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- Liquidating The Empire, by Patrick J. Buchanan
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- America’s First Suicide Bomber, by Paul Craig Roberts
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Vendor Was A Central Figure In A Terrorism
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02/19/10 - Haiti And
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02/19/10
- View From Lodi, CA Pittsburgh, PA: Joe To Join Up With
Tea Party Express—In Frigid Erie, PA! by Joe Guzzardi
02/19/10 - I Wish
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02/18/10 - That Mount
Vernon Statement: Beltway Right Ignores Immigration
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02/18/10
- Blaming The Tea Partiers: First Step To Criminalizing
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02/18/10
- Is This How Democracy Ends? by Patrick J. Buchanan
02/18/10
- Wall Street Oligarchs Eying Social Security, by Paul
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02/17/10 - Arizona
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- Texas’ Debra Medina, The Fahad Hashmi case: Grounds
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02/11/10 - MSM Reporters, Innumeracy, And The Alleged
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02/11/10
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Obamacare + Amnesty = One-Term President. But Where’s
The Immigration Moratorium?
By Joe Guzzardi
Fifteen months into
Barack Obama’s presidency, two things are clear.
First, he hasn’t mastered the art of
presidential politics. And second, because of his flawed
leadership, he’s built a solid foundation for
a one-term presidency.
At stake is not only the Democrats’
control of Congress
in November but also Obama’s 2012 political future.
Obama’s blundering has allowed
“comprehensive
immigration reform” a.k.a.
amnesty
to cling only barely to life while he’s simultaneously
getting his brains beaten in on health care.
During his battering, Obama has come
unglued. Whining about not getting his way on widely
unpopular Obamacare is unseemly, unbecoming and detrimental
to the Democrats’ fading November chances.
What’s most hurtful to Obama is that the
reservoir of good will that he amassed among previously
gullible voters, his
initial blind Democratic Party support and the
Main Stream Media’s
adoration that began the moment he announced his
presidential candidacy in February 2007 have all abruptly
evaporated.
Obama’s strategy on healthcare is
unfathomable. He sets deadline after deadline after
deadline, which are missed and then reset again.
So great is Obama’s desperation that he’s
sunken to issuing two deadlines at once. The latest is March
18th
before he leaves for Asia. If that doesn’t happen, then
the next cut off is
Easter just before the Congressional recess.
Energy and Commerce Secretary
Henry Waxman (D-CA) expressed the alienated
Democrats’ reaction in a response to
White House Chief of Staff
Rahm Emanuel: "He
was certainly informed that we don't feel we want any
deadlines assigned to us" (Dems
to Emanuel: No Deadlines for Health Reform, by
Jeffrey Young, The
Hill’s Blog Briefing, March 2, 2010)
On healthcare, Obama
refuses to recognize the obvious: he just doesn’t have
the votes.
If Congress can’t get behind
health care, then an amnesty for illegal aliens is a
further stretch of the imagination. I’d put the odds at
somewhere between slim and none.
When pressed, some Democrats publicly
embrace
“comprehensive immigration reform”. Privately, they
want it to go away lest it come back to bite them in the
midterm elections.
Yet despite the obvious lack of support
for amnesty, Obama holds meetings with
Senators
Chuck Schumer and
Lindsey
Graham to delude his Hispanic lobby that someday
soon, something good will come their way.
My opinion: in the end, no matter how
many times Schumer and Graham get Obama’s ear, there’s no
chance that amnesty legislation will reach the floor this
year even if there were time to draft a Senate bill before
the recess—which there isn’t.
Why should Obama hold these
behind-closed-doors meetings about amnesty? He knows that
his every move is scrutinized by the demanding ethnic
identity lobbyists, all foolishly demanding proof that their
much-touted votes will be rewarded?
All Obama has to do to make his
immigration problem fade into the background is to tell
Graham and Schumer that all meetings on the subject are
cancelled until further notice.
Sure, that would raise the ethnocrats’
ire. But what’s the difference? Obama is getting nothing but
flack from them anyway.
For months now, the immigration
enthusiasts have caterwauled that they are fed up with
Obama’s halfhearted promises and have issued the familiar
threats to withhold their future votes.
Their next temper tantrum: the March 21st
“March for America” where illegal aliens and their
supporters will gather in Washington D.C. to demand loudly
that Obama makes good on his
“promise” to
deliver comprehensive immigration reform.
History, beginning in 2003 with the
Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, proves that these
demonstrations are not only ineffective but also extremely
useful for the cause of patriotic immigration reform.
That is, after Americans see on their
nightly news programs, large groups of aliens and anarchists
led by
Luis
Gutierrez demanding their
“rights,” the patriot’s fax machines and phones stay
busy for days.
Marches and demands are all annoyingly
familiar territory.
Why Obama tolerates being pushed around
and abused is a mystery given that he could so easily make
it go away.
Again I ask: What’s in it for Obama?
Here’s a brief summary of how
impossible the amnesty quest is.
Since Texas Rep.
Solomon Ortiz
introduced H.R. 4321 on December 15, 2009,
only two additional
cosponsors, both Democrats, have added their names:
Robert Brady and
Gary Ackerman.
Not only are there no Republican
cosignatories—but House Leader
Nancy
Pelosi’s name is conspicuously missing.
Only two new signatures in 90 days
proves the House’s lack of enthusiasm.
More evidence:
-
Orrin Hatch:
“I don’t think he [Schumer] has any illusions about getting it done this year.”
Hatch reportedly said that Schumer-Graham
proposal is just an effort to
“get the immigrant community off their backs. There’s a lot of politics
being played…” [Immigrant
Advocates Turn Up Heat, by Jennifer Bendery and
Jessica Brady, Roll
Call, March 10, 2010]
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John McCain, a 25-year
Republican immigration advocate, says that passing
amnesty this year would be
“very, very
difficult in this environment.”
-
Lindsay Graham’s analysis is the most telling of all:
“I think moderate
Democrats have to come on board before you get
Republicans, and Republicans have to come on board
before you get Democrats,”
[McCain, Collins, Graham quoted in
Lindsey Graham to Obama, Time to Step it Up,
by Glenn Thrush,
Politico,
March 10, 2010]
Even Graham’s partner in crime, New
York’s Schumer, is grasping at straws by proposing a
provision for a national biometric ID card that would be
issued to all American workers including U.S. citizens.
While it may satisfy some from anti-amnesty school, it is
likely to make more enemies than friends. [Senators
Push Plan to Require All US Citizens to Carry Worker ID
Cards, by Zach Myers, Fox 59 News, March 10, 2010]
The ID card has already come under fire
from two of comprehensive
immigration reform’s biggest supporters: the
Chamber of Commerce which argues that the equipment
necessary will be too costly for businesses and the
ACLU
which believes the card will infringe on an individual's
privacy.
I’ll make my
typically optimistic and unfailingly accurate case that
comprehensive immigration reform may be a long way away,
if it
ever happens.
Assume that the Democrats suffer huge
November defeats and lose a Congressional majority. With the
112th Congress under Republican control and Obama reeling
from his defeats, the possibility of an amnesty between now
and 2012 becomes microscopic.
As for Obama, he deserves what he gets.
Everyone knows that Washington’s political culture is poisoned.
But the point of being president is to make it responsive to
you.
Obama’s
agenda wasn’t forced on him. He picked it and ran with
it.
During the year he’s had to sell the
American people on
Obamacare and comprehensive immigration reform, he
hasn’t made his case. Now Obama will have to pay a steep
political price.
Of course, the rest of us Americans are
paying a steep price too. The Obama Administration continues
with its “stealth
amnesty”, quietly
ceasing to enforce the law against illegal immigration.
And incredibly, although
unemployment is at multi-year highs, no-one in the
political Establishment is
discussing an immigration moratorium.
But Obama can’t get a full amnesty. And
increasingly he looks like a one-term president.
That’s a negative victory. But it’s
still a victory.
Joe Guzzardi
[email
him] is a California native who recently fled the state
because of over-immigration, over-population and a rapidly
deteriorating quality of life. He has moved to Pittsburgh,
PA where the air is clean and the growth rate stable. A
long-time instructor in English at the Lodi Adult School,
Guzzardi has been writing a weekly column since 1988. It
currently appears in the
Lodi News-Sentinel.
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