Suddenly obama is at a loss for words.
Often the lack of words matter.
On Friday obama was left with only Janet “I’m not Janet Reno” Napolitano to trade fist bumps as he signed a new $600 MILLION border security funding bill (S.3721/H.R.6080) in the Oval Office with only photographers present to record the moment.
No reporters were allowed in the room by this new transparent administration.
There were no pretty speeches before the assembled media for which to provide CNN with a 30 second sound-bite it could play over and over for obama fanatics.
No “see, I promised this during my campaign and I have delivered” type talk like obama gave when he announced a troop draw-down in Iraq.
Why so hush-hush?
Could it be that obama wants to keep this under the radar of Hispanic and Latino supporters who also happen to be supporters of illegal immigration?
Illegal immigration supporters complain that this bill did not provide a “path to citizenship” for illegals.
Margaret Moran (no doubt pronounced “mo-ron”), president of the League of United Latin American Citizens says the bill represents anti-immigration xenophobia (AP, YahooNews, 8/13/10).
It actually represents anti-illegal immigration xenophobia; let’s not confuse the two.
Could obama’s mostly silent Oval Office ceremony be due to the fact that he may have read the NY Times on July 31, 2010 which told of a Quinnipiac University poll that found only 38% of Hispanics approve of the way obama is handling illegal immigration?
…or, this is great, the same poll also found that only 47% of Hispanics think that obama has been a better president than President George W. Bush.
When your election victory rested on 10 states (worth 142 electoral votes) that were decided by minority voters, you need to pay attention to this stuff (http://www.frey-demographer.org/reports/R-2009-2 HowRaceAffect2008Election.pdf).
Could it be that obama realizes any talk of “bipartisan” group-hugs on this matter is blatantly baloney?
Democrat obama and his democrat point-man in the Senate on this bill, Chuckie Schumer of New York, rejected 3 amendments by republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, that would have made this bill, which Schumer described as “smart and tough (Congressional Record, 8/5/10, p.S6838),” smarter and tougher.
obama constantly talks of the need for republican cooperation, yet when they offer cooperation obama turns his back and says, “I was only kidding; it’s more fun to call you all obstructionist.”
McCain wanted to include an amendment that would have provided $20 MILLION for a law enforcement center that would help governments identify illegals and immigration eligibility status (CR, p. S6839).
Republicans want to make sure who is here legally and who is here illegally, like we are supposed to do according to U.S. law.
In July obama called for immigration reform that would contain measures for “more workplace scrutiny (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0701/Despite-difficul t-politics-Obama-pitches-immigration-reform).”
No, Schumer told McCain.
Are obama and his generals hypocrites?
We will pay for it from stimulus monies, said McCain.
No, said Schumer, the stimulus is only for things that create jobs (CR, p.S6839).
Really?
Unemployment is higher now than it was when obama took office and started spending the stimulus money.
How many jobs were created by spending $1.5 BILLION of the stimulus money for the Department of Education to guarantee student loans? (CR, p.S6839).
Republicans say the obama administration has spent $20 MILLION of the stimulus (your tax dollars) on putting up street signs throughout the country that identify certain projects as creations of obama’s great use of your tax dollar (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/signs-stimulus/story?id=11163180& page=1).
Democrats say republicans lie…it has only been $5 MILLION (but $28 MILLION has been allocated and could be used for this purpose).
Republicans say ok; in July they introduce a bill that would stop spending stimulus money on these blatantly political road side signs.
No, democrats defeat the bill.
Could obama’s relative silence on this bill, which is an “emergency supplemental appropriations act,” be due to the fact that it is of the same type that he and democrats railed against Bush’s use of to fund the Iraq War?
In 2007 obama voted against an “emergency supplemental appropriations” bill to support the troops in Iraq.
Could obama’s silence on this issue also be due to the fact that it taxes legal immigrants?
What would a democratic bill be without new taxes?
Answer: Hope and change.
Chuckie Schumer says, “The best part of this border package is it is fully paid for and will not increase the deficit by a single penny (CR, p. S6838).”
Hmmm.
The bill (S.3721)spends (funds “to remain available until”) the $600 million until next year, September 30, 2011.
obama’s new tax on immigrants coming to this country on L1 or H1B visas ($2250 and $2000 respectively), will, according to the Congressional Budget Office, raise $552 MILLION “over ten years (http://www.gop.gov/bill/111/2/hr6080).”
Yet the bill only calls for this new immigrant tax until 2014…four more years.
Wait a minute…
obama spends $600 MILLION over the next year in this bill…
Chuckie says it won’t cost the taxpayer a dime because it is funded by the new immigrant tax…
Yet the CBO says the new immigrant tax raises $552 over 10 years.
I think we’re short some millions there somewhere…oh, like in the first freakin year!
Robbing Peter to pay Paul, the bill does make up some of the shortfall however; it takes $100 MILLION from US Customs and Border Protection, which was used for “border security, fencing, infrastructure, and technology.”
However, now little democrats can scurry home and tell their non-minority constituents that they are doing something about illegal immigration (and, actually, legal immigration), “…something other than suing the State of Arizona…”(Alabma Senator Jeff Sessions, (R), CR, p. S6839) for doing something about illegal immigration.
Balogna; when you don’t have the stomach for beef.
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