Earlier this month, Governor Jan Brewer sat in the Oval Office with President Barack Obama to discuss the critical issue of border security. The Governor personally related to the President the concerns of millions of Arizonans over the lack of security on Arizona’s southern border. During their visit, President Obama committed to present details, within two weeks of their meeting, regarding his plans to commit National Guard troops to the Arizona border and commit to spend $500 million in additional funds on border security.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Website

Of course, I’m not suggesting that I condone any continued exploitation of the so-called undocumented workers by employers, but I also don’t think our government should be using its resources (read: our tax dollars) to help secure an even brighter future for those who shouldn’t be here to get exploited in the first place. Now, if the government is using this as a ploy to gather ‘em up and ship ‘em back to where they came from, then okay…but we all know such activities will get you slapped with a lawsuit.

But don’t worry – the government is quickly working toward securing the borders. We’re not just giving up patrolling entire sections of our border because it’s just too hard to do, right? No political “amnesty-first” stranglehold being leveraged by the Administration there, right? I think Joe Barton was correct about this Administration’s affinity for “shakedowns” – first BP and now Congressional Republicans (and the less-squishy moderate democrats.) Yes, the fight for the Latino political soul continues in earnest, and the losers are all legitimate US citizens (go to 3:40 of the clip to hear what the President told Sen. Kyl).

My disclaimer on this last bit – it does require that one take Kyl at his word versus a vehement denial from the White House, but who are you most apt to believe after the last 18 months?

If you had $15.6 septillion and 94 cents in your account, would you save the world from the economic crisis or build a Death Star, destroy the world, and move on to invade the galaxy?

And if the construction firm set up shop in Connecticut, Chris Dodd could probably have gotten the funds appropriated!

Yes, that’s a whooping 1.4 trillion times the current US Debt. Or a sightly more meaningful number: 124 trillion years of war in Iraq.

Reporter: What kind of plane is it?

Johnny: Oh, it’s a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol.

As revealed to me this afternoon by one of my staff, the Zuckers actually lifted their masterpiece, almost line-for-line, from an obscure 1957 drama called “Zero Hour!”.  The plot’s the same (a bad fish dinner incapacitates the crew) and the lead character’s name (Ted Stryker) is even the same.  It’s like all they did was re-shoot many of the scenes and tack on a silly punchline at the end.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting…

In the same interview, he also said, “The social budget is limited—we have a limited resource pool. It makes terribly good sense to at least know the price of an added benefit, and at some point we might say nationally, regionally, or locally that we wish we could afford it, but we can’t.”

And don’t forget – Congress has passed a law exempting themselves from this mess.

Photo Credit (Mel’s ATCs)

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/04/10/barack_obama_president_pantywaist__new_surrender_monkey_on_the_block

It sure was 2 months ago.  Just ask Al Sharpton…

http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/18/al-sharpton-monkey-cartoon-obama/

Still, it’s good reading (especially considering it’s from a vinegary old Brit.)  It confirms my suspicion that the only thing the world hates more than a strong, sometimes unilaterally-acting America is an apologetic, appeasement-oriented America.  At least with the former, they can throw their stones of indignance without fear of being nuked by some bad guy.

I’m just waiting for Obama to officially change his name to Chamberlain.

Limbaugh has recently added an “Obama’s teleprompter told him to say…” facet to his on-air schtick.  Just a few moments ago he revealed that Obama’s teleprompter even has its own blog!

Go meet ‘TOTUS‘ and see what he has to say.

Here is Barak Obama’s Teleprompter’s Blog homepage – http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/.

Mrs. Clinton was over in Geneva today meeting with the Soviets…er, I mean Russians.  As a symbol of The Admnistration’s desire to begin anew our relationship with them, she used a prop and tactic that would embarrass the most worthless political hack: she gave the Soviet…I mean Russian (sorry I keep making that mistake) Foreign Minister a plastic Office-Depot-Easy-Button-

Credit : http://www.apfn.org

Congress just passed a $700 billion “stimulus” package less than two weeks ago.

Today, the headlines read that the House just passed a $410 billion spending bill and that Obama is preparing a $634 billion health care fund.  All of this on top of Obama’s bold statement that he’ll cut the deficit in half by 2013.

How?

Well, you obviously know how.  What needs to be re-focused is Obama’s historical position on the concept of taxes, socialsim, and the purpose of government in general.  And we can get that from Dreams of My Father.  Allow me to point you to a posting from National Review…from AUGUST 2008 (i.e., plenty of time before the election to wake the voting public up).  I also encourage you to read the Investors Business Daily article this post references.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGZiMGZlNGRiOWJjYzE5OTEwMWEwZWZhOTQzZjVjMTY=

“…high taxes are morally and practically good, if the government then uses them to provide for the people. How high should the tax rates be?  ”Theoretically,” he wrote, “there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.”  Yes, you read it: a 100% tax rate is fine.  Obama Sr. continued, ” It is a fallacy to say there is a limit (to tax rates), and it is a fallacy to rely mainly on individual free enterprise to get the savings.”

The real betrayal of Specter, Collins, and Snowe

posted at 11:15 am on February 16, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

I have one last thought on the Porkulus events from last week.  This weekend, Mitch and I took a lot of calls on the passage of Porkulus, with many demanding some retribution for Senators Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins.  Usually, both Mitch and I advise against revenge on defector votes.  We both agree that a big-tent party has to have room for some disagreement, and the only way to get to a majority again in Congress is to build a large enough coalition to take charge.  Purity drives lower our numbers and our ability to influence policy.

This, however, is a different matter.  First, the Republicans need to re-establish credibility as the party of fiscal responsibility, and supporting Porkulus is antithetical to that effort.  No matter how big a tent the Republicans need to pitch, they still need to stand for core values — and among them should be fiscal responsibility and smaller government for greater individual liberty.  Porkulus fails on both counts, which is why the House GOP maintained a solid wall of opposition to it.  Specter, Snowe, and Collins apparently don’t share those values.

But in this case, the betrayal goes beyond core values.  Despite Barack Obama’s demagoguery earlier in the week, many Republicans wanted a big stimulus package to come out of Congress as quickly as possible.  Given the chance, Republican partnership would have produced a bill with less long-term spending, more short-term spending, better tax cuts, and a huge reduction in the health-care bureaucracy that comprised almost half of Porkulus. Such a bill would have easily received a hundred Republican votes or more in the House and may have passed on acclamation in the Senate, and it would have sent a message of unity in a time of economic crisis.

In order to get that, Republicans had to shut down Porkulus.  It would have forced Democrats to negotiate with Republicans and get the better bill to Obama’s desk.  All we needed was Republicans to stand firm in the service of their fellow Republicans and to defy Nancy Pelosi’s triumphalism.  The House did its job, as did most of the Republicans in the Senate, even while saying that they would support a real stimulus package.  Instead, Specter, Collins, and Snowe essentially stabbed their colleagues in the back — while Specter whined about the lack of debate on the bill, after he voted for cloture and an end to debate.

That was the real betrayal.

What can the Republicans do to the Porkulus 3?  Not much, really.  The GOP needs them to offer an illusory chance at filibustering legislation, although their failure to filibuster something as bad as Porkulus more or less exposes that as an empty threat.  Republicans need to find credible primary opponents for these three, even if it means losing the seats, because after Porkulus it appears they’re already lost.