Immigration

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Liberal journalist launches trial balloon

              Obama’s Immigration Amnesty Would Be Like Lincoln’s Emancipation

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Charles Lane (Amarillo.com)

 Just when you think you’ve heard it all from the liberal media, another Obama water carrier – this time Charles Lane – provides more red meat for those of us who comment on the right.  You just can’t make this stuff up.

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President Lincoln signing his Emancipation Proclamation. Charles Lane draws an analogy of President Obama signing an executive order legalizing 5 million undocumented illegals. (civil-war-150.com)

 “Not since Lincoln pondered his Emancipation Proclamation has a president considered a more sweeping change to membership in the American community than the relief for illegal immigrants that President Obama is contemplating,” writes Lane in the Investor’s Business Daily.

 “A plan to offer up to 5 million undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and others … wouldn’t cover all illegal immigrants any more than Lincoln’s proclamation freed every slave,” he writes.  “Still, its impact would be dramatic and might define Obama’s legacy as powerfully as the Emancipation Proclamation defined Lincoln’s.”  Incredible!

 Such a move would “tear up the Constitution,” commented George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, who I have frequently quoted in past posts.  Perhaps it’s because he is a Democrat who voted for Obama, but stands strong on protection of the Constitution. Continue reading →

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Rep. Gutierrez spews hate

“So, I think the real, fundamental problem that the Republicans have is, ‘How do we get meaner, how do we get nastier with immigrants,’” said Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), adding a warning to Republicans that “Hispanics in America would never forget the tough legislation proposed by Republicans in upcoming elections.”

“The way you treat one of us today is the way you have treated all of us, and we will remember that, “he said. … read more

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Obama’s dream world

“We have come a long way over the past five and a half years.  Our challenges are nowhere near as daunting as they were when I first came into office.” – President Obama, Aug. 1, 2014

I came up out of my chair when I heard the president say that during his pre-vacation press conference on Friday, but there wasn’t a sound out of the dutiful press corps in the audience.

Really Mr. President?

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President Obama told the press that “challenges are nowhere near as daunting” as when he came into office during his Friday press conference. (voanews.com photo)

Let’s look at the economy.  You said, “The good news is the economy clearly is getting stronger.  Things are getting better.”  And you claim “we’ve recovered faster and come farther from the recession than almost any other advanced country on Earth.”  Wrong.  We are mired in the slowest recovery ever!

What about the four per cent drop in real median household income under your watch, Mr. President?  And how about those 11 million workers who quit looking for work … the 11 million who went on food stamps … the increases in prices (food, gasoline and electricity)?  Growth is sluggish.

No, Mr. President, the economy is not looking up.  The national debt continues to climb and seniors have learned that Social Security will go broke in 2030, seven years sooner than when you took office. Continue reading →

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Talk about “Joshing”

What a difference a few days make.

“Well, I am definitely committed and I have a responsibility in this job to try to help the president live up to his commitment, to be the most transparent president in history,” said White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest during his Sunday appearance on CNN’s Reliable Sources.… read more

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Three businessmen in fantasyland

Under the headline, Break the Immigration Impasse, three gentlemen from the world of business took on the United States Congress in space graciously provided by The New York Times, a liberal publication always willing to bash Republicans.

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Sheldon Adleson (biography.com)

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Warren Buffett (telegraph.co.uk)

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Bill Gates (Microsoft)

 

 

“The three of us vary in our politics and would differ also in our preferences about the details of an immigration reform bill,” wrote Sheldon G. Adelson, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, “But we could without a doubt come together to draft a bill acceptable to each of us.”  Sure you could.  Now bring in 532 other business colleagues and let’s take a look at that bill.

Keying on the defeat of Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor as the reason immigration reform became hopeless, the trio criticized the 535 members of Congress for not coming together on immigration. They wrote, “Americans deserve better than this,” adding that “Most Americans believe that our country has clear and present interest in enacting immigration legislation …”

Really?  If that were so, why did immigration rank so low when Americans were asked about the most important problems facing the country today in the Quinnipiac University poll conducted earlier this month?  Immigration garnered just four percent. Continue reading →

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Why regaining the senate is so vital

The 5-4 vote by the Supreme Court in the so-called Hobby Lobby case should serve as a wake-up call for conservatives who still haven’t understood the importance of gaining Republican control of the Senate in the mid-term elections this fall.

If you needed a clearer reminder why a Republican senate is so imperative, the vote in opposition by liberals on the Court, including Obama appointees Elena Kagan and Sonya Sotomayor, is it.  Continued Democrat control of the senate will assure the nomination of left-leaning individuals should one or more vacancies occur during the remainder of Obama’s term.

Regular readers of this blog know that I have been reminding you that we need to win six seats in November, most likely in Arkansas, Montana, Louisiana, South Dakota, North Carolina and West Virginia, where incumbent Democrats are most vulnerable.

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Fox’s Bill Reilly captured my thoughts so powerfully that they are quoted here today. (blogs.wsj.com)

From time to time I happen to be on the same page with Fox’s Bill O’Reilly and, his June 30, 2014 Talking Points on this subject was one of those occasions.  It was refreshing because most of the media is inaccurately reporting the implications of the Court decision.  And, I noted Hillary Clinton, speaking in Aspen, also misinterpreted the decision; undoubtedly to support her “war on women” agenda.

“The Obama administration wants all corporations to fund things like the morning after pill, which many religious Americans believe is an abortion-inducing medication,” said O’Reilly, but adds, “the national media did not report that … (continuing) to say the Hobby Lobby case is about birth control per se, which it is not.”

Disturbed by the Court opinion of the four liberal justices, O’Reilly states they “apparently believe that American taxpayers should fund abortions.”  Noting the fact that religious freedom is a hallmark of the Constitution, he points to the liberal vote as contradicting the Constitution, and “that’s frightening.” Continue reading →

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Will GOP learn from Brat win?

First, let’s get it straight.  It wasn’t Tea Party financial support that enabled Dave Brat to beat GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the Virginia primary last night as the media has been saying.

Putting it simply, Brat did campaign on principles Tea Partiers and true Republicans stand for – primarily adherence to the Constitution –   not moves to be Democrat-lite, to appear more moderate.… read more

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Kramer’s musings …

                                             Beware the advice of the opposition

“I think the Republicans are wasting their time using that (ObamaCare) as their electoral issue, and they will find that out.”  –  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

If the Democrats really believed that, do you think they would be telling us?  It reminds me of how they tell us if we agree to amnesty, Hispanics will vote Republican.

                                                … and speaking of Nancy Pelosi

Did you hear how she corrected a reporter who asked her a question about ObamaCare?  “It’s called the Affordable Care Act,” she said, and then repeated, “It’s the Affordable Care Act.”  Then she continued by saying, “That’s a case we have to make.  We’re grown ups.”  And when the reporter reminded her that even the president calls it ObamaCare, she told him, “I tell them the same thing I told you.”

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi reminds reporter that it is the Affordable Care Act, not ObamaCare. (Evan Vucci AP photo)

As if that wasn’t clear enough in her mind, she went on as if she were a kindergarten teacher to say, “Affordable. Affordable.  There’s a reason.  Affordable.  Affordable.  Affordable.   Affordable.  Affordable.”  All this to make her point that Republicans refuse to use the official name because they know it is more affordable.  Nearly everyone knows that for the majority of people, the Affordable Care Act is not more affordable.  Premiums are up and deductibles are up.  Republicans should continue to use “ObamaCare” to hang this miserable program on its namesake. Continue reading →