Estimating yesterday's crowd size, Stephen Colbert said,"Six billion". spoofing the Beckites' claim of 1 million for their Restore Honor rally. Colbert returned to the scene of his first crime, testifying on immigration on the Hill. If Washington pundits legitimize the teabaggers, they absolutely, totally don't have a clue at what went on at yesterday's rally, which CBS estimates drew 250,000 but probably much more than that. Politics USA wrote yesterday that the John Stewart/ Colbert Show drew twice or as many as three times Glenn Beck's crowd. And from what I could observe it outdrew the One Nation rally.
The National Park Service offered the idea that the rally surpassed 300,000. From the capitol building to the Washington Monument is impressive. The two previous rallies around the Lincoln Memorial had to contend with the reflecting pool and it's clear from the photos that this was more massive.
When I expressed my doubts to my son that many people would show up, he said that friends of his were coming from Ohio for this. He said that all his fellow college students get their news from John Stewart and Stephen Colbert. In fact, a whole generation turned in to see John Stewart's interview with Barack Obama before the rally. A fact that escaped everyone in Washington.D.C.
Depending on your age and taste, the rally had something for everyone. An aging baby-boomer wrote that seeing Tony Bennett made his day. For fans of the Captain and the L.A. Lakers, Stephen Colbert's attack of Muslims brought the reposte by John Stewart that all Muslims aren't bad. "How about this guy?" And on walks Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The array of signs brought home the goof on the teabagger crowd--posters of Colbert as Hitler, a smiley face with a Hitler moustache, an aging hippie with a sign,"No Socialists Here", a Muslim woman with a sign,"I'm Muslim but I also fear terrorists", and a slew of takes on the idea of sane politics.
In the next few days, you will read more drivel about the rally than you can imagine. This morning's post had an op-ed ,which said that one can hope for civility but that doesn't mean one accepts the liberal politics of the DNC. We were assured that the intrepid reporter interviewed many at the rally who were liberals. Days before Washington pundits begged John Stewart to cancel the rally because these were serious times and the political decisions to be made were heavy. What was interesting is to see how narcissistic all the commentators were, trying to somehow outsmart John Stewart. Perhaps, one of the more honest comments was from Howard Kurtz who tweeted that he had no idea how all these people got here and what they were doing. Andy Borowitz upped the tweet by posting, "Fox News estimates crowd size at 7."
Remember Washington does not do irony, sarcasm or humor very well. Gloria Bolger at CNN sniffed,"Do these people even vote?" What people will avoid in the next few days is that the rally just destroyed the whole image of the Glenn Beck pretense of wrapping patriotism around a fundamentalist religious concept. The Beck follies were termed "historic" by Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and the other right-wing talk shows. They just got owned by two comedians, who did it all much better with wit.
Frank Rich's column today in the New York Times is about how the teabaggers are going to get owned by the Republican party. Rich reviews the actual strength of the teabaggers--about 2% of the population--and the findings of the Washington Post, which found that of the several thousand chapters the average take was $800. for this year's elections. He points out that the real Teabag operation,as well knew, was engineered by the Koch Brothers and Dick Armey. None of the Republicans who used the teabaggers have any intention of letting these people interfere with their agenda of tax cuts for the wealthy and the elimination of regulations demanded by their corporate masters. Rich remarks how repulsive Republicans like Mitch McConnell find Jim DeMint's demand the U.S. adopt biblical law. They were a good show that propelled the necessary media narrative that the Republicans were not the same people who crashed the economy and ran up $12 trillion in debt. To this degree, Republicans have been masterful in changing the storyline.
A Bloomberg poll reports that the vast majority of Americans really believe that Barack Obama raised their taxes, despite the real world fact that 90% of Americans really got a tax break. The majority also believe that it was Barack Obama that created the TARP program, not George W. Bush, and also believe that the program didn't pay back the money. The absolute confusion of the American voter on economic reality is staggering and ,unfortunately, will aid the Republicans.
The torrent of ads by Karl Rove and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce actually pedal the myth that Obama's policies are killing jobs, even though Obama has surpassed Rove's boss's record in job creation in only 20 months. The propaganda against the stimulus program has been astonishing and ,unfortunately, the administration has not kept up its educational effort on this front. A few months ago, they had launched a tour by Joe Biden and statistics by leading economists about the number of jobs saved and created, the millions of children who received health care, and the strengthening of state governments. All that has clearly not withstood the assault by the anonymous private and foreign donors.
Dana Milbank writes today about where are the adults in the Republican Party. Even right-winger Barry Goldwater said that essence of holding a post in Congress was compromise. The House Republicans have already ruled out any compromise with the Obama Administration. Even veteran Republicans like Judd Gregg said that repealing the healthreform bill was folly but he has been loudly shouted down. Mitch McConnell has clearly said that the whole purpose of Republicans in Congress was to make Barack Obama a one-term President. So much for the nation.
David Broder today pontificated how Barack Obama is clearly the brightest bulb in the political frimament and he stands heads of shoulders above any potential Republican candidates. This is actually an astonishing admission from Broder. But he warns that really nothing can be done about the economy since the markets move in their own time. He says that there will not be a strong enough recovery to propel Obama into a second term. But He says there is one way President Obama can recover--Go to War with Iran. Beam me up, Scottie.
Meanwhile in a new episode of Northern Exposure, the Republicans are jumping ship over Joe Miller and are now pouring resources into the Lisa Murkowski write-in campaign because America's Hero , Scott McAdams, stands a chance of winning. The Alaskan judges are trying to get on board by ruling that people can have assistance in filing out the write-in ballots. Apparently, Joe Miller has stepped into it big time. When he was a federal magistrate, he was obligated by law to list all his assets or face jail-time. It turns out that not only did he omit the 40 acres and a the two-story house he owned on his FEC filing , but also on the form he submitted when he was a judge. Big Problem.
In Nevada, it is wild and woolly. John Ralston writes in the Las Vegas Sun that virtually everything is running against Harry Reid this year. But he expects Harry to pull it out. He recites Harry's loss in the Senate race in the 1970s, his loss for mayor, and his slim margins of victory ever since. Ralston claims that Reid needs to keep Angle's lead among independents to single digit (something he is not doing right now) but that his ground game is outstanding this year and that he leads in the early voting.
In California, Barbara Boxer is performing just as she has done historically. Slow start, often behind, and gradually over the period of the campaign open enough of a lead to win. It's nice to know something is working normally this year.
Charles Cook yesterday wrote that Republicans have zero chance on taking the Senate this year. He has flipped some of his toss-up states over to the Democrats. He's now sayng that Republicans now might pick up between 6 to 8 seats in the Senate.
Not to be deterred Campaigner Barack Obama returned to the Midway Pleasance, where I used to live, and addressed over 30,000 people in Chicago. (I just love the name, which comes from the old Chicago World's Fair.) He was trying to whip up the crowd to vote for the Governor and the Senate. He had stopped in Philadelphia also but just for a meeting with organizers. And he should hit Ohio today.
The Republicans are banking on taking the governorship of Ohio so as to lay the groundwork for 2012. It looks like Karl Rove will have to return to the scene of his crime. He was served with court papers for a trial on rackeetering, which will look into his activities in the 2004 election and answer questions about his donors in this election. After all the attempts at a Citizens' Arrest by Move-On and other anti-war activist, it took the skill of an elections lawyer to nail him. Unfortunately, for the case, the key witness on fraud in 2004 was a Republican computer hacker, who died in a mysterious plane crash and the hard drive to his computer was never found.
President Obama has spent alot of political capital in Ohio for Governor Strickland. But what may destroy John Kasich is the issue of gun rights. The local NRA will not endorse Kasich because when in congress he received an "F" on gun rights. Ohio gunowners are coming out for Strickland, who they say is far better. This would be one of the few times that the gun issue actually bit a Republican. This may account for Strickland inching ahead in the late polls.
In Florida, Alex Sink , the Democrat, has moved out ahead of Rick Scott. From a simple law and order point of view, it's necessary for her to win.
NPR has been running alot of roundtables on what Washington will look like after the election. A good many of the commentators really do not get the fact that Republicans are serious about not cooperating at all with the Administration. In fact, people are commenting that at least Newt Gingrich learned to cooperate with Bill Clinton, but that there is no one even like Newt around now. One of the first showdowns will be when Congress must raise the debt ceiling of the country. The strong odds are that Republicans will oppose since they have become fiscal conservatives. This will shut the government down to just essential services. Social Security checks will not be paid, government and military pensions will not be paid, Medicare will not be paid and even the larger military budget will not be paid. The question will be how long can the Republicans keep the shutdown going.
Senator Tom Coburn wants Republicans to keep submitting bills to repeal the healthcare bill even though he has publically said they don't have a chance of passing. (P.S. Howard Dean is of the opinion that the healthcare bill can survive without the individual mandate, which conservatives are suing about. On this, Howard is pretty clever but I have no idea what he has in mind.)
The one area people seem to think may produce a solution is on the infrastructure. As of last week, President Obama raised in his weekly address that hope of bipartisan cooperation and specifically mentioned the need to improve our infrastructure so we can compete in the world. The six-year infrastructure program is expiring, which means that our Highway Fund is depleted. The Administration wants to raise the gas tax to fund this but John Boehner claims he has never voted for a tax increase and won't on this occasion. But his master Tom Donoghue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says he has all the information that this has to be done or else we will fall behind in global competition. People expect corporations will twist Boehner's arm. Rep. Mica, the lead Republican on this issue, voiced his opinion that infrastructure spending will be a top priority. Even the Chamber knows this will be a massive job creator and Donoghue has said openly that the economy desparately needs it. But it means spending money. So watch this play out.
What I would like to see is that in the lame duck session that the Republicans filibuster the tax proposals of President Obama for the tax cuts for the wealthy and that the White House doesn't compromise and all tax cuts expire. And President Obama use the White House bully pulpit to call out the Republicans and their masters. Quite frankly it would make fiscal sense. Since no one believes he cut taxes in the first place, why would they give the President credit with keeping middle-class tax cuts?
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Afternoon coffee at the Last Manatee-Fall Edition
I decided to clean out my junk e-mail file this morning. 840 out of 850 were offers for Viagra and Cialis. Several of the remaining 10 were offers from Russian women. And only three were travel ads. It's not coincidental that I discovered the last time I did this that all sex e-mails were generated because of 'cookies" left by rightwing web sites.
On the book shelf this morning are two dreadful reads. The first is Dinesh D'Souza's The Roots of Obama's Rage, Regenery (2010). Dinesh channels his inner V.S. Naipul but only comes up with his own racism. Our President can't be understood unless you understand he's a Luo tribesmen with an anti-Colonial mentality. Dinesh travels territory I remember so well--Franz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral--and only comes up with something truly incomprensible. P.S. I voted for Obama particuly because of his Luo background. I always found the Luo to be one of the best technocratic tribes in Africa. And we sure needed one. Dinesh seems a little confused about the United States' historic attitudes toward colonialism. Born in Mumbai, D'Souza forgets that we didn't look kindly even on British colonialism.
The second is Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Teabagging of America by Washington Post's Dana Milbank (Doubleday, 2010). Apologies to Dana. Dreadful should refer to the subject. Milbank takes you on a tour of Beck's fixation with Woodrow Wilson, Adolf Hitler, and Barack Obama as well as his dependence of Mormonapocalyptic thinking and John Birch Society conspiracy theories. Thrill to the government's plan to put all conservatives in FEMA camps and the imminent demise of the United States because progressives are planning their Reichstag moment. The book raises the issue of what today's writer should focus on. Was it the advance to get one's kid through college? Was it that this would be an easy bestseller? But I wonder whether someone with Dana Milbank's talent should really exhaust his energies with this guy. I know it's very tempting. Anyone reading this blog knows I spend too much attention on this lunatic.
Shame on White women. The Christian Science Monitor reports that the enthusiasm gap among Democrats is rapidly ending. African-Americans and Hispanics are roaring back to levels usually unknown in mid-terms. The younger voter is coming back. But the one sector of our society in both parties not enthused by the elections are the White women. If there is one election where women's rights are truly threatened, it's the 2010 midterms. Reproductive rights, even the use of birth control, mammograms (unbelievably),single women teaching in schools, equal pay for equal work, childcare, child nurition, child healthcare--let alone adult healthcare. This is all up for grabs this year. Democrats are beginning to run ads against the slew of candidates against rape in the case of incest and rape--a no brainer in the rational world. You don't have to be enthused, just vote.
The DNC reported its monthly take, which was its best month so far--topping $16 million in small donations, 90% of which are $25. But the shadowy non-profits are laundering over $100 million from unknown donors. This is several times the amount in past elections thanks to the Citizens United decision.
James Clyburn's House numbers are Democrats retain with 234. That's like 30 more than Nate the Great. Clyburn pointed to several unexpected Democratic pick-ups in the offing. Keep that number in mind, knowing that he has to put the best spin on it.
Queen Meg canceled her next debate with Governor Moonbeam. She is following this year's Republican tradition of avoiding debates, especially if her polling goes down every time she opens her mouth.
I received another fund-raising letter from Sharron Angle this weekend. It said that Jim DeMint would be there for her when she comes to Washington. How horrifying is that! The neo-confederate (that's not a smear but an accurate description) DeMint this past week declared himself King of the United States. He wants prior approval of every bill before the Senate or he won't allow it to be debated or discussed. In a sick way, he can do this through a misuse of Senate rules. So we don't even have to a filibuster threat anymore.
Meanwhile Super-Christian Tom Coburn has put a hold on the $1 billion aid to Haiti because he fears that $5 million might be wasted. I guess he changed his mind since the Iraq War which saw billions on pallets disappear into the Mesopotamian night.
Remember how in Iraq and Afghanistan we were supposed to increase the ability of the State Department and USAID to handle post-war issues to faciliate a drop in our military presence. Apparently, Congress didn't get the memo--Republicans are trying to gut such aid because they still don't like the State Department or USAID. For once, Michael Gerson wrote a sensible column explaining how counterproductive such actions are.
You'll recall my cheers when Obama's Justice Department decided to settle the Indian Trust case, which has gone on for a generation. Big problem, the Senate doesn't want to pay. Well, not really, Senators have told Indian groups they want to pay but it's combined with the settlement of the claim by African-American farmers, which also has gone on a generation. The Senators told the Indian groups they didn't want to pay the black farmers because they thought too many of the cliams were fraudulent.
It used to be that the debate over minimum wage was whether to raise it or keep it at the same level. Now we have a new talking point--eliminate it. This is sweeping tea baggers and candidates like Linda McMahon in Connecticut. Joe Miller in Arkansas argues it's unconstitutional. I guess he never heard of the "general welfare" wording in the Constitution.
And Senator Feingold really is in political trouble.
On the book shelf this morning are two dreadful reads. The first is Dinesh D'Souza's The Roots of Obama's Rage, Regenery (2010). Dinesh channels his inner V.S. Naipul but only comes up with his own racism. Our President can't be understood unless you understand he's a Luo tribesmen with an anti-Colonial mentality. Dinesh travels territory I remember so well--Franz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral--and only comes up with something truly incomprensible. P.S. I voted for Obama particuly because of his Luo background. I always found the Luo to be one of the best technocratic tribes in Africa. And we sure needed one. Dinesh seems a little confused about the United States' historic attitudes toward colonialism. Born in Mumbai, D'Souza forgets that we didn't look kindly even on British colonialism.
The second is Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Teabagging of America by Washington Post's Dana Milbank (Doubleday, 2010). Apologies to Dana. Dreadful should refer to the subject. Milbank takes you on a tour of Beck's fixation with Woodrow Wilson, Adolf Hitler, and Barack Obama as well as his dependence of Mormonapocalyptic thinking and John Birch Society conspiracy theories. Thrill to the government's plan to put all conservatives in FEMA camps and the imminent demise of the United States because progressives are planning their Reichstag moment. The book raises the issue of what today's writer should focus on. Was it the advance to get one's kid through college? Was it that this would be an easy bestseller? But I wonder whether someone with Dana Milbank's talent should really exhaust his energies with this guy. I know it's very tempting. Anyone reading this blog knows I spend too much attention on this lunatic.
Shame on White women. The Christian Science Monitor reports that the enthusiasm gap among Democrats is rapidly ending. African-Americans and Hispanics are roaring back to levels usually unknown in mid-terms. The younger voter is coming back. But the one sector of our society in both parties not enthused by the elections are the White women. If there is one election where women's rights are truly threatened, it's the 2010 midterms. Reproductive rights, even the use of birth control, mammograms (unbelievably),single women teaching in schools, equal pay for equal work, childcare, child nurition, child healthcare--let alone adult healthcare. This is all up for grabs this year. Democrats are beginning to run ads against the slew of candidates against rape in the case of incest and rape--a no brainer in the rational world. You don't have to be enthused, just vote.
The DNC reported its monthly take, which was its best month so far--topping $16 million in small donations, 90% of which are $25. But the shadowy non-profits are laundering over $100 million from unknown donors. This is several times the amount in past elections thanks to the Citizens United decision.
James Clyburn's House numbers are Democrats retain with 234. That's like 30 more than Nate the Great. Clyburn pointed to several unexpected Democratic pick-ups in the offing. Keep that number in mind, knowing that he has to put the best spin on it.
Queen Meg canceled her next debate with Governor Moonbeam. She is following this year's Republican tradition of avoiding debates, especially if her polling goes down every time she opens her mouth.
I received another fund-raising letter from Sharron Angle this weekend. It said that Jim DeMint would be there for her when she comes to Washington. How horrifying is that! The neo-confederate (that's not a smear but an accurate description) DeMint this past week declared himself King of the United States. He wants prior approval of every bill before the Senate or he won't allow it to be debated or discussed. In a sick way, he can do this through a misuse of Senate rules. So we don't even have to a filibuster threat anymore.
Meanwhile Super-Christian Tom Coburn has put a hold on the $1 billion aid to Haiti because he fears that $5 million might be wasted. I guess he changed his mind since the Iraq War which saw billions on pallets disappear into the Mesopotamian night.
Remember how in Iraq and Afghanistan we were supposed to increase the ability of the State Department and USAID to handle post-war issues to faciliate a drop in our military presence. Apparently, Congress didn't get the memo--Republicans are trying to gut such aid because they still don't like the State Department or USAID. For once, Michael Gerson wrote a sensible column explaining how counterproductive such actions are.
You'll recall my cheers when Obama's Justice Department decided to settle the Indian Trust case, which has gone on for a generation. Big problem, the Senate doesn't want to pay. Well, not really, Senators have told Indian groups they want to pay but it's combined with the settlement of the claim by African-American farmers, which also has gone on a generation. The Senators told the Indian groups they didn't want to pay the black farmers because they thought too many of the cliams were fraudulent.
It used to be that the debate over minimum wage was whether to raise it or keep it at the same level. Now we have a new talking point--eliminate it. This is sweeping tea baggers and candidates like Linda McMahon in Connecticut. Joe Miller in Arkansas argues it's unconstitutional. I guess he never heard of the "general welfare" wording in the Constitution.
And Senator Feingold really is in political trouble.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Octopus Picks and Headless Bodies
The Psychic Octopus has made its final picks for the World Cup. Germany will beat Uruguay and Spain wins the whole thing topping the Netherlands. Place your bets. The octopus has never been wrong the whole time. People are so incensed over the creature's predictions it has received death threats.
Speaking of death threats, Dana Milbank ought to be worried about his Washington Post column today joyfully entitled " Headless Bodies and other immigration tall tales from Arizona." Milbank eviscerates Governor Jan Brewer and the immigration hysterics. Besides the fact that everything said by supporters of the Arizona Law is wrong, I guess you just have to get into the mindset to accept such nonsense. General Boykin has. He's on Christian radio stations alerting the country to whole towns in Mexico converting to Islam and secret cells being infiltrated into the United States by smugglers of illegal immigrants. Since President Obama will do nothing about this, the Southern California Christian Militia is calling on fellow militia men to flood the border and in particular patrol the 80 mile stretch from the border to Tucson, which Fox News says Obama seceded to Mexico. This raises the important question,"What gun would Jesus use?"
Governor Brewer, who was chosen by God to be Governor of Arizona, says that law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded. Apparently Daniel Pearl was one of them. Tastless I admit. But apparently, the Arizona Guardian Website checked with medical examiners in all of Arizona's border counties and they had never seen an immigration-related beheading. Well, John McCain says that Phoenix has become the number 2 kidnapping capital in the world and after all he's a war hero. Apparently, that's not true either. Kidnapping reports are going down and almost every other city on planet Earth has a higher rate.
OK, the utter mayhem on the border has just rattled the Arizona politicians so they exaggerate a little bit. I mean the Arizona authorities simply had to take matters into their own hands because President Obama has allowed a porous border to be used by rampaging Mexican Muslims bent on creating death panels and forcing border towns to adopt sharia law. They're picking off law enforcement officers like flies. Well, that's not quite true either. Although less than 25% of deaths are linked to immigrants.
The Arizona Republic conducted a report based on the FBI and local police agencies and found that the crime rate in the border towns was ..well.. pretty much the same for the last decade. In 2000, for instance, there were 23 rapes, robberies and murders in Nogales, Arizona. After a decade of population growth, there were 19 such crimes. The Pima County sheriff forgot to get the memo. He says "the border has never been more secure." But Vietnam war hero and POW John McCain says the violence simply is the worst he has ever seen even during bombing raids over Vietnam. The horror is such his whole family are contemplating evacuating at least a dozen of their homes in the state.
The FBI statistics actually show that violent crime rates in all the border states are lower than they were a decade ago. President Obama claimed last week in a moment of delirium that "the southern border is more secure today that any time in the past 20 years." But as Bill O'Reilly said last night President Obama by suing Arizona is waging war of the people of America.
This is an outrage. Governor Brewer claims that the majority of people immigrating illegally "are coming here and they're bringing drugs, and they're doing drop houses and they're extorting people and they're terrorizing families." I guess even the Muslim Mexicans are afraid. It's so bad that the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector has apprehended more than 170,000 undocumented immigrants since October 1, but only about 1,100 drug prosecutions have been filed in the whole state of Arizona in that time. But Bill O'Reilly says that there are over 1,500 violent illegal immigrant felons in jail in Phoenix so I guess the Tucson Border Control missed this. Sarah Palin said that as President she would send as many National Guardsmen to the border as was needed for this national crisis. I'm sure they would be see this as relief from serving several tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It's so bad that these illegals are leeching across borders all the way to Georgia where one legislator claimed yesterday that illegals were costing the state $1 billion a year. Not since the Italians flooded our shores with anarchists has there even been such a crisis. And where is Eric Holder? Well, apparently in the fall, Homeland Security and the FBI busted up a ring of smugglers who were responsible for roughly 80,000 people coming across the border every year. Fox News apparently was busy that day.
Or maybe they were on to an even bigger story--the nation-wide conspiracy of the New Black Panther party to intimidate voters. Not since ACORN managed to put Obama into the White House has something so dastardly been plotted. And President Obama does nothing.
What's a White Boy to Do but Join a Rock and Roll Band. But this might support the secular, socialist government.
Speaking of death threats, Dana Milbank ought to be worried about his Washington Post column today joyfully entitled " Headless Bodies and other immigration tall tales from Arizona." Milbank eviscerates Governor Jan Brewer and the immigration hysterics. Besides the fact that everything said by supporters of the Arizona Law is wrong, I guess you just have to get into the mindset to accept such nonsense. General Boykin has. He's on Christian radio stations alerting the country to whole towns in Mexico converting to Islam and secret cells being infiltrated into the United States by smugglers of illegal immigrants. Since President Obama will do nothing about this, the Southern California Christian Militia is calling on fellow militia men to flood the border and in particular patrol the 80 mile stretch from the border to Tucson, which Fox News says Obama seceded to Mexico. This raises the important question,"What gun would Jesus use?"
Governor Brewer, who was chosen by God to be Governor of Arizona, says that law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded. Apparently Daniel Pearl was one of them. Tastless I admit. But apparently, the Arizona Guardian Website checked with medical examiners in all of Arizona's border counties and they had never seen an immigration-related beheading. Well, John McCain says that Phoenix has become the number 2 kidnapping capital in the world and after all he's a war hero. Apparently, that's not true either. Kidnapping reports are going down and almost every other city on planet Earth has a higher rate.
OK, the utter mayhem on the border has just rattled the Arizona politicians so they exaggerate a little bit. I mean the Arizona authorities simply had to take matters into their own hands because President Obama has allowed a porous border to be used by rampaging Mexican Muslims bent on creating death panels and forcing border towns to adopt sharia law. They're picking off law enforcement officers like flies. Well, that's not quite true either. Although less than 25% of deaths are linked to immigrants.
The Arizona Republic conducted a report based on the FBI and local police agencies and found that the crime rate in the border towns was ..well.. pretty much the same for the last decade. In 2000, for instance, there were 23 rapes, robberies and murders in Nogales, Arizona. After a decade of population growth, there were 19 such crimes. The Pima County sheriff forgot to get the memo. He says "the border has never been more secure." But Vietnam war hero and POW John McCain says the violence simply is the worst he has ever seen even during bombing raids over Vietnam. The horror is such his whole family are contemplating evacuating at least a dozen of their homes in the state.
The FBI statistics actually show that violent crime rates in all the border states are lower than they were a decade ago. President Obama claimed last week in a moment of delirium that "the southern border is more secure today that any time in the past 20 years." But as Bill O'Reilly said last night President Obama by suing Arizona is waging war of the people of America.
This is an outrage. Governor Brewer claims that the majority of people immigrating illegally "are coming here and they're bringing drugs, and they're doing drop houses and they're extorting people and they're terrorizing families." I guess even the Muslim Mexicans are afraid. It's so bad that the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector has apprehended more than 170,000 undocumented immigrants since October 1, but only about 1,100 drug prosecutions have been filed in the whole state of Arizona in that time. But Bill O'Reilly says that there are over 1,500 violent illegal immigrant felons in jail in Phoenix so I guess the Tucson Border Control missed this. Sarah Palin said that as President she would send as many National Guardsmen to the border as was needed for this national crisis. I'm sure they would be see this as relief from serving several tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It's so bad that these illegals are leeching across borders all the way to Georgia where one legislator claimed yesterday that illegals were costing the state $1 billion a year. Not since the Italians flooded our shores with anarchists has there even been such a crisis. And where is Eric Holder? Well, apparently in the fall, Homeland Security and the FBI busted up a ring of smugglers who were responsible for roughly 80,000 people coming across the border every year. Fox News apparently was busy that day.
Or maybe they were on to an even bigger story--the nation-wide conspiracy of the New Black Panther party to intimidate voters. Not since ACORN managed to put Obama into the White House has something so dastardly been plotted. And President Obama does nothing.
What's a White Boy to Do but Join a Rock and Roll Band. But this might support the secular, socialist government.
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