IBD Editorials
The Tragic Illusion Of Obama's Fine Mind
06/27/2012 06:26 PM ET
The Obama Record
The Obama Record: As it becomes
clear our "brilliant" president has failed to turn the economy
around, a poll shows half of Americans want to know how he did in college.
Forty-nine percent of respondents to an exclusive
IBD/TIPP survey say they agree that Obama "should release his academic
records" before November. Only 28% strongly disagree. Seven percent
answered "not sure."
Voters got a look at the college
coursework and grades of President Bush, as well as Democratic challengers Al
Gore and John Kerry. Obama, however, refuses to release his transcripts,
despite media requests.
It's natural voters would now
wonder about his academic performance. Other polls show they're increasingly
unhappy with his job performance.
With signs the economy may be
slipping back into recession, and the president's economic policies looking
woefully ineffective, many voters are waking up to the notion he may not be
nearly as smart as he's made out to be.
Obama's storied intellect simply isn't
measuring up to the hype created by media sycophants like MSNBC's Chris
Matthews, who's called him "very smart," or historians like Michael
Beschloss, who said he's "probably the smartest guy ever to become
president."
Coming into office on the heels of a
tongue-tied predecessor, the well-spoken Obama was supposed to have all the
answers. But it turns out he doesn't know any better. His bright ideas, from
energy policy to health care and jobs, haven't worked.
When it comes to economics, Obama
is tragically lost. Yet he insists he knows best. He thinks with his own
superior intelligence he can solve any problem.
When he ran for the U.S. Senate,
Obama bragged about how relatively well-read and cosmopolitan he was.
"There is a certain self-consciousness that I possess as somebody with
probably too much book learning, and also a very polyglot background," he
sniffed in a 2004 interview with BeliefNet.com.
He seems to look down on ordinary Americans,
views them as rubes. He griped in the same interview that the American people
"get confused sometimes, watch Fox News or listen to talk radio. That's
dangerous."
No, what's dangerous is his intellectual
elitism. Besides clouding his judgment, it fools others into thinking his
judgment is beyond reproach.
Worse, his smugness may be
unearned. Obama's brainy reputation is based almost entirely on his ability to
string together sentences. But most of his thoughts are scripted. Unlike George
Bush, Obama needs a teleprompter just to talk to elementary school kids.
While Obama may come across as an
erudite professor, he is actually quite sloppy in his scholarship. His
misattributing a quote to MLK in the rug he had custom-made for the Oval Office
is one example. Another is his absurd statement to French TV that based on
America's "7 million" Muslim population, we'd be one of the largest
Muslim nations. The actual size is a third that figure.
Bush was ridiculed for not reading
enough books. Yet he was at least familiar enough with the word
"corps" — as in Navy "corpsman" — not to confuse it with a
dead body like Obama did at a prayer breakfast. At a recent summit, Obama the
"polyglot" world traveler mangled the Argentine term Malvinas as
"Maldives."
Defenders say the fact Obama wrote
two books alone proves his intellectual firepower. But there are doubts he
actually penned his first memoir. His subversive pal Bill Ayers recently
claimed authorship. Much of the book's prose, in fact, resembles Ayers' writing
style.
Regardless, both Obama
autobiographies are riddled with howling factual errors. He even got several
key dates wrong in his family history.
We have a lot of evidence Obama is
not a genius, and little proof that he is. The empirical proof remains sealed
at Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard University.
(We would add the University of Chicago, where
he once lectured, because as far as we can tell, he never wrote a scholarly
article or joined intellectual debates while employed there.)
There's at least anecdotal evidence that Obama
was a terrible student in high school and college, where he routinely got high
on pot and cocaine, skipped class and turned assignments in late. Yet somehow —
somehow — he got into Ivy League schools.
Even Obama confessed in 2007 that he was
"a goof-off in high school . . . There was a whole stretch of time where I
didn't apply myself." That stretch runs at least through his entry into
Columbia in the fall of 1981, as a member of one of the worst transfer classes
in the school's history. Breitbart.com found it had the worst SAT scores in
recent memory.
In fact, Obama may have had a lower score than
C-student Bush, whom the media have maligned as the dumbest president.
Perhaps this is why Columbia professors
haven't come forward to exalt Obama as a standout. In fact, Obama had to beg
Northwestern University professor John McKnight, who worked with him as a
street organizer in Chicago, for a letter of recommendation to Harvard.
Apparently other professors balked.
There are a lot of unanswered questions about
this president. Now, many Americans are wondering, with good reason, if his
superior intellect is a myth.
Seeing a first term marked by callowness and
incompetence, some are wondering if he conned his way to the top, or got into
Ivy League schools not on academic merit but through racial preferences.
His academic records would help voters
determine whether they've been sold a bill of goods. They have a right to see all
of them before the election.
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QUOTE FROM JOHN EDWARDS CAMPAIGN MANAGER
"Barack Obama's kind of
change is where you sit down and you cut a deal with the corporate world,"
Edwards Campaign Manager David Bonior said during an interview with MSNBC’s Joe
Scarborough. "If you look at his record in Illinois when he had a major —
sponsored a major health bill that's what he did. He watered down with the help
of the corporate lobbyist and they got a weak product out of that."
Scarborough asked: "Are
you saying that Barack Obama is a sellout to corporate interests?"
Bonior replied: "He was
four years ago in Illinois. All you have to do is look at the legislation I'm
referring to."
Bonior was referring to health care legislation that Obama was instrumental in passing when he was an Illinois state senator five years ago, in part because he worked with insurance companies to make additions to the bill that would ensure their approval of the measure.
*Bonior was referring to health care legislation that Obama was instrumental in passing when he was an Illinois state senator five years ago, in part because he worked with insurance companies to make additions to the bill that would ensure their approval of the measure.
All this while the administration was cutting backroom deals with every manner of special interest - from drug companies to auto unions to doctors - in which favors worth billions were quietly and opaquely exchanged.
DENVERPOST.com
opinion
Krauthammer: The decline of Obama
By
Charles Krauthammer
Posted:
09/04/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT
What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)?
The
conventional wisdom is that Obama made a tactical mistake by farming out his agenda to Congress and allowing himself to be pulled left by the doctrinaire liberals of the Democratic congressional leadership.
All this while
the administration was cutting backroom deals with every manner of special
interest - from drug companies to auto unions to doctors - in which favors
worth billions were quietly and opaquely exchanged.
ALL
THREE, OBAMA, REID AND PELOSI MAKE JUDICIAL WATCH’S 10 MOST CORRUPT EVERY YEAR!
But
the idea of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling Obama left is quite ridiculous.
Where do you think he came from, this friend of Chavista ex-terrorist William
Ayers, of PLO apologist Rashid Khalidi, of racialist inciter Jeremiah Wright?
But
forget the character witnesses. Just look at Obama's behavior as president,
beginning with his first address to Congress.
Unbidden,
unforced and unpushed by the congressional leadership, Obama gave his most
deeply felt vision of America, delivering the boldest social democratic
manifesto ever issued by a U.S. president. In American politics, you can't get
more left than that speech and still be on the playing field.
In
a center-right country, that was problem enough. Obama then compounded it by
vastly misreading his mandate. He assumed it was personal.
This,
after winning by a mere seven points in a year of true economic catastrophe, of
an extraordinarily unpopular Republican incumbent, and of a politically weak
and unsteady opponent.
Nonetheless,
Obama imagined that, as Fouad Ajami so brilliantly observed, he had won the
kind of banana-republic plebiscite that grants caudillo-like authority to
remake everything in one's own image.Accordingly, Obama unveiled his plans for a grand makeover of the American system, animating that vision by enacting measure after measure that greatly enlarged state power, government spending and national debt.
Not
surprisingly, these measures engendered powerful popular skepticism that burst
into tea-party town-hall resistance.
Obama's
reaction to that resistance made things worse. Obama fancies himself tribune of
the people, spokesman for the grass roots, harbinger of a new kind of politics
from below that would upset the established lobbyist special-interest order of
Washington.
Yet
faced with protests from a real grass-roots movement, his party and his
supporters called it a mob - misinformed, misled, irrational, angry, unhinged,
bordering on racist.
All this while
the administration was cutting backroom deals with every manner of special interest
- from drug companies to auto unions to doctors - in which favors worth
billions were quietly and opaquely exchanged.
"Get
out of the way" and "don't do a lot of talking," the great
bipartisan scolded opponents whom he blamed for creating the "mess"
from which he is merely trying to save us.
If
only they could see. So with boundless confidence in his own persuasiveness,
Obama undertook a summer campaign to enlighten the masses by addressing
substantive objections to his reforms.Things got worse still. With answers so slippery and implausible and, well, fishy, he began jeopardizing the most fundamental asset of any new president - trust.
You
can't say that the system is totally broken and in need of radical
reconstruction, but nothing will change for you; that Medicare is bankrupting
the country, but $500 billion in cuts will have no effect on care; that you
will expand coverage while reducing deficits - and not inspire incredulity and
mistrust. When ordinary citizens understand they are being played for fools,
they bristle.
After
a disastrous summer - mistaking his mandate, believing his press, centralizing
power, governing left, disdaining citizens for (of all things) organizing -
Obama is in trouble.
Let's
be clear: This is a fall, not a collapse. He's not been repudiated or even
defeated. He will likely regroup and pass some version of health insurance
reform that will restore some of his clout and popularity.
But
what has occurred - irreversibly - is this: He's become ordinary. The spell is
broken. The charismatic conjurer of 2008 has shed his magic. He's regressed to
the mean, tellingly expressed in poll numbers hovering at 50 percent.
For
a man who only recently bred a cult, ordinariness is a great burden, and for
his acolytes, a crushing disappointment. Obama has become a politician like
others.
And
like other flailing presidents, he will try to salvage a cherished reform - and
his own standing - with yet another prime-time speech.
But
for the first time since election night in Grant Park, he will appear in the
most unfamiliar of guises - mere mortal, a treacherous transformation to which
a man of Obama's supreme self-regard may never adapt.
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/03/crony-capitalism-obama-as-servant-of.html
OBAMA’S CRONY
CAPITALISM, A LOVE STORY BETWEEN THE ACTOR PRESIDENT, AND HIS BANKSTER DONORS!
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).
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is
Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and
Union Bosses
BY
TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial
Reviews
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. In Obamanomics,
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.
Congressman Ron Paul says,
“Every libertarian and free-market conservative needs to read Obamanomics.”
And Johan Goldberg, columnist and bestselling author says, “Obamanomics
is conservative muckraking at its best and an indispensable field guide to the
Obama years.”
If you’ve wondered what’s
happening to America, as the federal government swallows up the financial
sector, the auto industry, and healthcare, and enacts deficit exploding
“stimulus packages,” 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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Obama, the great destroyer?
He lied in the face of the
nation that illegals were not part of his OBAMACARE.. they are the greatest beneficiaries.
Obama has sabotaged E-VERIFY
to assure more illegals get into our jobs!
Obama has used millions of
tax dollars to fund the Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The Race”.
Obama’s administration is
infested with LA RAZA SUPREMACIST, such as his Sec. of Labor, HILDA SOLIS.
Obama’s Holder DOJ does not prosecute Obama’s criminal bankster donors, he’s too busy suing American states on behalf of Obama’s LA RAZA PARTY base of illegals, sabotaging states’ rights to impose id requirements on Mexicans illegally voting for their LA RAZA DEMs.
Obama’s Holder DOJ does not prosecute Obama’s criminal bankster donors, he’s too busy suing American states on behalf of Obama’s LA RAZA PARTY base of illegals, sabotaging states’ rights to impose id requirements on Mexicans illegally voting for their LA RAZA DEMs.
Obama’s DHS is now the Dept.
of Homeland Security = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP.
OBAMA WORKS TIRELESSLY FOR BANKSTERS and ILLEGALS… the rest of us get the tax bills to pay for their border to border looting!
The Court Breathes New Life Into the
Great Destroyer
By David Limbaugh
7/3/2012
As
we approach the Fourth of July and contemplate its glorious significance,
recent events have brought into sharp relief the precarious condition of
America's unique liberty tradition.
Our Constitution is the best written guarantor of human liberty in human history, but its safeguards do not make it completely bulletproof against systematic assaults undermining its integrity.
In a little more than three years in office, President Obama
has distinguished himself as the Great Destroyer of our liberties through a
comprehensive set of policies that are at war with the American idea and are
succeeding in fundamentally transforming America, in fulfillment of Obama's
promise.
Just in the past few weeks, we've witnessed multiple body
blows against our freedoms, in areas ranging from immigration to "Fast and
Furious" to Obamacare to the economy to race relations to state
sovereignty to our very social compact itself.
We've just learned that in this poisonous political climate
Obama has fostered, even Chief Justice John Roberts, conservatism's latest
great hope for restoring America's high court to a posture of judicial
restraint, has reportedly succumbed to liberal media and presidential bullying
to undermine the Constitution in the name of protecting it.
After admitting he had no constitutional authority to change
immigration law unilaterally, Obama issued an executive order effectively
blocking deportation of so-called "Dreamers," as many as 800,000
young illegal immigrants. It's one thing for a president to act in an area over
which Congress has authority but hasn't yet spoken. It's another for him to
take executive action in direct derogation of Congress' explicit pronouncement
-- such as its multiple rejections of the DREAM Act.
When Justice Roberts joined with the liberal justices on the
Arizona immigration law case to validate Obama's war against that state -- and
others -- for trying to protect its borders and preserve its state sovereignty,
the gleeful, ball-spiking administration went to town. The Supreme Court
obliterated three of the four provisions of the statute and emasculated the
only one it did uphold by extracting its enforcement teeth.
Obama lurched into immediate action to rub Arizona's nose in the dirt. It broke seven cooperative agreements with local law enforcement authorities to police illegal immigration; it announced that the Department of Homeland Security would severely limit the cases in which it would enforce the law; and it established a hotline and encouraged citizens to tattle on law enforcement officers for any instances of racial profiling. It is despicable for the federal government to turn citizens against their states and gin up racial tensions in the process.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder has notoriously played the race card elsewhere, not just in calling Americans cowards on race but in accusing congressional investigators of pursuing him over "Fast and Furious" as a way to get at President Obama because they are both African-Americans. Despite the fact that Holder was caught in two lies to Congress and has wrongfully withheld thousands of legally discoverable documents, President Obama invoked executive privilege on his behalf to shield him from having to turn over further incriminating evidence.
Obama lurched into immediate action to rub Arizona's nose in the dirt. It broke seven cooperative agreements with local law enforcement authorities to police illegal immigration; it announced that the Department of Homeland Security would severely limit the cases in which it would enforce the law; and it established a hotline and encouraged citizens to tattle on law enforcement officers for any instances of racial profiling. It is despicable for the federal government to turn citizens against their states and gin up racial tensions in the process.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder has notoriously played the race card elsewhere, not just in calling Americans cowards on race but in accusing congressional investigators of pursuing him over "Fast and Furious" as a way to get at President Obama because they are both African-Americans. Despite the fact that Holder was caught in two lies to Congress and has wrongfully withheld thousands of legally discoverable documents, President Obama invoked executive privilege on his behalf to shield him from having to turn over further incriminating evidence.
Of course, the granddaddy of Obama's recent attacks on our
liberty is Obamacare, which has been a disgraceful fraud from the beginning.
Though he told us that nearly 50 million Americans were without health
insurance, a closer examination revealed that the number of American citizens
who wanted to procure health insurance coverage yet couldn't afford it was
closer to the neighborhood of 10 million. Obamacare will not bend the cost
curve down but bend it upward, dramatically. It will reduce, not increase,
access to and the quality of care. It will further smother small businesses with
a tsunami of new regulations and some 20 new taxes. It will destroy the
doctor-patient relationship and preclude most people from retaining their
plans
Then Justice Roberts, who was said to be exceedingly
concerned with maintaining the integrity and image of the court, reportedly
caved to political pressure and changed his opinion and then engaged in
contorted reasoning to rationalize the perverse and dangerous result his vote
delivered. His ruling doesn't merely validate the unconstitutional monstrosity known
as Obamacare; it opens the door for a horrifying expansion of power under the
congressional taxing authority, notwithstanding elitist apologists who
sanguinely assure us the consequences of the ruling are limited.
Justice Roberts apparently forgot that his first duty is not
to protect the "image" of the court but to protect the Constitution,
of which the court is the primary steward.
Whether or not he intended to, Justice Roberts breathed new life, for now, into the Great Destroyer, making November that much more important. If the tea party was taking a brief nap -- as some have suggested (but I don't believe) -- the federal government has awoken it with an ear-piercing alarm that will not quit ringing before Election Day.
Whether or not he intended to, Justice Roberts breathed new life, for now, into the Great Destroyer, making November that much more important. If the tea party was taking a brief nap -- as some have suggested (but I don't believe) -- the federal government has awoken it with an ear-piercing alarm that will not quit ringing before Election Day.
On this Fourth of July, let's truly reflect on America's
Constitution and its liberty and redouble our resolve and commitment to
recapturing both.
David Limbaugh
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PAT BUCHANAN ON OBAMA’S
HISPANDERING FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES:
What is the response of
Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully
executed?
He is siding with the
law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a
Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is
commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to
fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
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TOWNHALL.com
Whose
Country Is This?
Pat Buchanan
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
With
the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and
police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom
now reside there.
Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America's immigration laws.
Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America's immigration laws.
"We
in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act,"
said Gov. Jan Brewer. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have
created an unacceptable situation."
We
have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.
What is the response of
Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully
executed?
He is siding with the
law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a
Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is
commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to
fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
He
has denounced Arizona as "misguided." He has called on the Justice
Department to ensure that Arizona's sheriffs and police do not violate anyone's
civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of the people of Arizona
who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers in
their midst.
How's
that for Andrew Jackson-style leadership?
Obama
has done everything but his duty to enforce the law.
Undeniably,
making it a state as well as a federal crime to be in this country illegally,
and requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they have a
"reasonable suspicion" is here illegally, is tough and burdensome.
But what choice did Arizona have?
The
state has a fiscal crisis caused in part by the burden of providing schooling
and social welfare for illegals and their families, who consume far more in
services than they pay in taxes and who continue to pour in. Even John McCain
is now calling for 3,000 troops on the border.
Police
officers and a prominent rancher have been murdered. There have been
kidnappings believed to be tied to the Mexican drug cartels. There are nightly
high-speed chases through the barrios where innocent people are constantly at
risk.
If
Arizona does not get control of the border and stop the invasion, U.S. citizens
will stop coming to Arizona and will begin to depart, as they are already
fleeing California.
A country that cannot control
its borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
What
we are talking about here is the Balkanization and breakup of a nation into
ethnic enclaves. A country that cannot
control its borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
The
tasks that Arizonans are themselves undertaking are ones that belong by right,
the Constitution and federal law to the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, and Homeland Security.
Arizona
has been compelled to assume the feds' role because the feds won't do their
job. And for that dereliction of duty the buck stops on the desk of the
president of the United States.
Why
is Obama paralyzed? Why does he not enforce the law, even if he dislikes it, by
punishing the businessmen who hire illegals and by sending the 12 million to 20
million illegals back home? President Eisenhower did it. Why won't he?
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OBAMA THE HISPANDERING PRESIDENT SELLING OUT HIS OWN COUNTRY FOR
THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES!
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Because he is politically correct. Because he owes a big debt to the Hispanic lobby that helped deliver two-thirds of that vote in 2008. Though most citizens of Hispanic descent in Arizona want the border protected and the laws enforced, the Hispanic lobby demands that the law be changed.
Fair
enough. But the nation rose up as one to reject the
"path-to-citizenship" -- i.e., amnesty -- that the 2007 plan of
George W. Bush, McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama envisioned.
Al
Sharpton threatens to go to Phoenix and march in the streets against the new
Arizona law. Let him go.
JOBS? NO LEGAL NEED APPLY HERE!
Let
us see how many African-Americans, who are today frozen out of the 8 million
jobs held by illegal aliens that might otherwise go to them or their children,
will march to defend an invasion for which they are themselves paying the
heaviest price.
Last
year, while Americans were losing a net of 5 million jobs, the U.S. government
-- Bush and Obama both -- issued 1,131,000 green cards to legal immigrants to
come and take the jobs that did open up, a flood of immigrants equaled in only
four other years in our history.
What
are we doing to our own people?
Whose
country is this, anyway?
America
today has an establishment that, because it does not like the immigration laws,
countenances and condones wholesale violation of those laws.
Nevertheless,
under those laws, the U.S. government is obligated to deport illegal aliens and
punish businesses that knowingly hire them.
This
is not an option. It is an obligation.
Can
anyone say Barack Obama is meeting that obligation?
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FAIRUS.org
The
Administration's Phantom Immigration Enforcement Policy
According
to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department.
By
Ira Mehlman
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
The
setting was not quite the flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with a
“Mission Accomplished” banner as the backdrop, but it was the next best thing.
Speaking at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Nov. 13, Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared victory over illegal immigration
and announced that the Obama administration is ready to move forward with a
mass amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens already living in the United
States.
Arguing the Obama administration’s case for amnesty, Napolitano laid out what she described as the “three-legged stool” for immigration reform. As the administration views it, immigration reform must include “a commitment to serious and effective enforcement, improved legal flows for families and workers, and a firm but fair way to deal with those who are already here.”
Acknowledging
that a lack of confidence in the government’s ability and commitment to
effectively enforce the immigration laws it passes proved to be the Waterloo of
previous efforts to gain amnesty for illegal aliens, Napolitano was quick to
reassure the American public that those concerns could be put to rest.
“For
starters, the security of the Southwest border has been transformed from where
it was in 2007,” stated the secretary. Not only is the border locked up tight,
she continued, but the situation is well in-hand in the interior of the country
as well. “We’ve also shown that the government is serious and strategic in its
approach to enforcement by making changes in how we enforce the law in the
interior of the country and at worksites…Furthermore, we’ve transformed
worksite enforcement to truly address the demand side of illegal immigration.”
If
Rep. Joe Wilson had been in attendance to hear Secretary Napolitano’s CAP
speech he might well have had a few choice comments to offer. But since he
wasn’t, we will have to rely on the Department of Homeland Security’s own data
to assess the veracity of Napolitano’s claims.
According
to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department. DHS claims to have “effective control” over just 894 miles of
border. That’s 894 out of 8,607 miles they are charged with protecting. As for
the other 7,713 miles? DHS’s stated border security goal for FY 2010 is the
same 894 miles.
The
administration’s strategic approach to interior and worksite enforcement is
just as chimerical as its strategy at the border, unless one considers
shuffling paper to be a strategy. DHS data, released November 18, show that
administrative arrests of immigration law violators fell by 68 percent between
2008 and 2009. The department also carried out 60 percent fewer arrests for
criminal violations of immigration laws, 58 percent fewer criminal indictments,
and won 63 percent fewer convictions.
While
the official unemployment rate has climbed from 7.6 percent when President
Obama took office in January to 10 percent today, the administration’s worksite
enforcement strategy has amounted to a bureaucratic game of musical chairs. The
administration has all but ended worksite enforcement actions and replaced them
with paperwork audits. When the audits determine that illegal aliens are on the
payroll, employers are given the opportunity to fire them with little or no
adverse consequence to the company, while no action is taken to remove the
illegal workers from the country. The illegal workers simply acquire a new set
of fraudulent documents and move on to the next employer seeking workers
willing to accept substandard wages.
In
Janet Napolitano’s alternative reality a mere 10 percent of our borders under
“effective control” and sharp declines in arrests and prosecutions of
immigration lawbreakers may be construed as confidence builders, but it is hard
to imagine that the American public is going to see it that way. If anything,
the administration’s record has left the public less confident that promises of
future immigration enforcement would be worth the government paper they’re
printed on.
As
Americans scrutinize the administration’s plans to overhaul immigration policy,
they are likely to find little in the “three-legged stool” being offered that
they like or trust. The first leg – enforcement – the administration has all
but sawed off. The second – increased admissions of extended family members and
workers – makes little sense with some 25 million Americans either unemployed
or relegated to part-time work. And the third – amnesty for millions of illegal
aliens – is anathema to their sense of justice and fair play.
As
Americans well know, declaring “Mission Accomplished” and actually
accomplishing a mission are two completely different things. When it comes to
enforcing immigration laws, the only message the public is receiving from this
administration is “Mission Aborted.” REALITY OF OBAMA'S JOKE OF HOMELAND SECURITY GOES BACK TO HIS FIRST DAYS! EVEN HAS HE'S SQUANDERED BILLIONS PROTECTING THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS!
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES OBAMA'S AGENDA OF LA RAZA SUPREMACY AND AN ILLEGAL IN EVERY AMERICAN JOB TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED. THE LEGALS GET THE TAX BILLS FOR THE MEX WELFARE AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/wikileaks-exposed-obamas-la-raza-open.html
The Obama administration has also cut worksite enforcement efforts by 70%, allowing illegal immigrants to continue working in jobs that rightfully belong to citizens and legal workers.
Obama Quietly Erasing Borders
(Article)
THE
ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!
THE
LA RAZA DEMS HAVE SABOTAGED E-VERIFY TO HELP EASE MORE ILLEGALS INTO OUR JOBS.
IN MEX-OCCUPIED CA, THE LA RAZA (ILLEGALS) CONTROLLED STATE LEGISLATURE PASSED
A LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY. OBAMA HAS SUED AZ TO
STOP E-VERIFY…. HERE’S WHY:
“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs
taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of
Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on
the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should
support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they
need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”
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THE
BELOW FIGURES ARE DATED. IT’S NOW ESTIMATED THAT THE MEX OCCUPATION DEPRESSES
WAGES FROM $300 TO $400 BILLION PER YEAR.
THIS
IS WHY OBAMA SABOTAGED E-VERIFY, AND THE U.S. CHAMBER of COMMERCE SUPPORTS
OBAMA’S OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS, AND SABOTAGE OF E-VERIFY!
OBAMA’S
SEC. of ILLEGAL LABOR IS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS. SHE DECLARES THAT
“WE” ARE ALL AMERICANS. LEGALS AND MEX LOOTERS!
“The principal beneficiaries of our current
immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages
for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American
workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant
flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.” Christian Science Monitor
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“Listen to people
from the National Council of La Raza, LULAC, CARECEN, Latino TV networks, the
Piolin radio show (that’s Hispanic anti-Rush Limbaugh), and you will see that
the U.S. is replete with its own Chavezes-in-waiting.”
LA RAZA-CONTROLLED MEXIFORNIA – CAPITAL OF MEXICAN GANGS
THE LA RAZA CRIME TIDAL WAVE
NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS!
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.* 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
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Praise for Obamanomics
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
—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
—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
—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
—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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