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GET ANGRY NOW
Ann Coulter ^
| 9-10-2014
| Ann Coulter - Commentary
Posted on 09/10/2014 5:42:33 PM PDT by smoothsailing
September 10, 2014
GET ANGY NOW
President Obama now says he will wait until after the November elections to implement an "executive amnesty" for 11 million illegal aliens, so as not to hurt Democrats' chances this year.
Instead of waiting to be enraged in December, voters, could you please be enraged now? Once the holiday season kicks off, you'll be too busy going to parties and Christmas shopping to notice that you're suddenly living in Mexico.
Getting Obama to postpone a rancid idea isn't something to celebrate. Yay! We did it! We forced him to delay doing something the country doesn't want for SIX WEEKS! Every Republican candidate better be jamming Obama's threat down the throats of their Democratic opponents.
Obama is claiming to have the powers of a dictator. Amnesty was considered by Congress, but -- here's the important thing: It didn't pass. It only passed the Senate, with the votes of all Democrats and 14 not-bright Republicans. After that, widespread public revulsion prevented Marco Rubio's amnesty bill from even being considered in the House.
But according to Obama, the only reason illegals haven't already been given amnesty is that Congress is not "doing its job."
What does Obama imagine Congress' "job" is? Being his errand boys? Their job is to represent their districts. I promise you, House members are doing a better job representing their districts than at least a dozen senators are at representing their states -- or than Obama is doing representing the country. It's called the "People's House" for a reason.
Noticeably, every Republican senator running for re-election this year claims to oppose amnesty -- even the ones who voted for it. (Let's hope they remember how unpopular mass immigration is when it's time to vote, not just when they're running.)
Obama's base isn't even looking for representation. We could have a 1929-level stock market crash, Obama could commit a murder on the White House lawn -- and they would still support the first minority president!
But Obama says he can do whatever he wants on immigration because it's "a serious issue and Congress chooses to do nothing."
If bills became law provided only the Senate and president agreed, the Nicaraguan Contras would have been funded out of the U.S. Treasury, Reagan would have gotten his MX missiles in 1982 and the Soviet Union would have fallen five years sooner, school busing would have been eliminated without waiting for the courts to act a decade later, and most of George W. Bush's tax cuts would have been made permanent. In all those cases, a president wanted to do something -- and the Senate agreed! But the House said no, so it never happened.
Obama can't ignore the House and make amnesty happen either. That's why he's talking about an "executive amnesty," which sounds like the top-tier donation category at one of the 4 million fundraisers Obama has held since becoming president, where the dinner starts at $25,000 per couple and you might bump into Jay-Z in the men's room. Actually, it just means Obama publicly, openly, officially stops enforcing immigration law.
Except in his own mind, Obama can't make illegals legal. But he can direct the entire immigration apparatus of the federal government to act as if amnesty has passed. The theory is that once they've been treated as if they're legal for a few years, it's a fait accompli, and no future president will resume enforcement of the law.
Although consistent with historical practice, it's not where the country is at all. This election is our first referendum on amnesty.
Not only do we have Obama's promise that he'll refuse to execute the law -- it's not as if he took some kind of oath, after all -- but there's good reason to believe him: After this election, he's got nothing to lose. Democrats will have two years to sign up 30 million illegal immigrants for Social Security benefits, food stamps and voting cards.
There is no more important political issue than this: Republicans must take the Senate this year.
You know how much you've been enjoying the courts overturning state referendums prohibiting gay marriage? Get ready for a lot more of your hard-won political victories to be nullified by the courts if Republicans don't take a Senate majority.
Remember how the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare on a 5-4 vote? Obama could have a shot at replacing another Supreme Court justice in the next two years. As a senator, he voted against both of Bush's nominees, so he can't very well complain if Republicans reject his loony-bird nominees.
Have you heard about the federal judge conspiring with Attorney General Eric Holder and the ACLU to bring deported illegal aliens back from Mexico? Yes, he's bringing them
back. That judge, John A. Kronstadt, can't be impeached unless Republicans take the Senate.
With Republican majorities in both the House and Senate, Congress should just keep passing bills and sending them to the White House -- or whatever golf course Obama's on, busily not executing the law. If Obama vetoes their bills, Republicans can denounce him as a "do-nothing" president.
And keep in mind, this election will determine whether President Ted Cruz or President Mitt Romney will have a Republican Congress in 2017. They won't -- unless Republicans win every possible Senate race
this year. The Senate seats up for election two years from now are not nearly as favorable to Republicans as the Senate seats up this year.
Unforced Republican errors in Delaware, Indiana, Missouri, Connecticut and West Virginia in the last few election cycles have already cost Republicans five Senate seats. (See my last book for the heart-breaking details.)
Five! Think of that! Republicans would have 50 seats in the Senate right now -- maybe 51, if they could flip Sen. Joe Manchin in West Virginia -- but for Republican stupidity, arrogance and narcissism. Instead of desperately hoping to win a bare majority, we would be one "wave election" away from a veto-proof majority.
Surveying the wreckage of a mere two years of a Democratic president with a Democratic Congress, all Americans should be focused like a laser beam on putting the Senate in Republican hands.
Won't you be angry if our power-mad president grants millions of illegal immigrants "executive amnesty" on the basis of his nonexistent constitutional authority to ignore the law? The surge of needy foreigners across our Southern border, so far, will be nothing compared to what's coming if Obama does this.
He says he will. He thinks voters are too stupid to notice.
Prove him wrong.
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To: smoothsailing
There is no more important political issue than this: Republicans must take the Senate this year....Won't you be angry if our power-mad president grants millions of illegal immigrants "executive amnesty" on the basis of his nonexistent constitutional authority to ignore the law? The surge of needy foreigners across our Southern border, so far, will be nothing compared to what's coming if Obama does this. He says he will. He thinks voters are too stupid to notice. Prove him wrong. Unlike Ann Coulter, I don't let my anger blind me into voting for CINO candidates like Romney. Blindly voting a Republican ticket, out of anger and desperation, will only play into our opponents' plans. Throw ALL the bums out.
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:21:37 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: smoothsailing
Excellent essay. Ann is always on point when it comes to immigration.
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:24:56 PM PDT
by
odawg
To: kabar
Yep, Ann is right on amnesty.
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:46:47 PM PDT
by
xzins
( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
To: smoothsailing
They’re doing it now. They are meeting them at the border with premade passports, and then busing them to Social Security offices to process them. It was caught on camera at the office in Memphis.
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:48:25 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
(The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
To: smoothsailing
Ann I’ve been fired up for a long time. But I have so many knives in my back. I think one of them has your name on it.
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:50:55 PM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
To: Rome2000
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:59:04 PM PDT
by
patriot08
(NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
To: smoothsailing
GET ANGY NOWI might get angsty now.
To: Disambiguator
Just don’t get mud or ornate
To: smoothsailing
There is only one way to hurt them, and it requires a bit more sacrifice than a good rant.
We must stop earning taxable income.
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posted on
09/10/2014 7:24:58 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
To: smoothsailing
she was a Romney-bot but she was right about this and she was right to warn people not to go to Ebola-land for stupid, sentimental reasons.
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posted on
09/10/2014 7:33:30 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: jazusamo
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posted on
09/10/2014 7:35:21 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: smoothsailing
Every Republican candidate better be jamming Obama's threat down the throats of their Democratic opponents. Just what I've been thinking since Obama decided to put off his illegal executive amnesty until after the election.
It is a golden opportunity for Republican candidates to pound the heck out of Dim candidates concerning Obama's leaving our southern border wide open and enforcing no immigration laws, plus his cynical, in your face political move by putting off his illegal amnesty until after the election,
But I don't hear anything coming from Republicans yet.
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posted on
09/10/2014 7:57:12 PM PDT
by
Will88
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To: Rome2000
It didn't expose a fatal flaw in the Constitution. People that ignore this Constitution will ignore some spiffy "new and improved" constitution as well.
What it exposed is the extreme ignorance and apathy of the American voter.
We can't fix that.
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posted on
09/10/2014 8:08:34 PM PDT
by
Durus
(You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
To: kearnyirish2
Rather than go the way of the NYs Catskill Mountains (which depopulated after first industry, then tourism disappeared), our rulers are simply drawing people from all over the globe to keep the lights on here.
So you're FOR illegal immigration.
Right here on FR.
Good luck.
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posted on
09/10/2014 8:10:08 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Crusade: the only solution.)
To: Durus
What it exposed is the extreme ignorance and apathy of the American voter.LOL
All problems have a solution.
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posted on
09/10/2014 8:13:52 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
To: kearnyirish2
The simple reality is that those who run this country (in both parties) are not going to watch it wither away into ghost towns as the American population shrinks; they will do whatever it takes to keep classrooms filled with children, store aisles filled with shoppers, and housing filled with occupants. Here in NJ our American population has declined (costing us an electoral vote) while the total population has increased - solely due to illegal aliens. Rather than go the way of the NYs Catskill Mountains (which depopulated after first industry, then tourism disappeared), our rulers are simply drawing people from all over the globe to keep the lights on here. In the end, the dwindling number of makers will be increasingly crushed by the costs of the takers, who have their own thriving black market economy (in jobs, businesses, and illegal apartments) all over the state. Sheer nonsense. We could cut off all immigration and our population would continue to increase for many years. In 1970 the population of the US was 203 milliion, Today it is 317 million; and by 2060 it will be 420 million. This is just with the current legal immigration numbers.
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posted on
09/10/2014 8:27:17 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: matginzac
That so-called conservative candidate failed to use the immigration issue against Gillespie or Warner. Shak Hill was a real disappointment.
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posted on
09/10/2014 8:29:58 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: Durus
Sure we can
Put the “American voter” on hiatus
SHTF coming
9/11 tomorrow, we are infiltrated, stay safe.
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posted on
09/10/2014 8:30:03 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
To: smoothsailing
Dear Ann,
I have been angry about 09/11/01, since that day.
I lost friends in The TWiun towers, who were in the commodity business, just outside the ‘pits’, so well shown in “trading places”. So, it is personal.
When it became kown that the hijackers were a bunch of jihad johnnies from Saudi Arabia, i was sure that we would be seizing that nation, overthrowing and destroying a meddlesome dynasty, and taking all of their national properties.
But then, we go into Afghanistan, and leave the Saudis alone. go figure.
Any coddling of anything coming from any of those countries of mohammedan influence, is flat insane! Alllowance of those people within America is insane!
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