Obama doesn’t like Arizona’s border security law. According to him, Janet Napolitano, and Eric Holder, it is so bad they won’t even read it. I mean, without even having to read all sixteen pages, anyone would know it invites racial profiling. In simple terms, if you looked like you were from Mexico, they could ask you if you were from Mexico. However, that’s not the case. If you’re busted for committing a crime, they can ask if you’re a US citizen or not. If you’re not, they can lock you up and get you off the streets immediately. Just like they would a US citizen. Crazy huh? Obama, using his powers as President. Did what any president would do. He invited a foreigner to speak to our Congress so that the foreigner could trash one of our states.
Now, Felipe’s idea of making things better on the border is for Arizona to drop their crazy idea of putting people breaking laws in Arizona in jail and let things go back to normal. In exchange, he promised that he’d talk a lot more about border security to Obama. Obama promised to talk a lot more about border security too with Calderon. On top of that, he won’t send the National Guard to keep an eye on things.
How can Arizona possibly turn all that down?
Honestly, that’s one of the cheapest shots I’ve seen a President take, ever.
When is Jan Brewer scheduled to speak to OUR Congress about the necessity of the law? When are the US citizens living at risk on the border going to speak to OUR Congress? When are the citizens of Arizona going to be given the same respect as Mexican organized crime?
This is pure nutroot, unabashed liberal, idiocy run amok here. The Los Angeles City Council debated whether to boycott Arizona. Councilman Ed Reyes summed it up best for the enlightened council:
So, the Los Angeles City Council, who does not live in Arizona, decided they needed to take a stand and have their voice heard. Most of the world heard it, but thought it was petty politics. However, the people of Arizona heard it and thought it was bad for business. So they looked at what that might impact.
The primary thing Los Angeles imports from Arizona is power.
52% of Los Angeles’s power comes from outside of California by means of coal powered generators. ( That’s another story entirely. )
The story today is how a utilities person in Arizona is threatening to cut off Los Angeles’ power if they push the boycott. But it seems to me that Los Angeles has already made that decision for them. Foxnews is running a poll to see if people think it’s right for Arizona to cut off Los Angeles or whether that’s petty politics. At the time of this writing, with over 100,000 responses, 93% think Arizona should do it.
I do too.
A boycott’s a boycott. You can’t just pick and choose what products you buy from someone you find morally incapable of dealing with. It’s on, or it’s not.
You gotta ask yourself LA if you feel lucky. Well, do ya? Go ahead punks, make our day!
You can join in on the fun if you want:
I also wonder how many of those council members even read the Arizona law. My bet, zero.
This thing over the Arizona immigrant law is pathetic.
Janet Napolitano thinks it’s horrible. She knows it creates racial profiling. She hasn’t read it.
Eric Holder is quite certain it’s illegal. That it violates several Constitutional rights. He hasn’t read it but he plans to file suits on behalf of the federal government.
Now, Felipe Calder, president of Mexico, is ripping into it as a guest of President Obama, who thinks it’s misguided, but hasn’t read it either. Of the four, Calder is the only one who has a legitimate gripe. It is designed to keep his citizens in his country. That’s gotta suck dontcha think?
For what it’s worth, here’s the entire thing that all these very important and learned people can’t find the time to read:
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Sixteen,
Pages,
Long.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard “Dick” Blumenthal has been in office since 1991. He’s done a lot of things as attorney general. He jumped on the first great American corporate lynching of the tobacco industry well after Hillary Clinton declared war. Ignoring the issues with global warming, he’s trying to declare carbon dioxide a dangerous substance:
“I urge the new Obama EPA to declare carbon dioxide a danger to human health and welfare so we can at last begin addressing the potentially disastrous threat global warming poses to health, the environment and our economy. We must make up for lost time before it’s too late to curb dangerous warming threatening to devastate the planet and human society.” He has brought suit against a number of electric utilities in the Midwest, arguing that coal-burning power plants are generating excess CO2 emissions. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently agreed to allow Blumenthal’s lawsuit to proceed. Blumenthal personally has stated “no reputable climate scientist disputes the reality of global warming. It is fact, plain and simple. Dithering will be disastrous.”
Now that a LOT of scientists are disputing the evidence of global warming, Dick decided to move on. He set his eyes on the US Senate. However, he ran into a bump the last few days. It seems that while acting as Attorney General, he’s repeatedly claimed he served IN Vietnam. He talked about “the taunts, the insults, sometimes even the physical abuse.” Fact is, he never did. He served IN South Carolina. While the REAL soldiers were going to Vietnam and being shot at, killed, and wounded for life, Dick was putting it off as long as he could. He eventually gave up and joined the Marine Reserve. That pretty much guaranteed he would never leave US soil. That part I don’t think is in dispute.
Mindy Myers, Dick’s campaign manager, put it all in perspective:
Unlike many of his peers, Dick Blumenthal voluntarily joined the Marine Corps Reserves in 1970 and served for six months in Parris Island, S.C.. and six years in the reserves,”
Many of his true peers were not given the luxury of volunteering for the reserves in lieu of combat duty. The draft was a lot harsher on lower class kids than it was on kids bound for Harvard and Yale. And, those six years in the reserves allowed Dick to continue his education.
Fact is, to state you were in Vietnam getting shot at while you were actually, for the most part, in Connecticut, is just flat out lying. Now, forget the Senate race for one second. If he’s flat out lying about his military career, what else might he be lying about? The dangers of smoking? The threat of carbon dioxide? Who knows. We’re just supposed to believe him on those issues because he says so.
I’m not allowed to put her entire thesis here, but some parts I can.
And:
Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also chastening one for those who, more than a half century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America. Radicals have often succumbed to the devestating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one’s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals can not afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.
Every so often a friend says something that says what I want to say so much better than I ever could. In this case it’s CMC Sand. I’ve quoted her here before. In essence, the Obama administration has filed its response to a Michigan lawsuit challenging Obamacare. They are saying the commerce clause supports what they are doing because someone in a state who refuses participating affects the cost of insurance for someone in a different state. This is her interpretation of what that means:
The Obama administration is showing its hand on the constitutional debate about ObamaCare. In its response to a Michigan lawsuit challenging the individual mandate, the administration argues that if someone refuses to buy health insurance, that can “substantially affect interstate commerce” through cost-shifting. The problem is that this renders the Commerce Clause meaningless — there is literally no human behavior or absence of behavior that could not be construed as interstate commerce by this definition. If you define a limit so broadly that it limits nothing, your definition is wrong. And if the commerce clause has no real limits, then there is no freedom from state interference.
The highlighting is mine.
When Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor, Obama said he wanted someone who:
“combined intellect and empathy—the ability to understand the troubles of everyday Americans.”
Sotomayor had already gained a certain notoriety for stating:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,”
He wanted someone who obviously felt that the law was fluid, and that “intellect and empathy”, and a certain bias, was more important than strictly interpreting the law. Over a good amount of objection and protest, Sotomayor was confirmed.
Fast forward pretty much one year to the day, Obama gets a shot at nominating his second Supreme Court Judge. This time he picks another woman. Elena Kagan has no judicial experience at all. None. Not simply very little, I mean zero, nada, nil. She has a law degree, and has taught at law schools, but she’d never decided a case. She had been involved in a rather public and nasty legal battle where she banned military recruiters at Harvard. Now that she’s being debated as a Supreme Court jurist, the argument that she is anti-military is dismissed by her supporters as:
This is pretty bad stuff here. I see no empathy for the people at all here. She totally screwed US citizens on behalf of Saudi royalty. These weren’t even normal US citizens. There were people who lost family, loved ones, their children, their husbands, their wives, because of Saudi royalty. And, Elena Kagan and “empathetic” Obama were siding with those Saudis.
Arlen Specter, now a Democrat, had the perfect opportunity for payback and a certain amount of retribution on behalf of the families of 9/11. Some of those people live in his state. Given his chance, this is what he said:
“I have an open mind,” Specter said Monday during a campaign stop at the Sheet Metal Workers hall on Columbus Boulevard.
And, in discussions, you wanna guess what the most common defense for Kagan is? Go ahead, take a wild stab at it.
Whew. OK.
First of all, tell me what the law was she was following. She was arguing that the trial itself would damage US-Saudi relations. I’m not sure what law that is. Second, which way do liberals want it? Either she’s “empathetic” or she’s not. Obama says he wants an “empathetic” jurist, but this woman’s record is as far from that definition as you can possibly get. If he comes out and cites the fact that Kagan followed the law, then he lied about the qualification of Sotomayor. If he repeats his “empathy” requirement, he’s lying about Kagan.
H/T: Elizabeth
A very simple cross, nestled in the heart of the Mojave Desert, sat pretty much undisturbed, and for the most part un-noticed for 75 years.
In 1934 the Cross was erected on public property. It sat there for a long, long, time. The wooden crosses invariably fell and were replaced over the years. In 1994 the land was deeded to the Mojave National Preserve. In 1998 Henry Sandoz built a metal version that was bolted into the granite rock. In 1999 a request was made to build a Buddhist shrine in the same area, it was refused citing regulations banning construction inside the reserve. Frank Buono, a former National Parks Service employee, then enlisted the ACLU to sue to have it removed. Congressman Jerry Lewis introduced a couple of bills to prevent it from being removed by barring any funding to do it. The lawsuits went back and forth over the years until it finally reached the Supreme Court. On April 28, 2010, the Supreme Court ruled that the one acre it sits on could be deeded to the Veterans Home of California— Barstow, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #385E in exchange for five acres of land. The decision over-turned a decision by, you guessed it, the Ninth Court of Appeals. However, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority an opinion that made so much sense it had to hurt:
Less than two weeks later, not appreciating the struggles that this cross had represented, and the fight for religious freedom it represented, and totally ignoring the Supreme Court’s decision, on May 10, 2010, someone tore it down and removed it. However, being as it’s now on private property, it will be rebuilt.
H/T:
Find it odd that throughout the entire BP/Gulf Oil fiasco, not one single time that I’m aware of Obama has NOT blamed it on Bush? He’s blamed everything else on Bush, so why not this too? Everyone KNOWS Bush sold out to big oil. So why not state the obvious everyone is expecting to hear?
Because this is totally Obama’s baby.
I have told several people that I found it strange that it appears that several emergency devices that I would have expected to be in place on Deepwater Horizon were not and that’s the reason they can’t shut it off now. That’s probably due in large part because Liz Binbaum waived traditional requirements. I’m gonna guess she got her “guidance” from Ken Salazar, the Interior Secretary to the President.
No one seems to be delving too deep into this angle. But, unlike Katrina, this wasn’t a natural disaster. And unlike Katrina, there is definitely fault to be had.
Still don’t think Obama’s got something going on here? His reaction to the spill was to suspend all new permits for 30 days.
There are no new pending permits:
More change you can believe in huh?
I’m sure Nancy Pelosi will cite Ken Salazar and Liz Binbaum as even two more examples of the Democrat Culture of Corruption.
11
May
Yesterday we had two issues, among many, that demanded Obama’s attention.
Barack Obama, addressing an audience in Hampton, Virginia, said nothing. The government very quietly wrote Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac checks and that was the end of it. In his speech, Obama bemoaned modern technology providing too much information:
That’s $84.6 BILLION and counting the Obama administration has given Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to keep them going. They have announced they’ll need funding indefinitely, Obama didn’t say a peep. The private banks have cost the people nothing, Obama is all over them. The Dow did an odd thing last week, Obama was all over that too. Although Obama has found time to attack private sector banking, no one is allowed to touch Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Try to even get a Fannie Mae loan right now. Go ahead, I dare ya to call your bank and get a Fannie Mae quote. The closing costs are outrageous. You WILL be amazed.
However, The Obama administration did find time to address another truly demanding national emergency:
OK, ya get that? Obama’s administration, in this time of 9.9% official unemployment, found time to pretty much force airlines and trains to unionize those employees not yet unionized. Granted the rules were stacked against unions in their minds, since it previously required a majority vote of all employees affected. Now, it’s a simple majority of voters. Anyone can argue the pros and cons of this move. The problem I have is the move was made, period. Of all the huge issues ripping at the very fabric of this culture, Obama ignored a financial crisis, enabled unions, told people not to use their technology to listen to the news
Oh yeah, he did one other little thing over the last couple of days. He nominated a Supreme Court Justice candidate who has never been a justice who currently answers to him.
