Wednesday, June 11, 2014

On the "Cantor Calamity" and immigration

More Cantor fallout: What happens to Obama’s executive order on deportations now?  ... "He’s done next to nothing for liberal amnesty fans since then. If he runs away in terror at the sight of Cantor getting blown out of the water, some of them might boycott the midterms, and suddenly the GOP’s looking at an even bigger night than everyone expects. He’s got to act.

"So, when? When is the least damaging moment politically for Obama to make this now inevitable move? My best guess is that he’s going to stick to the original timeline of doing it during the August recess. " ...

Comprehensive Defeat 
 
"A lot of Republicans, disproportionately those in Washington, D.C., harbor the fantasy that the party could make great gains among Hispanic voters if it would only offer legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, create large guest-worker programs, and refrain from insisting that enforcement of the existing laws be shown to work before taking these steps. Cantor refused to shut the door on this approach, so primary voters shut the door on him."
 
Brat’s Victory Means Re-evaluation Time for the GOP   " Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who embraces a more welcoming immigration policy than does much of the Republican nominating electorate, may construe Cantor’s defeat as a discouraging augury concerning any presidential aspirations Bush might have."

Did Democratic Meddling Defeat Eric Cantor?   "Dave Brat's stunning victory over House majority leader Eric Cantor is being hailed as a huge win for the Tea Party and immigration hawks, but might Brat actually owe his victory to Democrats, who were eligible to vote in Tuesday's open primary? That's a question Republican strategist Patrick Ruffini raised late last night on Twitter, where he pointed out that Brat performed very well in districts where Obama did best in 2012:: ...  In other words, was Brat the Democrat's choice?

‘Amnesty’ Has Claimed a Victim   ... "To critics of immigration reform, the defeat of Cantor reflects a growing wave of opposition to congressional action on immigration, particularly anything resembling the Senate-passed measure that offers a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants here.
 
"But if a wave exists, there was no evidence of it in the Republican primary in South Carolina won by Senator Lindsey Graham, a co-sponsor of the Senate bill and an outspoken advocate of letting illegals stay in the U.S.  Graham got four or five times as many votes as Brat."

Its time for some balance in our outlook on Muslims

Buzzfeed  From their post titled, "32 Pictures That Will Change The Way You See The World "
 "These photos of Ahmad and Fatima, a young married couple who, despite Ahmad having no arms and Fatima having no legs, take care of each other:"
These photos of Ahmad and Fatima, a young married couple who, despite Ahmad having no arms and Fatima having no legs, take care of each other:
 
This act of kindness:
This act of kindness:

HOW TO SOLVE THAT "HUMANITARIAN CRISIS" - HUNDREDS, PERHAPS THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT KIDS BEING DUMPED BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IN ARIZONA AND OTHER STATES

"THIS CURRENT CRISIS IS COMPLETELY MANUFACTURED BY OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES - BY OPENING THE BORDERS AND REFUSING TO PROSECUTE ILLEGALS WHICH SENT THE SIGNAL TO PEOPLE WANTING TO COME HERE ILLEGALY(sp) THAT NOW WAS THE TIME."

"IT IS CLASSIC CLOWARD-PIVEN - (FROM WIKI):
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty".
 Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel
 "IN THIS CASE, OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES ARE HOPING TO MAKE THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRISIS SO BAD THAT - 
(AFTER THE LEFTIST DOMINATED MASS MEDIA PUSHES THE "HUMANITARIAN CRISIS" ASPECT OF THE MESS) - 
CONGRESS WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO PASS AMNESTY.
IF YOU THINK THINGS ARE BAD NOW, WAIT TILL THEY START TO DEBATE A BILL IN CONGRESS; 
WHAT LOOKS LIKE A FLOOD NOW WILL BECOME A TSUNAMI!
THERE'S ONE WAY TO STOP THIS:
VOTE GOP IN NOVEMBER! 
DAVE BRAT GOP THAT IS! WOW!"
 
Emphases in the original
Ann Couter: Cantor Loses By 11 Million Voters  ..."Cantor spent more than $5 million on his campaign. Brat spent less than $150,000. But Brat made the election about Cantor's support for amnesty, so he won.

"The pro-amnesty crowd -- i.e., everyone except the American people -- promptly lost its collective mind. The amnesty shills went on the attack, insisting that Cantor's historic defeat had nothing to do amnesty. Brat's triumph was touted as simply a victory for the "tea party.

The incomprehensible booty for a military deserter

Pakistan Daily Times   "Here is the real question. Who benefits from this deal? The United States military does not benefit. This eviscerates morale within the ranks. There are no yellow ribbons tied around the old oak tree, no veterans clamouring to line up and shake Bergdahl’s hand."...
 
Political Cartoons by Lisa Benson
 
Political Cartoons by Glenn McCoy
 ... "Americans no longer trust Washington’s elite ‘Liar’s Club’. The Beltway jesters consistently deliver unbelievable whoppers. Captured on the ‘battlefield’? Bergdahl was not captured due to superior Afghan firepower and ground support. He was not taken by the enemy after firing the last bullet, throwing a grenade, or slicing the liver out of the enemy with his K-bar." ... 
Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez
 
... "President Obama ran on a platform of transparency in government but the drawbridge went up the day he walked into the White House. He has consistently worked to actively deny Americans basic truths regarding his ill-clad foreign policy endeavours." ...

Hat tip to Always On Watch

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

FOX News Most Trusted, MSNBC Least Trusted, Media Matters Hardest Hit

American Glob   "A study by the Brookings Institute asked the following question…
“Which of the following television news sources do you trust the most to provide accurate information about politics and current events?”
 
"Ed Morrissey of Hot Air has more details…
The most-trusted name in news for all Americans is, unsurprisingly, Fox News, which also has the highest ratings by far in the industry. Broadcast news — the three networks — come in a close second, with CNN a more distant third place. However, the “honor” of being the least-trusted name in news, in practically every demographic, is MSNBC, a subsidiary of NBC News — which ranks below Jon Stewart among all but Democrats.
"None of this is very surprising. FOX News is the only news network, cable or otherwise, which is willing to ask difficult questions of the Obama administration which is exactly why it drives liberals crazy.
"MSNBC is not so much a news network as it is a home for insane progressives who insult conservatives in vicious ways, then apologize, get fired and are quickly replaced by people just like them.
"Media Matters, which claims to be an impartial media watchdog and operates as a tax free non-profit organization, constantly attacks FOX News while completely ignoring MSNBC.
"Then again, it looks like everyone else is ignoring MSNBC too."

Related:
Shocker: MSNBC Is Everything Liberals Accuse FOX News Of Being
 
"John Nolte of Breitbart sums it up…
Like a frustrated child who flips over a board game and screams, “I win!”, the George Soros-funded, tax exempt Media Matters for America declared victory in its years-long war against Fox News.

Government regulations protect us from businesses

Left pivots from ‘Tea Party is dead’ to ‘Tea Party hates Jews’ after Cantor loses

First this: House Majority Leader Cantor defeated in primary   "In an upset for the ages, Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, the second-most powerful man in the House, was dethroned Tuesday by a little-known, tea party-backed Republican primary challenger carried to victory on a wave of public anger over calls for looser immigration laws." ...

The entire Left is a real piece of work.

Twitchy   "Really? This is the spin the left is going to put on the VA-7 primary? House majority leader Eric Cantor lost his primary because Republicans don’t like Jews?" ...

Dave Wasserman @Redistrict
There will be lots of 2nd guessing tmw on Cantor loss . Surely will focus on debt ceiling/leadership role, but his religion a role too?
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DickinsonForCongress @VoteMike2014
@Redistrict: but his religion a role too?” Tea partiers hate non Christians
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Jonathan Weisman         @jonathanweisman
Eric Cantor was the Speaker-apparent, the first Jewish Speaker of the House. This is simply amazing
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There is at least some sanity among these crackpot posts:
 
DCCyclone @DCCyclone
.@Redistrict That's silly, he was Jewish when they voted FOR him a bunch of times, too.
 
The Top 8 Consequences of Cantor's Defeat  ... "This is a stunning night for the GOP. And just as in 2010, the establishment and its donors have no idea just what to do about it. The answer should be: unify." 

White House: Immigration Didn’t Sink Cantor    "Cantor’s campaign sent out direct mail pieces ahead of the election maintaining that he was ”stopping the Obama-Reid plan to give illegal aliens amnesty,” but challenger Dave Brat accused him of supporting “amnesty” based on his support for legislation such as the KIDS Act, which would give citizenship to children brought to the country illegally."

Laura Ingraham: Cantor Loss 'Massive Wake-Up Call' for GOP on Amnesty

Eric Cantor Defeated by David Brat, Tea Party Challenger, in Primary Upset  ... "The result delivered a major jolt to the Republican Party — Mr. Cantor had widely been considered the top candidate to succeed Speaker John A. Boehner — and it has the potential to change both the debate in Washington on immigration and, possibly, the midterm elections."
 
 

ABC News’s Diane Sawyer destroys Hillary Rodham Clinton on Benghazi

WaPo   ... "In an interview with Clinton that aired last night on ABC News, anchor Diane Sawyer threw the ARB right back in the face of the former secretary of state. The two tangled over the preparedness of the U.S. diplomatic installation in Benghazi for a terrorist attack. In defending her work on this front, Clinton stressed that she had delegated the particulars of security to the experts in the field. “I’m not equipped to sit and look at blueprints to determine where the blast walls need to be, where the reinforcements need to be. That’s why we hire people who have that expertise,” said Clinton, who did the interview as part of the tour for her book “Hard Choices.”

"Sensing an opening, Sawyer cited the document that Clinton herself has so often cited:" ... More
 

 

10 June, 1944

World War II Database  "Yamato departed Tawi-Tawi for Batjan, Halmahera at 1600 hours for Operation KON; this was reported by American Submarine USS Harder. Shortly after, the Japanese fleet spotted a periscope and carried out evasive maneuvers that nearly resulted in a collision between Yamato and Musashi. [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
  • The town of Oradour-sur-Glane in central France was destroyed. Nearly all of its 652 inhabitants were killed by troops of the SS Division Das Reich; only 10 survived the massacre with fire and machine gunning. [TH]
  • USS Mingo arrived at Manus, Admiralty Islands for training. [Main Article | CPC]
  • German SS troops massacred 218 civilians at Distomo, central Greece, in revenge for losing seven men in a partisan ambush. [AC]
  • USS Hawkbill arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. [Main Article | CPC]
  • Chinese troops captured Lungling, Yunnan Province, China. [Main Article | CPC]
  • Former Chinese light cruiser Pinghai was renamed Yasoshima. [Main Article | CPC]
  • Kittyhawk fighters of No. 80 Squadron RAAF shot down a Japanese Ki-61 aircraft over New Guinea island. This was the last Commonwealth Kittyhawk fighter victory of the war. [Main Article | CPC]
France
  • RAF Lancaster and Halifax bombers attacked four airfields in France. At Leval, where German fighter-bombers were operating in attacks on the invasion beaches, the runway was cratered in several places, interrupting sorties for 48 hours. [Main Article | AC]
Germany
  • The German High Command commended Italian "Folgore" parachute regiment. [CPC]
Hawaii
  • Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Parts of Air Group 19 on board. [Main Article | DS]
Pacific Ocean
  • USS Harder detected a Japanese fleet in the Celebes Sea consisted of three battleships, four cruisers, and a number of destroyers, but was in turn spotted by a Japanese aircraft. As destroyers approached her position, she moved forward and fired three torpedoes before diving, hitting one destroyer with 2 hits. She survived a two-hour depth charge attack. [Main Article | CPC]
United States
  • The US Eighth Army was activated in the United States under the command of Lieutenant General Robert Eichelberger. [Main Article | AC]
Photo(s) dated 10 Jun 1944
US Army vehicles moved inland from a Normandy invasion beach, Jun 1944Biscayne participating in amphibious exercises off Arzew, Algeria as flagship of US Navy Rear Admiral B. J. Rodgers, 10-11 Jun 1944A platoon of African-American troops of the US Army moving along a farm house as they prepared to eliminate a German sniper up ahead, near Vierville-sur-Mer, France, 10 Jun 1944Detonation of a naval mine off Normandy, France, Jun 1944
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Mohammad Fazi, a victim of poverty and US policies.

Victor Davis Hanson: Fictions as Truth

Works and Days
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This president would like us to believe him on these and more topics:
 
"For the Obama administration narrative to be accurate about the swap of five Taliban/al-Qaeda-related kingpins for Sgt. Bergdahl, we are asked to believe the following:"
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"For Benghazi, the Obama administration would have us believe..."
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"For the IRS scandal, the Obama administration would have us believe..."
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"For the Obamacare scandal, we are asked to believe..."
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"For the VA mess, the Obama administration would have us believe..."
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"On illegal immigration scandals, the president would have us believe..."
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"I could go on with the NSA, AP, and Fast and Furious scandals, but you get the picture: the Obama administration does what it wishes, then says what it pleases, and assumes the media will offer the necessary mythologizing — and the Americans will get over it."

Obama Thinks He Has It Rough Now?

What an Obama presidency would look like if the GOP takes control of Congress in November.

PJ Media    ... "Operating amid a cocoon of aides who refuse to challenge him, or offer critical feedback (Valerie Jarrett would have their heads if they did, since this would reflect disloyalty), the president moves from failure to fiasco routinely.  We are, after all, speaking of  a man who told an exultant audience in Berlin before he even became the nominee of his party in 2008, and then again on victory night in Grant Park in Chicago in November 2008, that the moment of his victory and ascendance to office would be marked as one where the planet started healing, the oceans stopped rising, and all the other problems in the world  would just begin to melt away."...
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"Legacy building will drive the White House to agree to any nuclear deal with Iran it can get, and hope that the Iranians repay the favor of additional sanctions relief by not showing their contempt for America — delaying the final step of their accession to the nuclear club until Obama leaves office. That will mean Obama’s successor will have to answer the “who lost China” question about Iran getting the bomb."

Legal Insurrection
"From the South Dakota College Republicans:
"It’s not us, it’s you.
"That’s our message to President Obama with our new music video, “Say Something, Obama: The Music Video.' ”
 

 
... "In fact, most young people who cast their presidential vote for Barack Obama had no idea what or who they were voting for. It was a passing image that caught their eye, and suddenly they were in love.
 
"Six years later, millennials are abandoning the president in droves."