Hey Barry…why don’t you visit Arizona?
July 29th, 2010 at 2:38 pm by NigelThough I certainly have my thoughts regarding Judge Susan Bolton’s sub-moronic decision to strike down the meat of Arizona’s SB 1070, yesterday’s Sean Hannity interview with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer brought to light something that pissed me off even more.
Remember when Governor Brewer visited President Obama at the White House a few months ago? Well apparently she invited Dear Leader to come to Arizona to see the border crisis first-hand (8-minute mark of this video):
He doesn’t have time.
Like he didn’t have time to handle the Gulf Oil Spill Crisis:
Am I the only one here thinking that Barack Obama is the laziest President we’ve ever had?
July 29th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
The larger issue is what we do we do when the Federal government won’t do its job. Arizona only passed this legislation because the Federal government was playing games while the citizens of Arizona were threatened. President Obama did nothing. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid did nothing. Homeland Security and Napolitano did nothing. So Governor Brewer does something and all of a sudden, Eric Holder and the DOJ have a tantrum.
Nowhere did the Federal government say that it would actually do its job. What the DOJ argued is that the law would make them work for a living. Personally, I think it is time for secession to be put on the table if the Federal government continues to throw the citizens of the border States under the bus for the love of illegals.
July 29th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
W.S.,
I haven’t completed my thoughts on this whole thing, but you are dead on.
I do however want to point out that the Bush administration is just as complicit in this mess…if not more so. Our site (and my previous blog) were both HIGHLY critical of W for his amnesty plan (remember “see you at the signing”?) and I really feel he made this problem far worse by not taking action while he resided at 1600 Penn.
Instead he left this mess for a “do nothing” President who spends more time playing golf than addressing our country’s problems (and while you can give him “credit” for signing Obamacare, really it was Reid and Pelosi who did his heavy lifting for him).
Team Obama likes to point out that they are cracking down on employers who hire illegals…and I support that. Of course attacking business is what they do best. But what about the increased crime in AZ caused by illegals? Team Obama would have you believe there is no problem at all…but since Barry won’t actually GO to AZ himself to find out, he has the perfect excuse to stay ignorant on the matter.
July 29th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Thomas Jefferson once said:
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing a people to slavery.
According to Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations (the hub of THE Establishment):
“Globalization thus implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker. [UN] States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves, because they cannot insulate themselves from what goes on elsewhere. Sovereignty is no longer a sanctuary.”
”Our notion of sovereignty must therefore be conditional, even contractual, rather than absolute.
It’s not laziness, or unwillingness. It is a deliberate breaking down of our national sovereignty. America is the big bugaboo in achieving world government. Unlike most countries, the citizens are armed and feel strongly about sovereignty. They wore Europe down with trade treaties, and tried to do the same here with NAFTA and GATT. Thing is , we’re a huge country with all the national resources to be self-sustaining. (I believe we have enough oil to sustain ourselves, but they again, deliberately through regs, will not allow us to explore and drill.) We don’t need to have trade treaties as much as little European countries do. I’ll leave you with another great quote from Rear Admiral Chester Ward, who was allowed membership into CFR (It’s like a frat, you can’t just sign up):
[the CFR has as a goal] the submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government.… this lust to surrender the sovereignty and independence of the United States is pervasive throughout most of the membership.… In the entire CFR lexicon, there is no term of revulsion carrying a meaning so deep as ‘America First’” (Admiral Chester Ward, Kissinger on the Couch, pp. 144-150. 1975.)
July 29th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Sheesh Mother…my head hurts.
Don’t take my flippancy at the subject for a lack of understanding of a deeper problem. However, I think it’s clear that Obama IS lazy. He likes running for President, he likes all the parties, perks and travel of being the President…he just doesn’t like doing the WORK of a President.
He was on The View yesterday. No President has ever burned critical working hours going on a fluff daytime talk show before. The guy spends more time visiting cool places to eat around Washington during the week when most Presidents have been WAY too busy for that crap.
But not one day for Arizona. Not one FULL day in the Gulf touring the disaster sites. Nearly two months before speaking to the President at BP…but WHOA…is he looking for an “ass to kick”. He’s just “too busy”.
Bullshit. He’s too busy hacking up Congressional and chowing down on burgers with spicy mustard.
July 30th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Simple, Nigel… Obama won’t visit Arizona because they now require PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP to enter.
July 30th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
I’m not arguing about Obama not being lazy. I’m telling you that while he has the title of president, he’s as much a president as Howdy – Doody is a person. He’s being told what to do and how to do it. The people on top don’t give a rat’s ass if he golfs all the time, just as long as he holds the globalization line.
This Arizona thing is the elites telling us where we can shove our ideas of sovereignty.
It has been many decades since the US has had a president who gave a flip about border control – maybe Eisenhower with Operation Wetback.
August 2nd, 2010 at 2:37 am
I think that republicanmother’s analysis above pretty much hits the nail on the head. Great line about Howdy Doody!