America
Why is IRSgate gaining a lot of traction with a lot of people?
Experiment:
Say “Fast and Furious,” low information undertow says, “Oh, that movie about drag racing.”
Say “Benghazi,” low information undertow says, “Who is Ben Ghazi?”
Say “IRS abuse,” low information undertow says, “You know, I file tax returns every April.” Light bulbs come on.
It’s like George Wallace once said about picking your campaign issues: “You’ve gotta put the crumbs down to where the ducks can get to them.”
New York City
Number of votes Obama got for President in November 2008: 69 million
Number of votes Obama got for President in November 2012: 65 million
Number of people that listen to Rush Limbaugh on a weekly basis: 20 million
And you wonder why he sicks the IRS on everyone.
IRS
AP blows through the “but it was only low level employees” excuse.
This part is interesting, though:
Shulman was appointed by President George W. Bush, a Republican. His 6-year term ended in November. Obama has yet to nominate a successor. The agency is now run by an acting commissioner, Steven Miller.
This is the hook that Obama flunkies are using to (five, six, seven, eight…) BLAME BUSH.
OTOH, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least. RINO/Establishment Republicans aren’t exactly fond of the Tea Party Movement, either. Could the Obamaites and the RINOs have joined forces to use the IRS to put the screws on the TPM? Short answer: Yes.
Mexico City
President Obama’s speech in Mexico City this morning. It’s basically a globalist-establishment-left laundry list.
Relevant parts:
Some Americans only see the Mexico depicted in sensational headlines of violence and border crossings.
Some Americans pay attention.
Some Mexicans may think America disrespects Mexico, that we seek to impose ourselves on Mexican sovereignty, or, alternatively, wish to wall ourselves off.
Rush was right when he said today that this “impose ourselves on Mexican sovereignty” was a dog whistle of approval to the reconquista-on-the-brain Aztlan nuts. “Or, alternatively, to wall ourselves off” is the total polar opposite to “impose ourselves on Mexican sovereignty,” so it would seem.
I see a Mexico that is creating new prosperity. Trading with the world. Becoming a manufacturing powerhouse—from Tijuana and Monterrey to Guadalajara and across the central highlands—a global leader in automobiles and appliances and electronics.
That’s because we gave our manufacturing base to them. Remember NAFTA?
Indeed, I see a Mexico that has lifted millions from poverty.
I see a Mexico that has dumped its impoverished on us.
In you, Mexico’s youth, I see a generation empowered by technology. I think I see some of you tweeting and WhatsApping right now.
Our ooks and ookettes tweet. BFD, as Obama’s hand-picked Vice-President would say.
And I see a Mexico that is taking its rightful place in the world. Standing up for democracy in our hemisphere. Sharing your expertise with neighbors across the Americas—when they face earthquakes or threats to their citizens or go to the polls to cast their votes. You’ve joined the ranks of the world’s largest economies, and became the first Latin American nation to host the G-20, another confident step on the world stage.
Relative to the rest of the world, Mexico is in pretty good shape. Ben Jonson was a great English playwright…who had the great misfortune of having William Shakespeare as a contemporary.
In the United States, we recognize our responsibilities as well. We understand that the root cause of much of the violence here—and so much suffering for many Mexicans— is the demand for illegal drugs, including in the United States.
True, but that’s a two way street. Of course, on a diplomatic trip, did you expect Obama to do anything but blame his end of the street for that problem?
Now, I do not believe that legalizing drugs is the answer; instead, I believe in a comprehensive approach—not just law enforcement, but education, prevention and treatment. And we’re going to keep at it—because the lives of our children and the future of our nations depend on it.
Except when you need the votes of young doobie aficionados to win a few states. Then you hitch your train to the weed legalization or decriminalization movement.
We recognize that most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States.
They mostly come from the international black market. Most of the ones that come from America come from Obama and Co. practically giving them away. And also, there’s this inconvenient matter of the kind of Mexicans that use guns to commit violence, i.e. gang and tribe oriented Indos.
In America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms, and as President I swore an oath to uphold that right—and I always will.
Someone ask him: If the Second Amendment was not already part of the Constitution, would he advocate putting it in?
Meanwhile, we’ll keep increasing the pressure on the gun traffickers who bring illegal guns into Mexico, and we’ll keep putting these criminals where they belong—behind bars.
Who has gone to prison for Operation Gunrunner?
We’re grateful to Mexican Americans in every segment of our society—for teaching our children, running our companies, serving with honor in our military, making breakthroughs in science, and standing up for social justice.
Yep, we gringos are so dumb that we can’t find our asses with both ends on our butt cheeks. We needed Mexico to show us how to accomplish anything. Pray, if Mexican-Americans do everything for us and accomplish everything of note in America, why is Mexico itself such a sad case, at least relative to America?
As Dr. Martin Luther King told Cesar Chavez, we are “brothers in the fight for equality.” Indeed, without the strong support of Hispanics, including so many Mexican Americans, I would not be standing before you today as President of the United States.
Our shared future is one of the reasons that we in the United States also recognize the need to reform our immigration system. We are a nation of laws, and like every nation we have the responsibility to ensure that our laws are upheld.
But we also know that, as a nation of immigrants, the immigration system we have in the United States now doesn’t reflect our values. It separates families when we should be reuniting them. It’s led to millions of people living in the shadows. It deprives us of the talents of so many young people—even though we know that immigrants have always been an engine of our economy; starting some of our greatest companies, pioneering new industries.
Ironically, a Martin Luther King protege (Ralph Abernathy), Chavez himself and Walter Mondale once led an anti-illegal immigration protest at the Mexican border, in 1969.
Tell me how two-digit IQ Chicano-Mestizo-Indos are going to start great companies and pioneer new industries.
As far as this business about “without the strong support of Hispanics…I wouldn’t be standing before you today as President of the United States,” well, I just blogged about that this morning.
That’s one of the reasons I acted to lift the shadow of deportation from DREAMers—young people brought to the United States as children.
“Shadow of deportation.” First off, hardly anyone is actually deported. But second, out of the other side of his mouth, Obama tried to get away with trying to make us think that he actually engaged in record numbers of “deportations,” even though that has been proven to be such a deceit that the only person who believes it anymore is John Engelman on AR.
To net it out, I have no problem with President Obama going to Mexico…
Washington, D.C.
Marco Rubio said on some News Church show yesterday that we had to pass amnesty and open borders that includes the fake pretend border security, because if we didn’t, Obama would issue an executive order that grants amnesty to all illegal aliens that doesn’t have the fake pretend border security.
I have a better idea: Don’t pass comprehensive immigration reform, and impeach the black bastard.
Rubio, lame. Me, smart.
Washington, D.C.
Everything you need to know about Tom Perez is in the above picture. One, what he is, and two, who appointed him.
That’s enough for me to say “Hell No.”
Washington, D.C.
Except hardly anyone can afford a new car. That is, unless you live in a certain metro area.
Google+
Yes, we already know that his lack of Emperor status is a real “problem.”
Except he wields so much power that he’s damned near an Emperor. The Presidency has been trending in that direction for a long time, starting with Lincoln.
And what’s this bullshit about “deportations?” Obama hasn’t deported much of anyone. Keeping someone from entering the country illegally at the border, Obama counts as a “deportation.” Starting the paperwork of a deportation process, he also calls a “deportation,” but he knows and we all know that those rarely result in an actual deportation.
Las Vegas
Obama speaking in the highest unemployment state begging us to import and legalize more people is like the most Obama thing Obama has ever done.
His main speech will be at Las Vegas’s Del Sol High School. Why would he choose a high school instead of a construction site?
Answer: The school’s student body is 53% Hispanic, 28% white, 12% black, 7% Asian. His handlers probably chose that school because they know it’s majority reconquistador, but it’s also “diverse” enough to engineer a “diverse” audience for propaganda purposes. And while in normal circumstances there are very few voting-eligible high school students, you gotta figure that a school that is more than half Hispanic and 12% black has plenty of 18-year old sophomores.
Because…Race to the Top.
Obamaland
FNC:
“The House Republican majority is made up mostly of members who are in sharply gerrymandered districts that are very safely Republican and may not feel compelled to pay attention to broad-based public opinion, because what they’re really concerned about is the opinions of their specific Republican constituencies,” the president said in an interview with The New Republic.
True ‘dat. But where do you think this gerrymandering came from? It “fell out of the design” of drawing up favorable gerrymanders for blacks to win Congressional seats. As it turned out, with blacks safely ghettoized in black gerrymanders, life became a whole lot easier for Republicans running for Congress, if the gerrymanders delicately split white liberals and Democrats. This is why in 2012, in states like Florida and Ohio, the Democrats won them in Presidential and Senatorial terms, but Republicans won them in Congressional terms (12/16 in OH, 17/27 in FL), even though generically, Democrats got more votes than Republicans for House candidates in both states. We do know for a fact that Republicans won 233 (+/-) of 435 House seats nationally in spite of the generic House results slightly favoring Democrats.
But it seems like a lot of what black politicians want wind up boomeranging to bite them in their asses. They wanted gun control, (“because of gun violence in black communities”), then bitched when enforcing it (esp. felon-in-possession) sent blacks to prison. They wanted the vast disparity in sentencing between crack cocaine and powder cocaine, (“because of the negative effects that crack is having in black communities”), then they bitched and moaned when they realized it meant black crack dealers getting long bids in Federal prison — It took a piece of legislation that Obama recently signed to roll back the crack-powder disparity somewhat. And now they’re bitching about gerrymandering.
Obama also said he can get 50 percent of public support for many of his upcoming initiatives, but “I can’t get enough votes out of the House of Representatives to actually get something passed. … I think there is still shock on the part of some in the party that I won re-election.”
None of you swore allegiance to public policy polls when you took your oaths of office, you swore allegiance to the Constitution, which was not itself on the ballot in November.
The president said he has a profound respect for the traditions of hunting that date back for generations.
Funny, I don’t find “hunting” in the Constitution at all. And I personally think that it’s bad PR in bringing up killing innocent animals as Second Amendment apologetics. PETA’s ears must be bleeding right now.
He said that moving forward on the topic means understanding that the realities of guns in urban areas are very different from the realities of guns in rural areas.
So are the realities of racial demographics.
Obama also said one of the biggest factors in the gun-control debate will be how it is shaped by the media.
So far, they’ve got his back. Except he’s not talking about “that” media:
“If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it,” he said. “I think John Boehner genuinely wanted to get a deal done, but it was hard to do in part because his caucus is more conservative probably than most Republican leaders are, and partly because he is vulnerable to attack for compromising Republican principles and working with Obama.”
If only Rush Limbaugh weren’t in the way, he’d have almost everything he wanted from a man who reminds him of a typical go-along-to-get-along suburban Chicagoland country club checkered-pants RINO.
Washington, D.C.
With his recently self-admitted “incontinence problems” (see the low information news sphere about that), he should avoid excitement as much as possible.
Capitol Hill
Obama: “Our Founding Fathers started a country then wrote a great Constitution that focused on individual rights and limited government…”
Crowd (mostly black women): Various boos and jeers, but mostly silence.
Obama continues: “…which they got mostly wrong. And I’m here to fix that! Forward, Comrades!”
Crowd: Loud cheers, gradually transitioning to a chorus of “gibsmedat gibsmedat!”
Obamaland
Obama to re-assemble his Presidential campaign to take on the “gun lobby” (read: the NRA).
There’s one big key difference — With just one ad, the famous “Elitist Hypocrisy,” the NRA has engaged in more serious political-personal combat against the person of Barack H. Obama II than all of Obama’s prime political opponents have against him since his ill-fated run for Congress in 2000 challenging Bobby Rush in the Democrat Primary for IL-1. “Elitist Hypocrisy” was a more severe direct body blow to Obama personally than everything that Blair Hull, Dan Hynes, Jack Ryan, Alan Keyes, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney and John Boehner combined have “brought” against him.
Silicon Valley
After all, the Jim Jones gang (utopian anti-racist egalitarians) practically left her for dead as they murdered her boss, Congressman Leo Ryan. Speier was recently elected to CA-14, a Congressional district that includes a lot of the same territory that her late boss once represented.
So I find it ironic that she’s shilling for the Obama Administration, which in terms of being utopian anti-racist egalitarians, is about 95% Jim Jones strength.
Washington, D.C.
A blogger named “Everlasting Phelps” who is fluent in both Latin and the vernacular translates them into readable vernacular for the people in Wittenberg to understand.
White House
Must I do the rest of the world’s thinking for it? Respond with a presser full of clean cut young adolescents who have had to use firearms to defend their households, parents and younger siblings against invaders.
Mexico Del Norte
There will be no salami slicing our way to amnesty and open borders here in the Hopeychanger 2.0 era.
Obama wants what he wants, and he wants it all right now.
He wants a real big super huge piece of omnibus legislation that can be crammed through right away.
You know, sorta like “comprehensive.” Which worked out so well politically for Bush.
Because when you’re boiling a frog, the best idea is to jack the flame up right away.
Washington, D.C.
Obama faces ‘limited’ options on executive action on gun violence
The Obama administration’s vow to tackle gun violence – with Congress, or without – has sparked an uproar from conservative Republicans and has left Democratic gun reformers eager to learn what the White House has up its sleeve.
Vice President Joe Biden is expected to propose legislative solutions to what President Obama has called the nation’s gun-violence “epidemic” as early as Tuesday, but he says he’s also eying executive orders empowering the administration to take action without congressional approval.
“There are executive orders, executive action, that can be taken,” Biden said Wednesday. “We haven’t decided what that is yet, but we’re compiling it all.”
Although GOP leaders say they’ll examine the whole of Biden’s strategy, rank-and-file Republicans are already lining up behind the National Rifle Association against anything that would limit the buying or owning of guns – a stark warning that the legislative route could very quickly become a dead-end, particularly in the GOP-controlled House.
A roadblock in Congress would shine a brighter spotlight on Obama’s unilateral response – both as a fulfillment of his promise to address gun violence head-on in the wake of last month’s Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, and as a magnet of criticism from conservatives who’ve accused him for years of ruling by decree.
Now I know what’s bothering me, but I’ve just been unable until now to get it off the tip of my tongue.
We all know that “gun control” is going nowhere, just for the simple fact that Obama farmed it out to a blue ribbon panel (hint number one), and made Biden the head of the blue ribbon panel (hint number two).
But now, here’s the big bug up my crawl: Obama will do very little if anything about the “gun problem” using “executive action” simply because he knows that Republicans will raise holy hell about it, and Obama doesn’t want to kill his chances to use “executive action” in the future. Golden eggs, geese.
Why are Republicans threatening to raise holy hell over executive orders about guns but not executive orders about immigration? After DACA, the only proper response was from Steve King, who dragged Obama into Federal court over the unconstitutionally levied $465 application fee (only Congress can approve Federal fees), and Obama’s unilateral creation of work visas for DACA applicants (only Congress can create these visa programs). Personally, I think the whole thing is unconstitutional, but the Federal courts would probably let Obama get away with refusing to bring civil deportation actions against DREAMers for the sake of prosecutorial discretion, so King is probably picking the low hanging fruit, the fee and the visas. But beyond Steve King, the reliable immigration Patriots in the House and a scant few others, crickets.
Obama starts screaming about executive orders about guns? Oh yeah, now he’s Hitler and Stalin rolled together. Drudge says so.
Why? The cheap labor lobby has bought off half the Republican Party, including most of its leadership.
The whole irony is that Hispanic immigration and Hispanic votes are greater long term threats against Amendment the Second, and the whole Constitution in general, then any political go-nowhere loudmouth bloviation from podiums and on talk shows today.
Washington, D.C.
“Oh, but don’t talk about the daughters.”
As long as it cost me 115,500.87 clams to send her to Mexico this past spring for spring break, I’m gonna talk about the daughters.
I don’t think I’ve even made $115,500 in all the time Obama has been President. If so, it’s not more by much, and certainly not after taxes.
The moral of this story? Get out there and realize your full potential, because Sasha needs a taxpayer funded spring break, too.
Washington, D.C.
The way Obama and the Democrats are acting, the person of Susan Elizabeth Rice is the only person who can possibly be Secretary of State. You come away thinking they think that from the way they’re defending her and smearing people who dare question her.
Why can’t Obama come up with anyone different? Why must it be Susan Rice specifically?
Answer: Because I think she knows where skeletons are buried. That’s why Obama is keeping Eric Holder on, because he also knows where skeletons are buried.
Detroit
That’s what happens when Obama’s got your back.
Why did he pick the Tigers? Duh, because Michigan is suddenly in play, California not so much.
Washington, D.C.
While it’s not much ado about nothing, by the same token, it’s not catching Obama in bed with a little girl. This won’t much move the needle.
A few thoughts:
1. Plausible deniability about Jeremiah “GD America US of KKK-A” Wright is out the window. He can’t say now that he never paid attention to his preacher.
2. This Obama moans about suburban freeways, but sold an entire stimulus act based on them.
3. Does this sound familiar?
The solution, Obama says, is a series of new federal programs, including one to teach punctuality to the poor: “We can’t expect them to have all the skills they need to work. They may need help with basic skills, how to shop, how to show up for work on time, how to wear the right clothes, how to act appropriately in an office. We have to help them get there.”
To put it another way, poor people have poor ways, Blogmeister’s Axiom #60. It contradicts the Obama that told an audience in Ghana basically that crime causes poverty, not the other way around.
Walnut Park
Yep, he looks like he could be his son.
First off, I thought there was no such thing as a black “boy.”
But here’s the funny part: Jennifer Joyce’s office is going to be responsible for slinging up someone who was part of a gang named for Barack Obama. The first person who can tell me the irony of that gets a gold star. I’ll start you off with a hint: Think about a story that was hot nationally that started locally four years ago this week.
UN
President Obama: The Future Must Not Belong to Those Who Slander the Prophet of Islam
President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly this morning and claimed the future must not belong to those who target Coptic Christians in Egypt, those who bully women, the corrupt few who steal a country’s resources, and those who slander the prophet of Islam.
What does this even mean? “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.”
The only theory I can come up with is that we’re all going to be sticking our asses up in the air bowing to Mecca pretty soon, whether we like it or not. You ladies better get used to burquas and clitoridectomies.
Otherwise, I’m left to think that Obama said a whole lot of nothing because he was afraid of offending anybody. In other words, he voted Present.
Wisconsin
How many average people can do this?
This is his stash, after all:
In the field of public relations, if you can completely lock down the flow of images and videos about your intended subject matter, you can concede the words to your opponents and it won’t matter. An image is worth a thousand words, and a video is worth the frame rate times a thousand words a second. The Romney people should use this image to the hilt. And also this image.
Washington, D.C.
Why does Obama need to “change” Washington from either the inside or outside, when the District of Columbia votes 90% Democrat?
New York
$800 a bottle bubbly. You’ll see photos the same day you’ll see his college transcripts, which is to say never.
And also…outsourcing.
Chicago
In his own way, President Obama helped create the economic mess that he inherited that isn’t his fault, unless it is.
White House
NYT:
No matter what moves Mr. Romney made, the president said, he and his team were going to cut him off and block him at every turn. “We’re the Miami Heat, and he’s Jeremy Lin,” Mr. Obama said, according to the aide.
Please, someone help me figure out what this means.
New York City
“I love cops, but hustle money from someone who says don’t snitch on brothas to cops.”
We’re being community organized.
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