Below is the text of an email that I received from the illegal immigration watchdog organization, NUMBERSUSA. I have been hearing rumors of another attempt by the lame-duck Obama to cram through an Amnesty against the wishes of the voters and this serves as a confirmation of those rumors.
Obama is the STRANGEST man I have ever seen capture the White House. Unless he agrees with me that he is destined to be a one-term President and unless he feels he has nothing to lose by continuing to defy the voters, what the man does makes no sense whatsoever.
He must know he has no chance of being reelected. It is hard to beleive that anyone adept enough to win a Presidential election has become so tin eared that he doesn’t realize how furious the electorate is at him and his enablers in the Democrat Party.
That is the only explantion I can come up with. He knows he is done and he wants to burnish his legacy as the President who “radically transformed” America.
Here’s hoping we can get this whole situation under control before any more damage is done to the country.
~~John Cronin~~
By: Roy Beck
It seems like it would be against the law for the Administration to order a de facto amnesty for millions of illegal aliens while totally bypassing Congress. But 8 U.S. Senators believe that is what Obama officials are considering right now because most Members of Congress are scared to death to have to VOTE on an amnesty just a few months before elections.
(Read the letter from the Senators to Pres. Obama below.)
Your great success in keeping Congress from voting on a mass amnesty this year has stirred up a new threat.
Seeing that most Members of Congress don’t want to vote for an amnesty this year, Administration officials appear to be considering ways to do a de facto amnesty without involving Congress.
We at NumbersUSA have been hearing about this behind the scenes for a few weeks but haven’t had solid enough evidence to mount a national mobilization against. Now, the whispering has erupted with an open letter to the President from 8 U.S. Senators spelling out the details known thus far.
In a nutshell, there is discussion going on within the Administration about stopping nearly all deportations, presumably until “comprehensive immigration reform” can be passed to give illegal aliens full work and residency rights permanently. The point here is to satisfy the open-border bloc of voters who have been threatening to boycott the elections this fall unless Pres. Obama makes an all-out effort to pass an amnesty this year.
RELIGIOUS LEADERS HINTED AT THIS EXECUTIVE-BRANCH AMNESTY LAST WEEK
I am guessing that this is what religious leaders were hinting at the Brookings conference I attended last week.
They indicated that they had been talking with Administration officials about a way to help illegal aliens without having to deal with Congress. They then said they had better not say any more about it.
Friends, U.S. Presidents have proven whether Republican or Democrat that they are capable of doing almost anything they please until they come up for re-election. Only an incredible outburst of outrage from the public can stop the Administration from doing a de facto amnesty all by itself.
Make sure you have sent a free fax to the President and then to your 3 Members of Congress decrying any Executive-Order Amnesty.
We need all 535 Members of Congress to know about the De Facto Amnesty Plot — and to know that you know.
* We want Democrats in Congress to begin to tell their Leaders and the White House that even the hint that this amnesty could happen will hurt their chances of winning in the fall.
* We want Republicans to start threatening to use the Plot as a campaign issue.
* We want the White House to publicly promise that it will NOT unilaterally proclaim an amnesty.
* Short of that, we want to see the White House forced to deny over and over that such a plot is even underway.
NumbersUSA promises to spread the word far and wide now that these 8 Senators have come forward with what they know of the amnesty plot.
LETTER FROM 8 SENATORS
Dear President Obama:
We understand that there’s a push for your Administration to develop a plan to unilaterally extend either deferred action or parole to millions of illegal aliens in the United States. We understand that the Administration may include aliens who have willfully overstayed their visas or filed for benefits knowing that they will not be eligible for a status for years to come. We understand that deferred action and parole are discretionary actions reserved for individual cases that present unusual, emergent or humanitarian circumstances. Deferred action and parole were not intended to be used to confer a status or offer protection to large groups of illegal aliens, even if the agency claims that they look at each case on a “case-by-case” basis.
While we agree our immigration laws need to be fixed, we are deeply concerned about the potential expansion of deferred action or parole for a large illegal alien population. While deferred action and parole are Executive Branch authorities, they should not be used to circumvent Congress’ constitutional authority to legislate immigration policy, particularly as it relates to the illegal population in the United States.
The Administration would be wise to abandon any plans for deferred action or parole for the illegal population. Such a move would further erode the American public’s confidence in the federal government and its commitment to securing the borders and enforcing the laws already on the books.
We would appreciate receiving a commitment that the Administration has no plans to use either authority to change the current position of a large group of illegal aliens already in the United States, and ask that you respond to us about this matter as soon as possible.
(signed by)
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
Sen. Hatch (R-Utah)
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.)
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.)
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)
Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.)
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.)
Many news organizations are asking for the proof that these Senators have that the amnesty plot is really being discussed inside the Administration.
We are sure that the 8 Senators have heard the same reports from inside the Administration that we have heard — about studying what administrative tools they might modify to by-pass Congress. This doesn’t mean the President has an actual plan yet. But we feel there is a real threat. And we are certain that the 8 Senators would not have gone public with their concerns if they did not have inside information of discussions about this de facto amnesty.
The time to stop any chance of a plan is right now while it is still in discussion stage (or maybe in final discussion stage).
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
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Americans are more pessimistic about the state of the country and less confident in President Barack Obama’s leadership than at any point since Mr. Obama entered the White House, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
The survey also shows grave and growing concerns about the Gulf oil spill, with overwhelming majorities of adults favoring stronger regulation of the oil industry and believing that the spill will affect the nation’s economy and environment.
Sixty-two percent of adults in the survey feel the country is on the wrong track, the highest level since before the 2008 election. Just one-third think the economy will get better over the next year, a 7-point drop from a month ago and the low point of Mr. Obama’s tenure.
Amid anxiety over the nation’s course, support for Mr. Obama and other incumbents is eroding. For the first time, more people disapprove of Mr. Obama’s job performance than approve. And 57% of voters would prefer to elect a new person to Congress than re-elect their local representatives, the highest share in 18 years.
The reposted article below was sent to Solid Principles by a reader who is very active in Conservative causes. The article ties closely into a theme we have written about in the past. We believe that the Republican Party is the natural home for conservative blacks and Hispanics and that when we are successful in recruiting these two voting blocs into the Party, electoral success will follow.
The Democrat Party has fostered the illusion for the last 40 plus years that they are the champions of minorities when in reality their tax and spend policies (with some Republican help) have come dangerously close to bankrupting this country. IMHO, the Democrat Party has thrown minorities some crumbs from their banquet table. The cycle of dependency and despair has left many members of the black and Hispanic communities with the idea that their only hope is to continue to vote a straight Democrat ticket in the misguided assumption that somehow the future will be better than the past. It won’t. It won’t because their system is designed to institutionalize failure.
We conservatives think we have a better idea. What if we throw the Democrats into the streets this November, repeal Obamacare, drive a stake through the heart of Cap & Tax, secure our southern border, cut taxes, streamline the ham fisted regulations that are stangling businesses and create a pro-growth, pro-business atmosphere that will lead to a rising GDP that benefits ALL AMERICANS, regardles of their skin color or ethnicity.
We’ve tried Obama’s dreary Corporate Fascism for the last 15 months and we see where that leads. Somewhere most Americans don’t want to go to.
So this November, if conservative and center-right Americans of all races join together and vote the anti-free market, anti-business, budget-busting Dems out of office, we can begin the process of repairing the damage that Obama and his Congressional enablers have done to this country.
~~John Cronin~~
Left Insults Black Americans
By: Sharon Sebastian
Black Americans should be outraged. The affront by the liberal-left against American citizens who are black is reaching new heights. The pattern is obvious. When liberal Democrats cannot debate or win a policy argument, they play their last vestige of hope – the race-card. Today, the political stakes are so high for some Democrats that they are willing to divide us as a nation and as a people.
When there is panic in the liberal ranks, like clockwork, the ginning-up of racial dissention soon follows. In an effort to counter a growing national support for the Tea Party, Democrats are slandering patriotic Americans as “racists.” Black Americans should be outraged that once again liberals are portraying them as being an easily agitated “bundle of emotions” without brains enough to see through the left’s political manipulation. For decades, liberals have conveyed the message that American Blacks are driven by emotion, not intelligence and can be flicked on-and-off like a switch just by throwing around the term racist.
Since the Democrats seek to avoid rational thought, some should be offered up. What the liberal-left does not want you to know is that more and more people of color are identifying with the Tea Party movement along with most Americans. The devastating truth for race-baiters is that the Tea Party is against higher taxes for people “of all color,” the Tea Party is against uncontrolled government spending that hurts all American families, and the Tea Party wants to protect and preserve the Constitutional rights and freedoms for all people of all color in this country. That is not racist. That is American. It is the liberal-left that insults our citizens who are black. It is the liberal-agitators who are the racists. One need only look at Detroit for the Progressive’s heartbreak of empty liberal promises.
In the book, Darwin’s Racists – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, it is revealed that all people are equal as human beings and that modern science today declares that we are all ONE RACE – THE HUMAN RACE. The book reveals that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution falsely portrays black people as less evolved, sub-par humans in need of oversight. History shows that evolution has long been used as a Marxist-Socialist-Progressive tool by elitist leaders to demean and control what they consider to be the lesser masses. It is the race-baiting and agitating liberals today who portray people of color as functioning on emotion without the mental capacity or intelligence to see through the political manipulation, Today’s elitist liberals would make Darwin’s own elitists, racists, Marxists, Socialists, and eugenicists PROUD.
Progressive Democrats are on a power trip. One that will bring hardship to every family regardless of color. When the American middle class – which is today diverse with people of color – suffers under government constraints and taxation, then our less fortunate will endure the greater pain. Taxation is color-blind. Loss of Constitutional rights and freedoms is color-blind. Socialism, which some blacks are calling the “new slavery,” is color-blind.
All Americans who want to understand the mind-set of the Socialist/Marxist/God-and- Constitution ignoring policies coming out of Washington today – that will crush people of all color – should read Darwin’s Racists – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. In a show of leadership, I call on Barack Obama to step-up and denounce the heightened race-baiting and agitating by liberal hate-mongerers who are labeling the honest dissent of patriotic citizens as racism. If he does not do so, it will be very telling about this man who is President of the United States of America.
Sharon Sebastian (http://www.DarwinsRacists.com) is an author, writer and contributor for various forms of media including broadcast, print and online websites. Her second book, Darwin’s Racists – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, addresses the global “evolution vs. creation” debate highlighting both the impact of Social Darwinism on America’s culture today and its influence on current policy coming out of Washington.
Former Sun Microsystems CEO and Chairman Scott McNealy n what would it would take to get him interested in running a company again.
Former Sun Microsystems CEO and Chairman Scott McNealy, in an interview with Fortune magazine (April 15) on what would it would take to get him interested in running a company again:
It must be private, never go public. There will be no upside investors other than me and the employees. . . . I hope we can pull it off under those conditions because I would be thrilled to lead another group of smart engineers, without all the crap that goes into running a company today. I just don’t want Congress telling me how much I should be paid or firing me. I want to pretend I am back in the 1980s again.
Over the course of the last 15 months, President Obama has talked and talked….and then talked some more. He finally said a couple of things I agree with and (drumroll) here they are.
President Obama acknowledged at a DNC fundraiser in Boston last night that Democratic officeholders are likely to feel the force of gravity this fall after two election cycles in which the party’s candidates seemed to walk on air. “These November elections, as Tim [Kaine] said, will be hard — partly because this country is still divided, and after 2006 and 2008 we hit a very high water mark in terms of Democratic representation in Congress and governorships and we’re in the midst of what is still a very difficult time,” Obama told a crowd at the Opera House in Boston.
MIAMI, March 22 (Reuters) – Florida’s attorney general will file a lawsuit with nine other state attorneys general opposing the healthcare legislation passed by Congress, a spokeswoman said on Monday.
“The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state’s sovereignty,” Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, a Republican, said in a prepared statement announcing a news conference.
“On behalf of the State of Florida and of the Attorneys General from South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Pennsylvania, Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota and Alabama if the President signs this bill into law, we will file a lawsuit to protect the rights and the interests of American citizens.”
(Reporting by Michael Connor, Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
The crystal ball is still far too cloudy to predict whether or not Obamacare will pass, but it is not too soon to make some predictions about what the future will look like if it does pass.
The bill will cost more than advertised. It won’t be long before Congress is shocked — shocked! — to discover that health-care reform is going to cost a lot more than expected. It’s not just the budgetary gimmicks that Democrats have been employing to hide the bill’s true cost. It’s also that government programs — and government health-care programs in particular — almost always end up exceeding their cost estimates.
For example, when Medicare was instituted in 1965, it was estimated that the cost of Medicare Part A would be $9 billion by 1990. In actuality, it was seven times higher — $67 billion. Similarly, in 1987, Medicaid’s special hospitals subsidy was projected to cost $100 million annually by 1992, just five years later; it actually cost $11 billion, more than 100 times as much. And in 1988, when Medicare’s home-care benefit was established, the projected cost for 1993 was $4 billion, but the actual cost in 1993 was $10 billion.
Insurance premiums will keep rising. The president has tried to convince people that health-care reform will cut their insurance costs. They are in for a surprise. According to the Congressional Budget Office, insurance premiums will double in the next few years. The bill will do nothing to diminish that increase. In fact, for the millions of Americans who get their insurance through the individual market, rather than from an employer, this bill will raise premiums by 10–13 percent more than if we do nothing. Young and healthy people can expect their premiums to go up even more.
The quality of care will be worse. Doctors’ reimbursements for providing care will be squeezed, making it harder to find a doctor. A new survey in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that 46 percent of doctors may give up their practice in the wake of this bill. While that is probably exaggerated, many doctors will likely decide to reduce their patient loads or retire. At the same time, increased demand will create additional problems.
Members continued to be inundated with phone calls from constituents and interest groups Friday thanks to an impending vote on health care reform this weekend.
Calls to the House numbered close to 100,000 an hour, creating a bottleneck in a phone system only meant to handle 50,000 calls an hour. The chamber has been similarly overloaded for four consecutive days, beginning on Tuesday when radio host Rush Limbaugh told viewers to call the Capitol switchboard phone number.
Jeff Ventura, spokesman for Chief Administrative Officer Dan Beard, said the problem was essentially unsolvable. The issue lies with the capacity of the cables buried underneath the Capitol complex — and even if those could be dug up and replaced, Members simply don’t have enough staff to answer so many calls, he said.
“Our capacity rate is about 50,000 calls an hour, and once we hit the 40,000 mark, we start to get these signals,” he said. “We’re beyond that. There’s no other way to say it other than the system is at capacity.”
Officials expect calls to taper off after the House’s scheduled Sunday vote on the health care reform package. But Ventura emphasized that the system for staffers’ BlackBerrys and smartphones was running smoothly.
“It’s not like Congress has come to a communication standstill,” he said.
This isn’t the first time Congress has been overcome with phone calls and e-mails in the runup to an important vote. Interest in the 2008 stimulus bill crashed House.gov and some Member Web sites, and in November, the Senate’s voice mail system was overloaded before the chamber’s cloture vote on health care reform legislation.
“It’s hard to predict the interest in this kind of legislation,” Ventura said. “I mean it’s historic. Here you have piece of legislation that is so defining, it’s just causing massive interest.”
The CBO numbers released today are being used to cover up the Obamacare fraud. The CBO is doing everything it can, but it is being pressured to produce numbers that the Obama crowd can use in a spurious attempt to show that their bill is not a cosmic budget-buster!
Don’t allow these hucksters to BS you. This porker is going down to defeat! If you are on the phones, pour it on. If you’re not, strap up and get on the field.
It’s first down and goal to go on the one foot line!!
Rush Limbaugh has urged his listeners to swamp the Capitol’s switchboard for the second day in a row. According to Rush, not only can’t any calls get into the switchboard, but Congressional Reps and staffers can’t get any calls out. They have to use their cellphones.
What a dramatic way to let these craven politicians know how much the country hates both the sausage (the health care bill) and the sausage factory (Congress).
Neil Cavuto is dialing the Capitol main number live on his show. He can’t get through. All of you who are making calls, keep dialing. This vote is obviously going down to the wire.
The Dems have got to be shaking in their boots over this. Wait until these jokers come back to their districts for the Easter break. I bet last August’s Town Halls look like a neighbor hood ice cream social by comparison!
House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it
By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, March 16, 2010; A01
After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate’s health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.
Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers “deem” the health-care bill to be passed.
The tactic — known as a “self-executing rule” or a “deem and pass” — has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure.
Whatever the legislative fate of health reform — now in the hands of a few besieged House Democrats — the reformers have failed in their argument. Their proposal has divided Democrats while uniting Republicans, returned American politics to well-worn ideological ruts, employed legislative tactics that smack of corruption, squandered the president’s public standing, lowered public regard for Congress to French revolutionary levels, sucked the oxygen from other agenda items, reengaged the abortion battle, produced freaks and prodigies of nature such as a Republican senator from Massachusetts, raised questions about the continued governability of America and caused the White House chief of staff to distance himself from the president’s ambitions.
It is quite an accomplishment. For the president, it must also be quite a shock, because he thought he was taking a reasonable, middle path on health reform.
At the start of this process, many Democrats preferred a single-payer health system — essentially, Medicare for everyone. Short of this goal, they advocated a public option that would compete with private insurance companies and prove the superiority of government-run care. But President Obama rejected a single-payer approach and signaled early that the public option was expendable.
Below is brief excerpt from Politico’s ” The Huddle”, commenting on Obama’s health care bill quandry. Since he can’t close the sale on this over priced clunker, he has resorted to the saleman’s “desperation close”…..”trust me.”
~~John Cronin~~
POTUS KNOWS THE PLAYERS WITHOUT A SCORECARD
The president’s making the full sales pitch to Democratic members of Congress and “instructing aides to address every question or concern Democratic lawmakers possibly can raise,” according to AP’s Chuck Babington.
“Some answers, however, rely more on faith than fact. Confronting party unrest on his left and right, Obama is calling for political courage, citing historic opportunities and essentially saying ‘trust me’ in areas inherently murky, uncertain and out of his control. The process for getting health care legislation through Congress is tough enough already, and Republicans are determined to derail it.”
GOP SEES CAMPAIGN EDGE
POLITICO’s Morning Score snags a memo from the National Republican Congressional Committee’s deputy executive director Johnny DeStefano that instructs GOP hopefuls to tie their opponents to unpopular provisions in the bill.
“Candidates should be aware that although the Senate health care bill – the bill currently being pushed by Democrat leaders – is not the same as last fall’s $1.2 trillion health care takeover passed by the House, it is no less egregious. In addition to the broad political toxicity of the Democrats’ health care agenda, a vote for this bill opens an entirely new line of attack on House Democrats. By supporting this bill, your opponent would go on record in support of the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, and every other backroom deal cut to sneak the legislation through the Senate.”
The job market may be hitting bottom, but it seems likely to remain mired there. And despite the insistence that their top three priorities are jobs, jobs, jobs, Congress and the Obama administration aren’t doing enough to create them.
In an effort to advance a bill through Congress before midterm elections, the president meets with two senators who have spent months trying to craft legislation.
Reporting from Washington - Despite steep odds, the White House has discussed prospects for reviving a major overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, a commitment that President Obama has postponed once already.
Obama took up the issue privately with his staff Monday in a bid to advance a bill through Congress before lawmakers become too distracted by approaching midterm elections.
In the session, Obama and members of his Domestic Policy Council outlined ways to resuscitate the effort in a White House meeting with two senators — Democrat Charles E. Schumer of New York and Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — who have spent months trying to craft a bill.
According to a person familiar with the meeting, the White House may ask Schumer and Graham to at least produce a blueprint that could be turned into legislative language.
The basis of a bill would include a path toward citizenship for the 10.8 million people living in the U.S. illegally. Citizenship would not be granted lightly, the White House said. Undocumented workers would need to register, pay taxes and pay a penalty for violating the law. Failure to comply might result in deportation.
Nick Shapiro, a White House spokesman, said the president’s support for an immigration bill, which would also include improved border security, was “unwavering.”
Participants in the White House gathering also pointed to an immigration rally set for March 21 in Washington as a way to spotlight the issue and build needed momentum.
Remember at last week’s Health Care Summit at the Blair House when Obama derided Eric Cantor’s use of the 2,400 page Medicus Maximus bill as a “prop“? Evidently Obama thought that was just too hokey.
Of course, his trotting out a bunch of Doctors in their white coats, which are never worn away from a medical care facility, is somehow supposed to convince the voters to OK the Federal takeover of 17% of the GDP!
How RIDICULOUS!
We have sunk to close to rock bottom when the POTUS resorts to amateurish hokum, to cartoon images, to try to sneak through a bill that would permanently fund the grizzly business of Planned Parenthood with tax payer money and end many of the freedoms that we have enjoyed in this country.
I wanted to post an image of the same type of Doctor’s white coats that Obama has been using in his Health Care infomercials in an attempt to demonstrate how silly the whole exercise as become.
Here’s hoping the pain and suffering of watching this God forsaken bill in it’s unending death throes will finally come to a merciful end within the next couple of weeks as a Congress wary of it’s re-election prospects finally kills the bill!
“I actually think we’re now at a stage where we’re out of the worst part of it, but there were a lot of issues that had not been dealt with even before this crisis struck and you know the challenge is trying to make our–our insitutions responsive to the new challenges that we face, as opposed to putting them off. And that’s hard to do because, I’ll be honest with you, I think the country…we’re like folks, they’ve had a long party all night long and then there’s a little bit of a hangover and you’ve got to do a little bit of clean up and nobody wants to hear the story about how, well, you know, now we’ve got to do some hard things,” Obama said, according to the video.
On our next upcoming Podcast (Episode 24), Solid Principles spoke to Ari David, Republican Candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives 30th district, California. Ari has taken up the task of challenging Rep. Henry (Cap & Trade) Waxman. As Ari is 38, it dawned on me the notion of ‘Generation X’ is now entering the political arena. I posed this question to Ari for comment.
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