I’m getting tired of President Obama blaming Republicans for everything.
This week, it was immigration.
In Las Vegas, the president called for a policy that would provide a clear path to citizenship for illegal residents who pay their taxes, learn English, and abide by the law.
He warned that if bipartisan talks in Congress break down in bickering, he’ll use his bully pulpit and present an immigration bill based on his ideas — ideas that barely mention the need to secure the border as the first order of business.
The president and his liberal friends in the media like to make everyone think it’s Republicans who’ve been thwarting comprehensive immigration reform all these years.
But the dirty little political secret is that it’s the Democrats who are really the ones who don’t want to see immigration reform happen anytime soon.
As long as immigration policy remains a political football to fight over, Democrats can use the issue as a way to brand Republicans as anti-immigrant and continue to capture the vast majority of Latino voters.
If the GOP wants to have a future, it has to get its act together and get its ideas out to the Hispanic community — 16 percent of Americans. Hispanics are receptive to those ideas when they know the truth.
Right now, Latinos and all immigrants who come to America legally or illegally see Republicans as the party of exclusion, not inclusion.
Except for Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, the GOP is seen as the party that tells immigrants “We want you out of the country.”
But Republicans should be welcoming and embracing immigrants, not appearing to scare them off. Until the party changes, Democrats will own the Latino vote the way they own the black vote.
The Republican Party also has to prove that Marco Rubio isn’t its only Latino. Rubio is great. I love seeing him in the Senate, and I’d love to see him in the White House someday.
But the GOP has some other great Hispanic political leaders out there who need to be seen and heard on immigration. In fact, liberal CNN recently admitted that among statewide officeholders, Republicans are more diverse than Democrats. Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico and Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada, plus rising Senate star Ted Cruz of Texas are among that group.
We — the Republican Party and the country — need to hear their ideas. Not at the end of the immigration reform argument, but now, at the beginning.
Meanwhile, the country desperately needs a president who knows how to lead.
We need a leader who doesn’t stand up and point fingers at the other side but instead opens the door to the White House, invites both sides in, finds commonality, and signs the subsequent legislation.
Unfortunately, we don’t have such a president. We have a leader who is arrogant. We have a leader who never gets off the campaign trail long enough to lead. And who spends most of his time demonizing the opposition.
My mother taught me a basic truth that President Obama should learn — “You can’t listen if your mouth is always open.”
President Obama’s mouth is always open. It’s time for him to shut his mouth, open the White House doors, and do what my father Ronald Reagan would have done. It’s time for him to stop talking and start inviting.
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Why would any illegal alien want to become legal and have to start paying taxes?? Maybe this will finally get rid of them!
JUST FOR HA, HA’S……HOW DOES THE GOVERNMENT KNOW HOW MUCH TAXES THEY OWE?
@HappyClinger— [[[ Why would any illegal alien want to become legal and have to start paying taxes?? Maybe this will finally get rid of them ]]]
Not only paying taxes.. but the health care insurance would bankrupt anyone…. not to mention the drugs one would have to buy. They are better off staying illegal. As long as they stay clean.. they wont have any problems.
You would think that even people in the liberal media and political groups would get tired of being lap dogs for this freak we have in the oval office.
I mean my gosh doesn’t anyone in the media or in any of these liberal organizations have the least little pride at all?
Don’t any of them have any spine or little sense of backbone at all?!!
I think liberal brains must be wired and configured differently. I can’t prove it, but most of the time they are like kids with a snotty attitude. It’s like trying to talk to a willful child who has his fingers in his ears and singing, lalalalala. And, if you don’t agree with their wants and wishes there is something totally wrong with you. Communism and socialism both have been tried and failed. Why does the guy we have in the WH want us to go that way? I know I’m awake but it feels like a nightmare sometime. Where is our country going? When are we going to wake up and smell the coffee. We need to stand together before there is nothing to stand for.
If you want to tee off a conservative, tell them a lie. If you want to tee off a liberal, tell them the truth.
Absolutely NOT!!! When you are a Communist, you make no bones about screwing everyone and anyone
that is not a Communist!!!!!! These Liberals, Progressives, Democraps and the like, rail against the “Label”
of “Communist”, however, what they really are, is played out in specificity by what they do, not what they claim to be!! READ, “THE NAKED COMMUNIST” and you will see the faces of each and every one of them……and believe me, the “shoe fits”, perfectly!!!
Will Obama grant himself Amnesty ?? Sheriff Joe ! Sheriff Joe !
Evil governments and evil men always have to confuse the weak-minded people of their nation by finding an “enemy” for them to focus on, fear and hate. That is why Hitler blamed the Jews, Bill Clinton demonized Ken Starr and Barack Obama incites the hatred that he has for the “rich,” Mitt Romney who was endlessly lied about, and the Republicans or anyone else who might stand in his way. That way the weak-minded will not focus on the real problem.
Arrogance is all Obama knows because it’s the only thing he was taught! He is narrow-minded and immature and should have stuck to community organizing! He’s in way over his head!
The following is what Dr. David Scheiner, MD, Obama’s physician, said about Obama….
Dr. David Scheiner, MD, Obama’s longtime physician, reveals the lack of humanity in Obama’s character and carelessness with which he enacted the entirely politicized health insurance reform, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often called ObamaCare.
Scheiner said that he believes the president miscalculated politically and that the health reform is ultimately doomed to fail. Worse, Scheiner doubts the CHARACTER of the man who holds the highest and most influential office in America: “I think there is too much of the University of Chicago in him. By which I mean he’s academic, LACKS PASSION AND FEELING, and doesn’t have the SENSE OF HUMANITY that I expected.”
That certainly would be nice if Obama would shut his moth long enough to listen, but that will never happen. Obama loves hearing himself talk and be seen on television absolutely every day, that’s just what he is all about.
The liberals are correct: it IS all the Republicans’ fault.
They should have impeached that POS 3 years ago.
There’s a bucket-full or appropriate reasons.
YOU MIGHT BE A LIBERAL IF:
–you hate rules and restraints (especially the Constitution) unless YOU make them and are able to exclude yourself and designated friends (like OwebamaCare)
–the majority hates you so you promise unConstitutional ‘special privileges’ to minority groups like blacks, gays, unionists, etc. to create support.
–you hate facts because they, invariably, are counter to your position. And since facts disclose the truth, deceit is your only bastion. PROMISED: transparency/cut deficit by $4T/leadership/won’t sign a bill with pork riders/won’t sign a bill until public reviews for a week/health reform won’t cost Americans 1 dime/will eliminate bi-partisan bickering/pss Stimulus or unemployment will go over 8%. DELIVERED: the exact opposite in every case.
–self-proclaimed as being ‘the intellectual elite’ you feel entitled and able to run others lives better than they can run them. Thus a ‘Big Brother’ attitude and a bloated, dictatorial, taxes-sucking, mostly-unConstitutional federal governmental behemoth.
You passed unConstitutional OwebamaCare even though 75% of ‘We the People’ (UPI) did NOT want it.
YOU insist on no budget and no limit on spending even though 77% of ‘We the People’ (CBS) want drastic cuts in all spending.
–you promise everything to everyone….then deliver nothing. (see PROMISES above)
–excuses, excuses, excuses: nothing is ever your fault. Blame race…Republicans…Bush…Tea Partiers…the banks… the insurance companies.
–never admit you’re wrong: all the people who voted for Obama TWICE when there wasn’t a mote of a reason to do so (unless you’re a black racist).
–name calling: always finding yourself in an indefensible position, you resort to juvenile name calling
SHORT VERSION: if someone sounds like a whiney, snotty, disrespectful, know-it-all 11 year old girl….
you gotcherself a liberal.
Please …
Rubio can’t be our president EVER!
He is ineligible.
Here it is again: Rubio isn’t eligible to be president. Over and over again, these guys keep bringing up his name. He is not a natural born citizen. His parents didn’t become NATURALIZED CITIZENS until he was 4 years old, so even though he was born here, he is not a natural born citizen.
I know … I say same …
Hey … He is not eligible …. why him as veep if he even can’t be a president if need arises … why have him? …. so many different ways …
All I got is “Rubio” …. “Rubio” …
They all are just brainless and can’t learn anything!
Think of it … same thing happened with that usurper Obama, even!
Here we are even discussing (ineligible and illegal) “President” Obama, besides that “Rubio” … Two of them!
We’d think they have learned that by now …
Americans just are dumb!
You’re absolutely right Michael Reagan, Obama needs to shut his mouth and grow a pair and man up and till the American people that he’s in over his head. I’m tired of him blaming everybody for his failures and short comings. He’s a worthless human being(?) and needs to go. I served this country for 30+ years in uniform and was proud to do it. I try to renew it ever year in some manor.
The oath I took December 20, 1963 was not just for my term of enlistment; it was for the rest of my life. I’ll include it for my fellow Americans too see, I’ll include the one for officers:
“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.” (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).
“I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God.” (DA Form 71, 1 August 1959, for officers.)
I believe that oath is similar to the one that our so-called leaders take; however they seem to have forgotten what it means.
US COMBAT VETERAN: Vietnam ’68 – ’69; Door Gunner, 1st Cavalry Division (AM) and a retired USAF TSgt.
Obama really threw it all away. He could of been remembered as one of the greatest people, but his arrogance and mental problems he never let go of have totally let down all the people of the US, and the world. His black affiliation sure could have used a boost too. So many other black people have risen and were starting to be looked upon, only to arrogantly fall on their faces too. Now they can’t ever say again that they were not given every chance if not more to promote goodness and a better way of life. Just not mentally developed enough amongest mankind.