Supreme Court OK of Obamacare is a huge gift to Mitt Romney and GOP

Within the the 1st hour  after the Supreme Court announced Obamacare legislation would stand, the Romney Presidential campaign coffers were flooded with campaign donations. This one decision has totally fired up the base like nothing else could.

Chief Justice Roberts said, in so many words, if you don't like the law, throw out the politicians who passed the law.  That will be a rallying call for the large majority of Americans who do not like the intrusive law that was forced upon them.

If Democrats want an inkling of what's in store for them this November, they just have to look at the smashing defeat they were handed in the 2010 elections, when Americans had their first opportunity to express their feelings of how they felt towards the Obamacare bill.

If Obamacare had been struck down by the court this morning, it could have been a non issue for the next few months as the election season heats up.  But now Nancy Pelosis prophetic words of "You will find out what is in the healthcare bill after you pass the bill," are going to haunt Democrats, as Americans find out what's really in the 2,700 pages of Obamacare.

Mitt Romney vowed this morning, that the first thing he would do if elected as President would be to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a far better plan.  He said if you want to get rid of Obama care, you have to get rid of President Obama. It will be up to the Romney campaign to expose the hidden details of Obamacare that the American people are not aware of:  The hidden taxes, the rationing,  limited choices, the huge expense, the harm to the economy and just how lacking a government run healthcare system is.

But if Mitt Romney wins the Presidency this November, he will also need the Republicans to pick up a majority in the Senate and maintain, or increase their majority in the House.  Otherwise, it will be an exercise in futility for him to try to repeal Obamacare, with Harry Reid blocking all bills that come the Senates way. Republicans know it and vulnerable Democrats will face their ire this November.

Even before this decision, many Democrats have been distancing themselves from President Obama and some have even declined to attend the Democrat national Convention in North Carolina.  This is not a good sign for Democrat party unity.

The fired up Republican base and many others who comprise a large majority of the population opposed to Obamacare, will get to show Nancy Pelosi just what they think of  it....Now that they're going to get a chance to see what's really in it. 

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Obama abandons Arizona, the border will be like no country for old men

Along the Arizona/Mexican border, dozens of heavily armed spotters man look out points on mountain peaks commanding the shimmering, parched landscape below. They usually man these posts for two weeks at a time, taking provisions with them to last the entire 14 days. They are equipped with night vision technology, powerful binoculars and high tech communications able to keep them  in touch with command centers miles away.

But these aren't US military personnel or  law enforcement, they are soldiers of powerful Mexican drug cartels, who own these crossing points where vast amounts of drugs and human traffickers stream  into the United States.   These spotters are on the look out for the US border patrol who is tasked with keeping these invaders out.  Hamstrung by the vast areas of desolate country they have to patrol, as well as having to respect environmentally sensitive areas which the cartels could care less about, our forces are out manned and outgunned.  

Like the Cohen Brothers movie, "No country for old men," the undercurrent of this landscape is harsh, lawless and violent.  It is ruled by brutal men, who do not hesitate to resort to violence in order to protect their investment in drugs and human trafficking. Headless bodies and rape trees tell the tale of how brutal this place can be.

Mule trains of human and drug traffickers on foot, some carrying burlap sacks filled with drugs, walk into the United States under the watchful eyes of the spotters high above them.    Once they reach a staging area, they change clothes so they look more American and discard what they had been wearing.  They also discard the burlap bags as they transfer the drugs to vehicles. These smuggling corridors are littered with abandoned vehicles,plastic bottles, cans, clothing, shoes, food, black plastic bags, and empty burlap sacks.   

You would think, that at the very least,  the EPA would be enthusiastically suing the cartels for despoiling the desert environment...as enthusiastically as they sue and harass our own US corporations and industries.

We are having a war waged against us on our southern border.  This war is filling our country with dangerous illegal drugs and swamping us with undocumented illegal immigrants who are overloading our social services.

A border state trampled and drowned by illegal and criminal invaders, Arizona was dealt a severe blow a few months ago by the Obama administration.  They were told not to call Dept of Homeland Security for help with their immigration enforcement problem because Homeland security wasn't going to answer.

Evidently President Obama was in a snit when the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a controversial provision requiring police to check the immigration status of people they detain and suspect to be in the country illegally.  So President Obama decided to circumvent the intent of the ruling by another executive order and withdrew federal  immigration enforcement help and cooperation from Arizona.

Even Justice Scalia wrote a scathing indictment against the Obama administrations intimidation of Arizona's efforts to protects its borders when he penned: " Arizona contradicts federal law by enforcing applications of the Immigration Act that the President declines to enforce boggles the mind.”

President Obama's decision to suspend laws on immigration and harass the State of Arizona for trying to protect its citizens from a criminal invasion,  is indeed mind boggling.

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President Obama has pushed the Constitution, now the Constitution pushes back

The Supreme Court will rule this week whether President Obama's health care bill is constitutional and whether his Justice Department under embattled Eric Holder can stop Arizona from enforcing immigration law.

The administrations prestige is riding on the outcome of these decisions. 

Since the President has touted himself as a constitutional scholar, you would think a positive outcome for him is a foregone conclusion. But most legal experts have said Obamacare is an overreached Frankenstein monster of a law and flawed constitutionally as it forces citizens to purchase private insurance. 

The state of Arizona crafted their own immigration laws after finding the Obama administration was not cooperating with enforcing  federal immigration laws in their state.  Arizona found itself deluged with illegal immigrants and tried to do something about it, they enacted their own laws that mirrored federal laws.  The Obama Justice Department immediately sued them for doing so and now the case is ready to be ruled on.

Just one of these rulings in a session is momentous and there will be grave political consequences for President Obama if he loses.

Obama will take the heat and rightfully so, for devoting his time to ramming an unpopular health care bill down Americas throat, while the economy was melting down.  He will also be criticized for trying to intimidate and bully a state for trying to protect itself from an illegal immigrant invasion by passing a law that basically mirrors federal law. 

But the Obama administration has a third constitutional issue which is about to erupt unless it finds some way to stifle it. 

For the past year and a half the Congressional inquiry into the erupting scandal known as "Fast and Furious," has been hitting a brick wall with Attorney General Holder.  Congress has been looking into the gun running, murders & arming of drug cartels on our border with Mexico.  The Obama administration has only given paltry cooperation with the committee and refused to hand over key evidence which could show who was responsible in the administration and what was at the root cause of the operation.

Due to the Attorney Generals intransigence  and non cooperation with the key watchdog of the people, Congress next week is to hold a full scale vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.  President Obama, apparently in an attempt to protect the incriminating documents from being revealed, has exerted executive privilege to try to circumvent the Congressional investigators right to know.

This week will define if our country is a constitutional republic governed by laws, checks and balances....Or a sort of hybridized monarchy whose constitution can be skirted by a popular President who uses executive orders, regulation and selective enforcement of existing law to achieve his goals.

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Attorney General Holder is fast becoming the reason Congress is furious

 For the past year and a half, a Congressional oversight committee has been asking for cooperation from the Obama administration.  This cooperation includes document requests and testimony related to the smoldering gun running scandal known as Fast and Furious. For 1 1/2 years, the Justice Department, headed by Attorney General Eric Holder has not been fully complying with their requests and subpoenas. His underlings have provided conflicting testimony and some have been transferred in order to make it more difficult to question them.

What's at the crux of the Fast and Furious gun running scandal is that the federal government purposely let thousands of high powered, dangerous guns be sold illegally in Arizona under the guise of tracking them to their criminal destinations.  But hardly any of the guns were tracked and they eventually fell into the hands of criminals and gangs.  These guns were responsible for crimes on both sides of the border, the deaths of hundreds of Mexican citizens and the death of at least one of our own Federal border agents.

But some people have openly stated the real motive was to make Arizona look like a lawless, out of control, gun ridden area that needed to be clamped down on by the Federal government.

After all of this time, the Congressional committee headed by Congressman Darrell Issa, has been given only 7,000 documents out of the over 130,000 documents requested from Obamas Justice Department.  Furthermore many of the documents handed over to the committee were heavily redacted, or blacked out in order to shield key pieces of information.

The stalling and contempt for the committees requests for information has set up a dramatic showdown, as the oversight committee is set to make an historical vote on whether to charge the recalcitrant Attorney General with contempt of Congress.  Unless the Attorney General comes clean within the next several hours, look for yet another confrontation between this administration and the other branches of government.  

If the committee votes to hold the Attorney General in contempt, it will be an historic watermark.  The Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States.  If he is held in contempt by our Congressional committee it would be both embarrassing to the administration as well as a vote of no confidence for it's Attorney General. 

All of this would be unnecessary if the administration cooperated in this investigation. 

It is the duty of the Congress to oversee the operations of the government and delve into areas they think are corrupt or fraudulent.  They should be given full cooperation by any in the government that they request information from, regardless of who they are.

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President Obama declares himself King and changes immigration policy

President Obama decided to arbitrarily change our immigration policy when he signed an executive order  bypassing existing law. 

 If America is going to change it's immigration laws, it must be done with the cooperation of all branches of our government.

Yes Mr. President, you and others in Congress wanted to pass an amnesty law known as the Dream Act.  But it never made it through that pesky Congress the American people voted in to represent them.  But just because Congress didn't pass a law that you wanted enacted,  doesn't give you the power to flaunt the will of the people and snub them by signing an "executive order."

President Obama stated in a speech several months ago that the existing law and constitution prevents him from making changes to our immigration law.   Our country is a constitutional republic with 3 separate but equal branches of government, law needs to be approved by all 3. Evidently President Obama woke up this morning, looked at his falling poll numbers and decided to be King.
Being king is much more convenient and less messy than being a President.

Yes America has an illegal immigration problem because our borders are porous and our existing laws are being ignored. The motives behind this are many, but one glaring reason is that it is being done for political purposes.
                                                                                                                                 
At a time when unemployment rate among American citizens is said to be in the 14% range, it is an insult to those struggling financially and out of work, to give as many as a couple of million here in the United States illegally, legal status.  They will compete for the few precious jobs available and further burden our social systems. 

This "back door, on the path to amnesty" signed by executive order, is a dangerous precedent for our country.  Congress and the rest of America need to stand up and tell President Obama, he is not the king.

This country was explicitly founded on the notion that we don't have royalty, we rejected it in 1776 and we reject it now in 2012.

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Is Obama White House willing to jeopardize national security for political gain?

Recent revelations that leaks of the most highly sensitive military intelligence operations emanated from the White House, have triggered FBI investigations.  Additionally, last Friday Attorney General Eric Holder announced he appointed 2 Deputy Attorney Generals to investigate the source of these leaks.

Security experts have been quoted they have never seen the magnitude of such leaks in their experience.  These leaks could be responsible for the deaths of many who work in the clandestine world of intelligence and result in the crippling of America's ability to defend itself in the war on terror. But the leaks all have one thing in common:  They portray President Obama in a good light.

Did leaks result in deaths to SEAL Team 6?

Last year, as news was released from the White House regarding the successful operation in the killing of Osama Bin laden in Pakistan, you could hear a collective gasp from the intelligence community as major details of the operation were released to the public. Those details included identifying SEAL Team 6 as the military team performing the successful operation.

Military intelligence experts were horrified to hear even the mention of this highly trained team being involved in this operation and feared for reprisals against  team members and their families. Just 3 months later,  a helicopter loaded with SEAL Team 6 personnel, many the same ones involved in the Osama Bin Laden operation, was shot down in Afghanistan.  31 members of the team perished when that helicopter was hit with a Taliban missile.  Coincidence?

Major setback in effort to stop Irans nuclear ambition?

Iran has been feverishly working to perfect a working nuclear weapon.  Many fear if Iran gets nuclear capabilities it would work with terrorist organizations to spread them around the world and not hesitate to use them.

But Iran has been plagued with technical problems in their quest to build nuclear weapons.  Their computers were infected with a virus and their top nuclear scientists were dying from another virus spread by lead poisoning (bullets).  But thanks to White House leaks, the Iranians know their computer problems have been the result of clandestine US and Israeli operations, introducing a worm called Stuxnet .  The Iranians know the name of the virus and will now be able to examine security cameras and find the double agent who introduced that virus into their system.  Iranian reprisals to anyone that betrayed them will be brutal and deadly.

Drone use should be top secret

Leaks that President Obama was personally picking out terror suspects in the middle east for killing by our ultra secret drones, has also damaged our security.  Military experts have said even the mention of our drones is a breach of our military security, much less announcing that President Obama was personally making those life/death decisions.

Some secrets need to stay secret forever

Even more damaging to our war on terror, was the blurting out by White house sources that  allies had infiltrated an agent into Al Quaeda.  This security breach came when a terror suspect was arrested attempting to board an aircraft wearing the most sophisticated bomb yet seen.  The blood sweat and tears spent on the infiltration into Al Quaedas operations was wasted by one statement crowing that we had infiltrated them.


Will investigation be all sound and no fury?
Attorney General Holder works for the White House.  The two Assistant Attorney Generals,  Holder appointed to investigate these security leaks, work for Holder.  Many people don't expect much to happen with Holder in charge of the investigation, especially before November elections.  In the meantime, how many brave people working silently in the undercover war on terror will be sacrificed for political gain?

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Left placed on suicide watch after smashing defeat in Wisconsin

Ed Schultz near tears

 The Tuesday June 5, 2012 date, will go down as epic a defeat for the left,  as the of the Battle of Gettysburg was for the south. 

Fox News had a man on the street interview with a Wisconsin Democrat activist who had just got news his efforts to recall Governor Walker had gone down to defeat.  Through his tears he whined that "this was the day democracy died in America."  Huh? This election is what democracy is all about, one side wins, the other side loses...Usually without bloodshed, that's the idea.

If you weren't paying attention and your only source of information was the New York Times, ABC, CBS and NBC....

You would think the outcome of the recall election of Governor Walker last Tuesday was a real squeaker and he just survived.  But that is not the case, no matter how they spin it.  Governor Walker and his Lieutenant Governor Kleefisch, hit the Democrats and their government union allies with a humiliating defeat.

Left leaning pundits and political spin doctors try to explain it away as: "We just didn't get our message across" and have also used the "we were outspent by out of state special interests"  and "folks were getting recall fatigue" as an excuse for their election day catastrophe.

In spite of some Democrat districts having 119% voter turnout,  (How do you get more votes than registered voters?), millions upon millions of dollars in attack ads and bussed in out of state "volunteers" waging war against the Governor,  he won with a large margin in a very Democrat state.

Wisconsin voters evidently didn't need to listen to the message, but just looked at the numbers and they liked what they saw. Governor Walker balanced their budget, which had a 3.5 billion deficit when he took office, but most importantly broke the stranglehold the government unions had on his state. 

Many other states teetering on the brink of fiscal insolvency are taking note of how Wisconsin stood up to the Democrat/labor machine and crushed it.  On the same day as the Wisconsin recall election 2 California cities, San Jose and San Diego, facing fiscal calamity themselves, overwhelmingly voted for public union pension reform, in spite of heavy Democrat and public union campaigning against it. The handwriting is on the wall:  The once supreme control the Democrats/government unions had over many of the blue states will be a thing of the past.

But Wisconsin is just one battle out of many and the news gets worse for Democrats

There have been a series of setbacks for Obama and the left this past week besides the Wisconsin defeat.  Ugly job numbers, Romney took in record amounts of donations, insubordination in the Democrat ranks by high profile figures and a growing call by many for the Attorney General to resign.

These setbacks, failures and political betrayals are just on the domestic front.

Internationally, Europe is careening towards a fiscal meltdown in spite of President Obama lecturing them several months back that they must eat their fiscal peas. Syria is slaughtering its civilian population while the administration dithers and Iran races forward with their plan to go nuclear, thumbing their noses at us.

Possible huge scandal looming?

Disturbing stories in the New York Times, seem to confirm the source of leaks of some of our most highly classified information may be coming directly from the White House, who seem to be politicizing our national security.  These leaks have lead to the jailing of our intelligence asset in Pakistan who helped us kill Osama Bin Laden, exposed our top secret SEAL team 6 and outed a double agent infiltrated into Al Quaeda. They also let Iran know we and the Israelis had corrupted their nuclear computers with a worm that had befuddled them...until now.

Awkwardly for the President, all of the security leaks seem to be designed to shed him in a positive light.  President Obama in an impromptu news conference yesterday was confronted with a reporters question regarding these leaks.  In a bizarre answer, he said he was offended that anyone would think the White house would be the source of such leaks...But he never technically denied them either.

To top it all off, a new poll came out that showed Mitt Romney is gaining in popularity and it is likely Republicans will consolidate their hold on the House of Representatives.  The poll also showed Republicans have an excellent chance of gaining control of the Senate in the coming November elections.

Seems the best thing about last week for President Obama and the left, is that it is over.

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Is Bill Clinton the Republican secret weapon?

Barack Obama and Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton is proving to be a valuable source of endorsement sound bytes for the Mitt Romney campaign.

As President Clinton does his obligatory stumping for Obama, stark differences between his free market beliefs and president Obama's anti business record erupt and cause friction between the two.

The Obama campaign had recently tried to demonize private equity firm Bain Capital, where Mitt Romney served as CEO,  as a "vulture capital" firm, only interested in finding distressed companies and stripping them of assets to line their own pockets. As the narrative was supposed to go, Bain was an evil capitalistic firm that loved to lay off employees in order to squeeze out every last penny of profit.  Favorite time of lay offs of course was right before Christmas,  so bonuses didn't have to be paid and end of year tax write offs could be maximized.

Of course that was how the Axelrod/Obama/Plouff script was supposed to be read by the "team players"  Evidently the script didn't get passed around to all the team mates and many high profile Democrats, didn't spin the Bain story that way.  In fact many of them defended Bain Capital and the whole system of capitalism as being a fundamental good force in our economic system.


Other high profile Democrats defended Bain

One such player was hugely popular Democrat Mayor of Newark New Jersey, Corey Booker.  In a high profile display he singled out Bain Capital as a good company which didn't deserve the criticism heaped upon it.  But he soon tempered that statement after being taken to task by the White house team and did an awkward sort of meandering apology after the fact.

Influential Democrat strategist Lanny Davis, condemned the negativity being directed toward Bain Capital & Mitt Romney by the Obama political team...and didn't back down from his statement.

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But heavy hitter Bill Clinton stepped into the Bain Capital arena:  “I don’t think we ought to get in the position to say ‘this is bad work,'" said the former president referring to the Obama campaign’s characterizations of Mitt Romney’s work at private equity firm Bain Capital.

Clinton even went as far as suggesting that likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is qualified to be President of the United States:

“There’s no question that, in terms of getting up and going to the office, basically performing the essential functions of the office, a man who was governor and had a sterling business career, crosses the qualification threshold,” the former president said of Romney....Bain is a good company and should not be criticized."

Of course that recent Bill Clinton semi endorsements of Mitt Romney to be President were met with a visit to the same woodshed that Corey Booker was taken to when he defended Romney's Bain Capital and Clinton came back and tempered his comments.

But Bill Clinton is a smart wily politician and does not make many gaffes...mistakenly.  This has lead to some speculation that perhaps Bill Clinton, the politician,  is looking to do some payback to the Obama campaign for some of dirty laundry launched his way during the Democrat primary where he was campaigning for his wife Hillary.  Many insiders say Bill Clinton is still steaming for underhanded tactics thrown towards the Clinton's by the Obama team. He was supposedly outraged to have the race card thrown at him.

Is Bill Clinton secretly helping Hillary to get the 2016 nomination?

To further this speculation along, a new book out called "The Amateur", by highly respected journalist Ed Klein, suggests that Bill Clinton has a low opinion of President Obama and refers to him as an amateur.

In the book, Bill Clinton, was supposed to have been urging Hillary to run against Obama in the 2011 primaries, thinking she would be a better President than Obama has proven to be.

President Clinton showed during his Presidency he had the ability to work across the aisle in order to get major legislation passed and even get a balanced budget.  This is a far cry from what has been happening in Washington DC for the past 3 1/2 years under President Obama, who seems to not be able to bend his ideology and work with others across the aisle.

Of course there is much speculation that Hillary will run for President in 2016.  Who but Bill would be a better campaigner to see this goal accomplished?   Perhaps he is laying the groundwork now by drawing a stark line between the Clinton attitude of pragmatism and Obama's unbending ideology.

In any case I think the Romney campaign will welcome the help,  as Bill Clinton continues to stump for President Obama.


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