Barring some unexpected miracle there is absolutely no chance that the Obama administration will be able to show progress on the economy in time for the election.
With the election looming and a increasing likelihood that the Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania could well end up in the Republican column. The Obama team is looking elsewhere for votes.
Elsewhere would be the Southwest. In the 2010 midterm elections, the Democrats won the Senate elections in Nevada and Colorado thanks to the turnout of new Latino voters who voted heavily in favor of the Democrats. Hispanic American voters are therefore viewed as a key and perhaps decisive prize in the 2012 elections.
Obama has recieved a lack of enthusiasm among Hispanic Americans because he had failed to deliver the goods on immigration reform since the issue was stymied by the debate in Congress. The "goods' being the Dream Act
Republicans have blocked the bill because they felt that amnesty for illegal immigrants who have already arrived would encourage another wave of illegals and also because they claimed that the first priority is to seal the American border against illegal immigrants. Once border security is achieved, then reform could be put on the agenda.
Never fear, Obama and his team never let little things like the rule of law or the constitution get in the way of winning an election.
Now the Obama Administration is bypassing Congress by issuing orders to the bureaucracy not to bother with immigrants who do not pose a threat security. Enforcement proceedings will concentrate on criminals, gang members, people who returned to the United States following deportation and recent arrivals.
Proceedings against others may be reopened, but in the interim they will be allowed to file for a work permit.
The decision will affect 300,000 people at this stage but it is going to be considered as a long term change by supporters and opponents. The longer an immigrant remains in the United States, building ties and work relations while his children attend schools, his immunity against deportation is enhanced.
Economic recessions generally increase hostility to immigration, both legal and illegal. Fairly or not, immigrants are blamed for taking jobs away or being willing to work for lower wages and under worse conditions.
The Wall Street Journal has confirmed that illegal aliens who receive deferred action or parole from deportation can apply for work permits allowing them to compete with 22 million Americans looking for full-time work. That's 300,000 illegal aliens who could potentially receive work permits!
So, while Obama spent much of the week on his "Magical Misery" bus tour promoting a future plan to get unemployed Americans back to work, his Administration was working behind the scenes to help illegal aliens become eligible for jobs in the United States!
Tell me again how President Obama is concerned about Americans being out of work, losing their homes, and being hammered by the worst recession since the 1930's, because it sure looks like he could care less about Americans, and cares more about his re-election.
Friday, August 19, 2011
An Open Letter to Anyone Who Thinks Obama Should Not Go On Vacation
From Red State
While there has been some debate in the media recently about Obama's taking too many vacations and not working hard enough to jump start this economy with some sound economic policies (any policies at all would do) I came across this open letter at Red State that sums up the mood of many at this point. Yes, please take a vacation a long vacation.
The markets are nervous, and lack confidence. Every time Obama steps to his bully pulpit to speak the world markets crash. He now threatens to reveal his economic plan (three years in) in September, maybe by 2014 he might come up with a budget plan ?
The Washington Post has floated a balloon that this new plan will call for Stimulus II. Stimulus I was a pork and patronage bill, a total waste, now he wants to hand out some more pork before the election. The White House also leaked a little tid bid that the plan will include a tax break for companies that hire new workers.
He really doesn't get it, that would have been a good idea in 2008-2009 when there were still jobs, but there are no jobs now. Stimulus one killed of millions of private sector jobs.
No wonder the markets are nervous, and people want Obama to take a vacation. He claims to have pulled us back from the abyss, please don't help us any more, go ahead take your vacation, a long one.
While there has been some debate in the media recently about Obama's taking too many vacations and not working hard enough to jump start this economy with some sound economic policies (any policies at all would do) I came across this open letter at Red State that sums up the mood of many at this point. Yes, please take a vacation a long vacation.
Dear People Who Think Obama Should Not Go On Vacation:
Are you out of your ever living mind?!?!?!
Have you not seen what destruction on our economy and morale this man has wrought for three years?!?!
And you want him to go back to Washington, D.C.? Congress too? You are out of your mind.
The correct answer is STAY ON VACATION ALL OF YOU. The stock market tends to do better when Congress is gone. The world tends to run fine when this President is on vacation. Our freedoms cannot be further encroached while Obama is in Martha’s Vineyard.
Please, stop asking this man to come back to Washington where everything he touches tends to break down.
When he comes back in September he says he will have a plan to create jobs. The last several plans he had to create jobs killed or destroyed more private sector jobs than even the most radical leftist could have hoped for. Please, please, please stop saying he needs to come back to Washington.
Mr. President, you take as much vacation as you want. In fact, if you want to leave the country and go visit your relatives in Kenya or just go for a safari or go see your old stomping grounds in Indonesia or, heck, take the family to see penguins in Antarctica or even go to Bora Bora, I’d be glad to have you take say . . . the next twelve months off.
And even better, I’m sure we can find some people to fund your vacation other than the American taxpayers who you’ve been using to fund your political campaign bus tour.
The markets are nervous, and lack confidence. Every time Obama steps to his bully pulpit to speak the world markets crash. He now threatens to reveal his economic plan (three years in) in September, maybe by 2014 he might come up with a budget plan ?
The Washington Post has floated a balloon that this new plan will call for Stimulus II. Stimulus I was a pork and patronage bill, a total waste, now he wants to hand out some more pork before the election. The White House also leaked a little tid bid that the plan will include a tax break for companies that hire new workers.
He really doesn't get it, that would have been a good idea in 2008-2009 when there were still jobs, but there are no jobs now. Stimulus one killed of millions of private sector jobs.
No wonder the markets are nervous, and people want Obama to take a vacation. He claims to have pulled us back from the abyss, please don't help us any more, go ahead take your vacation, a long one.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Brawl breaks out at U.S.-China 'goodwill' basketball game [Video]
A brawl broke out Thursday during an exhibition basketball game between Georgetown University and a Chinese team in a contest that was intended to be a goodwill gesture coinciding with Vice President Joe Biden's visit to China.
The fight occurred with 9 1/2 minutes left in the game as both teams' benches ran onto the court. The foul-filled contest between Georgetown and the Bayi Rockets was immediately called off once order was restored. The teams were tied, 64-64, when the game ended.
So the game ended in a tie, and we lost the fight. Apparently the Chinese didn't get the memo to be intimidated by America basketball players.
The American downgrade continues, If I were Georgetown I'd blame the refs.
The fight occurred with 9 1/2 minutes left in the game as both teams' benches ran onto the court. The foul-filled contest between Georgetown and the Bayi Rockets was immediately called off once order was restored. The teams were tied, 64-64, when the game ended.
So the game ended in a tie, and we lost the fight. Apparently the Chinese didn't get the memo to be intimidated by America basketball players.
The American downgrade continues, If I were Georgetown I'd blame the refs.
Atheist rants against Ron Paul [VIDEO]
I came across this video after I had been discussing the apparent blacklisting of Ron Paul by the lame-stream-media with a friend. I really thought he would get more coverage in this election considering his economic views are solid, he is honest, and has a long proven track record of consistency. Some personal qualities that have been in very short supply the last three years, okay, non-existent
My search for the answer turned up this gem, and atheist ranting about the evils of Ron Paul. I do not particularly like Paul for president, however in a match up against Obama he has my vote. His views on defense, immigration, and international politics are a little fuzzy, and too, well, "whatever dude" for my tastes and I don't think he has the gravitas to be a strong leader, maybe a Vice President ?
What was striking about this rant was the absolute intolerance that this guy has for anyone that does not share his core beliefs, which seem to be Ron Paul is the devil, but there is no devil because there is no god, so that means killing babies is okay, a fetus in not alive so get over it, I mean geeeeeez, and anyone who believes in a God is just stupid as rock, I created this world, I know the "truth" I don't need to search for it, so don't tell me anything.... cool ?
Actually I find atheists to be as silly as religious fanatics - both make a leap of faith, faith something exists and faith something doesn't. And both are convinced they know the truth. I've got no clue - physics implies both are possible - so you got me. But I tend to believe that the honest ones are the ones that are seeking truth, not ranting that they have found it.
He doesn't mention Islam, but these cowards never do.
My search for the answer turned up this gem, and atheist ranting about the evils of Ron Paul. I do not particularly like Paul for president, however in a match up against Obama he has my vote. His views on defense, immigration, and international politics are a little fuzzy, and too, well, "whatever dude" for my tastes and I don't think he has the gravitas to be a strong leader, maybe a Vice President ?
What was striking about this rant was the absolute intolerance that this guy has for anyone that does not share his core beliefs, which seem to be Ron Paul is the devil, but there is no devil because there is no god, so that means killing babies is okay, a fetus in not alive so get over it, I mean geeeeeez, and anyone who believes in a God is just stupid as rock, I created this world, I know the "truth" I don't need to search for it, so don't tell me anything.... cool ?
Actually I find atheists to be as silly as religious fanatics - both make a leap of faith, faith something exists and faith something doesn't. And both are convinced they know the truth. I've got no clue - physics implies both are possible - so you got me. But I tend to believe that the honest ones are the ones that are seeking truth, not ranting that they have found it.
He doesn't mention Islam, but these cowards never do.
Obama’s job approval hits a new low .
From the Daily Caller
Only 26 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s handling of the economy. I'll leave you to imagine the demographics of that 26 percent.
(Also see : Obama to give major jobs speech in September)
I don't want too sound pushy, or ungrateful for what he has done to save us from Bush, but he's been in office for almost three years now, what the hell is he waiting for.
The new low is a drop of 11 percentage points since Gallup last measured it in May and well below his previous low of 35 percent in November 2010.
Obama earned similarly low approval for his handling of the federal budget deficit (24 percent) and creating jobs (29 percent). His approval ratings on Afghanistan and foreign affairs also sunk by 15 points and 9 points, respectively.
History will remember this period as three years of political warfare, a Socialist power grab that ignored the state of the union and the majority of the American people in order to push a Socialist political agenda, the messy political debate in Washington over the debt ceiling, followed by distress on Wall Street, the downgrading of our country, and tragedy in Afghanistan,
Gallup wrote on its website. “How much each of these factors is responsible for the overall decline in Obama’s approval rating is unclear. But Americans’ unhappiness with each of them is reflected in recent declines in Obama’s specific job ratings for the economy, the federal budget deficit, and various foreign policy measures, as well as in his markedly low rating for creating jobs.
There is only one word left to describe this political experiment "ugly"
More and more Americans are not seeing any greatness in this president and want to move on.
Only 26 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s handling of the economy. I'll leave you to imagine the demographics of that 26 percent.
(Also see : Obama to give major jobs speech in September)
I don't want too sound pushy, or ungrateful for what he has done to save us from Bush, but he's been in office for almost three years now, what the hell is he waiting for.
The new low is a drop of 11 percentage points since Gallup last measured it in May and well below his previous low of 35 percent in November 2010.
Obama earned similarly low approval for his handling of the federal budget deficit (24 percent) and creating jobs (29 percent). His approval ratings on Afghanistan and foreign affairs also sunk by 15 points and 9 points, respectively.
History will remember this period as three years of political warfare, a Socialist power grab that ignored the state of the union and the majority of the American people in order to push a Socialist political agenda, the messy political debate in Washington over the debt ceiling, followed by distress on Wall Street, the downgrading of our country, and tragedy in Afghanistan,
Gallup wrote on its website. “How much each of these factors is responsible for the overall decline in Obama’s approval rating is unclear. But Americans’ unhappiness with each of them is reflected in recent declines in Obama’s specific job ratings for the economy, the federal budget deficit, and various foreign policy measures, as well as in his markedly low rating for creating jobs.
There is only one word left to describe this political experiment "ugly"
More and more Americans are not seeing any greatness in this president and want to move on.
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