FBI Director Comey vindicates Trump's safety plan

During a House committee hearing on homeland security in October, the director of the FBI, James Comey testified that the vetting process of Syrians was a gamble at best getting it right.  Said Comey, "We can only query against that which we have collected.  And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them."

This was in comparison to the Iraqi vetting process whereby for over ten years, we had Americans on the ground in Iraq gathering intelligence on people who sought to emigrate to the US.  However, that wasn't also picture perfect as yet terrorists affiliated with al-Qaida who had attacked US forces in Iraq managed to slip through the vetting process and resettled in Bowling Green, Kentucky, as reported by ABC News in November 2013.

So, one month before the Paris massacre by jihadi terrorists, one of whom had recently emigrated as a refugee; and six weeks before the San Bernardino massacre where one of the jihadi passed the US government vetting in Pakistan, Comey had announced that its vetting process may not be as good as we would like it to be.

We have known all along that the vetting process wasn't as tight as it should be, but our leaders prefer to turn a blind eye so as not to run the risk of angering a few folks and thus being called racist and xenophobe.

So, here comes GOP presidential hopeful, Donald J. Trump saying this past week on Good Morning America, "What I'm doing is calling very simply for a shut down of Muslims entering the United States, and here's a key, until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.  They don't know."

The key words in Trump's statement was "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

Don't our elected representatives want to thoroughly investigate what is going on with the vetting of Muslim refugees?  After all, it was FBI Director Comey who let it be known first that the Bureau was not equipped to vet the influx of 10,000 Syrian refugees, let alone 200,000 Syrian refugees President Obama has planned for 2016.

Said Trump on Greta recently, "We have an obligation to protect our citizens."  Trump continued, "Our political leaders are very weak, they're very ineffective.....Look, it's the safety of our country that we're talking about."

Is Trump right? Or should we continue our slide into the quick sand pit and do nothing to protect ourselves from the obvious threat before us, just because it's politically incorrect to target a specific group of people not residing in the U.S., mind you, because it's just not the American thing to do?

The notion that the United States has to accept foreign aliens that call themselves refugees on a large scale is an invitation to disaster as we are seeing quite clearly in western Europe, especially when the majority of the refugee hordes are male between the ages of 16 and 45.  We cannot screen them because of the lack of information on them!

During the House hearing on the committee on homeland security in November, Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) asked a very interesting question to homeland security secretary Jeh Johnson which went unanswered.  Said Smith, "Another red flag to me, is that in past years, historically, traditionally, refugees have been members of families.  And yet, the typical profile of Syrian refugees, I am told, is that most are young, single males as opposed to family members. And if so, to me that would raise a red flag, as well."

(Let me add that most of those refugees crossing into Europe are not simply Syrians but north Africans, Iraqis, Afghans and Pakistanis.)

Is the president or the US Congress going to confer a constitutional right to foreign aliens abroad before they ever set foot on U.S. soil?  I know for a fact that no foreign alien has a right to travel to the US without permission, and that those foreign aliens who have US visas can automatically have the visas rescinded and stamped "Cancelled Without Prejudice" by the US consulate.  Criteria must be met before being granted a visa.

Therefore, why all the hoopla over Trump's statement?

As you can see, this is all an engineered effort by the mainstream media, along with progressive Democrats and the Republican party elites at destroying Trump's credibility and presidential campaign before Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries.

Which begs the questions that the anti-Trumpistas will not answer:  1) Are you more afraid of what Donald Trump says than you are of what ISIS has done to people and looks forward to executing right in your own back yard? And 2) Are you not concerned that the US Government doesn't have the proper mechanisms in place to vet foreign aliens coming out of that Middle Eastern region and whom may have terrorist ties to ISIS, al-Qaeda and other jihadi front groups?

The American establishment, sad to say, would rather have the American people not hear the Trump Truths so as to feather their own nests all-the-while promoting the leftwing, anti-American extremist agenda to the detriment of the republic.

And there you have it, folks, the good, the bad and the ugly!!!

Obama Diplomacy: Speak softly and carry a twig

Having heard President Obama's G20 speech in Turkey a few days after the multi-pronged Islamic jihadi terrorist attacks in Paris, the best way to describe Obama's foreign policy, as it relates to fighting Islam-inspired terrorism, is "speak softly, and carry a twig."

There is no doubt that Obama left many in the conference shaking their heads wondering just what's happened to the United States of America that we've come to know.

They know what's happened.  It isn't until they see their own cities attacked by Islamic terrorists do they come to wonder why.

The US had been, right up until January 20, 2009, the global leader.  Because the world turned its head against the US and President Bush because of two wars, sixty-seven million voters elected a complete dunce into the White  House.

I remember the spell he cast over Europe during his campaign speaking to Berliners trumpeting a new beginning, his promise to forge new relations with the world by ending the US practice of might-makes-right.  He signaled to the world that his rule would be one molded in peace through reasoning, because after all, he was a college professor who'd rather think things through rather than act on the human predatory instincts.  For this, he won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for having done absolutely nothing to earn it other than promote "Hope & Change".

He was, we were often told throughout that campaign, an intelligent and articulate (black) man.

Well, almost seven years later, we've seen how the world was wrong.  We've seen just how inexperienced Obama is when it comes to hard military decisions to protect this country and those fighting jihadism.

So let this be a severe lesson the next time we elect a president.  Do we, as Americans, continue with this Speak Softly and Carry a Twig Diplomacy championed also by Hillary who terms it as Smart Power?  Or do we implement a policy that is straightforward and muscular, and leaves nothing to the imagination of friend or foe of what we will stand for and will do to thwart evil?

The GOP Establishment's War on Trump

Today's Washington Post has a very good column on the Trump and Carson phenomenon written by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa on the growing frustration between the GOP establishment's concerns with the two top republican candidates versus the rank-and-file GOP voters' anger and frustration at the Republican party.

As I see it, both Republican former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean and current South Carolina governor Nikki Haley nail it right on the head.

Now, the GOP establishment, we know, have a strong dislike, if not a deep aversion to Trump (and Carson and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas) for three reasons:  1) They're not professional politicians; 2) they have created waves and storms disturbing the status quo; and 3) they have stopped wealthy donors from donating hundreds of millions of dollars into the coffers of the Republican National Committee (the life's blood for both major parties).

The GOP establishment has been waiting for months for Trump (and Carson) to self-destruct.  Wait. Wait. And more wait they do, yet nothing happens to Trump.  The GOP establishment grows more frustrated because they've yet to realize that a new political paradigm has taken hold among the Republican voters.

Instead, the Old Republican Guard continue on trusting their Old Political Paradigm will take hold and cast aside Trump (and Carson) into the ash bin of history in order to make JEB the anointed candidate.

It hasn't happened, and the chance of it happening grows bleaker by the day as Iowa and New Hampshire primaries get closer.

So what to do?

Ahhh, the RNC elites have suddenly raised the specter  of Drafting Romney, the loser of the 2012 presidential campaign.

Don't the RNC elites ever learn?  McCain failed in 2008 against a relative unknown from Chicago; and Romney couldn't even defeat Obama in 2012 despite the latter's high negatives.  What gives?

It is clearly obvious that if that the pattern the GOP establishment has set for the party, that is, to select a preferred presidential candidate who will fail to win (and force the congressional leadership to not take a strong stand against a Democrat president who is knowingly taking the country in a radically wrong direction), then the GOP voters are going to take a stand themselves by supporting candidates they can trust who articulates the same anger and frustration by challenging the GOP establishment and the Democrat president.

JEB and Kasich have been running far away from the base in an effort to look inclusive and non-divisive, but it is that type of political campaign behavior that has many GOP voters see as offensive, divisive and counter-productive.

The Club for Growth president labels both Trump and Carson as "pretenders".  However, when you analyze the anger and frustration on the part of the GOP base, the real pretenders have been Eric Cantor (defeated in the 2014 primary by a TEA Party candidate), John Boehner (forced to resign his speakership in October 2015), John McCain (2008 presidential loser and amnesty supporter), and Mitt Romney (2012 presidential loser and amnesty supporter).  Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell is barely hanging on to his leadership post.  And anyone who runs against the rising tide of the anti-political establishment is sure to have a hell of a fight in the primary.

There is a reason why over 1000 Democrat have lost seats nationwide, and why there are 32 GOP governors and a majority of state legislatures in GOP control.

The TEA Party, despite numerous news reports of waning influence, is still vibrant and energized and waiting for 2016.

"I'm not a happy camper," Florida doctor and 2012 Romney donor, Peter Wish, said.  "Hopefully, somebody will emerge who will be able to do the job," but, he added, "I'm very worried that the Republican-base voter is more motivated by anger, distrust of D.C. and politicians and will throw away the opportunity to nominate a candidate with proven experience that can win."

Hey Peter, care to explain what happened to the candidate with proven experience who can win Mitt Romney in 2012?

AHUH!!!

YEAH!!!

And the GOP voters are supposed to listen to the enlightened GOP establishment in 2016?

A bunch of sure establishment losers, if you ask me!!!

On Piers and Guns

Looks like Piers Morgan has been on a desperate crusade lately talking about his missed opportunities to understand Americans' "obsession with guns."  Making the rounds on Fox News with Megyn Kelly, the British snob stated that rather than attack gun owners and the 2nd Amendment as he did for years on CNN, he should have instead opened up a two-way discussion so as to understand what it was about guns that riled up American gun owners.

Here's what Piers said verbatim:  "I think I became too aggressive.  I think I didn't listen to the other side as much as I should have done.  I think there is a culture of gun ownership in America which I didn't afford enough respect to."  If he had to do it all over again, "it would be a much more two-way conversation I would have with people to try to understand why America has an obsession with guns, as many people see it and how you get to a place where there is more safety involved in guns than perhaps there is now."

Okay Piers, let's have this two-way discussion.  There is such a force, kind of like gravity, that is called freedom, and nothing in the world can actually stop it.  It's part of nature.  Like the wind or a wave.  It's there.

Freedom allows the people to do things that makes them great and industrious.  Freedom also allows people to defend what is rightfully theirs.  Guns, like the bow and arrow, are simply tools for added measure to ensure that freedom.

Of course, with guns comes responsibility as well as respect.  You protect your own domain and I protect mine, and if you need assistance in protecting what is your, then simply make a request and I'll come right over and vice versa.

Included in the U.S. Constitution are what's called the Bill of Rights where the Founders, wanting to protect freedom, simply codified and enshrined for posterity a natural right with the words "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Now I don't think Piers has given up his challenge against gun ownership.  He is clearly anti-gun, and you can hear it in this interview.  He's quite upset at the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school shooting that killed 26 children and teachers on December 14, 2012.  I was upset as well and so was the nation.  Nobody looks forward to seeing little kids and their teachers mercilessly gunned down inside a school in a Gun-Free School Zone.

Says Piers, "To me, it remains unconscionable that a country of the power and magnificence of the United States of America could allow twenty first graders to be blown to pieces in their classrooms." He continued, "The bottom line is absolutely nothing has been done to stop that happening again.  I find that extraordinary."

First, let's understand that Piers is a statist, and so he blames the United States for allowing the Sandy Hook massacre to happen because in his view there just isn't that much gun control.  If there was gun control, Sandy Hook would not have happened, right?

But what about the Gun-Free School Zone?  Shouldn't that have deterred Adam Lanza?  No, for the simple reason that laws against murder didn't deter Lanza from committing the act of matricide in the first place prior to the school killing.

So in the end, I'm left to wonder just what kind of "guns movie" is Piers going to make?  Will he focus on the vatos locos, bloods and crips and other assorted gang-banging creatures and toothless Appalachian moonshine distillers to make his point that guns are bad?

Or, is Piers truly serious about understanding America's sacred obsession with freedom and its guarantor, the 2nd Amendment?

The Democrats in political turmoil

I have never like Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) because I have always thought of him as slimier than slime.  A political con artist who only cares about his image on the screen and one who lusts for political power at all cost.  He is, in my opinion, a master manipulator, but he is also a savvy longtime political player.  And for that, he should not be avoided.

So this past week, after assessing the dramatic losses of Democrat seats, Schumer has come out swinging at Obama saying that instead of focusing on healthcare law reform, the Democrats, led by Obama, should have been putting their entire energy on economics and helping middle class families in the midst of a severe economic recession, if not, depression for many.

Schumer is absolutely correct.  The Democrats played hardball politics against the GOP and it blew up in their faces in 2010, 2012 and 2014.

Why?

Because the Democrats had tunnel vision since 2009; they all fell in love with Obama.  The Democrats rode on Obama's long coattail simply because he was the first mulatto president elected in the history of the United States of America.  They, having absolute control of Washington from 2009 to 2011, wanted to shove as much laws and regulations down the throats of suffering Americans as they could possibly get away with in an effort to make the Democrat party "the party of the people."

None said a word about the speed with which their train was running.  Nobody on the Democrat side wanted to apply the breaks, even a tad bit to slow down the steamrolling.  They all, including Schumer, went right along thinking they would govern for decades as they did prior to the Newt Gingrich Revolution of 1994.

However, the Democrats made numerous calculated mistakes.

One, unlike the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the internet has become the sole source of freedom for people to network with many like-minded people from around the nation.  Information is rather easy to obtain now than before 1994.  Americans are more political than ever before, and there is no stopping that fact, be they on the left or the right.

Two, economics is bread and butter for a majority of Americans.  What's the use of ObamaCare when millions of Americans are out of work or were forced to drop to part time status because of ObamaCare?

Three, why force a change in healthcare when 85% of Americans were happy with what they had?

Four, why spend so much money we don't have in order to create shovel ready jobs that were not there to begin with?  Where did the $1T go and what did they do with it?

Lastly, denying Keystone to satisfy the environmentalist nut jobs, and the disastrous green investments that has cost the government billions.

As the GOP has been saying since 2009, the congress should have been focusing more on the economy and the middle class than on a cause that had no real urgency for action, healthcare.

Schumer and the Democrats should have seen Obama for what he truly was, not an economics-minded politician nor a savvy political negotiator, but simply a bully who either got what he wanted (and he did when the Democrats controlled Congress), or he would do whatever on his own or shut the government down until the GOP blinked (which happened when the GOP wrested control of the House.)

So while Schumer attempts to save the Democrat party, he should also get partial blame for allowing the Democrats to fall so precipitously off the cliff because he's the Number-3 go-to-guy.  He allowed all this to befall on the Democrats.

But the larger picture is this.  Schumer and the Democrats have nothing to fear now from Obama since he can't run again for president.  The time now is to patch things up for Hillary's run.  Two years may not be enough, especially given the voters' hostility towards the Democrats and Obama due to the stagnant economy many thought they would fix but didn't.

Thus, the question on many peoples mind.  Will the Democratic minority work with the GOP majority in the 114th Congress to pass meaningful legislation and override any presidential veto?

That's really up to Schumer, Sen. Harry Reid and Cong. Nancy Pelosi.

Republicans still get the blame for Democrat inaction

It's getting tiring hearing from liberals how the GOP "messed up" on passing up any comprehensive immigration reform that has forced President Barack Hussein Obama to act all on his own via his use of executive order to grant temporary relief for millions of illegal immigrants in the United States.

How can this be?  How is it the GOP's fault?

Well, let's take a look at one of the most forceful advocates for amnesty, Geraldo Rivera, who as a lawyer should know a thing or two about the Constitution and abuse of power as he's always reminding the public of President Nixon and Watergate.

But, you see, to Rivera, Nixon and Watergate were republican in nature whereas Obama and his granting what many see as an illegal use of executive order is not a crime or an abuse of power.  It's simply a way to address what the GOP refuses to do legislatively.

Say what?

But, why now, in late November 2014 and not when Obama had complete Democratic control of congress between 2009 and 2011?

Because as I've said and written many times, comprehensive immigration reform was not a major issue for Democrats between 2009 and 2011.  The Democrats simply kept this issue alive for as long as they could possibly to keep the illegal aliens in limbo and the Hispanic community in line.  That is, in the Democrat pocket just for the right time.  And that time is now.

Surely, Rivera must have seen that Democrat game played, but because the GOP has had to walk a thin line so as not to upset the TEA Party representatives within their caucus, Rivera goes right to the GOP jugular blaming them for all this nonsense.

Thus he began his silly rant, "Republicans had it coming" followed by "They allowed their House Leadership to be rendered irrelevant by anti-immigration radicals like Steve King of Iowa and Mo Brooks of Alabama.  The right wing herd and its supporting cast of screamers like Matt Drudge and Judicial Watch are indignant because they claim the president won't wait for the legislative process to work; that what Mr. Obama is doing is unconstitutional, imperious and impetuous.  On both counts, that is total horseshit."

So two weeks after the most stunning mid-term election in recent history where the president's own Democrat party got trounced in congress and on the state level, Rivera tries to save Obama's presidency and presidential action by blaming the republican party.  How dubious of him!

It wasn't too long ago, in fact, it was on November 19, 2012 (two weeks after his re-election), when while in Myanmar (which has been struggling with democracy after years of military rule), Obama told the audience, "As president, I cannot just impose my will on Congress -- the Congress of the United States -- even though sometimes I wish I could," he said.  Obama continued, "The legislative branch has its own powers and its own prerogatives, and so they check my power and balance my power."

So, in essence, Obama speaks with two different teleprompters depending on the audience at hand. While traveling, he generously promotes democracy.  But in his own country, he practices and relishes autocratic partisan rule.  And that is just fine with Rivera, so long as the president is a liberal Democrat like he is.

Writes Rivera, "The GOP has zero intention to do anything on immigration except build higher fences and hire more border guards."

Well, the Democrat party also proved they had zero intention to do anything on immigration, as well when both Speaker Nancy Pelosi ran the House and Reid ran the senate together during Obama's first two years in office.

Indeed Geraldo, the GOP is listening to the vast majority of Americans who oppose amnesty and want our borders secured with more border patrol officers securing our borders.  Is there a problem with that?

I'll end on this note.  I do think that Obama has gone rogue because he doesn't have much of a legacy despite six years in office.  The economy has been sputtering along despite Wall Street reaching record highs, but that is only due to the Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing policy.

The trillion dollar Porkulus passed in 2009 hasn't provided the shovel ready jobs Obama and vice president Joe Biden promised it would have.

Billions of dollars in government loan guarantees to green companies that have gone belly-up have gone to waste with not a whisper from the liberal mainstream media or the Democrat leadership.

And we still don't have accurate figures as to how many Americans have enrolled and paid for ObamaCare policies; or how many Americans have lost their health insurance plans because of ObamaCare; or why the supposed 30 million Americans who were uninsured prior to ObamaCare have not signed up?

Lastly, and I can go on forever, I'm not fooled by the unemployment numbers coming out of the Department of Labor.  We need a true account of unemployment in the United States.  Let's pray the GOP can get to the bottom of it and many other matters during the 114th Congress.

May God Bless America!!!

The GOP Tsunami of the 2014 Midterm Election

What can I say, but the November 4, 2014 midterm election, on the 35th anniversary of the US hostage crisis in Teheran, Iran (1979), and 34 years after the presidential election of former California governor Ronald Reagan (1980), was a complete and vitriolic repudiation of President Obama and his policies as well as the Democrat party's stranglehold in Washington.

I woke up early this morning to the news of the national defeat of the Democrats and hearing by the liberal pundits that the elevation of the Republican party in Congress was not really a mandate.  Say again?

Yes, my head nearly flipped.  How can the liberal pundits dare say this GOP win was not a national mandate?  Of course it was!  The Republicans won a good majority in both houses of Congress, and they took control of the governorship in both Illinois (home of President Obama) and Maryland which is a liberal bastion.

Not only that, but the Democrats' painting the GOP as hostile to the interests of women, thus the War on Women, fell flat on their faces as conservative Republican women like Joni Ernst of Iowa won the senate seat occupied by outgoing liberal stalwart Tom Harkin.  She faced a male Democrat in that race, but you never heard the liberal establishment say anything there about the GOP's War on Women, did you?

Or, how about Mia Love's winning a house seat in Utah's 4th CD?  She is a conservative black Republican who also ran against a male Democrat.

Or, what about the first conservative black Republican in South Carolina to win on his own accord the seat once occupied by Sen. Jim DeMint, Tim Scott?

How about the re-election of South Carolina's governor Nikki Haley who is of Indian descent?

Then there's Elise Stefanik in upstate New  York winning a seat to the House.

Folks, don't let the media tell you otherwise.  This election was mind-blowing.  It signaled a complete reversal of Obamanomics.  The American people have already had their fill of Obama Gas, and it's noxious.

But, mark my words, the GOP establishment better pay very careful heed to this election.  The American voters have been shaking up the political dynamic since 2006.  Yes, they elected the Democrats to Congress in 2006, elected Obama on false hope and change in 2008, brought back the GOP to the House in 2010 and 2012, and now finally the GOP to the senate in 2014.

Americans are getting sick and tired of the Old Guard, and have given one chance, to Senator Mitch McConnell and Speaker John Boehner (let's see if he'll keep his speakership in January) to get it right and set the correct tone the country needs.

The American people have given the GOP a national mandate.  They do not want more of the Obama heroin lulling the public into a neverending psychedelic trip.  They've been given two years to right the course of the nation.

They want the GOP to fight Obama.  This is war, my friends.  A political war between the GOP and Obama, and it'll be interesting to see where the Democrats will stand.  Democrats have already seen the anger.  The writing is on the wall.  Will they continue siding with their president and the party, or will they strike on their own to save their own hides?

While I am elated and gloating at the GOP's victory, this election has only given the TEA Party an extra charge in holding the GOP to the fire.  These next two years will be one in which the TEA Party grassroots will be keeping close tabs on what happens in Washington, and preparing potential candidates to challenge those GOPers that forget who they represent.

As for Obama, it'll be interesting to see the route he takes in light of the GOP victory.  Will he learn and work with the GOP?  Or, will he consider this the Political War of all Wars?  By that I mean that given he sees the conservatives and TEA Party activists as the real enemy in America (instead of ISIS and domestic terrorists), will he be the first to fire the first shot across the bow at McConnell and Boehner hoping to break the GOP and blaming them for all the troubles plaguing the nation?

Will we be hearing of more IRS intimidation tactics against conservative activists and Christian churches?  Will Obama force an illegal immigration amnesty of 20M via executive order?  Will Obama step up efforts to deprive Americans of their 2nd Amendment rights?

These next few weeks of the lame duck session in Congress will be very interesting, indeed.