Stopping the Amnesty Train in its Tracks

Over the past few years, Republicans have emphatically declared that they are unable to block a bad law, Obamacare, from going into effect as long as Obama is in the White House.  Yet, amazingly, some of them think they can pass new meritorious legislation that would be politically advantageous to Republicans.  That’s why we hear the endless talk of tax reform and fixes to the entitlements.  The most absurd idea – one that just won’t die – is that we can somehow pass “immigration reform” with Obama as president in a way that will work for us.

What better way to reward the President for his malfeasance over Obamacare than by passing amnesty?  This is what passes for logic with inside-the-beltway Republicans.

Instead of going on offense and attacking Obama for endangering our national security andgranting welfare to illegals, Republicans are playing defense in their public remarks.  Speaker Boehner said that” immigration reform is an important subject that needs to be addressed.”

Really?  What are your principles for “immigration reform?”  When does it need to be addressed?  When Obama is still in the White House?

Meanwhile, Politico is reporting that House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa is crafting an amnesty bill:

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is planning to release legislation next week that would provide legal status for six years to undocumented immigrants in the United States, he said in an interview Wednesday.

Issa, an influential Republican who leads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, described the legislation as a “come-from-the-shadows” effort that would allow the government to do a full accounting of those who are in the U.S. illegally. Immigrants in this new status would be able to travel to their native country while on this temporary visa, he said.

“It’s halfway – and it always has been – halfway between full amnesty and simply rejecting people,” Issa told POLITICO on Wednesday. “I think if we’re going to break this logjam that’s occurred for my whole 13 years I’ve been in Congress, we have to find middle ground.”

Via: Red State
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David French: Obama Involved in IRS Targeting of Tea Party

Evidence suggests President Barack Obama was involved in IRS targeting of tea party groups, says David French, senior counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice.

"Look at the president's public statements, where he called citizens groups like these tea party groups threats to democracy, where he hinted that they were run by shadowy political operatives . . . [and then] follow what the IRS actually did," French told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.

"What the IRS did is it then began to ask questions of these tea party groups that were designed to answer the very question that the president of the United States was asking. Who's running you? Are there any political operatives behind you? Who's funding you? 

"All of these kinds of questions, in particular the donor list and the lists and the references to associations you might have, such as what are your family members doing? [They] directly followed the president's public statements."

French said the president made the anti-tea party statements during a run-up to the 2010 election season.

"That is when the persecution really began to kick into a different level. That's when the entire issue was elevated," he said.

"The president's involvement is hiding in plain sight. It's his public statements vilifying these organizations and identifying exactly the questions he wanted answers to."

The American Center for Law and Justice is suing the government on behalf of tea party groups who say they were targeted.

"We expect that the government will try to dismiss this lawsuit . . . the government's probably going to come after this lawsuit with both barrels," he said.

"There's a lot of risk here for the IRS."

Via: Newsmax

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BLAZE SOURCES: OBAMA PURGING MILITARY COMMANDERS

 Nine senior commanding generals have been fired by the Obama administration this year, leading to speculation by active and retired members of the military that a purge of its commanders is underway.

Retired generals and current senior commanders that have spoken with TheBlaze say the administration is not only purging the military of commanders they don’t agree with, but is striking fear in the hearts of those still serving.

The timing comes as the five branches of the U.S. armed forces are reducing staff due to budget cuts, and as U.S. troops are expected to withdraw from Afghanistan next year.

“I think they’re using the opportunity of the shrinkage of the military to get rid of people that don’t agree with them or not tow the party line. Remember, as (former White House chief of staff) Rahm Emanuel said, never waste a crisis,” a senior retired general told TheBlaze on the condition of anonymity because he still provide services to the government and fears possible retribution.

“Even as a retired general, it’s still possible for the administration to make life miserable for us. If we’re working with the government or have contracts, they can just rip that out from under us,” he said.

Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, an outspoken critic of the Obama administration, said the White House fails to take action or investigate its own, but finds it easy to fire military commanders “who have given their lives for their country.”

“Obama will not purge a civilian or political appointee because they have bought into Obama’s ideology,” Vallely said. “The White House protects their own. That’s why they stalled on the investigation into fast and furious, Benghazi and Obamacare. He’s intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.”

Via: The Blaze

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Ted Nugent Will Be Co-Chairing Texas Election GOP Campaign

Ted Nugent, the celebrity right-wing rocker who infamously said he’d be dead or in jail if President Obama was re-elected, has reportedly become the treasurer and co-chairman of a Texas political campaign.

Nugent spoke to The Texas Tribute as he was in the middle of “hanging up a freshly mounted ram on the wall of his home,” and revealed he’ll be getting more politically engaged soon enough.

Ted Nugent has agreed to be the treasurer and co-chairman of former state Rep. Sid Miller’s campaign for agriculture commissioner, the rock star, vocal conservative and fierce critic of President Obama said Tuesday night…

“I believe in guys who stand by the Constitution,” Nugent said in a phone interview late Tuesday while hanging up a freshly mounted ram on the wall of his home. “I believe in guys who represent ‘we the people’ and common sense.”

Nugent also said, “I do media every day, and I’ll raise as much hell as I can.”

Nugent has already made his mark in the hell-raising department during Obama’s presidency with some very provocative comments, including calling himself a “black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally” and saying anti-gun liberals want to “rape the constitution.”

Via: Mediaite.com

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Obama's Circle of Appeasers

On July 6, 1939 the British Foreign Office heard from the British Military Attaché in Berlin that Hitler's Finance Minister Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk had advised a visiting British General: "Take Winston Churchill into the Cabinet. Churchill is the only Englishman Hitler is afraid of. He does not take Prime Minster Chamberlain or Halifax seriously, but he places Churchill in the same category as Roosevelt. The mere fact of giving him a leading Ministerial post would convince Hitler that we really meant to stand up to him."

In 2013, there is no Churchill anywhere except Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He is the lone prophet who is warning the world not to be fooled and misled by the new conciliatory tone of the new Iranian president Hasan Rouhani while his regime continues developing its nuclear weapons program.

There is no Roosevelt in the White House. Roosevelt did not try to meet, talk to, or negotiate with Hitler or any of his lieutenants.

Sadly, President Obama has tried repeatedly to meet and shake the hand of one of the lieutenants of the true dictator of Iran, Ali Khamenei. While Obama proudly described his 15-minute phone call with Iranian president Rouhani as an historical breakthrough which has the potential to resolve the nuclear issue through negotiations and form a new relationship with Iran, Rouhani described the phone call as the culmination of a desperate and humiliating U.S. pursuit of the Iranian president.

Via: American Thinker

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OBAMACARE IS WORSE THAN THE WEBSITE

On Monday, President Obama spoke outside the White House, defending the roll-out of his signature legislative achievement, ObamaCare, aka the Affordable Care Act. He dismissed growing concerns about the launch of the health insurance exchanges by noting that the law "is not a website." As National Journal noted, however, launching the website was the "easy part." ObamaCare can go downhill very quickly.

Team Obama built the most sophisticated voter database and on-line political community in history. Its comprehensive voter outreach operation was able to defy political odds, recreate its turnout breakthroughs from 2008 and win reelection. If Team Obama has any core competency, it is building a seamless, integrated on-line community. Yet, three weeks after introduction, the HealthCare.Gov website is such a disaster that a single person signing up for coverage in Delaware is noteworthy enough to introduce the President for Monday's remarks. 

The White House has reacted to the very real problems with the on-line exchanges by announcing a "tech surge." Tapping the best software engineers from the private sector will likely bring near-term improvements to a website that was three years in the making. After several weeks or months, the on-line exchanges will probably be fully functioning. The "kinks" and "glitches" will get worked out. Then, however, the real problems with ObamaCare will come to light. 

The foundational problem with ObamaCare is that is relies on people making economically irrational decisions. Namely, young and healthy individuals, who consume very little health care, have to be convinced to buy insurance to subsidize new coverage mandates for older, less healthy consumers. If the young and healthy don't buy coverage, the premiums for everyone else will skyrocket. 

Via: Breitbart

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]VIDEO] Former Obama Official Warns Americans: 'Back Off' Opposition To Obamacare

It was enough to make a conservative yearn for the good old Bush-era days of "Dissent Is Patriotic" . . .

For there on Morning Joe today was former Obama official Melody Barnes, warning Americans to "back off" their Reagan-inspired opposition to big government in general and Obamacare in particular.  Instead, instructed Barnes, Americans should focus on making Obamacare work. View the video after the jump.

Joe Scarborough was having none of it, asking why he should back off opposing something that he and millions of other Americans, thinks is harmful to the country. Opposing Obamacare is not "unpatriotic", observed Scarborough.



MELODY BARNES: It is to everyone's benefit that people back off of what was the Reagan administration legacy that government is bad, government workers are bad and think about how we're going to make this work because what we've seen time and time again with Katrina and moving forward is if we don't have an effective federal government people get hurt. In fact people can die.


JOE SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. why would I back off if I think health care policy is bad for the country in the the long run, the federal government is not competent enough to run it, and the launch has been terrible. Sam Stein asks the question are Republicans going to do their best to help this implementation? No, I don't think they are. And I don't think it means they are unpatriotic if they don't. Obviously what happened over the past few weeks, Sam, absolutely idiotic and self-defeating but why should the Republicans say hey listen we want to help you implement a program that we think will end private insurance over the next decade? That goes against everything I believe and millions and millions of Americans believe.

Via: Newsbusters
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Administration Blows Its Credibility With Disastrous Obamacare Rollout

Whitehouse.govThe Obama administration doesn’t want to talk about Obamacare. At a press briefing on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney dodged questionsabout the ongoing failure of the law’s federally-run health insurance portal, Healthcare.gov, which after two weeks is still practically impenetrable to all but the most dedicated users. 

Carney refused to say when the exchange might be working, and directed reporters' questions to the agencies in charge of the project. “Those are all questions for HHS and CMS,” he said, referring to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

But the head of HHS isn’t saying much. Following a disastrous interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Showlast week, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has avoidedmost media inquiries. The head of CMS, Marylyn Tavenner, is staying mum too. She refused to answer questions New York Times reporters posed about the performance of the exchanges.

That’s hardly a shock. What could either of them say? The federal exchange system simply does not work. And the administration has run out of excuses. Even President Obama—who initially excused the exchange problems as being typical of a large technology rollout—has begun to talk more frankly about the system’s flaws. "The website that was supposed to do this all in a seamless way has had way more glitches than I think are acceptable," he said on Tuesday.

Via: Reason

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[CARTOON] Obama’s Kind of Golf

Via: California Political Review

So, which newspaper’s going to file the first “WH quietly thinking about delaying ObamaCare” story?

Rest assured, the White House is quietly thinking about delaying ObamaCare. Even if there’s only a five percent chance right now that they end up doing it, the scope of the disaster that is Healthcare.gov means they’ve got to be kicking this idea around in some form. As Megan McArdle explained yesterday, if they can’t iron out the wrinkles by around this time next month, they’ll be risking total chaos next year — a huge backlog of data to process, people trying to use coverage when they haven’t properly enrolled yet, and a huge pool of healthy uninsured young adults whom they need to fund this boondoggle having given up trying to enroll on the feds’ Chernobyl-esque website.

So yeah, they’re thinking about it. Who’ll be the first to find a source up the chain who’s willing to say so to a reporter?

Via: Hot Air

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