Damn straight! Who do these establishment fools think they're kidding?
CR: As the presidential campaign begins in earnest, candidates will soon learn that most voters, not just the conservative base, are tired of being patronized and lectured on the issue of immigration.
They are tired of being called bigots by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) or being told they need to “get right with Latinos.” They are tired of comments from the likes of Jeb Bush who assert that immigrants are better than Americans in all ways, including his new crazy talk about never securing the border and repopulating entire cities with immigrants.
Indeed, those who live outside of Washington D.C. and its surrounding environs have long dealt with the deleterious effects of illegal immigration in their schools, hospitals, taxes, and criminal justice system.
Most Americans are also keenly aware of the fact that America has the most generous legal immigration system in the world, especially in recent years. ... Over the past three decades, we have implemented the most generous immigration policies of any country in the world, yet the political elites act as if we have no legal immigration, thereby justifying their pursuit of amnesty for illegal aliens.
On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show: Legal and illegal immigration is overwhelming America, and frauds like Jeb Bush and Orrin Hatch keep trying to fool us with phony solutions. We are a nation of immigrants but we're not a nation of waves and waves of immigrants coming in and not assimilating into our culture.
...explaining why Jeb Bush's comments on immigration are ridiculous.
This isn't rocket science, but common sense...a quality that is abundantly absent anywhere near the D.C. proximity, and from the supposed 'right' side of the aisle, no less. Just check out the related link below to confirm the Washington disconnect...
For those who didn't already see the writing on the wall Monday when Obama announced his budget-busting $4 TRILLION governmental theft proposal, here's how that'll go down in a nutshell: Republican lawmakers will continue to holler, as they compromise on likely half of what this despot wants. And when they exclaim, 'but look what we cut,' it'll be embarrassingly obvious that they've given Obama a larger budget than his usual trillion-plus (or a the very least, equivalent). In other words, continued fecklessness.
As soon as this establishment Republican majority was ushered into office in November, well ahead of their January swearing in, they've betrayed their constituencies en masse. Whether it's folding on the CRomnibus, or the coming capitulation on unlawful executive amnesty and confirming a new AG criminal who agrees with it, this Republican Party continues to display its leftward shift. Part of me wonders if Gruber had a point, albeit for all the wrong reasons. Whether through trickery or stupidity, it's abundantly clear that Republican voters received the short end of the stick throughout the last primary cycle and into the voting booth.
Concurrently, witnessing day in and day out what's become of a Democratic president, party and constituency, it's not difficult to conclude that we've got a fundamental, national identity problem...
On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show: We're having an identity crisis in America as a result of our government and politicians. There's a total rejection of American traditions, customs, and values in Washington D.C. This is what President Obama has meant all along by "fundamental transformation." He's spent 6 years disparaging what makes America great while rejecting our founding principles and replacing them with his Marxist ideology.
So, if politicians, no matter what party (which is getting harder to distinguish between the two), continue to run roughshod over common sense American people who just want to live their lives in the freedoms bestowed on them by those who came before, then where does our redress lie? Well, it's certainly not in Washington. It's proven time and time again that it's unfixable. But for a literal handful on Capitol Hill, we'd have already crumbled. However, the cracks and fissures go not unnoticed. And it is for this degradation that we must continue to revisit a very real, foundational solution...
On Monday's Mark Levin Show: Our Constitutional system isn't in place anymore in Washington, D.C. Our representatives in Congress claim to be true defenders of the constitution but they're only defending the status quo and the destruction of the constitution. The Founders gave us Article V as a way to stand up to an out of control, tyrannical government, which is what we face today. The destruction of our Constitution is happening in a few buildings in the beltway, and the only legal way to fight back is through Article V.
This is federalism at its best. With the failures of secularism and socialism running parallel with the governmental despotism we're experiencing more every year, every week, every day, perhaps it's time to hit the restart button. And where better to find that point than to recognize the powers that the Framers instilled in a free people.
Misremembering or something. Tell me again why we continue to tolerate these LIARS?
Townhall: It’s confession time for NBC’s Brian Williams. The story about Williams and his news team riding in a Chinook helicopter that was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq 12 years ago was a lie. It never happened.
Here's what Williams and the network had been saying about the event until recently:
Williams has since apologized for this fabrication twice, once on Facebook; and most recently on last night’s broadcast of NBC’s Nightly News.
Uh, wait a second; for years, Williams–and NBC–made the claim that the now-discredited “RPG took down my chopper” story had happened. Yet, did Williams lie again in his on air apology? Lance Reynolds, whom Williams addressed in his Facebook apology and was onboard the downed Chinook, wrote on the social media site that Williams left after he had asked what happened on another flight of Chinook's heading into Kuwait; they had to do their Nightly News report. I'm sure we'll find out more in due time.
Or how could we ever forget this consummate SELLOUT?
From our news sources to those supposedly viable for higher office, we're just supposed to put up with this? Because they're liberals? All the more reason not to believe them, America!
"Look for reports in days ahead of other anchors at other networks doing the same thing. Not to embarrass or get those other anchors in trouble, but to create the impression, “Hey, everybody does it, and so what?"
Here's one that the press doesn't want to admit the first part of...or touch the second with a ten-foot pole.
TheFederalist released this interesting piece about how secular media tends to blame Christianity for everything, and Islam for nothing. 'The media’s double standard on discussing Islam’s problem with violence is preventing the public discussion that could help reduce it.'
This is at the very least where the discussion should begin...
After Islamic terrorists invade a newspaper office and murder 12 people, the first reaction from impartial observers should most assuredly not be to condemn Catholics for the Spanish Inquisition.
Yet this is the disgusting and ahistorical message many liberal advocates of moral equivalence shared on social media. ...
What does the Inquisition have to do with the attack on Charlie Hebdo? Nothing, specifically, unless you consider how the actions of Islamic terrorist groups today such as the Islamic State are as vicious or worse than the Inquisition.
Why is Islam exempt from criticism?
It is instructive how some on the Left are so quick to condemn Christianity for anything—even for something (the attack on Charlie Hebdo) that Christianity had nothing to do with. It would be hard to imagine a liberal reminding readers about 9/11 after a Christian extremist bombed an abortion clinic, for example, or urging tolerance of the moderate Americans, the vast majority, after a bigoted extremist shoots up a mosque. In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo murders, the New York Times originally included a claim by a victim that an assailant spared her but demanded she convert to Islam. Later, the paper edited the passage to remove the call for forced conversion.
The reticence to publish cartoons of Muhammad contributes to an atmosphere where one religion is put on a pedestal above all others. On one hand, people are legitimately scared to do so. No one needs to be told why. A 2012 cartoon in The Onion after the “Innocence of Muhammad” controversy depicted Jesus, Moses, Ganesha, and Buddha engaging in a graphic orgy under the headline, “No One Murdered Because Of This Image.”
Ironically, it is the absence of Muhammad in print that speaks the most negatively about the religion. Who would be scared of offending the sensibilities of a follower of the “Religion of Peace”? It is understandable why media institutions take the policy they do for reasons of safety, but that policy should not be couched in terms of morality or sensibilities. If it were, then that would call into question why so much other imagery is fair game.
They’re scared for their lives, which says something.
Sometimes even the most ardent atheist critics of religious fundamentalism find they must attack Christianity or “religion” before zeroing in on Islam. Beyond fearing potentially for their lives if they offend the wrong person, they also fear for their reputations, lest they get tarred as “Islamophobic.” ...
Earth to liberals: Discussing Islam’s problems isn’t bigotry.
Of course no form of bigotry is justified, including anti-Islamic bigotry, but discussing major problems is not the same as bigotry. Liberals have spent the past few months condemning police institutions for what they view as racist policing practices that contribute to the shootings of unarmed black men. The Tea Party has been slammed by liberals as “racist” ever since it came into existence. Although the individual characterizations of both issues can be debated, no one should condemn the practice of using harsh rhetoric to confront harsh realities. ...
News talks about news, not ancient history.
The reason that Islamic violence dominates the headlines today is because it happens now. ...
If everything must be a “-phobia”, then this is “debateophobia”—“fear of a free and frank discussion,”...
If those liberals who...condemn the inquisitions truly believe forced conversions and state-backed murders are so bad, here is something they can resist now. As the Islamic State ravages Iraq and Syria, already having killed more in two years than the Spanish Inquisition killed in its entirety, including thousands of Muslims on the basis of their religious views, it won’t do the victims any good to tell them, “Centuries ago, Christians were also violent.” They are more concerned about surviving today. We should share their concerns.
"President Obama cannot claim to stand by our allies in Israel if his campaign operatives are actively campaigning against them." ~ Sen. Ted Cruz
Even though this began breaking a few days ago, the hypocrisy can't be overlooked. No more so than the further acknowledgement of how America has foolishly installed into its highest office of the land a true coddler of our enemies and a despiser of our allies.
So much for not wanting to meet with Netanyahu because he didn't want to affect the outcome of the Israeli elections (we all knew that was a crock from the beginning!)...
Breitbart: Just days after the Obama White House accused House Speaker John Boehner of “breaking protocol” by inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress, a team of up to five Obama campaign operatives has reportedly arrived in Israel to lead a campaign to defeat the Israeli Prime Minister in upcoming national elections scheduled for March 17.
The anti-Netanyahu, left wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports a group called “One Voice,” reportedly funded by American donors, is paying for the Obama campaign team. That group is reportedly being led by Obama’s 2012 field director Jeremy Bird.
As Jerusalem Post columnist and putative Knesset candidate Caroline Glick reported on her Facebook page, “Obama won’t meet Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington when he addresses the Joint Houses of Congress in March because of Netanyahu’s visit’s proximity to the Israeli elections. And Obama, of course believes in protocol and propriety which is why he won’t get involved.” And yet, Glick adds, “He’s just sending his 2012 field campaign manager to Israel to run a campaign to defeat Netanyahu.”
"We don't want to interfere with Israel elections" says @WhiteHouse. But Jeremy Bird is in Israel making sure @netanyahu "pays a price".
— Proud Conservative (@TruthBToldDe) January 28, 2015
Sen. Ted Cruz also responded this week to the news with a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry wondering if, in fact, U.S. taxpayer dollars are being used to undermine Israel’s election. Then ventured further into Obama's toxicity with an op-ed via Breitbart:
The Obama Administration’s actions towards Israel become more intolerable each day, carrying with their insults deeply damaging national security implications for our country.
Earlier this week, Americans opened the newspapers to discover that the Obama campaign team has deployed operatives, including 2012 Field Director Jeremy Bird, to Tel Aviv to try to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu through an organization that receives taxpayer grants from the U.S. Department of State.
This follows a long string of hostile behavior that has only escalated with time.
In The Atlantic, “unnamed senior administration officials” have called Mr. Netanyahu a “chicken****” and bragged that it was now “too late” for him to take action to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons capability.
Last week, more anonymous sources vented to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that “Netanyahu spat in our face,” and vowing “there will be a price” for the Prime Minister’s accepting House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to come address Congress on the subject of Iran’s nuclear program.
An Obama campaign foreign policy advisor, Daniel Kurtzer, suggested to the New York Times that the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, should be “reprimanded or removed” for passing along the speaking invitation from Speaker Boehner.
And, let us not forget how eager the Obama Administration was to impose an unprecedented flight ban against Israel last year during its military operation against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
At the time, I asked the simple question whether the Obama Administration was using the Federal Aviation Authority to launch an economic boycott against Israel. After their actions were questioned, they quickly lifted the ban.
Now, it is time for another simple question:
Has President Obama launched a political campaign against Prime Minister Netanyahu and his allies?
I think the evidence points to an unequivocal YES.
And if you think this political campaign ends with only Netanyahu, and not the entirety of the Jewish State, Israel, our ALLY, you're blindly mistaken...
BREAKING: 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney says he will not run for president in 2016.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 30, 2015
MORE: Romney told members of his staff during a Friday conference call that he is out of race: http://t.co/ICbCN8V4ZA
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 30, 2015
Now, just a few more RINOs to knock out to open the door for a genuine conservative (uhum, TEDCRUZ2016!)
Did Republican voters really expect anything different? Really? Two stories, same author, same publication, same premise...same disgust.
From all indications and in under a month, it looks like the current congressional GOP, even though they've gained power in both houses and promised better days when they officially took control of the 114th Congress, still seeks to achieve success through prior means: cowardice.
RedState: ...As literally anyone could have predicted (and as we predicted here numerous times), the Congressional GOP has already signaled its intent to pre-emptively fold on Obama’s executive amnesty, even though they swore up and down they were going to fight this thing tooth and nail once they had control of Congress. The GOP’s cowardly capitulation on a popular abortion bill on the eve of the March for Life has also been well documented. And that is to say nothing of Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND)‘s embarrassing own goal on climate change with respect to the Keystone Pipeline bill.
We’re about two minutes into the new Congress and already the tactics of GOP leadership are clear: keep their heads down. Avoid any controversial votes. Throw some red meat to the base without risking any votes that could actually put them on the record or stop Obama from accomplishing everything he wants to accomplish. Pull any controversial votes that look like they might pass. Let Obama take the blame for a bunch of stuff that they frankly want to happen anyway.
All this having been accomplished, they will then come back to us in 2016, shrug their shoulders, put on their best “aw, shucks” grin and say, “Well, not a lot we could have done with that crazy Obama in the White House, now give us some more money and send us some more Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC)es back to Congress!”
The Republicans in Congress think they can grow their majority – just for the sake of having a bigger one, not for the sake of doing anything with it, mind you – by being afraid and by trying to foster that fear among the base. What they clearly don’t do, or at least don’t do enough, is fear the voters they need to have any chance of winning. They are, by temperament, cowards. And the only way you can succeed with a coward is to make him more afraid of you than the other guy.
So just in case you still don't get it in terms of what all this means, let me be clear: We've once again been LIED TO by congressional Republicans. This time about what's gonna be done about Obama's unconstitutional executive amnesty...obviously, nothing but theater.
RedState: So back at the end of 2014, a lot of people pooh poohed the idea that the fight over executive amnesty would have to happen then or not at all. Many so-called “reasonable Republicans” insisted that this was the wrong time to hold the GOP’s feet to the fire. “Wait until next year,” they said. “Wait until the GOP actually has control of both chambers. Then, you see, they will do something.” And indeed that is exactly what McConnell and Boehner promised. By punting the funding question for the entire government down the road until September, they swore up and down that they were going to stand and fight come February when it came time to fund DHS.
In the least surprising development in all of human history, February is now around the corner, and Boehner and McConnell are folding like cheap suits...
Just in case you were keeping score, none of what is described here does anything to defund DHS. A lawsuit will likely have little or no effect and will take years to come to fruition. Any new border bill that is any way tough will be vetoed by Obama, even if we suppose that McConnell can find 5 Democrat votes to get it past Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV). Defunding DHS – their promised solution – has been completely taken off the table...
Make no mistake, however: this is exactly what Boehner and McConnell wanted all along. They wanted Obama to take the heat with the conservative base for a policy that they actually support. So they are mounting at every step of the way what has been obviously fake and token opposition to Obama’s plan. And at the end of the day they are going to throw up their hands and say “Aw, shucks, nothing we could have done here, Obama held all the cards!”
This exact scenario that we are seeing unfold was what was predicted here at RedState and in other places all along. And no Republican voter should be deceived into thinking it wasn’t the plan all along.
But somehow they still suppose that keeping up this cowardice and lying over the next few years will somehow maintain their congressional power while winning the White House back? A few words for that come to mind. None good.
On the same day that marked the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Ted Cruz travelled to the Iowa Freedom Summit and lit the place up, laying out three principles for reigniting America...
"Churchill stood as a lion in winter, a voice against the darkness that was sweeping the globe. And I'll tell you, 50 years later, we are facing threats every bit as ominous. And today, like then, we need the clarity of thought and voice and action that Churchill provided. One of the very first acts that President Obama did upon being elected was sending Churchill's bust back to the UK, and I think that foreshadowed everything that was to come the next six years."
What I want to talk about today is reigniting the Miracle of America — the idea that we can do anything #IAFreedomSummit
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 24, 2015
"This country was built on an extraordinary miracle. The miracle of America began with a revolutionary idea, which is that our rights, they don't come from government, they come from God Almighty. And the Constitution, it serves, as Jefferson said, as chains to bind the mischief of government. ... And third, the miracle of America has been American exceptionalism, that we are the indispensable nation, a voice, a clarion voice for freedom, and we will back down to no face of tyranny. Now how do we bring that back?"
This honorable statesman MUST seek higher office...preferably in 2016! We can't afford anymore of either side of the Washington Establishment. 2016 is time for bold colors, no more pale pastels, America.
So, while the media focuses on deflated footballs, we're going to discuss a dire deflation that actually matters. One that provides, as Levin suggested last night, further evidence that our society is unraveling. Jeffrey Lord takes us through the motions of how 'President No' is coming into his own, as he constantly displays a show of respect for all of America's enemies (foreign and domestic), while casting any civil political opposition as the bigger threat...
AmericanSpectator: Call him President No. He doesn’t want to cut taxes. He will veto any attempt to overturn the mess of Obamacare. He is adamant about opposing anyone who wants to undoing his executive order on amnesty, or his sudden turnabout of U.S. policy on Cuba. He won’t say yes to the Keystone XL pipeline. And hell will freeze over before he utters the words “radical Islamic terrorism.”
Now the White House is furious that Speaker John Boehner has issued a February 11th invitation for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, this just hours after the president made it clear that he would say no to any new sanctions on Iran. “But new sanctions passed by this Congress, at this moment in time, will all but guarantee that diplomacy fails — alienating America from its allies; and ensuring that Iran starts up its nuclear program again,” Obama said. “It doesn’t make sense. That is why I will veto any new sanctions bill that threatens to undo this progress.”
Boehner disagreed, and in an action that had more than a whiff of Congress saying that two can play the game of unilateral actions, Netanyahu was invited to give his views. The president’s men, stung, angrily snapped that Boehner had “breached protocol.” Boehner calmly replied that he wasn’t “poking anyone in the eye.”
There could be no clearer picture of what the next two years — the last two years — of the Obama presidency will look like. The roles suddenly reversed, Republicans in Congress will be proposing, and a veto pen-wielding Mr. Obama will say no. No, no, and no again.
One hopes Republicans will be able to stick to their beliefs. The Boehner invitation to Netanyahu startles — and the speaker should be congratulated for his boldness. But for all the issues of import facing the country, the prospect of Iran obtaining nuclear capability is without doubt at the top of the list. Yet there remain those possessed of the idea that, as Hillary Clinton expressed it in her quickly infamous recent talk at Georgetown University, the world will yield to empathy and foreign policy re-sets. No matter that this attitude has only brought contempt from every American adversary or enemy from Russia’s Putin to the Iranian mullahs to China and ISIS. As the Weekly Standard quoted Clinton:
“This is what we call smart power,” Clinton said to a small audience at Georgetown. “Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one’s enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions. That is what we believe in the 21st century will change — change the prospects for peace.”
This is an article of faith in the progressive world. And no matter the endlessly bad results it actually produces, if there is a progressive anywhere near the levers of presidential and diplomatic power this is where U.S. policy is headed — unless in some fashion Congress can force a change.
Thus, the Boehner initiative which will indeed induce a serious talk in Washington policy circles about Iran has been met with a stiff if helpless rebuff from President No.
Speaking of stiff, isn't it about time that the GOP add that to their collective spinal adjustment?
In the last six years, even the slightest resistance to Obama — not to mention the gale force winds of the Tea Party — have been painted as nothing more than outright negativity of the deepest, darkest, and most cynical kind. Nativist, mean-spirited, racist. Only yesterday Mrs. Clinton was in Canada and said that President Obama had laid down some policy “markers” and that America would see whether the GOP was capable of a “positive” response.
So ingrained has this idea become that there are prominent gullible Republicans who have swallowed this analysis whole. As here with South Carolina’s Senator Lindsey Graham, who said back there in a 2012 analysis of the GOP: “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”
For the first time in a long time, Republicans in Congress have the opportunity to start changing this “Party of No” dynamic. The opportunity to relentlessly send Mr. Obama one piece of legislation after another that he will have no recourse but to either say “yes” and accept — or reject. And the rejections — the saying “no” — are every bit as important as the acceptances in governing.
The world is slowly moving on from the Obama era. The fight over its legacy is beginning.
This is one page WE are certainly ready to turn...in hopes that it leads to a better story.
Turning the page means not having to read any bad news.
Everything is AWESOME, folks...and free apparently! You know, there's lies, there's damn lies...and then there's Obama!
FPMag: Obama’s previous State of the Union address claimed last year would be a “breakthrough year.” In this year’s State of the Union address he announced that he would turn the page.
Turning the page on last year’s grandiose and dishonest claims is what Obama does with each new address. Each year terrorism has been permanently defeated and the economy has recovered; Al Qaeda is on the run, unemployed dentists from Poughkeepsie are learning to install solar panels and illegal aliens from Los Angeles are teaching sex ed to kindergarteners.
And then next year he comes out to announce once again that the country has recovered from the crisis that he had already announced that it had recovered from last year.
And everyone applauds.
What exactly is Obama turning the page on? Two lost wars and the lowest employed population since 1977… under his predecessor Jimmy Carter?
When everything on the last page looks so bad, then it’s time to turn the page, offer up a minor variation on the same promises about infrastructure, income inequality and education, before going back to a busy schedule of playing golf, visiting foreign countries on pseudo-vacations and ruling unilaterally without regard for the other two branches of government that don’t control the military.
This is why I didn't waste my night listening to this temporary chief office-holder outright lying to Americans. He hasn't been honest about the state of our union since he's held office. But it's more than simply his dishonesty...
Finally there are the genuinely evil lies, such as Obama condemning anti-Semitism and explaining how his commitment to gay rights makes us safer right before he discusses his determination to release some of the world’s most dangerous Islamic terrorists from Guantanamo Bay.
And yet all of Obama’s lies are in their own way evil. We expect politicians to lie, but an Obama speech is more than a few lies. It’s an absence of truth.
Obama not only lies about the economy or the war, he lies about his policies, he lies about his motives, he lies about what he did and what he said, and he goes on lying about what he intends to do. He lies boldly and he lies by omission. He lies gleefully. Even when he calls for bipartisanship and decency, he perverts those impulses by lying about his refusal to compromise or show any decency to Americans.
What Obama has delivered is not an address, but a black hole of lies in which each lie clusters next to a dozen more until it is impossible to see the light.
His modus operandi, just as much as the rest of the Left in America, with the media in tow (but I repeat myself). They'll all turn the page on this display of lies, because they all know what a load it is; yet they'll continue steamrolling America today, tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, with the same ol' tired utopian disillusionment.
