Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer wasn't laughing when President Obama stood at the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday and joked that Republican lawmakers who won't support a sweeping overhaul of the immigration system until the border is secured won't be happy until they get a moat with alligators along the border.
"I think he should get back to business being the president of the United States," Brewer told Fox News on Saturday.
"I don't think his comic attitude and laughing at a serious issue is being very well received, certainly not here in Arizona, I would imagine not across America," she said. "This is a serious situation. And for him to go to a pep rally and make light of the situation is unbelievable."
While Republican tensions over tackling the national debt have been on public display for days, Democrats have also been squabbling with one another, though largely out of view. It's good to have the media on your side.
At issue for Democrats is whether the party risks going overboard in its embrace of tax increases a perilous proposition for lawmakers from political battlegrounds.
Several centrist Democrats have been voicing concern in private sessions that Conrads draft may be shifting too far to the left in order to placate liberals on the committee and in the media whose votes are needed to move the legislation, according to aides.
Republicans have been rallying around a House spending plan authored by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), even as theyve been sending mixed signals in recent days over a key provision calling for a deep overhaul of Medicare. The Democratic-run Senate, meantime, has been incapable unable or unwilling to lay out its alternative agenda.
The New and Improved Harry Reid, meantime, has told his caucus to move cautiously before embracing any budget plan. I told my members just lets not be signing onto all this stuff until we really know where were headed. Learned your lesson with sign-it-first-then-read-it Obamacare, right, Harry?
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Must be getting close to election time again. Now these low lifes will be drapping themselves in red, white and blue bontings.
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It's more like a competition to see who can kowtow to their political base better. No wonder this Congress is such a basket case and so damn tied up in knots.
HT to Drudge
Unlike his brothers, lawyer Michael and banker Bill, Mayor Richard M. Daley didnt use the family name to amass wealth. He used it to amass power. But now, the mayor has a chance to convert his power into wealth. Which is what being a Chicago politician is all about, after all Obama co-authored the state law that allows this. Hope and Change?
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Congresscritters get to do the same. Instead of running for reelection, they can 'retire' and convert their fund to personal use. Which, by the way, more than a handful did this last time around. Why waste hundreds of thousands, if not a couple million, in an iffy situation when you can pocket the stuff to lavish upon yourself?
The announcement by Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl that he won't seek a fifth term has set the Democrats further back in their hopes of keeping the Senate during next year's elections. Kohl is the fifth Democrat to retire after next year, or sixth if you count independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, who caucuses with the Democrats. With Democrats defending 23 seats, and a short list of Democratic incumbents running in conservative and swing states, Republicans are seeing more and more opportunities to pick up some seats. Here are the nine most vulnerable Democratic seats, in alphabetical order.
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.
