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.

The fix is in

That President Obama personally intervened to ensure that members of congress and their aides would have the federal government pay for their healthcare coverage premium increases due to the Affordable Care Act, in absolute total violation of the Grassley Clause, tells me the fix is in.

The GOP has once again caved-in to Obama and the Democrats to the detriment of the U.S. Constitution.  In return for the illegal political maneuver, Obama will see passage of comprehensive immigration reform, tax increases, greater federal spending, debt-ceiling increases, and Cap and Trade.  And ObamaCare will be fully funded as there will be no will in Congress to either defund or overturn it while Obama is in office regardless of voter pressure to undo it.

So yes, from now on, if you hear the GOP taking a stand on any of the issues I mentioned above (or any other future issue), it'll all be for show as the fix is in for Congress will fight to keep its "Affordable" Care Act exemption regardless, rather than rock the Obama boat and risk the chance that Obama would pluck away the exemption at will. 

That is the carrot that presidents from here on now will dangle over Congress, because this particular Congress has refused to do its job for fear of letting their constituents know where they truly stand on ObamaCare.  Talk is cheap, but actions speak louder. 

Talk about an imperial presidency, it's already here.

The U.S. Congress and Obama win, you lose. 

Marc Anthony is as American as flan

By now most Americans who follow the news know that during baseball's annual All-Star Game held at Citi Field in New York City a few days ago, the bigots came out swinging Tweeting horrible, silly, stupid, racist and ignorant things about Marc Anthony singing God Bless America.

Tweeters called him un-American, a spic, a Mexican, a foreigner -- you name it.  Really dumb things, and I got to laugh my butt off at the nonsense.  How many stupid people out there actually think all this to be true about one of America's most famous cross-over artist?

For one, Marc Anthony, as we all should know by now, is an award-winning American singer born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents.  Both New York and Puerto Rico are part of the United States.  One is a state; the other is a territory with all the rights of citizenship bestowed upon its residents by the U.S. Constitution (except federal voting rights because it's not a fully incorporated state of the Union) and the Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917.

Why a number of Americans do not understand this part of their history is quite simple.  The caliber of education in this country, despite untold billions poured into this giant rat-trap, still produces idiots regardless of race and ethnicity.  Do we not teach social studies or American history anymore?  Or, have those subject matters been replaced by feel-good subjects like Radical Protests 101 and Man-Made Climate Change 102?

However, no matter that we celebrate every January and hold dear to the legacy, wishes and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King to be a country where color doesn't matter, hatred still persists though not to a greater extent that it did before the 1970's.  Some of it is hidden, but no one side can claim to be clean for there are black, Hispanic, and Asian bigots as well.

So the question:  Where do we, as a nation, go from here?  Granted, the Tweets do not represent a majority of whites in this country any more than if the same were to happen a ta basketball or soccer game and the tweeter's race were reversed.  It would be silly to believe that.  But we can admit that there are bigoted idiots walking our streets.

That said, having watched the video of Marc Anthony singing God Bless America (written by a Russian-born Jew named Irving Berlin in 1918, who went on to become an American citizen and popular composer), how can anyone be seriously offended?  Offended by seeing an American of Puerto Rican origin sing one of America's greatest patriotic melody?

So I have to ask, would those Tweeters prefer the non-Hispanic, full-blooded white American named Roseanne sing God Bless America or the national anthem again at a baseball game and at the end hock a loogie on the mound for good ole sakes?

In conclusion, let's not turn America's favorite pastime sport into a racial cauldron.  Mariano Rivera deserves better!

A case driven by media and racial hucksters for profit

So let's delve into this George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case in a realistic manner, without emotions getting in the way as it tends to do often in controversies.  How many of you would be truly angry if Zimmerman's surname was Cruz, Rodriguez, Nieves, Lopez, Burgos, Martinez, Hernandez, Ochoa or Alonso?

There is a case up in Boston where an NFL player is charged with murdering his black friend who was also a semi-professional football player.  Aaron Hernandez allegedly killing Odin Lloyd.  Not a self-defense case either.  Just clear cut simple murder of an unarmed black man, according to the state prosecutor.

Where is the national uproar and demands by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson demanding an end to the deaths of black men?

Face it, the US media is guilty of attempting to foment racial rioting in this country, because it makes for big ratings, and big ratings means a larger share of viewership which in turn means a whole lot of money into the pockets of big media. 

Indeed, the legacy of William Randolph Hearst is still alive and doing quite well today in the newsroom where reporters furnish the pictures and stories so that the moguls can furnish the race war.

The folks driven to defend Trayvon Martin and calling for justice have been driven by the lies of the liberal mainstream media.  They are guided by such because it's good exposure, and is also guided by big contributions to various "leaders" of the community like Sharpton and Jackson and their respective organizations.

According to the facts in the Zimmerman case, you have an Hispanic who was pursuing a person he thought was acting suspicious.  There had been numerous robberies in the gated community.  Zimmerman thought Martin was up to no good.  He dials 9-1-1 to alert the authorities, and then he was told to back down, which he did as he was engaged in foot pursuit.  On his way back to his car, he gets pummeled from behind and fearing for his life he shoots the unarmed 17-year old.  Mind you, Zimmerman did not throw the first punch, according to him, and since there is no one else to substantiate his claim, neither witnesses nor Martin who is now dead, the claim stands.

So what would you do if you were under assault? 

Any human being would rightfully defend oneself from further physical harm.  That is what Zimmerman did.  He did nothing wrong legally in the eyes of the law pursuing Martin.  This entire matter about racial profiling is a non-starter since it is not illegal for civilians to do such.  Racial profiling laws prevent law enforcement officers and non-uniform civilian government bureaucrats in departments from engaging in such activities.  Zimmerman was neither a uniformed officer, nor was he acting in the capacity of a civilian government employee.  Which is why he wasn't charged with racial profiling.

And get this, the FBI concluded in its investigation of Zimmerman that he was not and did not act out of racial hatred.  Not only that, but his defense didn't even bring up the Stand Your Ground law as reason for his pulling the trigger in self-defense.

Therefore, what is one to conclude after all this?

Zimmerman has been pilloried and  his good moral character as a citizen denied by those who want to make a political statement about the state of race relations in America.  A statement that says blacks are under assault from white America (Zimmerman is half-white, but looks more like actor Esai Morales), even though the opposite is true; that more blacks are under penalty of death by other blacks in black communities. 

In conclusion, beware of the power of the US media and its telling of stories.  Beware of activists promoting hysteria with the assistance of a sycophantic media.  Beware of the smoke and get the facts before jumping to hysterical and emotional outbursts.

Obama is in trouble

Here is another one of my predictions.  President Barack Hussein Obama is TOAST in DC, and here is why.  Too many things are happening way too fast for a town that likes to move at a snails pace.  For starters, ObamaCare is causing consternation with Democrats like Max Baucus, the out-going senator from Montana who sold his vote to Obama for some earmarks.  Next year will bring the full weight of ObamaCare tax increase on the public, and it is also an election year in which many Democrats, especially those in the senate,  feel the noose tightening around their necks.

Then there's the Benghazi fiasco where the smell of cover-up is gaining noxious speed.  Then the Justice Department's wiretapping of AP outlets around the nation has brought a sudden chill between the mainstream media (which adores Obama) and the White House.  And the IRS audits of conservatives, conservative non-profits and anything TEA Partyish has even brought the ire of a number of Democrats as well as the ACLU.  

And that is on top of Fast & Furious, Solyndra and Fisker which were pre-election scandals the liberal mainstream press ignored and squashed.

Lastly, the fact that Obama put all his political capital on his gun control legislation which was roundly defeated in the senate last month suggests that Obama's luster has worn.  Obama has crashed and he's now thrashing the political sea to stay afloat.  

It's over, Obama.  Your second term is a thud.  And there's still three more years of this embarrassment we have to deal with, unfortunately.

Obama to play Texas

So President Obama is planning to visit the Lone Star state today to play up the economic growth of that state as if he's responsible for creating such conditions.  Heck, why not, he's president and if he wants to take credit for it, so be it.  But, in the real world, we know Obama has had nothing to do with anything that's happened to Texas economically.

Texas confounds many liberal progressives who see its rich diversity and electoral map as something they can take to the blue column, if only they could convince a group of people to believe in the Democrat party again.  Namely, convince enough minorities and women to vote their way.....and often in one election.

Turning the Lone Star state blue is certainly in the works.  Has been for a couple of years without gaining sufficient grounds.  Why not work at it?  Why not work harder to turn the state from its present growth into another welfare basket case like California?  

Texas has no state income taxes, the people support the Constitution and especially the 2nd Amendment.  Basically, Texans cherish liberty, personal freedom and individual entrepreneurship.  Texans love to work and keep their keep.  How on earth will Democrat operatives be able to convince Texans otherwise?

Obama will be touring a high school and a chip machine manufacturer in Austin.  Seems like whenever Obama tours a company, the company folds a year later.  

That said, here's a question I have for Obama and the Democrats:  Why work to screw up Texas by making it a blue state knowing full well that blue states are struggling with job losses and population flight to the south and southwest due to ever-increasing higher taxes and cost of living?