Washington Braces for Amnesty

pic_giant_111014_SM_Barack-Obama-GRepublicans in Congress are struggling to put together a strategy to combat President Obama’s expected unilateral immigration amnesty as the administration moves closer to pulling the amnesty trigger by year’s end.

Their deliberations came as Vice President Joe Biden met Saturday with Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, and Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren. One of the topics was how to facilitate even more immigration from those poor Third World countries to the United States.

Biden said next month the U.S. would create what the White House called “an in-country refugee/parole program in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, to allow certain parents who are lawfully present in the United States to request access to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for their children still in one of these three countries.”

Although fighting President Obama’s unprecedented threatened power grab by allowing a shutdown of the federal government is a possibility, Republican lawmakers acknowledge they haven’t warmed to the idea.

“It doesn’t solve the problem,” Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“But look, we’re having those discussions… We’re going to continue to meet about this. I know the House leaders are talking about, the Senate leaders are talking about it,” he said. “Republicans are looking at different options about how best to respond to the president’s unilateral action, which many people believe is unconstitutional, unlawful action on this particular issue.”

On ABC’s “This Week” House Deputy Majority Whip Tom Cole (R-Okla.) was cool to the idea of a shutdown. “I think the president wants a fight. I think he’s actually trying to bait us into doing some of these extreme things that have been suggested. I don’t think we will.”

U.S. Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) is opposed to a shutdown. “There’s a wide diversity of thought as to how effective that would be,” he said. A shutdown “is not a good solution.”

One of the less appealing suggestions is to sue Obama. There is a huge problem with legal standing and is it by definition an abdication of the constitutionally-stipulated power of the purse held by Congress. Lawmakers don’t have to go to court to stop Obama.

Many House conservatives want Congress to ban the funding needed to implement Obama’s executive amnesty. Others would attempt to keep the agencies implementing the amnesty on a short leash by appropriating funding for them on a short-term basis, theoretically allowing them to withhold immigration funds without shutting down the government.

“The power of the purse is what’s given to the House,” said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.). “That’s the check that we have against the White House. To the extent that that’s the lever we have, that’s the lever we’ll use.”

Most elected Republicans still seem blissfully unaware that the the last shutdown in October 2013 was an unmitigated public relations success for Republicans even though it might not have felt that way at the time. Setting aside the relentless media propaganda that falsely painted the shutdown as a massive Democratic tactical victory, the episode sent the unmistakable message that GOPers were champions of freedom of choice in health care.

The shutdown boosted GOP public approval numbers all the way through the election this month, helped to revive the fight against Obamacare as millions of Americans were having their health insurance policies abruptly canceled, and helped to set the stage for the Republicans’ historic trouncing of the Democrats in congressional elections. The shutdown was an extended, cost-free infomercial for the GOP that reminded Americans that Republicans were on their side on an issue that mattered to them. In other words, it derailed what had seemed like an unstoppable leftist narrative that the always-unpopular Obamacare was a done deal and that resistance to it was futile.

Those gun-shy Republicans who oppose a government shutdown at all costs are never quite able to explain why, if the shutdown was so bad for the GOP, Republicans are now on the march.

On Nov. 4 the GOP flipped control of the 100-seat U.S. Senate, winning at least 53 seats as of this writing. The House GOP increased its majority, winning at least 244 out of 435 seats. In the new year Republicans will control at least 31 state governors’ mansions and at least 68 of the 99 state legislative chambers across the country (Nebraska’s legislature has only one chamber). In at least 23 states Republicans will control the governorship and both houses of the state legislature. Democrats can make the same claim about only 7 states.

Republican leaders have been talking out of both sides of their mouths on the amnesty issue for months.

Acting unilaterally on immigration would be “a big mistake” akin to “waving a red flag in front of a bull,” McConnell said. Such action “poisons the well for an opportunity to address a very important domestic issue.”

But McConnell also said he’s not willing to use Congress’s spending power to stop amnesty. Right after the election he seemed adamant that he would not abide a  government shutdown.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), whose speakership is likely to be challenged by conservative lawmakers in January, also said unilateral action would “poison the well.” Boehner warned Obama, “when you play with matches, then you take the risk of burning yourself, and he’s going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path.

On the weekend Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson confirmed that planning for Obama’s executive amnesty, along with other changes to the immigration system, is almost complete.

“We’re in the final stages of developing some executive actions,” Johnson said. “We have a broken immigration system. The more I delve into it, the more problems I see.”

Of course, it is a leftist lie to say that the immigration system is broken. When progressives say the system is broken, they mean it is functioning in a less than optimal manner, failing to capture every single prospective illegal alien welfare case available to wade across the Rio Grande or walk across the nation’s largely undefended border with Mexico. To them, immigration policy is a taxpayer-subsidized get-out-the-vote scheme for Democrats and the best reform they could imagine would be to abolish America’s borders altogether.

The system is doing what it was designed to do: Flood America with people who don’t share Americans’ traditional philosophical commitment to the rule of law, limited government, and markets, in order to force changes in society. The radicals’ goal today is to use immigration to subvert the American system, just as it was in the 1960s when the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) shepherded leftist reforms of that era’s immigration laws through Congress.

The current immigration system is congested, overwhelmed, and under attack by the sheer volume of illegal aliens that Democratic policies have been bringing to the U.S. The problem isn’t so much the legal regime governing immigration but the years of non-enforcement at the border, coupled with Obama’s brazen attempts to recruit illegals from Latin America, luring them with promises of government largesse such as food stamps.

Most analysts haven’t noted that if Obama acts unilaterally on immigration, he is likely to do long-term damage to the electoral prospects of the Democratic Party. The voters of Oregon, a longtime Democrat stronghold, delivered a stark warning on illegal immigration to the president’s party in the election a fortnight ago.

Even as Oregonians easily approved Measure 91, a ballot proposition legalizing possession, cultivation, and recreational use of marijuana, and added to Democrat majorities at the state level, they overwhelmingly rejected Measure 88 which would have sustained a state law giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.

The vote to legalize pot was 55.6 percent in favor to 44.4 percent against but the vote to overturn the statute providing driver’s licenses was a lopsided 66.4 percent to repeal compared to just 33.6 percent to uphold the law. The statute was approved last year without much opposition by state lawmakers and signed into law by Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat.

As of a month ago, the illegal alien lobby had outspent the other side by a 10-to-1 margin.

“It was really the epitome of a grassroots effort,” Cynthia Kendoll, an activist for the successful “No” side told reporters. “There’s such a disconnect between what people really want and what’s happening.”

Mark Krikorian of the respected nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies said the thumping voters gave Measure 88 was proof that the groups supporting endless accommodations for the illegal aliens invading this country are hopelessly out of touch. “It really highlights how this issue is not a Republican-liberal issue like, say, taxes and abortion, but an up-down issue, elites versus the public.”

As if on cue, left-wing elitist Marshall Fitz of the Center for American Progress (CAP), dropped by to smear those who voted against Measure 88 as racist, monobrowed, dimwits.

“Is there an instinct toward security, hunkering down and against welcoming the other?” Fitz said. “That’s part of human nature. But that doesn’t mean instincts can’t be overcome by reason.”

Decent, patriotic Americans are infuriated by the kind of smugness and condescension exuded by open-borders radicals like Fitz and Obama who glibly equate opposition to illegal immigration to xenophobia and racism. They are intensely angered when they are told by the leftists of the media day in and day out that if you support enforcement of immigration laws you’re a bad person. The accusation grates because Americans are among the most tolerant and generous in the world, and beyond any doubt the most accepting of immigrants.

People like Fitz and his former boss CAP founder John Podesta, who is now a senior advisor in the Obama White House, seem unable to fathom just how disgusted law-abiding Americans, including legal U.S. immigrants, are by illegal immigration and the coddling and granting of special privileges to illegals.

The issue of illegal immigration isn’t a powder keg ready to blow both major political parties to bits. It’s more like a stage coach in an old Western movie loaded with liquid nitroglycerin. One bad bump on the road and — kaboom! — those guiding it across the frontier are vaporized. Obama’s hugely unpopular executive amnesty threatens to render Democrats a spent force for decades. Whether Republicans will be smart enough to stay clear of the Obama-created debacle-in-waiting remains to be seen.

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  • truebearing

    The lack of strategic thinking capacity on the part of the Republican leadership is mind boggling. If they would stop deluding themselves as to why they won the recent election — it wasn’t because of excessive merit on their part — they might begin to ask why they won. Since they are too self-deluded to ask the right question, and because I won’t live for a thousand years, I’ll tell them: Republicans won because American voters saw that survival was on the ballot.

    Americans are worried, and justifiably so. The threats seem to multiply on a daily basis, with Obama failing to meaningfully address a single one, and nearly always making a bad situation worse. The Democratic Party is a bunch of nitwits and freaks. They make the Republicans look like the safe choice, and they are right, but the Republicans still haven’t figured out why they won. And because they really don’t understand why they won, they are timid and cowardly about making any kind of a stand that would suggest they might just have gonads.

    Here is an idea: Announce to the nation that because of Obama’s illegal usurpation of the role of Congress, among several other clearly impeachable acts, they are going to hold hearings on the advisability of impeaching Obama. Make the usual caveats…”we don’t want to rush to judgement…this isn’t an impeachment at this point…this is not a trial, but exploratory…” Then proceed to try Obama in public, bringing in constitutional experts from both parties, effected citizens, etc. Document his string of unconstitutional actions. List the damage his Amnesty scheme will cause to Americans, with heavy emphasis on the devastion it will wreak among black and hispanic communities. In other words, put the spotlight on the negative consequences. Put survival in the witness stand. The media will be forced to report on it.

    I’m tired of politicians that are in Congress, supposedly representing voters and defending the constitution, that do neither. If we allow Obama to spit on the law of the land, it weakens the constitution. If it isn’t defended, the constitution is worthless. The longer that erosion of respect continues, the harder it is hard to stop. It is time for those who profess to support the constitution to actually do something to defend it instead of worrying about their miserable little political careers. I’ve never heard of people truly defending anything where they risked nothing.

    • hiernonymous
      • I_Am_Me

        I can’t believe they published that. It’s right out of scientific r/K
        theory. But of course they skewed it to the Doonesbury bias. The
        increased amygdala does not respond more to threats, it’s more capable of recognizing threats, which then leads to the greater response.

        I hope the Left keeps misrepresenting this. It’s going to lead to all
        sorts of h3ll on their side. It’s going to make racial eugenics look
        like child’s play.

      • Pete

        You are a real laugh riot.

        Bologna Family murders

        So funny. So funny. Obama is doing amnesty without fixing the borders.

        Edwin_Ramos

        “Judge Charlotte Woolard of San Francisco Superior Court ruled on February 22, 2010 that the city cannot be liable for any crimes that Edwin Ramos committed post-release because the city had no information that Ramos posed a specific threat to the Bolognas and that the sanctuary city policy was intended “to improve immigration controls” rather than prevent crime.”

        • hiernonymous

          “You are a real laugh riot.”

          Thank you!

          • truebearing

            Terminally obtuse, too.

      • phoebeintheforest

        It’s only funny when other people get hurt. You won’t “get it” until you…or someone you care about…gets hurt by illegal immigration.

        • truebearing

          He’s a cold fish, plus whatever he posted — I didn’t bother to look — is a childish effort to get back at me as retaliation for previous battles we’ve had.

          Sociopaths and extreme narcissists don’t have any empathy. Your words will fall on his deaf ears, truthful though they were.

          • hiernonymous

            I had thought that heart-on-the-sleeve, don’t-you-care posturing was supposed to be a characteristic of the left. Ayn Rand would be disgusted with you.

          • truebearing

            Tough luck for Ayn. I fear the disapproval of dead people as little as I do yours.

          • hiernonymous

            How is it tough luck for her? The modal auxiliary indicated the subjunctive mood. Ayn is dead and cannot actually disapprove of you, so you are right not to fear that. What should give you pause is the premium you are placing on pathos over reason.

      • truebearing

        It is interesting to see where your beliefs come from…deceptive comics.

        Douchebury has the amygdala info all wrong, but being wrong never stopped you, so I’m not surprised that your usual obsession for nit-picking suddenly went into remission.

        A surgeon just died from Ebola, ISIS just released a film of 20 men being ritually beheaded, and illegal immigrants are robbing, raping, and murdering Americans right and left, but don’t let that get in the way of your sick sense of humor. You sociopathic leftists sure do find the suffering of others amusing. Such is evil.

        Doonesbury left out that the entire brains of conservatives are larger…much, much larger.

        I’d also like to point out that the amygdala is important to human survival. If everyone had a retarded amygdala, like leftists have, we would walk right into danger, unprepared, like the Left always tries to get us to do. It is amusing that someone who claims to have worked in military intelligence doesn’t respect the brain’s early warning system. I can easily see how worthless you were at detecting threats to the nation.

        • hiernonymous

          ” It is amusing that someone who claims to have worked in military intelligence doesn’t respect the brain’s early warning system. I can easily see how worthless you were at detecting threats to the nation.”

          The brain’s early warning system is quite useful in jumping out of the way of speeding bullets or buses. It’s not so useful in conducting clearheaded analysis of national threats.

          You really don’t want the fellow charged with warning you about that bus to be operating in a state of fight-or-flight. He won’t be thinking or communicating effectively.

          I think you just offered some unintentional insight into your worldview.

          • truebearing

            You have shown that you aren’t useful in conducting clearheaded analysis of national threats. You think things like Ebola or ISIS are funny.

            Furthermore, analysis is fundamentally hindsight, not vision into the future. Analysts are looking at the past to predict the future. Not only that, but not all analysts derive the same conclusions, even with the same set of facts. Analyze that truth.

            You make some rather simplistic assumptions about people with a functioning amygdala. They aren’t reacting with fight or flight at every stimulus. The fact that most people in the military are conservatives proves your facile argument to be perfectly absurd.

            You just offered some unflattering insight into your worldview.

          • hiernonymous

            “You think things like Ebola or ISIS are funny.”

            There’s very little that can’t be funny. Tom Lehrer did a great number on nuclear war. “And we’ll all go together when we go / all suffused in an incandescent glow. / When the air becomes uraneous / we will all go simultaneous / and we’ll all go together when we go!” I understand that when you are the butt of the joke, it might seem unfunny, but you’ll get over it.

            Or not!

            “The fact that most people in the military are conservatives proves your facile argument to be perfectly absurd.”

            It would be interesting to see you make that proof explicit.

            Not sure what you know about how analysis is conducted in military intelligence – how did you come to be familiar with it?

          • truebearing

            “There is very little that can’t be funny.”

            Especially for someone with no empathy. I find it amusing that you, the humorless one, are now posturing as an expert on humor. That is the equivalent of Obama speaking at a seminar on honesty.

            You vastly overestimate the impact of posting a Doonesbury. And I didn’t think it effectively made anyone the butt of anything. Like everyone else on the Left, you conflate any political attack, regardless of how poorly it is done, with humor.

            Polls invariably show that more people in the military are Right than Left. All ot those missing ballots and excuses why ballots are lost aren’t coincidental.

          • hiernonymous

            “Especially for someone with no empathy. I find it amusing that you, the humorless one, are now posturing as an expert on humor.”

            This would not be the first time you found yourself amused by something you fundamentally misunderstood. Examine your premises.

            “You vastly overestimate the impact of posting a Doonesbury. ”

            I’d say not. I originally thought it mildly amusing that you happened to make a post that so perfectly mirrored the attitude Trudeau lampooned in this week’s cartoon. I wasn’t really expecting much “impact.” The howls of rage that followed suggest that I underestimated the impact.

            “Polls invariably show that more people in the military are Right than Left. All ot those missing ballots and excuses why ballots are lost aren’t coincidental.”

            It’s not clear what this truism is intended to establish. That the military tends to lean toward the conservative is not in dispute. Is this intended to explain how you, with no military experience that I’m aware of, know anything about military intelligence analysis? Or is it offered in support of some yet-to-be-clarified argument?

          • I_Am_Me

            Trudeau’s understanding of the science may or may not be off. But that is beside the point. He knew the modifications necessary to make you agree with it.

            Does this trouble you as an analyst? That a cartoonist knows your biases and impulses and uses them as levers?

            I wonder what sophisticated terrorists do with this knowledge.

          • hiernonymous

            “Does this trouble you as an analyst? That a cartoonist knows your biases and impulses and uses them as levers?”

            I had no idea I was so important to Mr. Trudeau that he would take the trouble to research my biases and impulses and use his national forum to target me. Careful – you’ll inflate my sense of importance, and that will send TB into another paroxysm of indignation.

            “I wonder what sophisticated terrorists do with this knowledge.”

            They convince people to play “All About That Bass” until 600 million ears bleed. It’s too horrible to contemplate.

          • objectivefactsmatter

            I think he’s talking about biases of materialists, “realists” and so forth. If for example you believe that Maslow’s hierarchy is a very powerful explanation for how humans behave, that belief can be exploited.

            Not that you’re a robot, but you’re trained to follow certain analytical frameworks. Those will be known to our enemies. That knowledge can be used to deceive. Especially since we’re generally a lot more open than our enemies.

            “They convince people to play “All About That Bass” until 600 million ears bleed. It’s too horrible to contemplate.”

            I kind of get the joke but I might be missing a layer of it. Are you learning how to play the bass violin or bass guitar? Or do you suspect a communist plot to get one of your family members to drive you nuts with silly videos?

            But seriously, doesn’t it worry you even a little that Putin and the Chinese know how to manipulate so many people with propaganda campaigns? And that more than a few Jihadis have been trained to use the same kind of approach over the years?

          • hiernonymous

            “If for example you believe that Maslow’s hierarchy is a very powerful explanation for how humans behave, that belief can be exploited.”

            If that’s what he meant, it’s no great insight. Any consistent worldview can be ‘exploited’ in that sense. When applied to military intelligence, it can be exploited only to the degree that the analyst has not absorbed the elementary dictum that one should not project one’s own way of thinking on an enemy. A good deal of the profession consists in escaping the thought process “If I would not do X in situation Y, the enemy would not do X, either.”

            And, of course, we’re still conducting the conversation at an elementary level, as if ‘intelligence analysis’ were one homogeneous task. That’s nonsense, of course.

            “Not that you’re a robot, but you’re trained to follow certain analytical frameworks. Those will be known to our enemies.”

            What analytical frameworks were we trained to follow? There are technical frameworks, of course. There’s an intelligence cycle that, broadly speaking, consists of differentiating between what we know and what we don’t, assessing what sorts of capabilities we have for filling in the gaps, tasking those capabilities, then piecing together the information stream resulting from those taskings. That latter piece is probably the analysis you are talking about. You seem to be making assumptions about our assumptions, so to speak.

            This, by the way, is one of the reasons I ask him what his actual experience in intelligence analysis is.

            “But seriously, doesn’t it worry you even a little that Putin and the Chinese know how to manipulate so many people with propaganda campaigns?”

            It hasn’t been my experience that people writ large respond rationally to any sort of input; I don’t worry particularly about Russian or Chinese propaganda techniques.

            Of course, Mssrs Horowitz and Greenfield are openly engaged in propaganda; do you worry about the extent to which they have accurately read your biases to manipulate your thoughts?

          • objectivefactsmatter

            I agree that some role players won’t be effected by that kind of propaganda. But other analysts would be.

            “Of course, Mssrs Horowitz and Greenfield are openly engaged in propaganda; do you worry about the extent to which they have accurately read your biases to manipulate your thoughts?”

            Yes and no. I’m always trying to adjust for bias. Taking conscious steps to do that builds confidence over time. But that doesn’t mean one should ever stop the process.

            As far as Horowitz and Greenfield, they’re not trying to foment a worldwide revolution based on Utopian notions of the future. If you read the articles consistently you see that they’re open about their agenda. My sense is that they don’t even like the fact that they have to get down in the trenches and “get nasty” with leftists. I don’t agree with every aspect of their tactics but I do agree with most of their goals. I can criticize them and realize that I might be wrong. I’m not that savvy as a political operative plotting how to win consensus other than just talking openly about the issues. Obviously it takes more than that.

          • objectivefactsmatter

            “That latter piece is probably the analysis you are talking about.”

            Obviously I’m talking about where judgment of human actors is called for. You can have a higher degree of confidence about where certain tanks might be stored and how they’ll be called up (lower level troops don’t have a lot of autonomy) but you won’t know what Khrushchev is going to do if Kennedy calls his bluff or vice versa. And there are shades in between and nonmilitary applications of course.

            “You seem to be making assumptions about our assumptions, so to speak.”

            You lost me. It was never my theory that your political bias hurt your military work. My theory is that it hurts you as an academic that puts too much trust in institutions that are not demonized by the neo-Marxists. When I push you it seems that you understand in theory that all institutions are subject to forces of human imperfection but as you comment you seem to place too much confidence in the idealized version of what for example the UN can and should try to accomplish, how much influence academics should have, how much independence (wall of separation, not just material independence) from government academies should have and so forth.

            IOW you seem biased on where human fallibility can cause problems. It does not seem proportional when compared to what I’ve learned. You’re willing to say that “capitalism” is innately corrupt but it’s OK if the US Federal Government grows huge because we have a constitution…no biggie. You’re not aware of the growing problems with shifts in “loci of power” as you once termed it, excdept you know it’s a problem with corporations. Is that not what you expressed to me? We have robust antitrust laws to govern powerful corporations. Our robust infrastructure for taming the Federal government is crumbling with nothing to replace it but a bunch of liars telling us this is progress. Because they say so.

            “It hasn’t been my experience that people writ large respond rationally to any sort of input; I don’t worry particularly about Russian or Chinese propaganda techniques.”

            We (humans) are always “irrational” and we learn how to use “tools” to straighten out what we have. Humans and all creatures are “irrational” and some learn to use tools to strive to come up with rational explanations and answers. Some times not very well.

            That is why it is CRITICAL to figure out when the tools are themselves biased. If you don’t know the difference between true and magnetic north. That kind of thing. You might come up with reliable but incorrect results.

            The Russians and the Chinese would LOVE for us to get overly concerned about anything that can cause us to make mistakes governing energy use and our economy. Makes sense that our rivals would love to see us shrink, especially when they benefit directly in so many ways by that shrinkage. We start turning away oil, our costs go up and theres don’t just go down in relative terms but in absolute terms. Everyone gains form our losses.

            Being sugar daddy to the world is OK as long as you don’t let the clients outsmart you. And they have been. As a nation, we’re extremely naive. We’re not the big problem causer in the world. We’re a positive role model. We cause problems that we should work on, but not using idiotic narratives fed to us by our enemies.

          • truebearing

            Everthing has to be spelled out for you. By posting the Doonesbury cartoon, you effectively argued that conservatives are overreactive and prone to fight or flight hysteria. Then you argued that military analysts must be immune to that malady. Now you admit that most people in the military are conservative, but can’t see the correlations. Maybe it would be easier if you just post a disclaimer admitting that you are an inveterate quibbler and dishonest.

            Analysis as a process is fundamentally the same whether in a military application or otherwise. It requires examination of facts. A military analyst collects information about military powers for the broad purpose of national security. Two analysts can look at the same data and arrive at different conclusions, but the one with a functioning amygdala will likely be the one who more quickly percieves real threats. It is common sense…something your overweening intellect has bullied right out of your own head.

          • hiernonymous

            Your major premise is flawed. By posting the Doonesbury cartoon, I noted that you are an excellent example of the fearmongering Trudeau lampoons so well. “All conservatives are X” and “all liberals are Y” are the sorts of simpleminded generalizations one might expect in your posts.

            Before we wander too far down your analysis of analysis, could you explain the basis of your understanding of what intelligence analysis entails? Is it something more substantive than a love of Tom Clancy novels?

    • phoebeintheforest

      Well said, true bearing!

    • bigjulie

      Both Boehner and McConnell are still deathly afraid of criticism by the NYT, WaPo and the LA Times, stupidly believing that the readers of these papers actually believe what is written in them. Some do, but most have been burned so badly by all the blowback from known propaganda they have published in the past, that much of the reading nowadays is accompanied by large doses of salts.
      Risking nothing is exactly what both “leaders” have in mind. They do not want to do anything to risk what they imagine will be lucrative careers as highly-paid lobbyists, should they decide to leave their current positions. It has been obvious for years that neither really gives a damn about the Constitution or their constituents and we will be crippled in our efforts to return America to the rule of Law until we get leaders who do!
      All we can do for now is keep burning up the phone lines and supporting more and more Conservative (read Tea Party) candidates. Fortunately, the clown acts still being undertaken by the Democrats will continue to help us, Amnesty being the clown jewel!

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      truebearing AKBAR!

      • truebearing

        hieranonymouse doesn’t seem to think so. He thinks ISIS, Ebola, and illegal aliens are funny.

        • A Disqus User

          If diversity isn’t forced, why is there affirmative action & racial employment quotas?

          If diversity isn’t forced, why aren’t White people allowed to vote to
          stop mass non-White immigration in EVERY & ONLY White countries?

          If diversity isn’t forced, why is assimilation of non-Whites in EVERY & ONLY White communities forced?

          “Diversity” is a codeword for White geNOcide.

          Anti-Racist is a codeword for Anti-White.

          • knowshistory

            if whites were actually allowed to vote on their own genocide, they would vote for it. you give whites way too much credit. all these unconstitutional and racist laws discriminating against whites were passed with the full approval of a large number of white fools.

    • watsa46

      The media WILL NOT play your game. The repub won for the same reason they lost 2 years ago. A significant number of people did not show up to vote.

      • truebearing

        The media will cover an event related to impeachment, especially if it is clear that it is a real possibility, which it should be. They have to cover some things of lose all of their viewers. They’re already losing their audience to Fox.

        Your analysis is nothing if not filled with subtle insights into the underlying dynamics of the last two elections.

        Yes, many didn’t vote, but that is always true. You are ignoring demographic shifts in who voted Republican and who didn’t vote for Democrats. The majority of Democrats are low-to-no information voters. They stayed home because Obama has done nothing for them, is planning to flood the nation with illegal immigrants who will take their jobs, and is a proven liar that no one believes anymore.

        Sane people of every political persuasion see the dire handwriting on the wall. The US is in trouble because of Obama’s disastrous presidency. They rightly believe that the nation is on the verge of collapse, so they voted for survival. Independents have abandoned Obama and even some liberals and minorities have had enough.

      • knowshistory

        not voting is actually a vote.

    • Angela Cleveland

      You should send them this idea!! I mean it, maybe we should all copy and paste it and send it to them. When they get 1000′s maybe they’ll listen!!

      • truebearing

        That is actually why I posted it. Please do send it to anyone you think will listen and act.

        • Angela Cleveland

          Have you thought about starting one of those petitions with this?

    • Angela Cleveland

      I have sent this off. I hope it helps.

  • Larry Larkin

    Defund the White House to begin with.

  • Bamaguje

    If Republicans go the shut down route, they must have the resolve and stamina to see it through, rather than buckle under the pressure of propaganda attacks by the pro-Democratic lamestream media that will inevitably ensue.
    If Reublicans stay the course of action and win, more Americans will switch over to their side. Success has many friends, brothers and sisters.

    If on the other hand GOP buckles under pressure, then will be stigmatized for it as in the past.

    As Mr Vadum rightly points out, there is nothing wrong with the immigration system… it is not broken.
    America does not need “immigration reform”, but immigration enforcement. If the borders were secure and immigration laws enforced… the would be no problem of 11 million illegal aliens. Consequently, there would be no talk of “immigration reform” which is just a euphemism for amnesty.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      And “progressive” is a euphemism for socialism.

    • knowshistory

      first and foremost, if the democrats do “shut down” the government and try to blame it on republicans, republicans should stop being patsies and make sure that the things shut down are things dear to dear leader. I suggest shutting down the secret service first, foremost, and longest. see how Obama likes government shutdown, as opposed to obeying the laws of our nation, and the oath he took when he insinuated himself into the white house. an oath, to a muslim, is something that can be violated to give advantage to islam, but we need to show him that we take it seriously.

      • A Disqus User

        Plan for White geNOcide that “anti-racists” implement:

        1) Flood EVERY & ONLY White countries with MILLIONS of non-Whites

        2) Force integrate these immigrants into White communities. This is done with the aid of Federal Laws

        3) Push interracial relationships night and day in the media & newspaper

        advertisements, in ONLY White countries

        4) Anyone that objects is called the r-word!

        5) Then, inform the Whites of their inevitable brown future

        Anti-Racist is a code for anti-White

  • Hard Little Machine

    Pre emptively state that zero Obama appointees will even be listened to let alone approved for the remainder of his term. Even if that means that the Supreme Court has fewer than 9 members. Even if that means that every Federal agency goes w.o. a named chief. Come January announce a moratorium on passing any legislation for the next two years. Stop taking calls from the White House and end all face to face meetings with anyone from the White House. Slash all funding for Presidential travel including the Secret Service and Air Force One. Lay siege to the White House and starve him out.

    • Sam_Handwich

      government by adolescent tantrum. it’s what republicans do best!

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        Subverting the US Constitution by executive order is what socialist democrats do best – but they are about to learn about the Balance of Powers as specified in the US Constitution.

      • Hard Little Machine

        It beats president Caligula ruling as a man god king like your heartthrob Stalin.

      • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

        Let’s see – your side and your leader Barry Hussein just got your sorry rear ends kicked, and instead of heeding the plain will of the electorate, Barry decides to to against their desires by handing out an amnesty and illegal work permits – and you’re accusing us of throwing an adolescent tantrum? Hoo-boy! Better see a psychiatrist before you lose complete touch with reality, if it isn’t too late already.

      • Debbie G

        You call it a tantrum. I call it overdue action.

    • knowshistory

      what you are proposing is that republicans adopt democratic party tactics. good idea. even if the sc has fewer than 9 members? especially if. we already have two ultra-toxic Obama nominees contaminating the sc. we don’t need any more. republicans should have learned after the democrats pilloried bork to never, ever approve a democratic party nominee for anything. after bork, no thinking member of the senate of either party should ever have voted to approve a democratic party nominee. what the democrats did to bork was just wrong, and our representatives let them get away with it. shameful, for both parties. ever since bork, republicans have cowardly chosen nominees who were acceptable to democrats. democrats have gone out of their way to chose appointees who are ever more toxic, anti-American, racist, and anti-constitutional. this needs to stop.

      • Dan Knight

        way too true knowshistory … had the RINO’s approached the nominations that way, the Demokkkrats would have run Bush, and who knows who we would be running. We’d have term limits for bureaucrats, deep spending cuts in all agencies, … who knows, maybe something unique in history: An Empire restoring its Republic without collapsing first.

  • Pete

    Brace for impact.

    Except the U.S. is not built as tough as the fictional battlestar Galactica.

    Remember Chandra Levy was not murdered by a Congressman but by an illegal.

    There are many similar stories.

  • Gee

    I keep hearing how more than 70% of Americans want ‘reform’, but have never actually met one American that does. Very strange that when put to a vote with massive amounts of funding and it is rejected by a large margin

    • Debbie G

      Because our definition of “reform” (upholding the current immigration laws) is not the same as their definition of reform (amnesty and importing children from Central America.)

    • Bamaguje

      Indeed Americans want “immigration reform”, but Obama had to put off his executive order “reform” until after the recent Congressional elections… because he was afraid of backlash from the very people who purportedly want “reform.”

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        Now Obama is in hurry to force his amnesty down the American peoples throat BEFORE the new Senate is installed in January.

    • joe kulak

      The only “reform” people want is enforcement of existing law.

    • knowshistory

      70%. hmmmmmmmm. that sounds like the percentage of legal americans who want our immigration laws enforced as they are. perhaps the proponents of surrender, population replacement, and genocide are lying.

  • http://www.clarespark.com/ Clare Spark

    Why won’t anyone admit that a massively increased Catholic vote would likely swell the Democratic electorate? Has no one heard of Rerum Novarum or noticed the Catholic presence in the culture wars? See http://clarespark.com/2013/03/22/traditionalists-on-the-culture-front/. “Traditionalists on the culture front.”

    • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

      I cannot find anything in your linked blog that bears remotely on immigration. Whether Catholic or not, these Central and South American peasants we’re talking about are overwhelmingly socialist – they love big government and lots of welfare. That’s what makes them natural Democrats.

  • joe kulak

    A majority of Americans do not want uncontrolled immigration. Saying that the American people are so stupid that they will ‘blame the Republicans” for standing up to The Prevaricator in Chief and his resultant government “shutdown” is essentially “Gruber-izing” the populace. Rush is right; it may take a while, but the American people will figure it out. Since the media keeps insisting that confrontation is a losing strategy for the Republicans you can be sure that, while the media sycophants will do their best to make it so, it is hardly a foregone conclusion. That cadre of Columbia J School Obama devotes is hardly in the habit of handing out constructive advice to Republicans; they are bluffing, inadvertently “telling” what they most fear.

    • knowshistory

      if the enemedia really thought republicans would be blamed when the traitor in chief “shuts down” the government, the enemedia would be advising republicans that they should “shut down” the government. the enemedia is treasonous, they are not stupid.

  • Geppetto

    And how do they “stay clear of the Obama-created debacle-in-waiting” and what will be the result if the Republicans continue to dither and remain more concerned about rocking Obama’s media boat than taking decisive action regardless of the media fire storm that will ensue………no matter what they do? The republicans described in this piece sound no different post Nov, 4th than they did before their land slide victory so what are they going to do differently if they remain afraid of their own shadow?

  • steve b

    IMPEACH THIS MORON ASAP!

  • Erudite Mavin

    Republicans are onboard to defund this Executive Order and now with a Republican senate in Jan, The new Senate can prioritise funding agenda.
    the follow through is a reality with both houses.

    Also with this Executive Order and with other Obama agendas, there will be more support for the defunding by moderate democrats in general.

    Before the 2012 election, Obama did his Executive Order for the Dream Act Amnesty and I posted dozens of times about this on conservative sites to the
    all or nothing pures who said they were sitting home or voting third party as they
    said, Obama is better than a Republican.

    Well you got Obama and his Executive Orders which I reminded those he would continue with.his Ex Orders.
    Republicans will be defunding this.

    • Dan Knight

      Let’s hope the RINO’s are up to your aspirations. I’ve been waiting since ’88 though, and had to content myself with occasional random acts of adult behavior usually by someone in the minority at the time. … Just sayin …

      • Erudite Mavin

        I am sitting 15 miles north from the largest and busiest border crossing in the world, San Diego – Tijuana.

        I know the reality.

        The ones pushing Amnesty are the Democrats and Libertarians

        such as Rand Paul, Koch brothers, tea party express, CATO Inst.

        and the rest of that ilk.

        Libertarian Ron Paul when in congress voted every time against bills that would fence the border.

        Libertarian Rand Paul

        Immigration: Rand Paul to back path to citizenship

        ASSOCIATED PRESS | 3/18/13

        WASHINGTON

        — Republican Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday that illegal immigrants should be allowed to become U.S. taxpayers and ultimately get a shot at citizenship, a significant step for the Tea Party favorite amid growing Republican acceptance
        of the idea.

        “Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport” the millions already here, the potential 2016 presidential candidate told the U.S.
        Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

        ——————-

        Sen. Rand Paul: Illegal immigrants should be allowed to obtain legal status

        By Rosalind S. Helderman, Published: March 19, 2013

        Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a conservative tea party icon and possible 2016 presidential contender, endorsed an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws that would allow the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants to obtain legalized
        status

        ———————

        06/12/2014

        -

        Rand Paul continues to mislead on immigration (amnesty,Bloomberg, Norquist)

        Yesterday Sen. Rand Paul spoke on a conference call organized by Michael Bloomberg’s Partnership
        for a New American Economy and – together with Grover Norquist – promoted
        comprehensive immigration reform (what most call “amnesty”).

        Bloomberg, Democrat — Norquist, Libertarian pro Islamic — Rand Paul Libertarian, Isolationist

        ———————–

        Rand Paul: GOP must get ‘beyond deportation’

        By: Katie Glueck April 1, 2014

        Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday argued the Republican Party needs to get “beyond deportation” in order to break through to Hispanic voters.

        ========================================================

        Justin Amash supports pathway for citizenship for illegals as does

        Charles Koch of the Koch Brothers and the CATO Inst.,

        Tea Party Express and some of the other TP heads.,

        FreedomWorks, and the list goes on.

        Libertarian Ron Paul when in congress voted against every bill that would fence the border.

        • Dan Knight

          Yes, you are right.

  • watsa46

    Don’t confuse the tree for the forest. The goal is 2016.
    Repub should play the Obama’s game and attach one single condition to his “bill”: closing the borders. Not more and no less. Just one condition. This is perfectly reasonable & simple. Better allow 5 Mil who for the majority are “fair” aliens than loose 2016. Be smart and PRAGMATIC. Enough extremism all around.

    • knowshistory

      that’s a fool’s game. the muslim will prevent the border closing. even republican presidents have refused to close the border, even though open borders is toxic to republicans. there is no way a democratic party traitor in the white house will ever allow the border to be closed.

  • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

    What’s discouraging is the comments by Republicans where they pre-emptively take responsibility for any government “shutdown” – do they believe the Democratic media? They should express themselves this way: “We may use the power of the purse to restrain the President from taking unlawful and unconstitutional actions by refusing to fund those actions. Should the President choose to shut down the government by vetoing our bills to fund the government, that will be his responsibility entirely.”

  • GSR

    I believe there will be a huge backlash if and when King Barry decrees amnesty to these future Democrat voters. The only reform needed in immigration is for the federal government to actually enforce the borders and immigration laws. Stop listening to a few billionaire business owners who want a steady stream of peasants coming to this country to depress wages and salaries and to show that they are not “racist”. Give me a break.
    The USA needs a slow down in all forms of immigration for the next decade or so.

  • bob e

    tru’s got it. we need to get ready to be screwed blued & tatooed
    by the very people we just elected to solve the problem ..

  • Angela Cleveland

    Let him shut it down until January!! We can get along. The last one didn’t affect me, not that I noticed anyway lol.

  • Pericles

    Between GWB and BHO the Republicans have surrendered the power of the purse to the Executive Branch. Unaccustomed to using it, they either use it unwisely or fail to use it at all. In addition, the Republicans seem to still have a lot of difficulty recognizing that Obama is a leftist zealot and disingenuous manipulator. You can’t defeat your enemy until you recognize who they are and what they are like in reality, not in the world of wishful thinking.

  • Joy Beum

    We have an ‘illegal alien lobby’. Holy cow! Just as bad as the muslim women who were protesting the food bank to set up a separate food bank with halal foods for them. How bizarre can it get. And all this is okay with the libs and perfectly normal. Something pretty drastic is going to have to happen or our country is going under.

  • Pericles

    “Is there an instinct toward security, hunkering down and against
    welcoming the other?” Fitz said. “That’s part of human nature. But that
    doesn’t mean instincts can’t be overcome by reason.”

    Instincts are sometimes a better guide than reason. Reason can be more flawed than instinct.

  • Pericles

    Conservatism provides the ideological and moral foundation for arguing with progressivism. Establishment Republicans who ‘play along to get along’ have no bedrock principles or values to guide them other than to stay in office. Conservative principles and values must guide our fight against Obama these next two years. Otherwise, the 2014 election results will only last 2 years, the country’s condition will worsen, and the Republicans will never come close to winning a landslide election in the foreseeable future.

  • Tradecraft46

    When will the Jews here realize that their beloved Democratic Party want to see Israel gone?

  • http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/ Ted R. Weiland

    Had the late 1700 founders established government and society upon Yahweh’s immutable moral law, this wouldn’t be an issue today because, among other things, Obama wouldn’t be President and amnesty wouldn’t be an option.

    Today’s immigration problems will never be entirely fixed without implementing the complete solution as provided in the Bible. Even most Christians are not diagnosing the problem in its entirety, nor are they providing the complete Biblical solution. In fact, even most pronomian Christians have overlooked or rejected the most important aspect regarding Yahweh’s solution to America’s border problems.

    Listen to “Immigration: Lawful, Legal, and Illegal, AKA: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Pt. 1″ at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/tapelist.html#T1006, followed by Parts 2-6.

  • Dan Knight

    Thank you Matthew: A great piece.

    Of course, if RINO’s had adopted up to 2% conservative principles in their policies, and up to 51% adult behavior in their political fights, Bam Bam would still be pushing Special Privileges for criminals in Chicago, and selling access, and the Democrats would trying to get John BaahBaahner to run as their candidate.

    We will continue to fight, but we will also keep on breathing too.

    As for racism: The Demokkkrats are the party of racism. They do not care about the Latina or Latino victims of their Open Border policy. If an illegal criminal harms a Latin-hypenated-Anybody, they could not care less. Those bigots would not cross the street to do their duty on a burning rape (actual) victim, but they would tell Latin Hate-mongering Activists they will support welfare fraud, loopholes, dodges, selective enforcement, and other special privileges to anyone fitting the profile of a Demokkkratic voter.

    I know b/c I seen it with my lying eyes and heard it with lying ears …

  • Dan Knight

    BTW: We have controlled immigration: Demokkkrat controlled.

    The
    Democrats would deport a Partridge in a Pear Tree faster than you can
    sing the 12 days of Xmas, if they thought 1 in 10 partridges might be a
    Republican.

    So, let’s be clear: The Border is only an Open Border for those who belong to Demokkkrat demographic groups …

    Over the last nine years I have seen many friends, colleagues, associates, and even contractors deported. Chinese, Vietnamese,
    Cubans, Filipinos, Venezuelans, El Salvadorans, Christians from Muslim lands,
    Koreans, Israeli’s, Irishmen, and a Swiss engineer:

    We deported 29 Russians. … Now think about it a second. Russian pimps, okay. Russian Muslims okay, and qualify as refugees seeking asylum from the terrorist Orthodox, okay. Russian drug dealers, okay. But …

    29 Russians make the mistake of coming here with green cards, set up a software company near Austin TX, where they can ply their EVIL Capitalist Pig Trade of writing software, and even GASP!!! get married. … So they have to go. Are we clear?!!! Hello? Is this thing working?

    Yes – it is working. Russians who come here to hurt, kill, maim, steal, and live on welfare fraud are GOOD anti-Capitalist Pigs. Russians with engineering degrees who come here to write software and obey the law are BAD.

    So, while I agree with Matthew, enough of this stupid nonsense about immigration being ‘uncontrolled’ either. The Hate, Racism, and Bigotry of Demokkkrats will not even allow legal immigrants to work here if they might add to our economy, our community, or make our country a better place.

    There are no polite words for this: So, I’ll just let it go. We need to pray for these villains, for they face a terrible comeuppance if God is just.

    • hiernonymous

      I’d like to learn more about these Russians. Do you have a link to an article about them?

      • Pete

        I don’t think it made the news because I don’t think all 29 were deported in one fell swoop, they were not spies or alleged spies, or the story is not true.

        I don’t know. What I know of human and organizational behaviour, it fits.

        All I could find was this.

        Microsoft Says 12th Alleged Russian Spy Was Employee

        I don’t think Dan will give you anything. … something about your style

        • hiernonymous

          Without access to any reliable information, there’s really no basis for me to form an opinion.

          As for my “style,” whatever.

      • Dan Knight

        No. As with most of my comments my source is … me. And I know about the Russians because they came here under a contract with one of my then clients. To be blunt, I’ve probably said too much. But it’s very frustrating seeing the country getting squirreled in the shadows, and no one knows about it.

        Meanwhile, when I was doing pro-bono work back 07-08, we had pipeline of victims coming in from all sorts of criminals. My Liberal colleagues of course thought something should be done, and would be done … if only the Great Leader of the Socialist Utopia would stop the Conservatives. But it wasn’t any sort of conservatives beating the children or raping the women. Even if conservatives were the monsters who did such things, they wouldn’t get away with it. … And when conservatives do do such things, they don’t get away with it. It’s often all over the papers and TV. I’ve never had a Russian pimp or drug dealer in my office, but I’ve seen several of their victims. It’s actually kind of rare: the clients were about half Latin, a third white, and a smattering of everything else you can find in the Dallas area.

        PS; technically, I’m not sure if the Russians are Russians. They’re from Belarus. They’re all back in Minsk now. The two I know well said that almost everyone is working, and they’re getting by there, but since the economy in Belarus sucks eggs, it’s not easy going. I count them as Russians since Russian is what they speak.

        • hiernonymous

          Thanks for taking the time to respond. It’s an interesting anecdote.

  • USARetired

    Obama is not only pushing the immigration issue for the migrants, but for himself as well, also an illegal immigrant with no legal papers! This may be a huge diversion to cover up his own desires!

  • Gregory Alan of Johnson

    Doesn’t the Board of Directors of USA inc, err, Congress have the “power” to vote-down EO’s?

  • quillerm

    AP, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, HUFFINGTON POST, etc., are Obama’s ‘Gruber’s of the News Media. They help him deceive, as Gruber stated, ‘stupid’ American people on issues like Immigration, Global Warming, etc. Chuck Todd is just another dim wit liberal that thinks we are to stupid to figure out that Obama is a pathological liar. His claims of not knowing Mr. Gruber were destroyed by FOX News that immediately produced videos of Obama claiming to have stolen ideas from, Guess who? Mr Gruber. NBC and others just ignored the story hoping that suppression of the news will keep the uninformed stupid masses in democrat control.

  • http://121314rainbow.blogspot.com/ Zed Power

    Obama surrenders and the invasion is complete. Thank God that liberals have agree to give all their worldly possessions to the foreign criminals so we honest tax payers won’t have to foot the bill.

  • Bob

    If we followed Gods laws on other issues, this would automatically fall in line.