Yes, Democrats do want illegals to vote

2012: Democrats Benefit From Illegal Immigrant Voting 
. . . "Democratic party spokesmen justify their opposition to laws requiring proof of citizenship in order to register to vote by the absurd claim that poor people do not have birth certificates or passports. But we require everyone, including the poor, to produce such documents when becoming employed for their I-9 Forms. And if that is tolerable, then it must also be tolerable for the same documents to be produced to register to vote and some sort of photo ID in order to vote." . . .

.................................................................................................................................................... Democrats Want Illegals To Vote Because They Vote Democrat . . . "But a majority of those identifying themselves as Democrats do want illegals to have voting rights, along with 21% of Republicans and 30% of the non-affiliated.
"So much for holding U.S. citizenship in high esteem. Instead of Americans choosing the political leaders of their country, anyone who finds a way to get in and live here should be able to, most Democrats believe." . . .

Tony Branco

How the Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration . . . "In 2005, a left-leaning blogger wrote, “Illegal immigration wreaks havoc economically, socially, and culturally; makes a mockery of the rule of law; and is disgraceful just on basic fairness grounds alone.” In 2006, a liberal columnist wrote that “immigration reduces the wages of domestic workers who compete with immigrants” and that “the fiscal burden of low-wage immigrants is also pretty clear.” His conclusion: “We’ll need to reduce the inflow of low-skill immigrants.” That same year, a Democratic senator wrote, “When I see Mexican flags waved at proimmigration demonstrations, I sometimes feel a flush of patriotic resentment. When I’m forced to use a translator to communicate with the guy fixing my car, I feel a certain frustration.”
"The blogger was Glenn Greenwald. The columnist was Paul Krugman. The senator was Barack Obama." . . .

House Democrats Vote In Favor Of Illegal Aliens Voting Washington Times : "House Democrats voted Friday to defend localities that allow illegal immigrants to vote in their elections, turning back a GOP attempt to discourage the practice.

"The vote marks a stunning reversal from just six months ago, when the chamber — then under GOP control — voted to decry illegal immigrant voting. “We are prepared to open up the political process and let all of the people come in,” Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and hero of the civil rights movement, told colleagues as he led opposition to the GOP measure. "The 228-197 vote came as part of a broader debate on Democrats’ major legislative priority this year, HR 1, the “For the People Act,” which includes historic expansions of voter registration and access, as well as a major rewrite of campaign finance laws. "The measure would have had no practical effect even if it had passed. Illegal immigrants — and indeed noncitizens as a whole — are not legally able to participate in federal elections." . . .

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About the #WalkAway campaign

The #WalkAway Campaign website   . . . "The #WalkAway Campaign encourages and supports those on the Left to walk away from the divisive tenets endorsed and mandated by the Democratic Party of today. We are walking away from the lies, the false narratives, the fake news, the race-baiting, the victim narrative, the violence, the vandalism, the vitriol. We are walking away from a party driven by hate. We are walking toward patriotism and a new, unified America! We are the future of this great nation!"



When we see far-left socialists topple long-standing Democratic moderates and liberals . . .Erich Reimer writes:

As a former Democrat myself, I have spoken frequently in the national media in recent years on this trend because it is one that I feel speaks deeply to the current political and cultural movements happening in our country. . . .

#WalkAway Movement to Abandon Liberalism Goes Viral  . . . "The movement has been especially successful because its spokespersons have not been the sort typically associated with conservativism. Young and old, black and white, men and women, gay and straight—the campaign seems to elude stereotypes and pigeonholing.

"The popular young conservative commentator C.J. Pearson, for instance, has given the movement a significant push by highlighting the Democratic Party’s racist past. “The Democratic Party is the party of slavery. The party of Jim Crow. The party of segregation. The party of the KKK,” Pearson tweeted Saturday.

“ 'Democrats walked away from black folks long ago. Now, it’s our time to #WalkAway,” he added." . . .

How the WalkAway Movement Is Giving Disillusioned Liberals a Voice

Once a Democrat, founder Brandon Straka was just denied service at a camera store because of his newfound views

 “I’m shaking right now,” Straka tweeted on Thursday. “I just went into a camera store to buy a camera and a light and mic, etc. and they recognized me from TV. I was refused service because they said it was for ‘alt right’ purposes. That literally just happened.” . . .

Just one day after being exonerated by the House for her ugly anti-Semitism, Ilhan Omar steps in it

Pamela Geller   "Is Rep. Ilhan Omar turning into a Frankenstein? Now this Somali Muslim flame-thrower is attacking Barack Hussein Obama. And why wouldn’t she? After Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats folded and refused to name her in a resolution for her numerous anti-Semitic remarks, she claimed victory. Now, she is going after the big boss, Barack Obama. 

"MadWorldNews Rep. Ilhan Omar is refusing to stay in the Democratic lane and tow the party line. Forget about her immense hatred of President Donald Trump. The 37-year-old Somali immigrant is looking to take over the entire party and she just threw Barack Obama under the bus.

"Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ripped former President Barack Obama in an interview published Friday, belittling his “pretty face” and saying his agenda of hope and change was an illusion, the New York Post reported. She cited the “caging of kids” at the Mexican border and the “droning of countries around the world” on Obama’s watch — and argued that he wasn’t much different from President Trump.

"Going after Obama, the “anointed one,” who Democrats have lionized as the leader of their party, is really baffling. Or is it? There seems to be a new coalition of hardcore leftists who make Barack’s politics look like child’s play. And this is very dangerous as it leads to extreme anti-Israel, anti-American sentiments." . . .

Hayden Williams' attorney: Greenberg previously involved in 'almost a dozen lawsuits'

Campus Reform

"Harmeet Dhillon, the attorney for Leadership Institute Field Representative Hayden Williams, who was assaulted on the campus of the University of California-Berkeley in February, told Fox's Tucker Carlson Wednesday night that 28-year-old Zachary Greenberg, who police say is the man in the viral video who punched Williams in the face, has an extensive history of involvement in the judicial system.

"Dhillon, who was present at Greenberg's arraignment in a California court where he pleaded not guilty to three felony charges and one misdemeanor charge, said that she throughout the course of her research on behalf of her client, Williams, she has uncovered several legal matters in which he has been involved. 

" 'Mr. Greenberg, over the last couple of years, has had numerous incidents where he's filed restraining orders against his roommates in multiple group houses and then moved out of those group houses. His roommates have put in evidence that has been more believable by the court that none of those incidents happened," Dhillon told Carlson. 

" 'He's also had a restraining order filed against him by a former roommate, which was granted by a court and as a result of that restraining he had to turn in his guns to authorities," Dhillon added. "He has filed several lawsuits against landlords that were later dismissed by the courts, found not to be valid, and he has filed small claims claims [sic] against roommates, again, found not be sustained for the most part." 

" 'Almost a dozen lawsuits that I've uncovered that this man is involved in," Dhillon said." . . . 

Majority of Likely Voters Agree with Trump: ‘We Have People in Congress that Hate Our Country’

Well, I can think of a number who hate men, if that counts. TD

CNS News  "A majority of Americans agree with President Donald Trump that some members of Congress “hate our country,” a new Rasmussen Reports survey of likely voters shows.

"Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last Saturday, March 2, Trump said:

“We have people in Congress, right now, we have people in Congress that hate our country.”

“And, you know that, and we can name every one of them, they want. They hate our country. Sad. Very sad. When I see some of the statements they made. Very, very sad.”

Tony Branco

The Chorus Against Joe Biden Running for President Gets Louder; Not Far Enough Left.

Legal Insurrection

The polls say one thing, but Democratic voters and operatives willing to go on the record say something different. So will Biden run or won’t he?

. . . "And just this week, a CNN focus group of Democratic voters echoed the sentiment expressed by the strategists:

The Democrats gathered by CNN, however, said they weren’t interested in Biden. Some said they wanted a candidate who was further to the left.

“I think we need a bold, strong leadership, and you’ll find that in the progressives,” Democratic voter Carol Evans said.

“We had the standard-bearer for the kind of pragmatic centrist candidate in Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Donald Trump is now president. He is not your average political candidate, so we really need to try to think outside the box because, you know, it seems like the dude is made of rubber. Anything you throw at him just bounces off, there’s nothing that sticks,” said focus group member Michael Milisits.

Another Democratic voter in the group, Russell Banks, said Biden “really comes from kinda the good ol’ boy politics from the past.”  Video

Interestingly enough, that same panel of Hillary Clinton voters said they also weren’t enthused about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) running again, and encouraged twice-failed candidate Hillary Clinton to “stay away” from the 2020 presidential race. They did, however, shower praise on Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

Senate May Issue Its Own Measure to Condemn Anti-Semitism

Legal Insurrection
McConnell says anti-Semitism “seems to be more fashionable in this country regretfully, at least among some members of the new class in the House.”

. . . "The Senate passed a bipartisan anti-BDS bill in early February. McConnell mentioned the bill in his remarks, but thinks the Senate may have to expand on it:

“We feel like we already addressed a portion of this through the BDS proposal, and we may well address it again,” McConnell said.

“This is a good time in America to think again about anti-Semitism,” McConnell said. “It seems to be more fashion in Europe. it seems to be more fashionable in this country regretfully, at least among some members of the new class in the House. We need to stand up to it in any way we possibly can.”

"McConnell addressed the House resolution this morning:" . . .

Why Some Republicans Voted against the ‘Anti-Hate’ Resolution  . . . "Lee Zeldin made many of the same points in a floor speech. He also noted that, following Iowa Republican Steve King’s comments about white nationalism in January, Republicans stripped King of his committee assignments, and the whole House passed a resolution naming King and specifically condemning white nationalism. At the time, Cheney said King should resign from Congress. 
"You might still disagree with how Zeldin and Cheney voted, but after reading and listening to their explanations it’s hard to see how anyone could think their opposition to the 
resolution — not the defenses of Omar made by  Nancy Pelosi,  Jim Clyburn, and  2020 Democrats; nor Omar’s anti-Semitism itself — is the real scandal here." . . .

Have the young, radical Democrats even heard of the WW2 Holocaust? (Updated)*

American Thinker is up in arms over this today:

"The Jewish organizational community, almost entirely liberal and Democrat, has not pressured the Democrat leadership in any way near the degree they would have if the victim of hate had been black, Islamic, Hispanic, or LGBT.  Furthermore, there has been no unified call by the 36 Jewish Democrat members of Congress against Omar.  Most liberal Jews seem unconcerned when anti-Semitism comes from the political left, their home base." Rabbi Aryeh Spero

Mike Harris

Rabbi Aryeh Spero:  Democrats cave to Omar's anti-Semitic strategy  "Congresswomen Omar and Tlaib are employing the time-tested, drip-by-drip method used successfully by Islamists in Europe against Jews and Israel.  Week after week, poisonous remarks against Israel or Jews are made by Islamists, with the goal being a continuous seepage of anti-Jewish caricatures into the political discourse and into the minds of a country's population.  Forced apologies are insincere, an expedient — a breather until the next time.  It's death by a thousand cuts to Israel and her supporters." . . . 

The Democrats Cannot Hide Their Anti-Semitism Problem  "The Democrats will not produce a meaningful resolution denouncing anti-Semitism. "The vile hater, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, will not be named. Her position on the powerful Foreign Relations Committee will be as secure as ever. The resolution will dilute anti-Semitism by conveniently placing it among other hatreds.

"Such duplicity is reminiscent of the New York Times burying the Holocaust in the back pages.

"They covered it, just not where you could see it. The Times, like the Roosevelt administration and the British Foreign Office, knew of  the Holocaust since 1942 and chose to ignore it." . . .

The Jewish Press

Thomas Lifson: The Omar Affair is a turning point  "The world's oldest hate finally, officially has found purchase in America with the support of the world's oldest political party, the Democratic Party of the United States.  Yesterday's shameful House resolution was not so much a turning point for American Jewry  as a view of the turning point in the rear view mirror." . . .

Omar emboldened  . . . Omar has gone from attacking Jews directly to attacking non-Jews who defend Jews.

. . . " Sound as if she's going to change her ways?  She doesn't even sound as if she's embarrassed.

"All it shows is that she has a brimming quiver full of Jew-hate and has yet to shoot out all of her arrows.  She won't stop until she makes Jew-hate mainstream.  The quickness of her response shows she has no intention of even pausing.

"Instead of slinking away in shame for a few days, at least, because Congress acted to condemn her anti-Semitism, she's actually treating it as a victory.  After all, she never lost her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee; she got House speaker Nancy Pelosi to grovel for her in both speeches and in the House." . . . 

Jewish Obstinacy in the Age of Omar . . . "But there is an undeniable anti-Semitic aspect in current-day Democratic politics, as optimized by the many offensive statements issued by freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi, faced on one hand with growing public pressure to condemn what is seen as blatant anti-Semitism and trying to balance the need not to cause a fracture within the Democratic Party on the other hand, is trying to walk a fine line." . . .

*UPDATE:  Some Democrats Searching for Primary Challenger to Ilhan Omar
. . . "While, as Breitbart News is revealing here, there is an ongoing effort to seek out a primary challenger to Omar, it remains to be seen if the effort will be successful. Those involved in doing the searching for a candidate–top Democrats with national profiles and connections to senior leaders throughout the party–would only speak on condition of anonymity for this piece, and expressed their ongoing agony as this week in particular has dragged out to the point where Democrats finally passed a resolution out of the House late Thursday condemning hatred and bigotry." . . .

Single Payer Health Care Pros and Cons

Rich Terrell

Heritage: House Democrats Unveil Plan to Bring Total Government Control Over American Health Care  . . . "Ken Thorpe of Emory University, formerly an advisor to President Bill Clinton, estimates that the federal taxation needed to finance the Sanders’ plan would amount to an additional 20 percent tax on workers’ income, and more than seven out of ten working families would end up paying more for health care than they do today. 
"The federal spending and taxation needed to fund the new House bill would certainly be larger. Beyond the potential impact of the bill on the nation’s deficits and debt, independent analysts and economists will also focus laser-like on the size and impact of the new federal taxes on individuals and families at various income levels. 
"Simply taxing “The Rich” will not cut it. 
"The House cosponsors of the Medicare for All Act intend a rapid transformation of American health care.
"Under section 106 of the bill, they authorize the completion of this massive disruption of today’s public and private health insurance arrangements within just two years." . . .

Bernie Sanders : Pros and Cons of Single-Payer Health Care (MEDICARE-For-ALL)
. . . "We will now take a look at the pros and cons of having this plan in place come next year (i.e. if Bernie Sanders win presidential race)" . . .

Canada’s Single Payer Healthcare: The Pros and Cons  . . . "Instead of multiple insurance agencies competing in a private marketplace, a single government agency or multi-government agency pays for the entire bill of health care for all of its residents.
"Every person has all the medical needs covered under one plan and includes all the services: Doctors, hospitals, long term care, prescription, drugs, dental and vision care.
"To top it off, everyone gets to decide where they want to receive their care.
"Sounds amazing, right? How soon can you move to Canada? And in many ways it is an incredible healthcare system. But like anything human made, there are pros and there are cons." . . .

Single Payer Health Care Pros and Cons

Under this, every day we will wake up to find some new government restriction placed on us. TD

Arrogant Obama suggests US couldn’t handle crisis without him in office

Media Equalizer

"Former President Barack Obama always has to make everything about himself. He also apparently has no faith in the United States anymore now that he’s not the commander-in-chief.
"While speaking in Canada on Monday night, the 44th president suggested that the United States couldn’t handle a crisis without him being back in office. 
“ 'If we had a crisis today, I’m concerned that we, at least in the United States, may not be in the habit of trying figure things out in a common sense, practical way,” Obama arrogantly said.
“ 'I think the danger that we have sometimes now in our politics in the United States, and what I’m seeing internationally, is us being driven by passions, and (we) are disconnected from facts, that in fact deliberately are shielded from facts and reason and logic,” he added.
"After taking a shot at President Donald Trump, the former president went on to argue that the world needs a million more versions of himself in order to have a bright future."     . . .

Review: The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

The safety culture burgeoning in US universities is a danger both for ‘coddled’ students and the future of society, warns Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson  "Trigger warnings. Safe spaces. Preferred pronouns. Checked privileges. If you work at an American university these days, you have to tread as if on eggshells, if not land mines. One ill-judged microaggression is all it takes to be accused of racism or sexism, transphobia or Islamophobia, harassment or full-blown rape. Often, such accusations lead to investigations that are the antithesis of due process, with the transgressor deemed guilty until proved innocent.

"I remember when it was not like this. Sixteen years ago, what lured me away from Oxford to New York University (NYU) and Harvard was the sense that the real intellectual action in my field (economic history) was on the western side of the Atlantic. The US economists, in particular, were impressively free in their speech. To present a paper at one of their seminars was to run a gauntlet of caustic criticism. “There are idiots,” Larry Summers famously began one of his papers. “Look around.” He was right. Unfortunately, idiotic ideas were in the process of taking over large swathes of academic life. 

"The speed with which campus life has changed for the worse is one of the most important points made by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt in this important if disturbing book. Lukianoff is a lawyer and head of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Fire), which works to protect academic freedom. Haidt is a professor of social psychology at NYU’s Stern School of Business and the founder of Heterodox Academy, which promotes intellectual diversity in academic life — the one type of diversity that universities appear not to care about." . . .

Gender Neutral Pronoun Insanity at the University of Oklahoma

Enter the Disrupter; Trump ran as an outcast. He promised to ‘drain,’ not to perpetuate, the swamp.

Victor Davis Hanson

"No one in Washington called Donald J. Trump a “god” (as journalist Evan Thomas in 2009 had suggested of Obama) when he arrived in January 2017. No one felt nerve impulses in his leg when Trump talked, as journalist Chris Matthews once remarked had happened to him after hearing an Obama speech. And no newsman or pundit cared how crisply creased were Trump’s pants, at least in the manner that New York Times columnist David Brooks had once praised Obama’s sartorial preciseness. Instead, Trump was greeted by the Washington media and intellectual establishment as if he were the first beast in the book of Revelation, who arose “out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.”

"Besides the Washington press and pundit corps, Donald Trump faced this third and more formidable opponent: the culture of permanent and senior employees of the federal and state governments, and the political appointees in Washington who revolve in and out from business, think tanks, lobbying firms, universities, and the media. Or as the legal scholar of the administrative state Philip Hamburger put it: “Although the United States remains a republic, administrative power creates within it a very different sort of government. The result is a state within the state — an administrative state within the Constitution’s United States.”  . . ."