IN THIS June 8th LEGISLATIVE WEEKLY…

• White House Delays Immigration Summit as Special Interests Launch New Amnesty Campaign
• Administration Delays E-Verify Rule for Fourth Time; House Subcommittee to Consider Reauthorization
• Senate Judiciary Committee Reviews Uniting American Families Act

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White House Delays Immigration Summit as Special Interests Launch New Amnesty Campaign

The Obama Administration announced last week that a White House summit on immigration reform originally scheduled for Monday, June 8 (See FAIR’s Legislative Update, May 26, 2009) has been postponed to Wednesday, June 17. According to White House officials, the postponement was necessary to accommodate the president’s travel schedule. (Dow Jones Business News, June 3, 2009). Since his inauguration, President Obama has repeatedly reiterated his support for “comprehensive immigration reform,” which has included amnesty for the more than 12 million illegal aliens who are living in the United States. (See FAIR’s Legislative Update, April 20, 2009 and Legislative Update, February 23, 2009).
Read the full article

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Administration Delays E-Verify Rule for Fourth Time; House Subcommittee to Consider Reauthorization

The Obama Administration announced last week that it would delay for the fourth time the implementation of a rule requiring most federal contractors to use the federal E-Verify system to check the work authorization status of their new hires. The rule is now set to take effect on September 8, 2009 – nearly nine months after the original effective date. (USCIS Update, June 3, 2009; See also FAIR’s Legislative Update, January 5, 2009).
Read the full article

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Senate Judiciary Committee Reviews Uniting American Families Act

On Wednesday, June 3, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony on the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) (S. 424), a bill that would extend so-called “permanent partner” visas to persons involved in same-sex relationships. (New York Times, June 3, 2009; Politico, June 3, 2009). The bill’s supporters used the hearing to emphasize what they perceive to be the unfairness of current visa rules, while critics pointed to what they view as significant loopholes that will guarantee widespread fraud and higher immigration enforcement costs. (Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, June 3, 2009).
Read the full article

For more information from FAIR, visit us on the web at http://www.fairus.org/.

Someone close to me was in a car accident this past Friday night. She was ejected from the vehicle at a speed of – according to the cop who was driving right behind them when it happened – approximately 40 mph.

She was transported by ambulance to a large, well-respected and technologically advanced local hospital where she was first treated in the emergency room (including full cat scan) and then moved to a private room for the night. She was released the following day with her wounds dressed, a prescription in hand, and an appointment for a follow-up visit.

Oh yeah….. she has no insurance, no money, and a just-above-minimum-wage income.

We haven’t seen a bill for services rendered yet, but I’d be surprised if it’s less than $10,000.00. What we have seen is the envelope that the bill was mailed in, but which the post office mangled to such a degree that all that was left was the ‘payment agreement’ page with her expected monthly payment.

Take a guess how much the hospital expects her to pay per month?

No, really….take a stab at it…….

If you guessed ‘twenty five bucks per month”, you guessed correct.

Precedent Obama has been trying to sell America the idea that the poor have no access to healthcare. We’ve been calling Obama on his bullshit since day one, and this story is but one more example of how our healthcare system does not need Obama’s ‘help’, at least not the type of help he proposes.

Obama’s healthcare plan doesn’t have the first thing to do with healthcare; it has everything to do with growing the welfare state to levels unsustainable by the productive, tax-paying members of society. Adding a 1.5 $TRILLION healthcare bill to a 1.8 $Trillion defecit will only further push the country to financial ruin while simultaneously expanding and solidifying his socialist constituency.

Please for the love of God, America, wake the fuck up.

-Cnation

After reading about THE MESSIAH’S speech in Egypt the other day, you know – one of the recent stops on his current, whirlwind “America Sucks” tour, I noticed one of the comment written beneath the article that’s stuck with me for a few days. Paraphrasing slightly, it said that if this speech had been given at any time prior to election day, John McCain would have been president today. Truly an interesting thought, I, well…, thought.

Which made me think some more – something that folks on the “other side” apparently don’t do a great deal. I started wondering if the notion that lots of folks are starting to get voter’s remorse is as true as I believe it is. The thought that if O’bama would have actually said what he thought/intended to do *before* the election would have thrown it the other way was real, there must be a metric shitload of folks out there that:

a) didn’t bother doing even a rudimentary amount of thinking before voting for Mr. Trendy,
or
b) didn’t vote for any reason other than Rolling Stone Magazine and Leonardo Dicaprio told them to vote for THE GIFTED ONE THAT WASN’T BUSH.

I’m sure that there are a good number of folks out there that agree with the socialist/Marxist/statist agenda that’s being spewed as I’m also sure that there are a lot of Black folks that felt the need to vote for him out of a civic duty that I don’t necessarily understand or fault them for one iota. BUT, this election was won by the votes of those groups. It was won by the efforts of George Soros creating a trendy candidate that could run as the anti-Bush. Obviously, it was a very effective tactic and one that had been in the works for at least several years.

My hope at this point is that Mr. Steele, et.al, don’t try to copy this tactic. The Republicans too often see a winning strategy and try to emulate it come election time missing the forest for the trees. It ISN’T about the messenger, it’s about the message. Well, in real life it is anyway.

Fred Barnes: No Energy from this Executive
“As I’ve often said, in the short term, as we transition to renewable energy,” President Obama stated in April, “we can and should increase our domestic production of oil and natural gas. .  .  . We still need more oil, we still need more gas. If we’ve got some here in the United States that we can use, we should find it and do so in an environmentally sustainable way.”
Does anyone believe Obama was serious about this? Given his practice of misdirection–saying one thing, doing another–no one should have. Now, nearly five months into the Obama presidency, it’s clear he didn’t mean a word of it. His administration is impeding, not promoting, increased production of oil and gas, as it is of coal and nuclear power.
This is a crazy policy. It’s likely to drive up gasoline and electricity prices while making America more dependent than ever on foreign oil–three bad trends. Energy independence becomes still another of Obama’s stated policies being championed in words but not deeds. more…..

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Atlas Shrugs: Hijab-wearing Muslim Crashes Remembrance rally for US Soldier Murdered by Jihadi in Arkansas
The hijab-clad fanatic in the video is vile. This is a memorial to a dead soldier and she is screaming “Jesus was Muslim” and talking about the religious freedom in Egypt. “Christian churches and Catholics in Egypt practice freely”.“Jesus is not G-d’s son!” “Jews are liars!” Obamanation.  more…..

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Senator Lamar Alexander: Auto Stock for Every Tax Payer Act
Remarks of U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander on the Senate Floor:
Madam President, today along with Senator Bennett and Senator McConnell and Senator Kyl, I am introducing the Auto Stock for Every Taxpayer Act – to require the Treasury to distribute to individual taxpayers all its stock in the new General Motors and Chrysler within 1 year following the emergence of the new GM from bankruptcy proceedings. This is the best way to get the auto companies out of the hands of Washington bureaucrats and politicians and into the hands of the American people in the marketplace where they belong. So instead of the Treasury owning 60 percent of shares in the new GM and 8 percent of Chrysler, you would own them if you were one of about 120 million individual Americans who paid Federal taxes on April 15. more…..

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Andrew C. McCarthy: Making Believe
Obama’s speech was deep in fable, short on fact.
What the president did was promote various fictions about Islam while airbrushing truths that are not merely harsh but are the facts behind the rampage that has victimized us for much of the last three decades. That rampage, moreover, was substantially discounted in a haze of moral equivalence.
It would be bad enough to do this under any circumstances, but it is inexcusable to do it while paying only lip-service to one of the few truths the president did speak: namely, that any “partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t.”
“What it isn’t” is a religion of peace with a legacy so overflowing with achievement in science, philosophy, and the arts that civilization, as President Obama claimed, owes a great “debt to Islam.” In fact, the ledger runs heavily in the other direction. more…..

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Matthew Continett: The Bailout State – Where it came from–and how to fight it.
It’s not every day that you get to witness the birth of a new social system. But General Motors’ June 1 bankruptcy, and the company’s likely reorganization under the ownership of the U.S. Treasury, does suggest the arrival of a novel relationship–at least for the United States–between the citizen and his government. We’ve all encountered the national security state, where individuals give up a degree of civil liberty in exchange for protection from internal and external threats. And we live in a welfare state, where the government imposes obligations on certain individuals, in the form of taxes and duties, in order to secure basic social benefits for the entire populace. But the national security and welfare states are oh-so twentieth-century. This is a new day. This is the dawn of the bailout state. more……

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Critical Bias: National Energy Tax Will Devastate Rural America
Washington, Jun 3 – The Democrats’ national energy tax – to be paid by anyone who drives a car, buys an American-made product, or has the audacity to flip on a light switch – would disproportionately target rural America by increasing the energy bills for every American family, hurting family farmers, and threatening small businesses.  The legislation recently passed by the Energy & Commerce Committee and making its way to the House floor – often called “cap-and-trade” by its supporters – purports to combat global warming by setting strict limits on carbon emissions.  To do so, it would impose enormous taxes and restrictions on energy use, which would place an especially heavy burden on rural America and family farmers.  And that isn’t sitting well with Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN), the Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee: more…..

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-Cnation

First things first – if you forward this petition around – and you should – do not use the “email friends”/”tell a friend” link on the petition site, because it doesn’t work. It looks like it does, but trust me on this, it’s hosed. Instead, use the ‘share this’ button at the top of this post, or email your friends/family directly.

Now, on to business…

Rep. Bachmann builds on-line grassroots support for new Anti-ACORN bill

By: Kevin Mooney
Examiner Investigative Reporter
06/05/09 3:19 PM EDT

Thousands of Americans are expressing support via an on-line petition for new legislation that would block taxpayer funding for organizations with a criminal history such as the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN).

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has introduced the Taxpayer Protection and Anti-Fraud Act, which would restrict access to taxpayer dollars available through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for groups that have been indicted for violations of state or federal laws.  Almost 5,000 citizens have registered their support for the bill available through Bachmann’s online site, according to her press office.

As The Examiner has previously reported ACORN has received at least $53 million in federal funds since 1994, and the controversial group could potentially gain access to $8.5 billion in additional taxpayer dollars, unless Congress intervenes. The track record is not encouraging.

On the very day law enforcement officials in Pennsylvania charged seven ACORN workers with either forging, illegally soliciting or illegally filing out voter registration cards during the 2008 elections the House passed an amendment from Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) that lowered the bar for groups under investigation to acquire federal funds.  Earlier that same week new voter registration charges were filed against ACORN in Nevada.

Full article here

Stop ACORN from Accessing Taxpayer Dollars, Sign the petition HERE

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-Cnation

I came upon an interesting article this evening at stratfor.com that delves into the problems presented law enforcement when dealing with ‘lone wolf’ militants’, and how it applies to the case of Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, the black American muslim convert who shot and killed Pvt. William Long and wounded Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula outside a Little Rock military recruiting office this past Monday (6/1/09).

Of particular interest in the article is the following:

However, politics have proved obstructive to all facets of counterterrorism policy. And politics may have been at play in the Muhammad case as well as in other cases involving Black Muslim converts. Several weeks ago, STRATFOR heard from sources that the FBI and other law enforcement organizations had been ordered to “back off” of counterterrorism investigations into the activities of Black Muslim converts. At this point, it is unclear to us if that guidance was given by the White House or the Department of Justice, or if it was promulgated by the agencies themselves, anticipating the wishes of President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.

As STRATFOR has previously noted, the FBI has a culture that is very conservative and risk-averse. Many FBI supervisors are reluctant to authorize investigations that they believe may have negative blow-back on their career advancement. In light of this institutional culture, and the order to be careful in investigations relating to Black Muslim converts, it would not be at all surprising to us if a supervisor refused to authorize a full-field investigation of Muhammad that would have included surveillance of his activities. Though in practical terms, even if a full-field investigation had been authorized, due to the caution being exercised in cases related to Black Muslim converts, the case would most likely have been micromanaged to the point of inaction by the special agent in charge of the office involved or by FBI headquarters.

The allegation here is that somewhere up the chain of command, an order was given to ‘“back off” of counterterrorism investigations into the activities of Black Muslim converts.’. While there has not as of yet been any corroboration or confirmation of such an order, it is, in my opinion, totally believable given the recent dropping of voter intimidation charges against the new Black Panther Party. These are Obama’s people;  this administration’s refusal to sacrifice so much as a single vote trumps all.

Read the whole stratfor.com article here:
Scott Stewart and Fred Burton: Lone Wolf Lessons

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-Cnation

As Obama heads over to the middle east in an attempt to woo the hearts and minds of muslims, the family of 24 year-old Pvt. William Long will be burying their son, who was gunned down in cold blood by the black muslim convert terrorist Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, while 18 year-old Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula recovers from bullet wounds sustained in the same attack.

The white house has still said absolutely nothing about the attack on these two young men, both of whom in their short military careers have done more to serve their country with honor than Obama and his ‘blame America first’ administration could ever dream of accomplishing in their lifetimes.

In the wake of Dr. Tiller’s murder, in the mean time, the left continues to blame Bill O’Reilly for  his death, the US Marshals Service is protecting select abortion providers on the orders of Attorney General Holder, and Obama made a very public and very dramatic proclamation of his ‘outrage’ over the killing.

This whole thing – the incredible double-standard by the the liberal media and our President’s obvious disdain for the very country he is supposed to be leading and the military that protects it – makes me sick.

Michelle Malkin takes on this very subject in her syndicated column today:

My column today contrasts the White House and media responses to the Tiller murder with their silence on the deadly military recruiter attack. In the latest developments on the recruiter case, more targets were reportedly found on Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad’s computer. Yesterday, investigators said he told them “he would have killed more soldiers had they been in the parking lot.”

Michelle Malkin: Mapping The “Climate Of Hate”

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-Cnation

Wonderboy Brian Deese

As you may have heard, Precedent Obama has put 31-year-old Brian Deese in charge of ‘dismantling’ General Motors. What you may not have heard is that Mr. Deese has no automotive industry experience (in fact, the closest he’s ever been to an automobile factory is when, according to Deese, “I slept in the parking lot of the G. M. plant in Lordstown, Ohio,”) , no private sector experience at all, no relevant education in business, economics, or anything else that my qualify him for this new position…in fact, Brian Deese has no discernible qualifications whatsoever for this job. None. Z-E-R-O.

Brian Deese is a child of liberal politics. Period.

And yet, there he is. Why?

We all know that Obama is as calculating as they come, and he wouldn’t have put this kid in charge of GM without a very specific reason and a very specific goal. And no, I can pretty much guarantee it doesn’t have the first thing do with returning GM to profitability.

This needs to be watched closely, because if we know anything at all about Obama, it’s not the dog-and-pony show he puts out front that we need to be concerned with, it’s the thing in the background, the thing flying below the radar upon which his real agenda is attached that we need to watch like a hawk.

Here’s Glenn Beck with the full rundown on Brian Deese:

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-Cnation

This story from newsmax.com has a few days on it, but considering how many people I know who haven’t heard it, I figured it’s worth a repost.

You may remember that during the presidential campaign (the one before Obama was elected, not the one he’s been waging since), Obama spoke of his great uncle “who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps.” As it turned out, it was the Russians who liberated Auschwitz; Obama’s uncle was a member of the United States Army, the camp he helped liberate in April 1945 was called  Ohrdruf, which was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Obama’s uncle’s name is Charles Payne, and he recently told the German magazine Speigel:

Payne told Spiegel that he was shocked to see his war experience, especially his “liberation” of a concentration camp, used in campaign commercials. He said he had never spoken with his nephew about the matter, nor did Obama ever express any interest in Payne’s experience.

“I was quite surprised when the whole thing came up and Barack talked about my war experiences in Nazi Germany,” Payne said. “We had never talked about that before.”

Payne doesn’t know where Obama came up with the fictitious Auschwitz connection.

“He couldn’t have gotten it from me since we had never talked about this particular episode in the war,” said Payne. “My sister and her husband were both great storytellers and sometimes made up the details to go along with it.

“They told him about my deployment with the 89th Infantry Division and apparently they mixed up a few details,” Payne said. “Of course it came out immediately that he was wrong since there are enough people in America who know that Auschwitz is in the East and that the camp was liberated by the Red Army.”

After the mistake was made, Obama called Payne to get the correct details.

The most interesting quote from Mr. Payne comes at the end of the article, where he says:

“I am puzzled by intelligent people who stand by and allow their country to be taken over and run by extreme radical types,” Payne said. “I’m still somewhat puzzled by that. And I am fully aware that it could happen and has almost happened in this country. You know, I lived through the McCarthy era in the 1950s, when it was getting dangerously close to that sort of thing.”

I can only imagine what the thought process was when he spoke that last paragraph. being a veteran of WWII, I would imaging he’d have nothing but contempt and disgust for what his great nephew has done to the country and freedoms he fought so hard to protect.

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-Cnation

Michelle Malkin: Holder undermines Georgia’s voter verification rules; ACORN cheers

Day by day, this rogue anti-American administration reveals more and more of its true self.  Had enough yet?

No? Then how about this?:

Washington Post: Obama says Iran’s energy concerns legitimate
President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful.

In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, he also restated plans to pursue direct diplomacy with Tehran to encourage it set aside any ambitions for nuclear weapons it might harbor.

Is Obama out of his mind?? Can it be, as Yuval Levin wonders here, just an extremely dangerous combination of naivete and arrogance? Is he incompetent? Or is he purposely weakening the United States and her allies while empowering and emboldening our enemies?

Perhaps when there’s nothing left of Israel but a smoldering hole in the ground, people will start to understand how dangerously unfit this administration is to lead the free world.

At what point will the rest of America stand up as one and say ‘No More!”?

I know, probably never.

-Cnation