In an effort to energize Latino voters, President Obama defended his administration's efforts to work for a comprehensive immigration plan, while adding that he was frustrated by the failures of Congress to deal with the issue.
"My cabinet has been working very hard on trying to get it done, but ultimately, I think somebody said the other day, I am president, I am not king. I can't do these things just by myself. We have a system of government that requires the Congress to work with the executive branch to make it happen. I'm committed to making it happen, but I've gotta have some partners to do it," Obama said. Glad he cleared that up. Some of us were starting to wonder. No other president ever felt compelled to say such a thing. Not even Nixon.
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Inside, he's probably thinking "Yet"
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Of course not, Kings are far beneath Gods.
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Well, not until he can get around the whole vote and 2 term thing.
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Well no, but it is ok to jetset to St. Louis for a pizza..receive preemptive awards...personally attack the Supreme Court...demonize individuals and segments of the population without shame...jaunt across the world for family vacations...pout when your very precense does not influence the olympics...for that matter accept nomination at the foux Athenian Parthanon.
Besides, a king does not have a platoon of czars, bow to other leaders so deeply, or is associated with left liberal progs.
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Oprah said he was the "One." I take that to mean messiah. Hopin Oprah has buyer's remorse about this time. Jeeze I get tired of celebrities trumpeting their clowns.
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I thought keanu reeves was the one? Besides, the two of them are about the worst readers of script that I have seen on primetime. Anyone suffer through that wildlife program narrated by oprah? Horrible, almost as bad as obama's recent rallies where he looks crosseyed attempting to combine the arm/hand movements with the location of the teleprompter and make his head appear to be focusing on the crowd. Three legged donkey on roller skates attempting a triple lux.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Nairobi Mayor Geophrey Majiwa was on Monday jugged by anti-corruption agents over the controversial purchase of a piece of land for use as a cemetery.
Officials from the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (Kacc) went to the mayor's residence in Nairobi's South 'C' at 7am while accompanied by coppers and took him away to the their headquarters where he is currently being held.
In the cemetery saga, officials at City Hall and the Ministry of Local Government set off to identify alternative land to set up a new cemetery to serve the city.
A parcel was identified at Mavoko township and purchased. Later, however, the entire deal stirred a controversy with questions over its suitability for burying the dead amid claims it was highly overpriced and ownership disputes.
The Kacc front man Mr Nicholas Simani said Mayor Majiwa is likely to be arraigned in court on Tuesday to face two corruption-related charges.
Mr Simani said Kacc investigators recorded a statement from the mayor soon after his arrest.
So far, 14 people, among them former Local Government permanent secretary Sammy Kirui and former Nairobi Town Clerk John Gakuo have been charged with scandal and denied the offence.
According to the charge sheet, Mr Kirui and 13 others acquired Sh283 million from the Local Government Ministry on diverse dates between December 2008 and April 2009.
It is alleged that they claimed the money was the purchase price payable by City Hall for a piece of land to be used as a cemetery.
Other accused persons are Mr Maina Chege, Naen Rech Limited, Mr Newton Osiemo, Mr Alphonce Mutinda, Mrs Mary Ngechi Ngethe, Mr Nelson Otido and Mr Joseph K'Ojwando.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Uganda President Yoweri Museveni was nominated today to run for presidential elections that may extend his rule for over 30 years. Mr Museveni is a flag bearer of the National Resistance Movement, the ruling party.
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Joy Behar condemned a political ad by Nevada Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle as fomenting racial divisiveness. The View aired Angles latest TV ad on the talk show on Tuesday morning. Looking at the camera, Behar addressed Angle, calling her a bitch and concluding that Angle is going to hell, this bitch.
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All good. Heads will be exploding all over the USA, and maybe a few other places. Lefty heads. Get your licks in 'Joy' before you have a stroke. Oh, and stay classy.
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as usual, the comments section was the best part...Joy Behar's an ignorant harpie, her 15min's were up a decade ago.
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Funny how the left automagically translates 'Illegal Alien and Gangs' into 'Latino'. The term 'Latino', 'Mexican' or 'Spanish', or any nationallity, was never even mentioned in the ad.
However Joy's little mind worked it's little self up and associated 'Illegal Alien' and 'Gangs' with 'Latino' and 'Mexican'.
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Latino, etc might not have been mentioned but they showed a border crossing in El Paso, mentioned the Nevada immigration law and the Presidente of Mexico so it is clearly inferred that they are talking about Mexican illegals. Beyond that they make up such a massive number of our illegals that even without that it would be fair to assume that is what was meant.
Having said all that I can't believe anyone would actually be offended by this ad. It states his voting record pure and simple. No conjecture, just facts. I know Harry Reid would like to run from his voting record (it's clear his son wants to) but that is the fairest of fair game for political ads.
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But Border Control is not racism - as Joy implies. Just because the vast majority of illegal aliens are from south of the border doesn't mean border control is 'anti-latino'.
If anything Joyless is the one fermenting 'racial divide' by insisting on looking at everything through racism glasses.
In a breaking development that may affect the close California Senate race, Pajamas Media has learned The Foundation for Ethics in Public Service sent a letter to Eric Holder last Thursday requesting the attorney general "begin an investigation to determine whether United States Senator Barbara Boxer violated any criminal laws or should be liable for any civil penalty for failure to disclose real property on her Personal Financial Disclosure Reports between 2002 and 2010." Well, that could put the nail in her close race here in CA. Maybe.
A top House Republican says the party will ask Americans whether to cut off funding for NPR after the radio network fired commentator Juan Williams this week for his comments about Mohammedans.
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, said the Republican Party will add cutting funding for NPR to its YouCut program, which asks constituents what federal programs they would want to slash.
Mr. Cantor said Friday that NPR's firing of Mr. Williams, who said in an interview on Fox News this week he feels uncomfortable when he sees someone wearing tradition Mohammedan religious attire get on an airplane, is "over-reaching political correctness," and said it is "chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression."
"NPR's decision to fire Juan Williams not only undermines that, it shows an ignorance of the fact that radical Islam and the gun-hung tough guys who murder in its name scare people of all faiths, religions and beliefs," Mr. Cantor said.
While in the minority, Republicans' YouCut program has been mostly advisory. The House Republican caucus has tried to offer the cuts as amendments to bills, but has been shut down procedurally by the Democratic majority.
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And if he had said, "When at the airport and I see a catholic priest talking to a little boy, I get nervous", his contract would be extended 10 years with a signing bonus.
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Throw PBS in there too. Their childrens' programming ranges from odd to creepy. Seen SStreet lately? Only at last minute under pressure did they not show that bouncing tit set who wants to like the lollypops of the boys. The newspeople are riddle with uneducated hacks. Whats that leave, Bob Ross re-runs?
And don't get me wrong..9/10 opinions of Mr. Williams I disagree with and the remainder I listen to for the nostalgia of the slogans I was pitched as a kid where I have found mostly sales pitch rather than beliefe. Mr. Williams is one of the few who at the least came across as believing his views.
I'm on Rep. Cantor's email list, Depot Guy. Every couple of weeks he sends a link to his website, and I and all the others can vote for which item on the list I would like to see cut from the budget. Once the votes are in, the Republicans try to get the winner attached to a bill. Thus far, of course, the Democrats have completely shut them out (the Republicans can ride in the back, as dear President Obama said the other day). But the Republicans are asking the voters to prioritize, rather than simply pandering on the issue of the day.
A Florida Senate committee has recommended making it tougher for political candidates to switch or leave parties in mid-campaign, a move spurred by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's bolt from the Republican Party to run as an independent for U.S. Senate.
The Florida Senate Ethics and Elections Committee also calls for a "sore-loser statute" that would prohibit party-affiliated candidates who lose a primary from re-entering the race as in independent.
Except that Orange-Boy didn't lose a primary, he pulled out prior to the primary because he saw he was going to lose. A 'sore-loser statute' wouldn't have affected him.
"The issue is whether Florida law regarding candidates who change political parties while running for office is unambiguous and expansive enough to promote the state's interests in political stability and maintaining integrity in the various routes to the ballot," said a report released this month by the committee. "After careful review, some changes appear worthy of consideration."
The panel cited other states, including Caliphornia and Colorado, that have stricter election laws regarding candidates switching or leaving parties.
The committee suggested that candidates be registered with a party - or to be a declared independent - one year before they must qualify for the office they seek. Since the qualification deadline for federal offices typically is about six months before the November general election, candidates would be locked into party or "non-party" status about 18 months before the final election, "effectively preventing last-minute party-switching for personal political gain."
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I propose that after a person has done 4 years in elective office, it becomes a truth-in-advertising violation for said critter to list themselves as anything but "craven politician"
It's official: A week before the midterm elections, odds are that Republicans will win control of the House but Democrats will keep control of the Senate, according to the overseas bookmakers taking bets on this sort of thing. I guess we'll know for sure next week...
Ireland-based Paddy Power says Republicans are "hot favorites" at 1-33 odds to capture the lower chamber, though they are not favored to win the Senate, with bettors getting odds of 11-4 against it.
Ken Robertson, communications manager for Paddy Power, said Republicans had the edge in the Senate until July, when Democrats' momentum pushed them to become the odds-on favorite at 2-9, meaning a bettor placing a $9 wager stands to win just $2 if Democrats keep the 50 seats needed to control the upper house.
If the election bears out those predictions, it will be the first time since World War II that the House flipped control without the Senate also changing hands. But political prognosticators in the U.S. say that's increasingly looking likely, with the Republicans riding voter anger to capture at least 39 seats needed in the House, but having a tougher time in the Senate.
"It is mathematically possible for the GOP to score a net gain of 10 seats, but it is a very difficult proposition, practically speaking," the Cook Political Report said late last week.
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It would also be nice if they graded each candidate on probability of winning along with where they fell in the political spectrum. Maybe even where they stood on important individual issues such as where they stand on Obamacare, guns, abortion, spending, debt/deficits, size of government, pork, sleaze factor, etc..
It would let us know which shade of purple to expect, and which shade we got after the dust settled.
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Sounds more to me that the "Odds Makers" are trying to shift the odds a bit by lying, to get a better return on their bets.
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Well, lets see:
RCP has 4 seats in the R column and 7 toss ups. Those toss ups are:
CA: Boxer (D)
CO: Bennet (D)
IL: Open (D)
NV: Reid (D)
PA: Open (D)
WA: Murray (D)
WV: Open (D)
Of these, the best prospects are CO, IL, NV, PA and WV. Polls show the R's ahead in these races, though generally within the margin of error.
But, assuming things continue as they have been, that gets us to 50 seats. Control would have to come from winning CA, WA (very close) or pulling off an upset in either CT or DE.
Another way of looking at it is that we would have to win 6 of 7 races listed as too close to call. Hard, but not impossible in a big wave year. In fact, there generally *are* surprises in a wave year.
Of course, control of the Senate means very little if Murkowski is reelected. If you want a different result, then you have to send different people.
Also, from a strategy standpoint, just 51 seats puts us in charge, but no stronger than our weakest members (Collins, Snowe, Graham, McCain, etc). So on one side we have Bammo blasting us every chance he gets, and on the other side we have our own people unwilling to repeal ObamaCare, rein in the EPA, cut spending, lower taxes, etc. Not a great scenario.
Better to focus on getting the right people elected (e.g. Miller in Alaska) this time around, and control in 2012. Leaving the Dems in charge of the Senate gives us a great deal of buffer when Bammo attacks "Congress". Then, in 2012, we can move to 55+ seats which is enough to neutralize our "moderate" friends and do the heavy lifting of rolling back socialism.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni was nominated today to run for presidential elections that may extend his rule for over 30 years. Mr Museveni is a flag bearer of the National Resistance Movement, the ruling party.
In a breaking development that may affect the close California Senate race, Pajamas Media has learned The Foundation for Ethics in Public Service sent a letter to Eric Holder last Thursday requesting the attorney general "begin an investigation to determine whether United States Senator Barbara Boxer violated any criminal laws or should be liable for any civil penalty for failure to disclose real property on her Personal Financial Disclosure Reports between 2002 and 2010."
