Rubio’s Dream Act imitated by Obama is highest form of flattery & now’s the time to implement immigration reform through LAW not temporary executive order
Let’s tell Rubio that it’s time to ‘strike while the iron is hot’. America does not need another Obama temporary fix. We need long term solutions.
Go forward, Rubio, with your proposed Dream Act legislation. America needs long term solutions on immigration — not another temporary fix.
Now is the time for conservative voters and Rubio to briefly THANK Obama for imitating the proposed Dream Act legislation.
After all, imitation is one of the highest forms of flattery. And Obama has flattered Rubio and the Republicans through his end-run implementing the proposed law before it becomes law.
Now is the time also for Rubio and Romney to remind Obama that it’s the President’s job to implement the laws made by congress. Mr. President — do your job and stay withing the confines of your job. And let congress do their job — which is to make the laws.
It’s also a fine time to remind Obama that all of his TEMPORARY FIXES [temporary pay roll taxes, dollars for clunkers, first time home owners get one time cash] cause uncertainty as the rules can always be changed.
We need long term solutions not one temporary fix after another. Certainty comes through the Rule of Law not by executive fiat.
Obama part of the 1% who don't use cash or credit cards to pay for lunch
Obama is part of the 1% who go to lunch without cash or credit cards.
Amid the bustle of President Obama’s surprise stop for barbecue Wednesday the White House apparently overlooked one key detail: the bill.
Celebrating Father’s Day early, the president had lunch with two service members and two local barbers at Kenny’s BBQ on Capitol Hill.
As the group chatted about fatherhood, the president enjoyed a steaming plate of pork ribs with hot sauce, collard greens, red beans and rice and cornbread.
The bill for the president and his four guests was $55.58, but was left unpaid at the point of sale, according to pool reports.
The White House corrected the oversight and settled up the tab by the end of the business day.
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This from the president who just finished some tortured metaphor about unpaid dinners. [Obama at a community college that day blames Republicans for 8 years of big steak diners who left the bill unpaid]
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Is cool a racist terms?
Racism underlies why conservatives oppose Obama’s policies says Angela Rye, Executive Director of the Congressional Black Caucus.
She argues that President Obama has struggled during his first term due to racially-motivated opposition from conservatives who dislike having a black president.
“This is probably the toughest presidential term in my lifetime,” Rye said during CSPAN’s Q&A yesterday. Angela Rye argues that calling Obama 'cool' is racism
“I think that a lot of what the president has experienced is because he’s black. You know, whether it’s questioning his intellect or whether or not he’s Ivy League. It’s always either he’s not educated enough or he’s too educated; or he’s too black or he’s not black enough; he’s too Christian or not Christian enough.
She said that “a lot” of conservative opposition is racially-charged, citing the use of the word “cool” in an attack ad launched by Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS superPAC.
“There’s an ad, talking about [how] the president is too cool, [asking] is he too cool? And there’s this music that reminds me of, you know, some of the blaxploitation films from the 70s playing in the background, him with his sunglasses,” Rye said. “And to me it was just very racially-charged. They weren’t asking if Bush was too cool, but, yet, people say that that’s the number one person they’d love to have a beer with. So, if that’s not cool I dont know what is.
She added that “even ‘cool,’ the term ‘cool,’ could in some ways be deemed racial [in this instance].”
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Obama out of touch with Secretary of Commerce Bryson
Obama out of touch with his Commerce Secretary John Bryson.
On Monday morning, Washington awoke to learn that Commerce Secretary John Bryson had been involved in a series of auto accidents in southern California on Saturday evening, and cited with a felony hit-and-run by responding police. This news was of course shocking.
For several hours, the White House and the Commerce Department declined comment. In this vacuum, the rumors took a life of their own. Some speculated there was alcohol involved, despite initial police accounts that this was not the case. After official statements reported the cause of the accidents on seizures, the ire turned on that initial speculation, blaming the sardonic culture of Twitter.
Part of the blame surely lay at the feet of an inept White House communications operation, unable to provide the general public with any answers to the health and well-being of a cabinet secretary. This media stonewall continued in Press Secretary Jay Carney’s daily briefing.
In Carney’s first answer, we learned that President Obama had not spoken with Secretary Bryson. This seemed odd. A cabinet secretary is hospitalized following serious traffic incidents and a police citation and the president does not pick up the phone to check on his welfare?
Pressed for details, Carney continually directed questions to the Commerce Department. As if this matter had nothing to do with the White House. On the fifth question, Carney was asked: “So as the matter stands right now, is the Secretary healthy and fit to serve?†Carney referred the question to the Commerce Department.
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C’mon big guy pick up the phone. Or is this a preview of Obama-Care?
Maine gives real HOPE that damage of ObamaCare can be reversed
Maine has reversed the damage of ObamaCare. So maybe the rest of the states can avoid going down the ObamaCare path? Romney promises to get rid of ObamaCare on the first day of office. Below article is from the Wall Street Journal.
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“One tragedy of the Affordable Care Act is that we already know what its regulations will do to insurance markets, because the states have been conducting policy experiments since the 1990s. But we also know from the states that the damage is reversible, as shown by Maine’s emerging insurance turnaround.
In 1993, Augusta passed coverage laws that resemble those that ObamaCare is about to impose nationwide: Insurers could only vary premiums within narrow bands regardless of age or health status, a regulation known as community rating. Four of Maine’s five insurers in the individual market stopped offering coverage and fled, and the state entered an insurance “death spiral” in which premiums don’t cover underlying medical costs. That leads to higher premiums, consumers dropping coverage as a result, and still higher premiums in turn.
Then the 2010 electoral wave carried in Republican Governor Paul LePage and a GOP legislature, and they took modest steps to deregulate the insurance market. Insurers are now allowed to sell policies for premiums that range from 3 to 1 on the basis of age, rather than the prior 1.5 to 1, and to offer incentives or discounts for consumers to choose high-value providers.
The state also created a reinsurance fund that taxes all health plans by $4 a month. If someone ends up requiring extremely expensive care, the fund picks up some of the costs, which means insurers can better manage their future liabilities and pass the savings on to individuals.
The returns are now rolling in for the new coverage that can be offered starting on July 1, and premiums are falling by as much as 69% for Maine’s dominant insurer, Anthem.
According to the Maine Bureau of Insurance, a married couple age 40 to 44 with one child will pay $1,919 a month for a policy with a $2,250 deductible in 2013 if they choose to re-up their current policy. If the same family switches to the new health plan, or buys the plan for the first time, their premium will fall to $920, a 52% decrease. A couple over 60 could buy the same policy for $1,290, down from $2,466 under the old system. Or a young adult 25 to 29 could buy a high $10,000 deductible plan for catastrophic expenses for $232, previously $665.
The old and new products are not identical, so the comparison isn’t perfect. On top of the rule changes, the benefits are slightly different, such as separate deductibles for in- and out-of-network services. And many of the year-over-year reductions are less dramatic, in the range of 10% to 20%, while a few older consumers will see rate increases.
Still, any premium decrease is remarkable on the U.S. health cost escalator, which is being accelerated by ObamaCare. Maine consumers who choose to stay with their current policy (same benefits, old rules) will see an average premium rate increase of just 1.7% from 2012 to 2013—compared to an historical trend of about 10%. Some 46% of the existing book of business will see a rate decrease.
The major irony is that Maine’s reform merely brings its community rating rules into compliance with ObamaCare, which is actually less restrictive than the rules the state passed in 1993. The new national health law will block a further Maine liberalization that is due for 2016.
Maine learned the hard way that the most heavily regulated insurance markets are the most expensive. But the more ominous lesson out of Vacationland is for the 33 states that had the wit never to make the Maine-ObamaCare mistake. They’re the ones that are about to see premiums spike under the Affordable Care Act—perhaps by as much as 69%, and likely by far more.
A version of this article appeared May 31, 2012, on page A16 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: ObamaCare in Reverse.
“Zimmerman never saw the cute little boy that the TV audience did. He saw a full-grown man, a druggy, a wannabe street fighter, the tattooed, gold-grilled, self-dubbed “No_Limit_Nigga.”
The real tragedy the thousands of blacks killed by blacks. Of 279,384 black murders victims between 1976 – 2011 2,62,621 are blacks killed by blacks.
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What the Media Choose Not to Know about Trayvon
By Jack Cashill
Unnerved by an unspoken mix of political bias and racial queasiness, the major media have chosen to know as little about Trayvon Martin as they know about Barack Obama.
As a case in point, consider this boy vs. man fable spun by the New York Times’ Charles Blow:
A boy’s blood had been spilled on a rain-soaked patch of grass behind a row of mustard-colored condominiums by a man who had pursued him against the advice of 911 dispatchers. That man carried a 9-millimeter handgun. The boy carried a bag of candy.
Blow was writing seven weeks after Trayvon’s death. He had no excuse for missing the actual story. Worse, since he is a writer for the Times, his reporting has helped set the media tone worldwide
The media’s willful ignorance was on display again this past week. In reporting this news of George Zimmerman’s return to jail, more than a few media outlets showed the dangerously deceptive image of Trayvon as 11-year-old cherub. They did so in the assumption that the narrative was still theirs to control. It is not. The blogs, which have been doing the real detective work on this case, have long since taken control away from them.
The sites I have found must useful are the Daily Caller and theconservativetreehouse.com. What follows is largely culled from those sites and their independent contributors. By probing Trayon’s background and parsing his social media chatter, they have put together a picture of a disturbed young man that begins to makes sense of the events that unfolded on that fateful rainy night of February 26.Continue reading “Aptos Psychologist: The real Zimerman/ Travyon story the media did not touch”
Obama a member of left wing, anti-capitalist New Party Ever heard of the New Party? Or that Obama was a card carrying member of the New Party, a far left third party?
Here’s a little background information on the New Party:
“Although the party’s founders hoped to foster a shift in the United States toward electoral fusion, they were not successful in doing so. Their hopes rested largely on the U.S. Supreme Court case Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party.
In 1997, the Court, in a 6-3 decision, upheld the Minnesota ban on cross-endorsing candidates, rejecting the New Party’s argument that electoral fusion was a right protected by the First Amendment’s freedom of association clause.[6][7]
“After the Timmons case, the New Party quickly declined. Several chapters — initially, those chapters not connected with ACORN — disaffiliated. Perhaps the only and certainly the most successful surviving local chapter, known as Progressive Dane, remains active and relevant in Dane County, Wisconsin. Cantor and other key staff members left to found the Working Families Party of New York (1998),[7] an organization which has had considerable success in building a New Party-style organization within New York state, and which now has expanded into other states that have fusion voting.Continue reading “Aptos Psychologist: does Obama’s party membership in the far left anti-capitalism New Party matter in 2012? Yes …”
100,000 jobs created by Romney's Bain Capital compared to 100,000 jobs by U.S. under Obama
Take a liberal/ Democrat/ 2008 voter for Obama out for coffee and share the following concerning economy job growth.
Embarrassing for the White House,a paltry 100,000 is the total net increase in U.S. jobs since Jan. 2009 when Mr. Obama took office. This is using seasonally adjusted jobs numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its household survey.
Many economists put more stock in the so-called establishment survey. That shows not a small gain but a decline of more than 550,000 jobs during the Obama era.
Conservative estimates say that Bain Capital created by Romney — just one company — created 100,000 jobs. So one company over a period of time created the same number of jobs as the entire economy created under the Obama administration.
No wonder the public thinks the country is still in a recession.
Obama touts his knowledge of Judiasm Obama declares himself an expert on Judaism.
Apparently, Barack Obama told a visiting contingent of Conservative Jewish rabbis that he probably knows more about Judaism than any other president—on the same day that he referred to “Polish death camps.†For that last remark he apologized, but the one about Judaism is far more telling. In the first place, the claim is transparently absurd.
We can quickly pass over the fact that John Adams and James Madison, among the most educated men in the world at the time, knew Hebrew as well as Latin and Greek. Let’s just say that the president is, to put it mildly, punching above his weight here.
_______________ Remember Obama’s claim that his grandfather helped liberate Auschwitz? But Auschwitz was hundreds of miles from American troops and it was liberated by Russians. JAJ48@aol.com
