”

MEXICO AND HISPANDERING OBAMA’S CONTEMPT FOR OUR LAWS AND BORDERS
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But the cards are usually used to skirt U.S. immigration laws, since Mexicans in the country legally have documents proving that status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

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"It amazes me every time that the Mexican government has the gall to tell us what to do," said an ICE official, who asked not to be named. "More surprisingly is how many times we stand by and let them. This is just an example of one of hundreds of requests we've had to deal with."

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The time is Now to Start Fighting Back! (Firebomb Mexico)
Mexico opens California office to provide ID for illegals

By: Sara A. Carter

National Security Correspondent
June 3, 2010

The Mexican government is opening a satellite consular office on Catalina Island -- a small resort off the California coast with a history of drug smuggling and human trafficking -- to provide the island's illegal Mexican immigrants with identification cards, The Washington Examiner has learned.

The Mexican consular office in Los Angeles issued a flier, a copy of which was obtained by The Examiner, listing the Catalina Island Country Club as the location of its satellite office. It invites Mexicans to visit the office to obtain the identification, called matricular cards, by appointment.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican whose district includes Catalina Island, said handing out matricular cards will exacerbate an already dangerous situation.


CATALINA ISLAND – PORTAL FOR ILLEGALS TO INVADE.


"Handing out matricular cards to Mexicans who are not in this country legally is wrong no matter where it's done," he said. "But on Catalina it will do more damage. It's a small island but there's evidence it's being used as a portal for illegals to access mainland California."

Rohrabacher added, "If there were a large number of Americans illegally in Mexico and the U.S. consulate was making it easier for them to stay, Mexico would never permit it."

Mexican officials with the consular office in Los Angeles could not be reached immediately for comment. The matricular consular identification card, is issued by the Mexican government to Mexican nationals residing outside the country, regardless of immigration status. The purpose is to provide identification for opening bank accounts and obtaining other services. But the cards are usually used to skirt U.S. immigration laws, since Mexicans in the country legally have documents proving that status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

In 2004 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI officials called the card an unreliable form of identification. The agency said that Mexico lacks a centralized database for them, which could lead to forgery, duplication, and other forms of abuse.

Officers with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said their agency was asked by Mexican officials not to enforce U.S. immigration laws on the island while the cards were being issued.

"It amazes me every time that the Mexican government has the gall to tell us what to do," said an ICE official, who asked not to be named. "More surprisingly is how many times we stand by and let them. This is just an example of one of hundreds of requests we've had to deal with."

In April, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies seized a boat carrying large quantities of marijuana and detained three Mexican nationals who said they were being smuggled into the United States.

The island has a sizable Mexican migrant population. Most are undocumented low-income workers.

OBAMA & HIS BANKSTERS & ILLEGALS He Does Not Need The Rest Of Us!

TRULY IS THERE ANYONE OBAMA WILL NOT SELL US OUT TO?
OVER THE MONTHS THAT OBAMA SHIFTED THE ECON OVER TO HIS BANKSTERS, THE VERY BANKSTERS THAT CAUSED AN ECONOMIC MELTDOWN, HE WAS IN THE BACK ROOM WITH LA RAZA, “THE RACE” WORKING ON AMNESTY. UNEMPLOYMENT NOT HIGH ENOUGH. EVEN IF OBAMA WAS UNABLE TO OBTAIN “OFFICIAL” AMNESTY, THE LA RAZA DEMS’ BIT BY BIT BY BIT AMNESTY WOULD SIMPLY CONTINUE. THIS AMNESTY HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR TWO DECADES. IT IS NO ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS AGAINST HIRING ILLEGALS, NO E-VERIFY, NO FUNDS TO ENFORCE LAWS OWED STATES (CA SPENDS ONE BILLION HOUSING MEXICAN CRIMINALS, AND GETS $100K REIMBURSEMENT), NO LAWS AND WHILE OBAMA HAS PUT 1,200 GUARDS ON THE BORDER, LAST YEAR HE HAD TAKEN 600 OFF. OBAMA’S LA RAZA SECRETARY FOR “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP” LIES TO CONGRESS THAT THE BORDERS ARE SECURE, AS THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL MOWS OVER THEM AND THEN SENDS $30 BILLION BACK TO NARCOMEX…. AND WE’VE ALL WATCHED OBAMA’S ASSAULT ON THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA EVEN AS NAPOLITANO AND HOLDER HAVE NOT EVEN READ THE ARIZONA LAW ON ILLEGALS, WHICH IN FACT MIRRORS THE EXISTING, AND UNENFORCED FEDERAL LAWS.

OBAMA IS ELOQUENT ABOUT LYING OUT BOTH SIDES OF HIS MOUTH.

FOR MONTHS HE’S PREACHED AMNESTY WITH SECURE BORDERS EVEN AS HE SABOTAGED OUR BORDERS, KISSED MEXICO’S ASS, AND SABOTAGED OUR LAWS IN FAVOR OF MEXICAN SUPREMACY.

YOU WONDERED WHY OBAMA REFER TO ILLEGALS AS “UNREGISTERED VOTERS”???


Use some sweeteners to get the drug companies and the docs to sign onto the health care plan. If the health insurers start bellyaching, whack them a few times in public to make them go along. Design a financial reform that Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase can live with even while you assail "Wall Street fat cats."

DOES ANYONE DOUBT THAT OBAMA DONORS BANKSTERS GOLDMAN SACHS AND JPMORGAN HAVE DONE WILL WITH THEIR INVESTMENT IN OBAMA?

Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).


OBAMA’S ‘CHICAGO WAY; PLUNDERS THE PRIVATE SECTOR

Obama's 'Chicago Way' Plunders the Private Sector
A Commentary By Michael Barone
Thursday, June 03, 2010


An interesting thing about Barack Obama is that he chose, on two occasions, to live in Chicago -- even though he didn't grow up there, had no family ties there, never went to school there.
It was a curious choice. Chicago has a civic culture all its own and one that is particularly insular. Family ties and personal connections are hugely important. Professionals who have lived and worked there for a quarter-century are brusquely reminded, "You're not from here."
Nonetheless, Obama moved upward in the Chicago civic firmament with apparent ease. The community organizer joined the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church in search of street cred in the heavily black South Side. The adjunct law teacher made friends around the University of Chicago from libertarian academics to radical organizer William Ayers. The young state senator designed a new district that included the Loop and the rich folk on the Near North Side.
Obama could not have risen so far so fast without a profound understanding of the Chicago Way. And he has brought the Chicago Way to the White House.
One prime assumption of the Chicago Way is that there will always be a bounteous private sector that politicians can plunder endlessly. Chicago was America's boomtown from 1860 to 1900, growing from nothing to the center of the nation's railroad network, the key nexus between farm and factory, the headquarters of great retailers and national trade associations.
The Mayors Daley have maintained Chicago's centrality in commerce by building and expanding O'Hare Airport and by fostering a culture of crony capitalism with the city's big employers and labor unions. Chicago survived depression and recessions to thrive once again. Sure, small businesses and some outfits lacking political connections fell by the wayside. But the system seems to go on forever.
So it's natural for a Chicago Way president to assume that higher taxes and a hugely expensive health care regime will not make a perceptible dent in the nation's private sector economy. There will always be plenty to plunder. Crony capitalism also comes naturally to a Chicago Way president.
Use some sweeteners to get the drug companies and the docs to sign onto the health care plan. If the health insurers start bellyaching, whack them a few times in public to make them go along. Design a financial reform that Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase can live with even while you assail "Wall Street fat cats."
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(WHAT DID THE BANKSTERS KNOW ABOUT OUR ACTOR OBAMA THAT WE DIDN’T KNOW?
Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).
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The big guys will understand that you have to provide the voters with some political theater while you give them what they want. As for the little guys, well, hey, in Chicago we don't back no losers.
If in the process you've written legislation full of glitches and boondoggles, well, they can be fixed later. The typical vote in the Chicago City Council is 50-0. Republicans don't count for nothing. Down in Springfield, they're outnumbered 37-22 and 70-48.
Anyone who has spent much time in Chicago knows the city has impressive civic and business leaders, talented and cultured people who creatively support charities and the arts. But they also play team ball.
One measure of that is the $25.6 million that the 2008 Obama campaign raised from metro Chicago. An even more meaningful measure is the
$5 million that Hillary Clinton's campaign raised there -- a virtual shutout in a city where the Clintons once raised huge sums. The word obviously went out: You back Barack, and you don't back Hillary.
Now the Clintons are part of the Chicago Way team. As witnessed by Bill Clinton's willingness to dangle some sort of job to Joe Sestak to get him out of the Pennsylvania Senate race.
To some, it may seem anomalous that Barack Obama, who began his Chicago career as a Saul Alinsky-type community organizer, should have taken to the Chicago Way. But Alinsky's brand of community organizing is very Chicago-centric.
It assumes that there will always be a Machine that you can complain about and that if you make a big enough fuss it will have to respond. And that the Machine can always get more plunder from the private sector.
The problem with Obama's Chicago Way is that Chicago isn't America. The Chicago Way works locally because there is an America out there that ultimately pays for it. But who will pay for an America run the Chicago Way?
Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington
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• Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire: How Hillary Clinton has already trampled upon her promise not to let her husband’s financial dealings sway her decisions as Secretary of State
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Obama Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same “special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers, small businesses, and consumers.
Investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s Obamanomics. In this explosive book, Carney reveals:
* The Great Health Care Scam—Obama’s backroom deals with drug companies spell corporate profits and more government control
* The Global Warming Hoax—Obama has bought off industries with a pork-filled bill that will drain your wallet for Al Gore’s agenda
* Obama and Wall Street—“Change” means more bailouts and a heavy Goldman Sachs presence in the West Wing (including Rahm Emanuel)
* Stimulating K Street—The largest spending bill in history gave pork to the well-connected and created a feeding frenzy for lobbyists
* How the GOP needs to change its tune—drastically—to battle Obamanomics
If you’ve wondered what’s happening to our country, as the federal government swallows up the financial sector, the auto industry, and healthcare, and enacts deficit exploding “stimulus packages” that create make-work government jobs, this book makes it all clear—it’s a big scam. Ultimately, Obamanomics boils down to this: every time government gets bigger, somebody’s getting rich, and those somebodies are friends of Barack. This book names the names—and it will make your blood boil.
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Praise for Obamanomics
“The notion that ‘big business’ is on the side of the free market is one of progressivism’s most valuable myths. It allows them to demonize corporations by day and get in bed with them by night. Obamanomics is conservative muckraking at its best. It reveals how President Obama is exploiting the big business mythology to undermine the free market and stick it to entrepreneurs, taxpayers, and consumers. It’s an indispensable field guide to the Obama years.”
—Jonha Goldberg, LA Times columnist and best-selling author
“‘Every time government gets bigger, somebody’s getting rich.’ With this astute observation, Tim Carney begins his task of laying bare the Obama administration’s corporatist governing strategy, hidden behind the president’s populist veneer. This meticulously researched book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how Washington really works.”
—David Freddoso, best-selling author of The Case Against Barack Obama
“Every libertarian and free-market conservative who still believes that large corporations are trusted allies in the battle for economic liberty needs to read this book, as does every well-meaning liberal who believes that expansions of the welfare-regulatory state are done to benefit the common people.”
—Congressman Ron Paul
“It’s understandable for critics to condemn President Obama for his ‘socialism.’ But as Tim Carney shows, the real situation is at once more subtle and more sinister. Obamanomics favors big business while disproportionately punishing everyone else. So-called progressives are too clueless to notice, as usual, which is why we have Tim Carney and this book.”
—Thomas E. Woods, Jr., best-selling author of Meltdown and The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to American History
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• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Press (November 30, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596986123
• ISBN-13: 978-1596986121
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WHAT DID THE BANKSTERS KNOW ABOUT OUR ACTOR OBAMA THAT WE DIDN’T KNOW?
Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).
BARACK OBAMA HAS COLLECTED NEARLY TWICE AS MUCH MONEY AS JOHN McCAIN
BY DAVID SALTONSTALL
DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
July 1st 2008
Wall Street firms have chipped in more than $9 million to Barack Obama. Zurga/Bloomberg
Wall Street is investing heavily in Barack Obama.

Although the Democratic presidential hopeful has vowed to raise capital gains and corporate taxes, financial industry bigs have contributed almost twice as much to Obama as to GOP rival John McCain, a Daily News analysis of campaign records shows.

"Wall Street wants change and wants a curtailment in spending. It wants someone who focuses on the domestic economy," said Jim Cramer, the boisterous host of CNBC's "Mad Money."

Cramer also does not discount nostalgia for the go-go 1990s, when Bill Clinton led the largest economic expansion in history.

"It wants a Clinton like in 1992, but not a Hillary Clinton," he said. "That's Barack Obama."

For both candidates, Wall Street's investment and banking sectors have become among their portliest cash cows, contributing $9.5 million to Obama and $5.3 million to McCain so far.

It's a haul that is already raising concerns that, as the nation's faltering economy has become issue No. 1, the two candidates may have a hard time playing tough on issues like market regulation or corporate-tax loopholes.

"No matter who wins in November, Wall Street will have a friend in the White House," said Massie Ritsch of the Center for Responsive Politics, which crunched the data for The News.

Wall Street's generosity toward Obama, in particular, would seem to run counter to its self-interests.

In addition to calling for corporate and capital gains tax hikes, Obama has proposed raising income taxes on those earning more than $250,000.

But Wall Street is often motivated by something more than money - winning.

"In general, these are professional prognosticators," said Ritsch. "And they may be putting their money on the person they predict will win, not the candidate they hope will win."

Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).

McCain's top five include Wall Street's Merrill Lynch ($230,310) and Citigroup ($219,551).

Obama's Wall Street haul is not the biggest ever. That distinction belongs to President Bush, who as an incumbent in 2004 raised $10,852,696 from Wall Street interests through April that year - about $1 million more than Obama.

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Obama admin asks Supreme Court to stop AZ from enforcing illegal alien law
By Pete Yost May 29, 2010 4:00 AM




WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration on Friday urged the Supreme Court to prevent Arizona from enforcing a law that punishes businesses that employ illegal immigrants, arguing that federal immigration law trumps state efforts.

The administration's views, contained in a new filing at the high court, are similar to concerns President Barack Obama has expressed about a new Arizona law that cracks down on illegal immigrants.

When it takes effect July 29, the new law will require police enforcing any other law to examine immigration status if there is reasonable suspicion a person is in the country illegally.

Obama and other administration officials have illegal immigration is an issue that must have a national solution rather than being addressed on a piecemeal basis by the states. The Obama administration is contemplating a court challenge to the new law. Justice Department officials met face-to-face with Attorney General Terry Goddard and aides to Republican Gov. Jan Brewer to elicit information from state officials regarding the Obama administration's concerns about the new law.

In asking the Supreme Court to take the employer sanctions case, the Obama administration said federal immigration law expressly pre-empts any state law imposing sanctions on employers hiring illegal immigrants. The administration added that if Arizona businesses knowingly use illegal immigrants, the businesses can have any of their state licenses suspended or revoked.

Lower courts have said that the Arizona law is not pre-empted by the federal law. That should be reversed, acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said in the Supreme Court filing.

The Arizona law disrupts "a careful balance that Congress struck nearly 25 years ago between two interests of the highest importance: ensuring that employers do not undermine enforcement of immigration laws by hiring unauthorized workers, while also ensuring that employers not discriminate against racial and ethnic minorities legally in the country," Katyal wrote.

Phoenix attorney Julie Pace, representing the trade associations that are challenging the Arizona law, called the Obama administration's position "good news that the federal government has gone on record supporting the legal challenge to the constitutionality" of the Arizona law.



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