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The Sequester Amnesty
The lawless Obama administration is brazenly endangering the country to prove a political point.
Because the word “sequester” sounds more like a bronchial infection than a governmental disaster, President Obama failed to terrorize House Republicans into raising taxes in order to avoid it.
They tried everything they could think of to scare us. We’d have meat shortages because federal inspectors would be laid off, long lines at airport security stations would get longer because the TSA molesters would be cut back. Education Secretary Arne Duncan earned four “Pinocchios” from the Washington Post’s Fact Checker column for brazenly lying about teachers he said were already being laid off in West Virginia.
Duncan, for all his faults, is relatively harmless. The same cannot be said about Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, whose department has begun releasing criminal illegal aliens — which for this discussion is not redundant — from the jails where they were being held pending deportation. Even before Friday, when the $85 billion in cuts took effect, Napolitano’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement began releasing criminal illegal aliens among the public.
It’s the Obama administration’s “sequester amnesty,” which endangers the public to make a political point.
Pinal County, Arizona, is about seventy miles from the Mexican border. It’s larger than Connecticut, running south and east from the city of Mesa. Its sheriff, Paul Babeu, is a tough guy in a very tough place. And both his job and his county are made a lot tougher by ICE’s release of an unknown number of these criminal illegals, people who were held pending deportation because their criminal records made them “inadmissible” into the United States.
Arizona is high on Obama’s list of enemies. It’s the state Obama’s Justice Department sued to set aside the state law that enables the arrest and detention of illegal aliens. The Supreme Court struck down part of the law, but left in place the part that allows state law enforcement officers to check the immigration status of people they’ve stopped for other reasons.
Obama’s position is that federal law preempts any state law to control illegal immigration and any state action for which the state lacks federal permission is impermissible.
Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Arizona, is trying to deal with that one-way street. I interviewed him on the Roger Hedgecock radio show last Thursday. What Sheriff Babeu told me is shocking. It confirms that our government is now willing to endanger public safety to prove a political point.
In December 2012, Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency had more than 33,000 illegal aliens in custody pending deportation. These aren’t people who were arrested just because they were illegal aliens. They are criminals, held by ICE because they were convicted of separate crimes, usually serious felonies, and held after they’d served their sentences until they could be deported. Others have long criminal records in their own countries who came here to do more of what they did at home.
Federal law allows these people to be held for up to six months pending deportation. Some, from nations such as Pakistan, are held for that long — and should be held longer - because their country of origin won’t issue travel documents enabling their return. The non-cooperating nations are content to leave their problems with us, be they terrorists or drug traffickers.
The federal government says there are 11 to 12 million illegals in the United States. Sheriff Babeu told me that 300-500 of the 34,000 criminal illegals held in pre-deportation detention were released into his county two weekends ago.
Janet Napolitano said that ICE won’t be able to maintain 34,000 criminal illegals in custody — not because of legal limitations on incarceration, but because of the sequester. In a statement to the press last week, she said, “Look, we’re doing our very best to minimize the impacts of sequester. But there’s only so much I can do,” Napolitano said. “I’m supposed to have 34,000 detention beds for immigration. How do I pay for those? We want to maintain 22,000-some odd Border Patrol agents. I got to be able to pay their salaries.”
Babeu told me that neither he nor the county’s police chiefs were given notice of the release. “The doors swung open and there they go,” he said.
I asked Babeu if he even knew who these people were. He said that he’s asked for that information numerous times, including by letter, and ICE has refused to tell him. “These people were released into the community. We don’t know their names, we don’t know what charges they were held on or their criminal history.” He added, “But we do know this: this is the same group that Janet Napolitano and Barack Obama have all agreed that these are the worst of the illegals.”
ICE is saying that some of these illegals were released on terms that supposedly provide some supervision. Sheriff Babeu is, to say the least, skeptical.
About the Author
Jed Babbin served as a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush. He is the author of several bestselling books including Inside the Asylum and In the Words of Our Enemies. You can follow him on Twitter @jedbabbin.
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Appleby| 3.4.13 @ 6:33AM
And what else did you expect him to do?
Kwan| 3.4.13 @ 7:48AM
Desperate, uneducated, impoverished illegal aliens are an important part of Obama and the left's plan to turn the United States into Zimbabwe-West. To try and thwart this plan automatically makes you an Enemy of the State.
delahaya| 3.4.13 @ 9:19AM
Agreed. Many people think Obama is just incompetent a la Jimmy Carter. Nothing could be further from the truth. The miserable economy is on purpose to turn millions of independent Americans into government dependents - and its worked. The open borders are a back-door way to literally create low-level street warfare against the remaining middle class. Obama is burning the whole house down to rebuild it in his image.
Al Adab| 3.4.13 @ 11:50AM
Yes, they are successfully following their agenda. They want America poorer, its people more dependent on government and disengaged from the wider world.
pogybait| 3.4.13 @ 9:21AM
It's called the Cloven/Piven strategy.....which seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.4.13 @ 9:52AM
If I could make a minor correction; Cloward-Piven, sometimes abbreviated to Cloven (which also describes the hooves of the Beast or Satan, for those who want a Biblical reference point).
chuck| 3.4.13 @ 7:59AM
The courts will stop them? The Dictator-in-Chief will just ignore them. What will the courts do to force him to stop. And what will Congress do, impeach him?
KennesawJack| 3.4.13 @ 10:23AM
Exactly. After all, Obamarx has Andrew Jackson and John Marshall as "precedent".
c. j. acworth| 3.4.13 @ 8:02AM
Well, look on the bright side. With all the money saved by not detaining criminals we can put up a bunch of new wind turbines and solar farms to save the earth from global warming or whatever it is we are calling it this week. Now thats a crisis we need to solve right now!
Hardcard| 3.4.13 @ 8:06AM
Above photo of our dear leader, obamao-jdingo and big sis on DHS reviewing stand at the DHS parade of newly purchased DHS (2,600) tanks and APC's. (see todays drudge report 3-4-13). seig heil mein fuhrer!!!! and praise to the sequester. At this point what does it matter. jean francois kerry SOS sends big US taxpayer $$$$ and F-16's to Egypt for jihad, What me worry? Drone on !
KennesawJack| 3.4.13 @ 11:19AM
I read the article on Drudge. Thanks for the heads up. Interesting times we live in.
Al Adab| 3.4.13 @ 12:00PM
Somebody post the link. I can't find the story.
KennesawJack| 3.4.13 @ 12:19PM
Al, here it is: http://www.thegatewaypundit.co.....stockpile/
A tad disconcerting, wouldn't you say?
Al Adab| 3.4.13 @ 1:12PM
Jack:
Disconcerting might be an understatement. Who do they intend to use this stuff against? Don't we have a military to defend the borders from armed invaders? Just because they won't let them do it doesn't mean its not their job.
Pecos Pete| 3.4.13 @ 1:43PM
They gonna drive them suckers to the Interstate and do some blockading to stop the out-migration from California. Or maybe, it's the in-migration to states with a future.
Or, they'll show up at homes of gun owners. Ya know, they'll need 10 or so "operators" to defeat that old Korean War Veteran with his dangerous assault weapons.
Butch| 3.4.13 @ 2:05PM
Right you are, Al. It's beyond disconcerting; it's beyond worrisome--it's ominous. These "street-sweepers" and a billion-plus rounds of ammo for Homeland Security, drones over the civilian population, while releasing dangerous illegals? For exactly what purpose? A large-scale domestic military is being assembled, when we have a military to protect against a mass invasion.
I'm tired of this not being front-page news, at least for Fox and sites like TAS. My congressman is a good conservative, and I'm writing him about this issue. If anybody else has a likely-responsive congressman (or Senator), I suggest they contact him or her also.
Kwan| 3.4.13 @ 4:06PM
It would seem that Obama is fulfilling one of his campaign promises. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ecDxMQcsLg What kind of legitimate American President claims he needs a private army? We're making cuts to our legitimate military, yet this leftist fool wants to have his own Waffen SS.
markenoff| 3.4.13 @ 4:21PM
They're to ensure Obama/Biden 2016.
KennesawJack| 3.4.13 @ 4:34PM
This will end in a classic example of "give them enough rope".
KennesawJack| 3.4.13 @ 4:35PM
And the Waffen SS didn't fare so well. Neither will this Nazi.
TLP| 3.4.13 @ 8:11AM
"Arizona is High on Obama's Enemy List."
Isn't Napolitano from Arizona? Doesn't she have Family, there? Does she have any fond feelings for her own Home State?
Does any Democrat?
I understand President Dreams From my Father hating this Country. He's not From here. He wasn't Raised here. His entire life has been one big DEATH TO AMERICA Party. From one America Hater to another. From one Jew Hater to another. From one White Hater to another. I get it.
What I don't get is why the rest of them, in the Jackass Party are Cheering him on.
Doesn't Big Dyke understand what Illegals are doing to her Home State? Doesn't she care that it will be Crushed by the massive Demand on Social Services? Now add More Crime, Overcrowded Schools, Gangs, Drugs, Murders.
Does anyone know how many California towns and Cities have been reduced to Depression Era Hellholes because of Illegals? How many other Border States are having their Budgets pushed to the limit due to Criminal Aliens, that Democrats refuse to do anything, about?
Why does it always take a 911 to wake these Clocksluckers up?
When Joe Biden's Kid's throat is Slit by Pedro Gomez, who was just let go by Barack Obama? Will that he enough?
When Harry Reid's stupid looking kid is Gang Raped and Hung from a Tree by a buncha these Just Released Criminal Aliens? Will that be enough? Or will it take more?
How many AMERICAN CITIZENS need to be Raped, Robbed, Beaten and Murdered, before anyone on The Left will stand up and say: "ENOUGH"?
Pecos Pete| 3.4.13 @ 8:17AM
How many? 62 million, approx. That's the number that voted for King O.
Stephie| 3.4.13 @ 9:50AM
And some of those voted 2-6 times!
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.4.13 @ 9:13AM
I think that an interesting side note is which Janet is more frightening, Napolitano or Reno.
While each certainly causes shivers when one considers the physical attractiveness scales, does Janet Reno's hands on approach in killing Americans seem better than Napolitano's insistence that previously incarcerated illegal aliens commit the crimes that Americans just won't do? Do Janet Reno's efforts to disarm Americans pale in comparison to Napolitano and the Obama administration efforts to do the same, after assisting in arming the criminal cartels first?
I think if you develop this, TLP, you might have a theme for a future contest.
TLP| 3.4.13 @ 10:06AM
I see you can't wait to soak in all that Adulation, again, as soon as possible.
When I went back there, I thought I had mistakenly wandered onto the Albert Constantine Jr. Show.
As soon as my Judges "Come Down" from Smoking their "Medicine" I'm calling an Emergency Meeting of all of The Contest's Board Members (Me, the Judges, and Pesco's Horse - Tim) to see if we can't straighten all of this out.
Now, stop lookin in the Mirror, ya big Ham.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.4.13 @ 5:34PM
Next time, I promise to get the Hollywood Gay Men's Chorus instead.
Goldwater Girl| 3.4.13 @ 10:07AM
Perhaps the difference is Janet Reno had "man hands", it's not clear from the picture that big sis shares this trait.
TLP| 3.4.13 @ 10:20AM
Is that your Entry?
Goldwater Girl| 3.4.13 @ 10:37AM
My how time flies, is it already Friday?
Warrior| 3.4.13 @ 1:18PM
Reno had an Adams Apple and a set of cajones. Napolitano frowns all the time because she doesn't live close enough to a naval port.
TLP| 3.4.13 @ 1:30PM
Where the Hell wee You, last weekend?
We had 601 Entries.
(Maybe you should stay away, more often)
By the way........I saw someone Posting on another Site, using the Call Sign: Lancelot Link.
Coincidence?
markenoff| 3.4.13 @ 5:25PM
That's almost as many entries as Purp and Arnie have combined each week.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.4.13 @ 5:38PM
Her fingers are long and thin, and not particularly manly; but I would want one of those doctors who used to have to certify the Soviet Bloc women Olympic athletes were actually female to actually doing some chromosone testing and other inspection to satisfy the inquiry.
Al Adab| 3.4.13 @ 8:30AM
Lawless is a good term to describe this administration. Everything is done for political advantage regardless of the harm to the country. The regulatory agencies are routinely used to punish States which do not comply with directives from the central authority.
Immigration (illegal migrants) is not the only issue facing AZ. Other States have suffered the wrath of EPA, such as Keystone, and have had coal fired power plants closed or made too costly by regulation. New Mexico is facing similar acts, but Pete can fill in here. What is the situation out in AZ? Are TLPs questions about Napolitano on point. I thought she was a carpetbagger from the Clinton administrations DOJ.
Look around the country and see which states, especially those opposing obamacare and gun control, are being harmfully regulated.
Von Mises Jr| 3.4.13 @ 10:57AM
Frank Marshall Davis II and his lawless regime believe in the "statism" of Hegel and Comte.
Hegel praised his contemporary in France by the name of Napoleon as he changed history. It did not matter to Hegel that people were killed and enslaved in the process. Napoleon was a great man in his mind.
Comte taught in "Positivism" that he and his fellow Enlightenment "Age of Reason" scientist and philosophers had not only ended the Middle Ages, but that they had rendered God and Christianity obsolete. He believed that the new religion was one that worshiped "Humanity." Nietzsche "Superman" theory was the fantasy of some superior and benevolent elite that would be like Napoleon and Alexander the Great of ancient times.
But we know that our "affirmative action" first Couple are not that smart. If they were, they would not be frozen in Rousseau "Noble Savage" deep freeze for 250 years. This is why we don't see Dear Leader's Transcripts. This is why he can't speak without the "Teleprompter-in-Chief." This is why Moochelle can't speak except when railing Marxist class warfare.
Al Adab| 3.4.13 @ 11:21AM
Robspierre crowned the goddess Reason in Notre Dame cathedral. Is there a difference today in our worship of Tolerance, Diversity or Choice? Compare the number who died under the guillotine to the children sacrificed to Choice over the last 35 years. Hegel and his ilk, including his followers in this administration are leading us down a dead end road.
Konrad Adenauer said, "Anyone who works for the centralization of political and economic power in the hands of the state or of one class, and who therefore advocates the principle of class war, in an enemy of the freedom of the individual and is bound to prepare the way for dictatorship... such a result is inevitable."
Von Mises Jr| 3.4.13 @ 1:01PM
Hegel (1770-1831) would have began as Lecturer at Jena after the French Revolution. But they were of like minds although Hegel was younger as Roberspierre (1758-1794 (Off with his head)) and in neighboring countries. But they were of like mind.
Al Adab| 3.4.13 @ 1:14PM
...and it all worked out so well for those nations.
Lyneuss Fields | 3.4.13 @ 2:51PM
To make an effective argument that may work with liberals, republicans should drop the nagging for a reduction in government spending and use sequester as a control lever for tax cuts and deregulation. Economists on both sides of the isle can agree that with the loss of America's business cycle, economic variables—once predictable—are no longer easy to control. For example, many business owners find it damn near impossible to control inventories. This is because the business cycles (booms and busts) have flattened or disappeared. Before America was in a world economy, in a boom managers could replace inventories, and in down economy they could draw-down on their inventories. Therefore, the inability to control inventory and other business variables is driving business entrepreneurs into frenzy.
Lyneuss Fields | 3.4.13 @ 2:46PM
The problem with tax cuts for many liberal economists is, in theory, they have never been a part of Keynesianism. For them, Arthur Laffer is responsible for postulating (with his curve) a phony theorem that tax cuts could increase revenue. Unfortunately for Art, while his tax cut theory was dubious at best when analyzed in the economic environment of traditional business cycles. The sale to liberals and America—for republicans—is that in a world economy the tax rate on businesses become more relevant (and so does Dr. Laffer) to maintaining competition. Stifling regulations also impede entrepreneurs in their quest for an adequate return to their investment worldwide. Therefore, give liberals a short-term spending package to reduce unemployment, increase payroll tax revenue into the U.S. Treasury and pay-down long-term national debt. Again, republicans should argue tax cuts and deregulation are a relevant part of economic growth in America’s current position in a world economy.
Purp| 3.4.13 @ 8:41AM
I see - so now you LIKE the "Activist Court" as a check on the Legislative or Executive Branch?
Reversing decades of fury against the Activist Court! Wow... LMFAO ... you are so transparent it's laughable...
Especially when it's Republican's obstructionism that continues to halt progress.
What happened to all those "Loopholes" Romney/Ryan were going to close ? Don't bother bringing up the tax hikes in January for the 1% - that was expiration of the ill-conceived Bush tax cuts that created no jobs. Too bad they didn't all expire. They should have.
delahaya| 3.4.13 @ 9:16AM
Purp,
Your idiocy is amazing.
Albertus Magnus| 3.4.13 @ 9:23AM
Purp is a tiresome, dim-witted fool. He mindlessly uses every logical fallacy in the book, unable to form actual logical arguments from actual facts. Purp clearly does not understand what an "activist court" is and uses his own ignorance to blame Republicans, again. Same old garbage, same old Purp. He is not worth responding to. He presents nothing. He argues nothing. He merely attacks and insults. Tiresome. Boring. Witless.
Purp| 3.4.13 @ 12:22PM
Pray tell, please enlighten me - What is an "Activist Court"?
You seem to think you know - so please, tell us.
CJW| 3.4.13 @ 12:44PM
Purpie the Village Idiot posted:
1. "Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."
2. purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.
3. In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.
4. Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born.
5. purpie believes that a 20% cut in the tax rate will INCREASE his 0% rate to 8%.
6. purpie also posted one of the female bloggers here should just lay back and enjoy the rape.
7. purpie is a racist who posted that "You can't even beat a black man....haha," implying blacks are inferior.
Purp-arnie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in debate.
Stephie| 3.4.13 @ 9:46AM
mr/mrs/miss/ms purple, why do you use the texting lingo? It's so damned immature and makes it hard for anyone to take you seriously. LMFAO How grownup is that.
And you can't talk about loopholes when half the damned country doesn't pay ANY in taxes. As your boy would say, "they don't have any skin in the game".
Purp| 3.4.13 @ 12:27PM
Do you have any idea what your tax bracket is? Do you have a clue how much you pay in taxes every year to the Federal Government?
Can you take advantage of any tax loopholes that allow you to pay $0.00 in taxes like some of the largest corporations or the Mitt Romney types? Do you have carried interest? A Cayman Island loophole? A private jet loophole? Do you have millions in income taxed at only 15%?
Yet, you worry about the poor slob that makes 15,000- 25,000/year with a wife and family and his paltry taxes? That's who your focused on making sure THEY pay their way? Really?
While Billions are made without paying any tax at all? Get a clue...
CJW| 3.4.13 @ 12:47PM
purpie believes that a 20% cut in the tax rate will INCREASE his 0% rate to 8%
Purp| 3.4.13 @ 3:10PM
No answer Stephie? Of course not - you don't know.
Stephie| 3.4.13 @ 5:15PM
As Dr. Ben Carson said, everyone should pay a percentage of what they bring in. As the Bible says, 10%.
pogybait| 3.4.13 @ 9:52AM
Purp, close the loopholes?...., it’s more than that. Why this whole ordeal has the Reich-wingers throwing their predictable tantrums, why slavery will be reinstated, Black churches will burn, gays will hang from telephone poles, and children will be forced to adhere to stereotypical gender roles, taxes will plummet to dangerously low levels, while important programs like social security and free condoms for kindergartners will wither on the vine. Be very afraid, for all these things will come to pass if we succumb to right-wing fear mongering….
TLP| 3.4.13 @ 10:09AM
"pogybait" must be Austrian for Shitferbrains.
KennesawJack| 3.4.13 @ 10:57AM
Do you speak Austrian?
Al Adab| 3.4.13 @ 12:02PM
It's not paranoia when they really are after you.
TLP| 3.4.13 @ 1:32PM
I can't speak it.
I can only Read it.
Stephie| 3.4.13 @ 5:17PM
No, but obama does.
KennesawJack| 3.4.13 @ 12:20PM
"Reichwingers". Fabulous.
Bill8472| 3.4.13 @ 1:06PM
I thought it was Obama who was saying those things.
TLP| 3.4.13 @ 1:34PM
He was.
He heard it from a Navy Corpseman.
George S| 3.4.13 @ 2:01PM
Education time.
Congress does not write immigration LAWS, it writes immigration and naturalization RULES. (Read the constitution).
The difference is that LAWS apply to citizens while RULES apply to those who are not yet citizens, since they are not under the jurisdiction of the United States. To become citizens, they have to follow the RULES of naturalization -- not break the LAW by illegal trespass.
What Arizona did was enforce federal LAWS pertaining to TRESPASSING (you are not allowed to come here illegally -- did you that?). The same way a foot patrolman in Phoenix has statutory power to interdict a federal crime in progress (i.e., a bank robbery or a kidnap victim being carried across state lines).
cicero| 3.4.13 @ 8:44AM
It seems tome that we can look for no sane help from our heroes in Washington. It will be up to the states to take control of their own situations, and protect their own citizens. In that the political party in power in Washington refuses to obey the law, or honor Court process, perhaps the States should take a page from the same play book. Enforce local and state laws. If Washington can get one of its idiotic federal judges to issue orders mandating foolish orders detrimental to the citizens of a given state, simply ignore them. Seems to be a trend anyway.
It will be interesting to see if any state's National Guard will enforce an order from Washington clearly detrimental to the fellow citizens of that Guard unit. As an attorney in the general practice for more than 40 years, I can attest to the fact that our judicial system has done more harm to the culture and fabric of this country than any other institution, up until now. Now it seems that the legislative and executive branches are vying for the title. How sad. Time to protect ourselves. After all, this is a country of, for, and by its people.
TLP| 3.4.13 @ 10:13AM
They can't be counted on, either.
Unless you hadn't noticed?
We passed the Tipping Point, a long time ago.
It's all over, but the Dying by the Thousands.
Santayana.
SUBVET| 3.4.13 @ 11:13AM
Tim..........still have that "white" stuff on the ground ?
TLP| 3.4.13 @ 1:36PM
Unfortunately, YES.
I need about a week of 60 Degrees.
And, thanks for asking.
Bill8472| 3.4.13 @ 1:05PM
Santayana: "Only the dead have seen an end to war."
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.4.13 @ 8:19PM
Didn't Santayana also say "Those who cannot remember where they left their keys are doomed to walk home" (or something like that)?
Nancy in NC| 3.4.13 @ 8:56AM
Why is it that everyone in this administration from obama and Janet Incomeptano are able to deny culpability for the failings of their underlings? Imagine if the private sector worked this way. We would crucify the worker at McDonalds if someone got sick from eating there.
Von Mises Jr| 3.4.13 @ 11:03AM
Great point Nancy. Shillary and Frank Jr. knew nothing about Benghazi until the next day. Richard (see if you get that one) Holder knew nothing about "Fast and Furious" until it was too late. "big Sis" and Frankie knew nothing about thousands of illegal criminals being released last week to promote the Sequester.
Are we are to believe these people honestly know nothing about "Chain of Command." If so they should all be McDonald's burger flippers. Then at least they will be culpable.
Al Adab| 3.4.13 @ 11:30AM
Wasn't Napolitano a disciple of Reno and wasn't she sent out to AZ to become AG and then Gov.? Didn't she have a partner girlfriend out there? Seems like the Dems are pretty good at finding carpetbaggers to further their agenda whenever there is an opening. If only the GOP was a devious and unprincipled in furthering their agenda of liberty.
TNcracker | 3.10.13 @ 1:41AM
And why do we have so many ugly bull dykes and Low T New Castrati Ploufffe-type ?males in the federal government? I'm so sick of looking at them. Is that an Obama policy? Heterosexuals need not apply?
delahaya| 3.4.13 @ 9:16AM
What will the courts do? Half the judges are anti-constitutional liberals in love with their own power. Even if a judge rules against Obama, he will just ignore it.
TLP| 3.4.13 @ 10:18AM
A Federal Judge Ruled against Obama's request for a Drilling Moratorium, TWICE.
The Moratorium is still in place, almost 4 Years later. As is: The Contempt of a Federal Court Citation, against The One who's Coming was Foretold.
delahaya| 3.4.13 @ 9:22AM
The evil of Obama is revealed in the fact that he actively hinders people from helping themselves. It is bad enough he will not enforce our nation's laws, but he actively blocks local initiative. He has greatly expanded the welfare state and continually harasses the private sector. Seriously, can anyone think of even one single thing Obama has pushed that would be positive and helpful to an independent, hard-working American?
bustunloose| 3.4.13 @ 10:07AM
It is about 2014. And,money. The dem party pol machine needs trillions more. If, they do not take control in 2014-they in beeg trubbbllle ! Nothing else matters. Great year for fiscally sane and 10th ammendment GOP. Time to say RIP social issues-at least in some states-say about 40 or so,
cicero| 3.4.13 @ 10:39AM
If you want a template for what Washington will be like in a few years, look to Detroit. But even there, the Republican saviors of the downtrodden can't keep their noses out. Michigna's governor, Snyder, has insisted in saving Detroit form itself, and is insistent on dreagging its citizens, crying and screaming, into fiscal safety. All it will take is other peoples' money. Rather than allow the fools to sink into bankruptcy, he insists in appointing someone who will fail while falling on the borrowed sword.
Washington will be in this position by the end of Obama's 4 years. Unless the states decide to just take care of their own house, it is my bet that some Republican fool will appear and suggest that all of the rest of us (the states) pitch in and save what is still spinning around in the nation's capital. After all, we would not want all of those poor federal workers to take a pay cut, or lose their pensions and health benefits. Then we will be ready for another round of progressive invention.
Louis Jenkins| 3.4.13 @ 11:03AM
I'll have to agree with the story, Obama has declared war (a cold one soon to be a hot one) on Arizona. Of course the 2,700 mini tanks recently acquired by the DHS would have went a long way in paying for the incarceration of the 37,000 illegals just released, but I digress. Afterall, those 2,700 bomb proof street sweepers will be used on those who are the greatest threat to the USA. Middle class, veterans, right wing bible thumping Christians. Everything is going to be alright. That purchase can complement the billions of rounds of bullets, enough for five rounds per US citizens, and I guess the 37,000 illegals will get off with a slap on the hand, and a voter registration certificate, all free of charge. The half breed president, and his manly woman in charge of the DHS, why should they give a crap about the condition of the country? They're safe and sound, for life, while the rest of us goes to he-- in a hand basket.
Al Adab| 3.4.13 @ 11:48AM
Since AZ has their immigration law, why could not the local sheriffs take custody of those being released and just bus them to the border? Bab whats his name and Joe at least could make a stand and try it. What would the feds do, take away the medicaid money that Brewer opted for?
C. Vernon Crisler | 3.4.13 @ 11:34AM
I agree with the author, but I don't think it's very wise to quote Paul Babeu on anything.
http://www.examiner.com/articl.....ex-scandal
Jakota| 3.4.13 @ 11:44AM
To say "Education Secretary Arne Duncan earned four “Pinocchios”" is to be extremely benign. Why not say He baldfacedly lied to the American people?
JFGalt| 3.4.13 @ 12:35PM
Did anyone notice that they had started releasing these people BEFORE the sequester took effect? So they never expected there to be any sort of compromise before the deadline and were going to make sure there wasn't one as evidenced by OBAMA!'s refusal to negotiate anything. This was planned and premeditated and if anyone is killed by any of of these illegals that is released then the administration should be held criminally accountable. Will it happen? Yeah right!
Cuffs| 3.4.13 @ 1:06PM
Come on guys!!!!
Can't someone in the congress call for this
cow's resignatio?. Napolitano is incompetent
and dangerous. Obama is responsible for
her. They both need to go.
JD| 3.4.13 @ 1:23PM
At a Friday press conference, Barack Obama stated that the people who take out the trash at the White House were getting a pay cut as a result of the sequester.
On Saturday, fact-checkers were out in force stating that in fact, no one who works at the White House was getting their pay cut at all as a result of the sequester.
Also, the trash is still in the White House.
Purp| 3.4.13 @ 3:11PM
Yes they are - overtime pay is being cut and if you have to feed your family - that's a cut in what you expected to make.
Factcheckers were wrong.
markenoff| 3.4.13 @ 4:28PM
"overtime pay is being cut"
They will get paid less per hour when they work overtime?
Or do you mean overtime HOURs are being cut? Well they should be. Don't make those poor people work more than 40 hours a week. Seems like this would be doing them a favor. More time they have available to watch "American Idol" and Rachel Maddow.
Al Adab| 3.4.13 @ 5:17PM
Lets see. We let the illegals in custody go, we cut back on hours and layoff employees but have enough to buy 2700 light tanks and APVs? Something wrong with this picture?
John Navratil| 3.4.13 @ 6:52PM
markenoff,
Yup, the libs set the minimum wage AND the maximum wage.
markenoff| 3.4.13 @ 4:15PM
They had to let them out so they can go back to committing the crimes American criminals won't committ.
markenoff| 3.4.13 @ 4:33PM
Janet Napolitano is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
markenoff| 3.4.13 @ 4:39PM
"Among those released in the past week was Anthony Orlando Williams, 52, a Jamaican immigrant who spent nearly three years in a detention center in Georgia."
"“I’m good, man,” he said. “I’m free.”Mr. Williams, in a telephone interview from Stone Mountain, Ga., said he became an illegal immigrant when he overstayed a visa in 1991. He was detained in 2010 by a sheriff’s deputy in Gwinnett County, Ga., when it was discovered that he had violated probation for a conviction in 2005 of simple assault, simple battery and child abuse, charges that sprung from a domestic dispute with his wife at the time. He was transferred to ICE custody and has been fighting a deportation order with the help of Families for Freedom, an immigrant support group in New York."
"Mr. Williams was released last Friday. “That was a long, long, long run,” he said of his detention, adding that he has an appointment this Friday at an immigration office in Atlanta at which he expects to receive the terms of his supervised release — “a list of things I have to abide by.”"
He's low risk......only beats up on his wife and kids. That's they way they do it in Jamaica, doncha know mun. Be culturally sensitive.
Vance P. Frickey| 5.7.13 @ 11:09AM
This, of course, was predictable.
So is the lamestream press' assessment of this news item as "right-wing craziness" (just as the Hitler-friendly press in Germany characterized every report of atrocities against that regime's victims as "untermensch craziness").
Which brings us to the facts on the ground - before Barack Obama leaves 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it's but a short wave of the condescending hand from this release of violent felons (it doesn't really matter why, just that these felons were released without any court's involvement or any concern for the safety of the people of Pinal County) to the commission of atrocities at the specific behest of the Law-Breaker in Chief, Barack Obama.
Why not? Obama BEGAN his administration by telling SEIU goons to "get into their faces" at "town hall meetings on health care," and YouTube is full of video of the elderly and defenseless being roughed up by just those goons for daring to call Barack Obama's enablers on their lies about health care. Obama LED with a pilot plant version of the Kristallnacht.
So it's not implausible at all that atrocities will be committed in the near future by former detainees released in small communities with no real ability to beat back an instant crime wave thousands strong BUT their privately-held guns. After all, we're talking about professional criminals here being given no means of support but their calling - theft, assault and other crimes against the innocent.