Obama takes on the GOP while Democrats run towards Bush

I find is amusing, all this political stuff happening across the nation. Nothing soothes the American palate most watching career politicians scurrying throughout their districts in need of support, and being told that it's time to give up the seat.

Millions of Americans, 17M estimated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are unemployed, and because Congress has yet to energize the economy with a cogent plan that does not stifle economic prosperity, millions of voters are finally having a say in the coming election. They are planning a massive routing of Congress, and for the second time in five years, both Houses stand a chance of switching party control.

Americans are visibly angry and rightly so. We are going on three years with stagnant economic growth, businesses afraid to lend or invest and hire, and an end to the Bush tax cuts at the end of the year.

Meanwhile, President Obama flirted with the idea of a $50B stimulus to help build up infrastructure and green technology. That plan was sunk by Congress days later, because Americans do not want more government spending which will saddle future generations with a higher debt for the failure of today's leaders not being able to control spending and debt.

Today, as he has done in the past, President Obama has taken the GOP to task. It is an effort that is rather too little, too late given the president and his party's ignoring calls from the GOP to early last year to come to the table to craft pertinent legislation.

Fact is, Obama can call out the GOP all he wants, but voters have grown weary of such attacks. It will not work. It is too late for Obama and the congressional Democrats to stem the tide against them.

When Obama decries Bush's tax cuts and refuses to support extending it unless the cuts to the rich are taken out, and then you read about a number of Democrats supporting full extension of Bush's tax cuts, what does both messages say to the American people?

How can a president blame the economic mess on Bush's tax policies, and then you see Democrats running in support of that very same Bush policy?

Look, neither President Obama nor the congressional Democrats know or have a cogent plan to help the economy. The president's economic advisors are not men and women who come from the business sector. They are professors who understand economic theory ensconced in their academic bubble, but know absolutely nothing about actual business practices.

The United States is on the verge of a political revolution like that which hasn't been seen since 2006 and 1994. Americans want real, positive political and economic changes that betters the standard of life for all. Americans are sick and tired of class warfare, high taxation, federal mandates, government spending and meddling, and an end to immigration abuses. Americans want a return to Constitutional government, and if it takes political turmoil at every election, then by far they are going to wreak havoc until the right leaders are elected to implement the necessary changes that's called for.

Obama still does not get it

American politics is an amusing blood sport to watch. Like President Bush before him, Obama is now the one Democrats don't want to be seen with in an election year. Not even a mere photo-op ala Charlie Crist.

It is becoming increasingly clear that Obama does not have the pulse of the nation. He clearly avoids siding with the American people in his belief that he has the greater wisdom. Such is the way of the fools' errand.

President Obama waded into the NYC mosque controversy, and it was not good.

Millions of Americans are upset that a mosque is being built so close to Ground Zero. Mr. President, there is no changing the majority's view of Islam as being diabolically responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001. No mosque should be built there, period.

Perhaps New York City's labor unions can have a say here, and not work on such a project no matter how much their union members stand to gain.

Here's where NYC's labor can do for America what Obama, Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Patterson, and the state legislature, city council, the community board and the Landmarks Preservation Commission refused to do for all of us Americans. And, that is to take a strong stand against the Islamization of Ground Zero.

Latinos hyperventilating over Arizona law

The national firestorm over the new state law passed by the Arizona state legislature and signed by the republican governor, Jan Brewer, last week has reignited the heated debate on both sides of the political aisle that has laid dormant for the past two years, as to what to do with illegal immigrants in the United States.

Arizona is a southern border state. It is estimated that 450,000 illegal aliens reside in the state out of a population of 6.8 million. It is also the state illegal aliens, and human and drug traffickers prefer to cross over because of the vast open desert space despite the dangers the desert poses.

American ranchers in the state have fought a never-ending battle to protect their property and livestock from these trespassers, and have urged and implored their elected officials to do something about this growing problem.

Just ask Robert Krentz, a rancher who not only complained about the problem, but also did whatever humanely possible to help those illegal aliens trespassing on his property by providing food and water. I say "did" because it's too late to ask him anything. Mr. Krentz, and his pet dog, was murdered on March 27th by an illegal alien who fled back to Mexico. His murder set in motion the state's response over the lack of a secured border and federal enforcement inaction.

So, what is the real reason why there is so much hostility towards SB 1070 by the supporters of illegal immigration like the ACLU, the National Council of La Raza and LULAC?

The carefully-crafted law, which, by the way, mirrors federal statutes, authorizes police officers to make a reasonable attempt to verify the immigration status of persons they come into lawful contact, and not to harass people based on the color of their skin.

Article 8, Section B states: "For any lawful contact made by a law enforcement official or agency of this state, or a county, city, town or political subdivision of this state where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person. The person's immigration status shall be verified with the federal government pursuant to 8 United States Code Section 1373 (c)."

Meaning, the law is very explicit. Law enforcement officers cannot stop anyone on the street or enter their homes to ask what their immigration status is without a lawful purpose to engage the individual. Such lawful purposes are anything like running a red light, speeding, a bar fight, smoking weed in public, a car accident, a broken turn signal light, intoxication, shoplifting, robbery, murder. Get the picture?

If you are an American citizen or a legal resident alien, you have nothing to fear.

So stop hyperventilating about being picked on for being latino. We are a nation of laws and order, and there is a serious illegal immigration problem in the nation, and Americans have a right to feel protected in their own homeland.

A special note of remembrance to Border Patrol Agent Robert W. Rosas, killed in the line of duty on July 23, 2009, in San Diego by an illegal alien who was recently sentenced to 40 years in a federal lock-up. May you rest in peace.

Mopping Up the Democrat Mess

As the loss in Massachusetts begins to sink in for the Democrats in Washington, it's time for Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to apologize to the nation for playing gutter patisan politics over healthcare. Not that it's going to do Reid any good since he's clearly facing an uphill battle to keep his seat this year, but he ought to save face before it's too late.

Forget party politics. It's time the Congress face reality. The American people are disgusted with the tactics displayed over the past ten years by both parties. The voters are clamoring for change. Real change. Not verbal gimmicks.

The United States is yearning for a statesman or stateswoman to guide this ship onto its rightful course. It wants a leader willing to buck the establishmentarians and speak to the commoners as if he or she is one of them. A Joe the Plummer type willing to ask the right questions and provide the right answers. No political double-speak.

Last October, at a fundraiser in California, President Obama ordered the republicans to grab a mop and clean up the mess left by the previous administration. If last night's election of republican Scott Brown is any indication of mass discontent, in a Blue state of all places, it tells the Democrats in control of Washington the voters want them to grab a mop as well and clean up after their rancid legislative mess of 2009.

Mr. Brown Will Go to Washington, After All

The Massachusetts special election is over. Senator-elect Scott Brown will now represent the Bay State. His stunning victory will provide the GOP with 41 votes to the Democrats' 59.

Meaning, the Nevada senator Harry Reid will either invite the GOP leadership into the negotiating table, or play hardball and pass all legislation with a senate budgetary maneouvre called Reconciliation requiring just a 51-vote majority.

In yesterday's blog, I mentioned that Brown must win by several thousand votes in order to avoid a Democrat hijacking. He won big in a state that has only 21 elected republicans compared to the Democrats' 178 in the Massachusetts House and Senate combined.

The Democrats are in disarray as they circle the wagon seeking someone or somebody to blame for their electoral defeat not only in yesterday's loss, but the losses this past November in the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.

With the Tea Bag movement in full battle mode, independents flocking back in droves to the GOP, and the 365-day Obama honeymoon over, 2010 will certainly be an interesting year in American politics as voters take out their hostility towards career politicians who created this miasmic economic conditions and a president who has absolutely no clue as to how to fix it.