President
Obama doesn't like work
Photo: Associated Press
Sunday, July 22, 2012 - Rich Like Me by Rich Stowell
SALT LAKE CITY, July 23, 2012 — Work
has nothing to do with it, according to the president.
"I'm always struck by
people who think … it must be because I worked harder than everybody
else," he recently said of successful business owners. "Let me tell
you something: There are a whole bunch of hard working people out there."
There are indeed. Barack
Obama just isn't one of them.
The president, in fact, has
routinely shunned work required of a chief executive since he was inaugurated.
Oddly for a career legislator, the messy work of crafting policy and working
toward compromise has seemed to put off the president.
Just in the last six weeks,
President Obama has decided to skirt legislative toil by using executive
maneuvers to bypass congressional prerogative.
"When Congress won't
act, I will," the president brazenly declared last year.
And the president has kept his word. First on immigration,
Obama has unilaterally decided which parts of federal statute his
administration will enforce, dispensing with the unpleasantness of working with
legislators who might have differing views and represent constituencies with
differing interests.
Then, earlier this month,
the Obama Administration announced that it would effectively rewrite a major
component of one of the heralded pieces of bipartisan legislation in the past
30 years. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
of 1996, known as Welfare Reform, might be the centerpiece of Bill Clinton's
legislative portfolio.
It did not pass easily.
Clinton vetoed two attempts to get it through. Compromise, cajoling,
schmoozing, calling in favors and promising others, all led to the eventual
passage of the bill, championed by political foes Clinton and then-Speaker Newt
Gingrich. It is still widely supported by the public.
Getting through such
legislation is tough. Obama has proven wholly inadequate to the task, perhaps
because it interferes with golfing.
Ironically, he threatens to
take unilateral, and arguably unconstitutional, action only in the absence of
congressional action, but he has all but assured that the coequal legislative
branch won't act on major initiatives by rebuffing and insulting congressional
Republicans at every opportunity. On top of that, he refuses to engage his own
party's leader in the Senate, who is blocking the president's own initiatives.
Less than two weeks ago,
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell moved to vote on President Obama's proposal to
extend the Bush tax cuts on the lower rates while letting them expire on high
income earners.
Majority Leader Harry Reid
objected. On Monday, July 10, President Obama indicated that he would sign such
a temporary extension of only some of the rates. Sen. Reid was forced to
protect many in his caucus from the embarrassment of voting against the
president's proposal.
The same thing happened to
his much ballyhooed jobs bill, which the president promoted by commanding congress
to "Pass the bill!"
Republicans in congress
agreed to vote, but Senate democrats blocked it. If Obama's strength is in
compromise, if his time in the Senate did anything for him, wouldn't he have
been able to convince his own party to take his measures up for a vote?
But Obama's proposals are
jokes in Washington. His past two budgets submitted to Congress have received a
grand total of zero votes. The few legislative accomplishments he has are
almost completely devoid of his fingerprints, save those left during the
signing ceremonies.
It could be said that he
was a pioneer of outsourcing major legislation to his allies in Congress during
his first two years.
If he disdains the hard
work of crafting and implementing bipartisan policy, what then does he believe
the job requires?
Telling stories.
"The nature of this
office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense
of unity and purpose and optimism," he told CBS's Charlie Rose.
This is a man whose résumé
itself is the work of a storyteller. His qualifications for public service are
two bestsellers, key points of which we now know he made up.
He made a career of voting
present and moving to the next higher office just before his constituencies
figured out he wasn't really working at all.
Even the mundane task of meeting with his
Council on Jobs and Competitiveness has been too much for the president, who
has spent more time at fancy dinners and fundraising events than meeting with
advisors about how to fix the economy.
President Obama's
off-the-cuff comments that hard work doesn't build business quite like
government roads do is revealing. They
show that he is hopelessly illiterate when it comes to the free market, and
that he just doesn't like to do the work of a chief executive.
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THE TRAGEDY OF BARACK OBAMA – THE MAN
THAT PUNKED HIS WAY INTO BECOMING AMERICANS FIRST SOVEREIGN, AND FIRST
HISPANDERING PRESIDENT OF THE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST PARTY:
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THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE SPREADS
ACROSS THE UNITED STATES
Everyday
there are 12 Americans murdered by Mexicans and 8 children molested!
California
Attorney Gen Kamala Harris announced that nearly HALF of all murders in
Mex-occupied CA are by MEX GANGS!
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WILL MEXICO BANKRUPT AMERICA?
CALIFORNIA UNDER MEXICAN-OCCUPATION
PAYS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS!
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WILL OHIO BE BANKRUPTED BY THE LA
RAZA MEX-OCCUPATION THAT NOT ONE LEGAL VOTED FOR?
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HOW MANY BILLIONS ARE MARYLANDERS
FORCED TO PAY FOR MEX WELFARE AND LOOTING?
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BARACK OBAMA, FIRST HISPANDERING LA
RAZA “THE RACE” PRESIDENT – HIS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST INFESTED ADMINISTRATION:
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OBAMA AND MEXICO PROMISE ILLEGALS
JUMPING OUR BORDERS OBAMACARE, “FREE” MEDICAL, “FREE” ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING = 18
YEARS WELFARE, AND OUR JOBS!
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ROBERT RECTOR: THE STAGGERING COST OF
MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION AND EVER GROWING WELFARE STATE
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ONE OF MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORTS NEXT
TO DRUGS, AND CRIMINALS ARE PREGNANT WOMEN. THESE POOR DESPERATE WOMEN JUMP OUR
BORDERS FOR “FREE” ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING = 18 YEARS OF WELFARE FOR EACH CHILD.
THE CHILDREN BORN OF MEXICANS THAT
ILLEGALLY CROSSED OUR BORDERS IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN BUT STILL A CITIZEN OF
MEXICO.
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THE LOOTING OF AMERICA BY MEXICO,
BARACK OBAMA and ERIC HOLDER
OBAMA’S HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA:
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ANCHOR BABIES – HOW MEXICO ANCHORS
THEIR OCCUPATION AND EXPAND THEIR WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS!
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FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA “THE RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
Only in America could critics of a group called
"The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing
identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have
succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."
Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this
week in San Diego at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza,
the Latino organization whose name is Spanish for, yes, "The Race."
Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a group of white people who
called themselves that? No matter. The presidential candidates and the media have
legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream ethnic lobbying group and
marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The unvarnished truth is that
the group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that abuses your tax dollars
and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty.
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Here are 15 things you should know about "The Race":
15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
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14."The Race" demands in-state tuition
discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S.
citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.
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13. "The Race" vehemently opposes
cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal
authorities.
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12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on the southern border.
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11. "The Race" joined the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds
from entering immigration information into a key national crime database -- and
to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.
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10. "The Race" opposed the state of
Oklahoma's tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to
illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal
cooperation and information sharing.
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9. "The Race" joined other open-borders,
anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent Proposition 227, California's
bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.
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8. "The Race" bitterly protested common-sense voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."
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7. "The Race" has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
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6. Former "Race" president Raul
Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton's Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: "U.S.
English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." He was
referring to U.S. English, the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group
dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United
States. "The Race" also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and
advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while
avoiding the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."
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5. "The Race" gives mainstream cover to a
poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP
Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as "a radical
racist group … one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has
permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a
racist nation out of the American West."
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4. "The Race" is currently leading a
smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called
for TV and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the
airwaves -- in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up
their foes. The New York Times reported that current "Race" president
Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be tolerated,
even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights."
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3. "The Race" sponsors militant ethnic
nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8
million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in
Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez
Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los
Angeles, whose principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White
water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of
collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain …
ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of
life will eventually lead to our own destruction."
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2. "The Race" has perfected the art of
the PC shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home loan
standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage
counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and
partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.
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1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy
-- and the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian
Victor Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The
National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core.
Despite all the contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests)
reflects the meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people'-- and that's
precisely why we don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the
People,' which would not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal
chauvinism."
The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La Raza?
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