Did Obama inherit a mess?

Obama immigration order: Does audacity of hope mean unchecked presidential power?

Obama immigration order: Does 'audacity of hope' mean unchecked presidential power? http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/NiN8q_p5Azk/Obama-immigration-order-Does-audacity-of-hope-mean-unchecked-presidential-power http://www.csmonitor.com/  Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:59:00 GMT

Independents say Obama hurts job creation | Reuters

(Reuters) - With President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney delivering dueling visions for the U.S. economy in speeches on Thursday, a majority of independents said that Obama's policies have made it harder for Americans to gain employment, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Friday.


Fifty-two percent of independents said they agreed with the idea that the president has not helped create more jobs in America, an argument central to Romney's campaign.

Obama appears to have trouble convincing some members of his own party that his administration has been good for jobs: 29 percent of Democrats said they agreed with the claim that he has not been a job creator.


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Independents say Obama hurts job creation | Reuters

Mark Steyn: Earthly woes mount as Obama's rhetoric soars | obama, moon, together - Opinion - The Orange County Register

Round about this time in the election cycle, a presidential challenger finds himself on the stump and posing a simple test to voters: "Ask yourself – are you better off now than you were four years ago?"

But, in fact, you don't need to ask yourself, because the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances has done it for you. Between 2007 and 2010, Americans' median net worth fell 38.8 percent – or from $126,400 per family to $77,300 per family. Oh, dear. As I mentioned a few months ago, when readers asked me to recommend countries they could flee to, most of the countries worth fleeing to Americans can no longer afford to live in.

Which means we'll just have to fix things here. How likely is Barack Obama to do this? A few days ago he came to Cleveland, a city that is a byword for economic dynamism, fiscal prudence, and sound government. He gave a 54-minute address that tried the patience even of the most doting court eunuchs. "One of the worst speeches I've ever heard Barack Obama make," pronounced MSNBC's Jonathan Alter...

Read full article: Mark Steyn: Earthly woes mount as Obama's rhetoric soars | obama, moon, together - Opinion - The Orange County Register

Respect is Earned: It’s not a benefit of the presidency

Respect is Earned: It’s not a benefit of the presidency http://commonsenseinaradicalage.blogspot.com/2012/06/respect-is-earned-its-not-benefit-of.html http://commonsenseinaradicalage.blogspot.com/  Sat, 16 Jun 2012 03:54:00 GMT  

You demand respect for an office to which you have shown no respect. You demand respect of people whom you have sorely disrespected, and you have embarrassed those people through your callous actions. You have apologized for the noble actions of people whose intent was to aid those in harm’s way and yet, you still act as though it is your right to demand? One could ask a simple question, “Are you capable of adult responsibilities and mature decisions?”

In 2008, you were gifted through the vote of a majority—notwithstanding vote tampering and corruption—of people to be the leader of the greatest nation in the world, and you have spat on that nation, its laws, and the people. Your actions today, were those of a maniacal dictator and not the respectable leader of a free country. You are despicable at best and dangerous at worst. Your arrogance and flaunting of our laws with its limited power to the presidency are an affront to the people and the forefathers who founded this country to rid themselves of treachery and tyranny. You are not only a pathetic leader—less than a leader—but a sinister force in this nation.

As of the last census, there were approximately 50-million illegal aliens—people who have broken the law by coming into this country without invitation or eligibility. Of those 50-million, it is estimated that approximately half have children. You have now saddled the people of the United States with the burden of supporting the children included in that  25-million estimate. They are here illegally, and you have illegally taken steps to make us pay for their food, homes, bills, medical, schooling, and college educations. How dare you, you arrogant imposter?

You are a servant of the people. You are not Commander-in-Chief, as you have chosen to act as dictator…therefore; you have made yourself ineligible to continue in the office of President of the United States. One can only hope that there are men of dignity and honor in the houses of Congress who will finally put an end to your reign of tyranny. If not, then the people will have to act in the stead of this nation and do their duty. Never count the American people out. We have something you could never hope to possess. We have honor, dignity, and humility, and above all else, we have a good and gracious God who protects of from the vile works of evil.

You are wrong. There will be arguments presented, and you will lose. We are not an ignorant lot of infidels, as you have assumed, and we will fight for our country. You, your arrogance, and your hatefulness make those with any morals, whatsoever, sick to their stomachs. How can you even hope to win another term in an office, for which, you were never suited or capable of holding? Your lack of patriotism and not your race is the issue. You’re incapable of serving this nation. Your sanity is in question, but your loyalty is not. You have no loyalty to this country or her people, and you prove that with every speech you give and every law you break.

Articles: Obama: Going Rogue

Remarkably, President Obama has gone rogue, running as no other Democrat before him, openly declaring war on America. The opposing armies are Obama's entitlement-minded-social-justice-zealots vs. hardworking Americans -- patriots who love their country and respect our Constitution.

Please allow me to explain.  Every election, Democrats never campaign on who they really are.  They never reveal their we-know-better-than-you-how-to-run-your-life, intrusive big-government agenda.  Instead, these great pretenders whip out the old "moderate" mask, disguising their "extreme liberal" intentions until after the election.  Obama won the presidency in 2008 pretending to be a moderate.

To win re-election, Obama has "gone rogue," boldly going where no Democrat has gone before.  Obama in essence has said, screw it.  I am not going to masquerade as a moderate.  I am going to campaign as a full blown anti-capitalism, anti-Constitution progressive/socialist!

Obama believes he and his minions... Read full story here. 

Articles: Obama Lurching Toward Tyranny

 As reported at The Daily Caller, in one of President Obama's campaign speeches this week he said that "Republicans are 'in favor of a no-holds barred, government is the enemy, market is everything approach.'"

This comes from the man who in a speech to Latinos once referred to Republicans as "the enemy."

Constitutional conservatives, who decry big government more than establishment Republicans, consider tyranny as the enemy. Government that increasingly violates the Constitution under Republicans or Democrats is, in measure, increasingly tyrannical.

Obama's government is the biggest violator of law in our history. His very methods of governing, which include bypassing Congress's constitutional authority to make law, actually show contempt for the Constitution and the American rule of law.

By executive orders, Mr. Obama both violates the law against his own American-citizen "enemies," such as Catholic institutions when it comes to abortion and birth control, and grants unlawful privileges for his supporters or potential supporters, such as his immigration amnesty order this week.

HHS Secretary Janet Napolitano called the latter not amnesty but...

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NoisyRoom.net » Blog Archive » Rep. Steve King to sue Obama administration over new immigration policy

NoisyRoom.net » Blog Archive » Rep. Steve King to sue Obama administration over new immigration policy

Lamar Smith: Obama's amnesty for illegal immigrants is against the law - CSMonitor.com

 The Obama administration decision for immunity from deportation for young illegal immigrants is a breach of faith with Americans. It also blatantly ignores the law. This isn't the first time Obama has waived rules or refused to enforce laws against illegal immigration, writes Rep. Smith.

 It’s said that desperate times call for desperate measures. But in these dismal economic and political times, the Obama administration has called for unlawful measures that grant amnesty to potentially millions of illegal immigrants.

Today, Janet Napolitano, secretary of Homeland Security, announced immunity from deportation for illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States before they turned 16 and who are younger than 30 – among other criteria. They can apply for a two-year work permit that can be... Read full story: Lamar Smith: Obama's amnesty for illegal immigrants is against the law - CSMonitor.com

Why some illegal immigrants aren't celebrating Obama’s new policy (+video) - CSMonitor.com

An Obama administration announcement met by cheers and tears of joy from immigration activists has left at least some young illegal immigrants skeptical.

With Hispanic voters upset by his failure to prod Congress into action on immigration reform, President Obama issued an executive order Friday that could allow some 800,000 undocumented immigrants age 30 or younger to remain and work in the United States legally.
Republicans in Congress expectedly attacked the policy, calling it an end-run around the legislative process and a form of back-door amnesty that represented “a breach of faith with the American people," according to Rep. Lamar Smith (R) of Texas.




But more surprisingly, some of the very people set to benefit from the policy change questioned the timing and actual impact of the policy change. Despite Mr. Obama's apparent... Read full story: Why some illegal immigrants aren't celebrating Obama’s new policy (+video) - CSMonitor.com

WORLDmag.com | Obama ally turns | Emily Belz | Jun 15, 12

WASHINGTON—The Catholic Health Association, a prominent religious ally to President Obama in passing his healthcare law, changed its position on the administration’s contraceptive mandate Friday, saying the exemption for religious organizations was not adequate. In a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, the group said the mandate raised “serious constitutional questions” and would not address “religious liberty concerns.”

“The exemption in the final rule is narrower than any conscience clause ever enacted in federal law and reflects an unacceptable change in federal policy regarding religious beliefs,” the Catholic Health Association (CHA) wrote.

Read full story: WORLDmag.com | Obama ally turns | Emily Belz | Jun 15, 12

38 reasons why Obama should not be re-elected

Editor’s note: The following column is a work of collaboration by me and some friends of mine – some of whom feared retribution for speaking so plainly.

Looking back over the past four years, read this to better understand where we are going as a country under the leadership of Barack Obama.

• WHEN he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan, Moammar Gadhafi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN it was pointed out that he was a total newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN his voting record in the Illinois Senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he refused to wear a flag lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he surrounded himself in the White House with advisers who were pro-gun control, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he said he favors sex education in kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN his personal background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezko – a man of questionable character and who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home – people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire globalist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he started appointing White House czars that were radicals, revolutionaries and even avowed Marxist/Communists, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to “fundamentally transform this nation” into something else, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he appointed Cabinet members and several advisers who were tax cheats and socialists, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar, who believes in “explicit consent,” harvesting human organs without family consent and allowing animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual and organizer of a group called Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Education Network as safe schools czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar, who believes in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and who supports Hugo Chavez, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN Valerie Jarrett, an avowed socialist, was selected as Obama’s senior White House adviser, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN Anita Dunn, White House communications director, said Mao Zedong was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he appointed Carol Browner, a well-known socialist as global warming czar working on cap-and-trade as the nation’s largest tax, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed socialist, as green energy czar who was forced to resign, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile-defense system against the Russians, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops requested by field commanders to win the war, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc., people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he took away student loans from the banks and required they go through the government, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he designed plans to take over the health-care system and put it under government control, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States through cap-and-trade, people said it didn’t matter.
• WHEN he finally completed his transformation of America into a socialist state, people began to wake up – but it was too late.

The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph. 

38 reasons why Obama should not be re-elected

Krauthammer: New Obama immigration policy ‘out-and-out lawlessness’ [VIDEO]

Krauthammer: New Obama immigration policy ‘out-and-out lawlessness’ [VIDEO]

http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/15/krauthammer-new-obama-immigration-policy-out-and-out-lawlessness-video/ http://dailycaller.com 

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:46:07 GMT  

'This is not how you run a constitutional republic. This ought to be in the hands of Congress'

Rove Ad Invokes Charlie Brown... LMBO!!!! OMG so funny but SO true!

Immigration policy shows Barack Obama is in 'full panic mode,' Rush Limbaugh says - POLITICO.com

Rush Limbaugh on Friday said the Obama administration’s new immigration policy is proof that the president is in “full panic mode” about the upcoming election.

“The regime today told the border agents: ‘If you catch young illegals, let ‘em go and grant ‘em work permits.’ No more deportation of illegal immigrants. They are to be given work permits and they can stay in the country,” Limbaugh said, according to a transcript of his show. “So what this is, is ‘Catch, Release, Vote.’”

Read more: Immigration policy shows Barack Obama is in 'full panic mode,' Rush Limbaugh says - POLITICO.com

'Obama violating Constitution and oath of office'

'Obama violating Constitution and oath of office' http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/obama-violating-constitution-and-oath-of-office/ http://www.wnd.com  Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:23:28 GMT  

President Obama triggered a political and legal firestorm on Friday when he ordered a rule change through the Department of Homeland Security that allows young illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S. and legally obtain work
permits. The policy was one the major components of the DREAM Act, which failed to clear Congress even under Democrat control.

The easing of the rule is aimed at illegals who were brought to the U.S. before they turned 16 years old and are currently younger than 30.  The president says it’s unfair to to punish those young people for decisions their parents made and those young adults are already contributing to society.

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa,  isn’t buying any of that. The Republican lawmaker is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and says the greatest outrage in this move is Obama’s ignoring of the Constitution. King says the president
can’t just create new laws through executive orders because he’s frustrated that his agenda can’t get through Congress.

“This man has refused to enforce immigration law, and now he issues an executive order that essentially institutes an amnesty program by executive order and I think this needs to go to the courtroom and I’m prepared to go there,” King told WND.

King adds that he’s ready to take the president to court for acting in a manner that is clearly reserved for the legislative branch. He has experience in this type of legal fight.

As an Iowa state senator, King successfully sued then-Gov. Tom Vilsack over what King sees as the same type of executive branch power grab.

“What the president is doing is ordering that his executive branch carry out a policy that is in direct violation of constitutionally and congressionally passed federal law,” said King.

The congressman says he isn’t concerned that what the president did may be similar to a reform plan being assembled by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio because the legislative process is where these things need to be hashed out.

King says he will press the legal challenge to the president’s move regardless of what GOP leaders do.

Listen to Rush Limbaugh Dissolve Into Hysterics Over Obama’s Economic Speech

While you may not like Rush Limbaugh and the brass way he comes across some or maybe most of the time this is totally hilarious! I got tickled at Rush laughing but I got even more insanely tickled and really perturbed at the idiot saying it all. I MEAN COME OBAMA! ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!!

Spending money, like Barack Obama - Tea Party Nation

No one spends money like Barack Obama.  He does not care what the tax payers think or even what happens to them.

He has just done it again.

What has he done?

He has gone off fundraising again, sticking the taxpayers with the tab.

In other words, we the people are paying for the privilege of this clown running for reelection.

How is that happening?

Yesterday Barack Obama went to two star studded fundraisers in New York.  Ordinarily if the President goes to a strictly political event, the campaign is on the hook for at least some of the costs of the trip.

But surprise, Obama threw in an amazingly brief trip to the World Trade Center site and suddenly it is an official trip and the taxpayers are stuck with the tab.

Would it be snide to mention yesterday was Flag Day and remind everyone of Michelle Obama’s “All of this for a flag,” comment at the 9/11 ten year anniversary ceremony?

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The Course | The Muslim Brotherhood in America

By allowing our attention to be focused exclusively on the danger and prevention of terrorism, we ignore the many other ways we are being attacked.  Specifically, we are missing what our Islamist enemies call their ‘civilization jihad’ — a form of warfare that employs manipulative financial techniques, lawfare, infiltration of our civil institutions and government and insidious information dominance.  Together, these have the effect of exploiting our liberties and governing structures against us, so that our leaders wind up imposing the very anti-American values that our enemies promote.

Welcome to The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within — a 10-part, web-based video briefing that is designed to explain why and how this is happening.

It addresses a threat most Americans are unaware even exists within our country, let alone the degree of peril it represents.

The threat is the totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine its adherents call “shariah” and the organized, disciplined and increasingly successful efforts by such adherents– most especially the Muslim Brotherhood– to bring it here.

We are making this course available in the hope of encouraging, informing and broadening support for national efforts to defeat the insinuation into this country of shariah’s anti-constitutional and seditious program.

The Course | The Muslim Brotherhood in America

The Muslim Brotherhood in America | A Course in 10 Parts Presented by Frank Gaffney

This is an Absolute MUST SEE!

Have you ever asked yourself why, despite more than ten years of efforts –involving, among other things, the loss of thousands of lives in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, well-over a trillion dollars spent, countless man-years wasted waiting in airport security lines and endless efforts to ensure that no offense is given to seemingly permanently aggrieved Muslim activists – are we no closer to victory in the so-called “war on terror” than we were on 9/11?

Thankfully, we have been able to kill some dangerous bad guys. The sad truth of the matter is that, by almost any other measure, the prospect of victory is becoming more remote by the day. And no one seems able to explain the reason.

In an effort to provide the missing answer, on April 24, the Center for Security Policy is making available via the Internet a new, free ten-part video course called “The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within.” This course connects the proverbial dots, drawing on a wealth of publicly available data and first-hand accounts to present a picture that has, for over a decade, been obscured, denied and suppressed:

America faces in addition to the threat of violent jihad another, even more toxic danger – a stealthy and pre-violent form of warfare aimed at destroying our constitutional form of democratic government and free society. The Muslim Brotherhood is the prime-mover behind this seditious campaign, which it calls “civilization jihad.”

Visit here for the rest of the story: The Muslim Brotherhood in America | A Course in 10 Parts Presented by Frank Gaffney