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GOP Splits Over Obama’s Immigration Offer

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Photo Credit: Daily Caller The high-stakes overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws faces a little-noticed obstacle — the reluctance of many GOP legislators to accept the political trade offered by President Barack Obama and his fellow progressives.

“We’re split all over the place,” Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks told The Daily Caller.

It’s a fight that combines Obama’s progressives with chicken processors and software moguls, pitting them against about 200 GOP legislators, who are looking for ways to not anger any employers, or any of their donors or all-important voters.

Democrats pushing the Senate’s complex bill would quickly earn boost their voting bloc to the tune of 11 million amnestied illegals, plus 22 million new immigrants that would be welcomed by 2023. The potential gain for GOP legislators? They could provide their business allies with immediate access to the 33 million immigrant workers and customers, plus up to two million temporary guest-workers per year.

But most GOP legislators are balking at the trade, partly because the GOP’s own voters strongly oppose the import of more workers during an extended recession.

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Behold Our Elected Hypocrite

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Photo Credit: APSouthern playwright Tennessee Williams left us with this observation:

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite.

It is universally accepted that hypocrites are a special kind of liar, deserving of a special kind of contempt. With this in mind, read the following:

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It’s a sign that the US Government can’t pay its own bills. It’s a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington today is shifting the burden of bad choices onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.

Now, one might be inclined to think this quote might be the recent utterance of a Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, or some other extremist conservative. But actually, these are the words of Barack Obama in 2006, criticizing the Bush administration for increasing America’s debt and raising the debt limit in response.

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Obama: Washington ‘Has to Change’ after Shutdown and Debt Ceiling Crisis

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Photo Credit: The Guardian Barack Obama used his weekly address on Saturday to repeat his appeal for greater co-operation between political parties in Washington DC, in the aftermath of the government shutdown and national debt crisis. The president also restated his claim that despite the Republican climbdown that cleared the way for a resolution of the crisis on Wednesday night, “no winners” had emerged from the political drama of the last two weeks.

Later in the day the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the presumed frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, echoed Obama’s words in a speech delivered in support of Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for the governorship of Virginia. Clinton said the US people were looking for a return to “common sense and common ground” and would look to the Virginia race – McAuliffe faces the Republican Ken Cuccinelli – for a turn away from “divisive politics”.

It was Clinton’s first public campaign event since leaving the State Department in February, although she is also helping Bill de Blasio, a former aide, in his attempt to be elected mayor of New York.

On Thursday, Obama used remarks to the press to appeal for Republican co-operation over issues such as the federal budget, immigration reform and a farm bill. Discussions over the budget, involving the Republican representative Paul Ryan and the Democratic senator Patty Murray, have begun. However, optimism over bipartisan co-operation is in short supply.

On Saturday, in his address, Obama said: “There’s been a lot of discussion lately of the politics of this shutdown. But the truth is, there were no winners in this. At a time when our economy needs more growth and more jobs, the manufactured crises of these last few weeks actually harmed jobs and growth.

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Obama to Republicans: ‘Go Win an Election’

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Photo Credit: APBy Dan Weil.

In an apparent attempt to rub Republicans’ noses in their defeat on the debt ceiling conflict, President Barack Obama said Thursday that they should “win an election” if they want to change his policies.

“To all my friends in Congress, understand that how business is done in this town has to change,” Obama said in a statement to reporters at the White House.

“You don’t like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. But don’t break it.”

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‘Win an election’ is Obama’s new catchphrase

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“Go out there and win an election” may be the one thing everyone remembers about the government shutdown of 2013.

That was President Barack Obama’s mantra on Thursday, hours after Congress passed a deal to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.

Obama, widely seen as having won the fight with House Republicans, used an address to condemn Congress for the budget fight and to try and set priorities for the next year.

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Obama: Founding Fathers Would NOT Have Approved (+video)

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Photo Credit: APA stern President Obama lectured Republicans on Thursday, one day after they accepted a Democrat deal to end the government shutdown and raise the debt limit until Feb. 7–getting nothing in return.

The president suggested that the system of checks and balances invoked by tea party Republicans in an attempt to defund Obamacare is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind.

“Let’s work together to make government work better, instead of treating it like an enemy or purposely making it work worse,” Obama said.

“That’s not what the founders of this nation envisioned when they gave us the gift of self-government.

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Americans Must Suffer

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Photo Credit: American Thinker Watching Barack Obama and his shutdown shenanigan theatre, I discovered I have something in common with our inchoate president — we both want Americans to suffer.

As a sociopathic solipsist, Obama is incapable of feeling anyone’s pain, and because of this, his goal has been to make this shutdown as agonizing as possible.

Ted Cruz, an honorable man with conviction, thought he could force ObamaCare concessions from the administration using the continuing resolution as a cudgel. Boehner thought the debt ceiling offered better opportunities. They decided on the infamous “defund strategy.”

Yet, once you dare to stare down the bully, you must stare down the bully. Republicans picked a fight and in a fight, one must fight. Now, the Republicans feel they cannot walk away from this confrontation with nothing.

Their strategy had a fatal flaw. For the Cruz maneuver to have succeeded, Barack Obama and the Democrats had to fear the shutdown. This was obviously not the case. They, in fact, welcomed it, and have done everything in their power to make it as painful as possible.

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White House: ‘There Are No Winners Here’ (+video)

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Photo Credit: APWhile Democrats are being cast as the early winners in the deal to end the government shutdown and raise the debt limit, the White House doesn’t see itself as the victor.

“There are no winners here,” press secretary Jay Carney said at his daily briefing Wednesday. “We said that from the beginning, and we’re going to say it right up to the end because it’s true. The American people have paid a price for this.”

Earlier this month, a senior administration official told the Wall Street Journal that “we are winning” with a drawn-out shutdown, but the White House pushed back on that quote in much the same way that Carney did on Wednesday.

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Goldberg: ‘It’s Never Wise to Underestimate the Degree to Which Obama Does Things for Spite’ (+video)

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Photo Credit: YouTube The National Review’s Jonah Goldberg said it is never wise to underestimate the degree to which President Obama launches partisan attacks out of spite for the GOP Wesdnesday on Special Report.

Goldberg said he believes often President Obama cannot “help himself”…

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Obama in Wonderland

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Photo Credit: bigfurhat for American Thinker Many people criticize President Obama for spending too much time campaigning, traveling or on the golf course. They are wrong. He spends too much time in a far more removed and unique place: Wonderland. Indeed, he seemingly lives in Wonderland.

The problem is that the rest of us live in the real world.

Over the last five years it has becoming increasingly clear that Barack Obama and his crew of handpicked officials see America and the rest of the world in ways at variance with reality.

We have heard President Obama say that ObamaCare would not add a dime to the deficit, people would be able to keep their doctors, premiums would not rise — and in many cases would be cheaper than a cell phone bill — all demonstrably false; the rollout of ObamaCare is not going great with some minor “glitches” due to the high demand, it is a train wreck and the demand, such as it is, has been pathetic.

Does he read newspapers or watch the news?

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Obama: Boehner Can’t Control “Extreme Faction” of His Caucus (+video)

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Photo Credit: APPresident Obama on Tuesday said talks over a budget deal had been complicated because Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) “can’t control his caucus.”

In an interview with WABC, the president was asked about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) proposal that the president and congressional leaders lock themselves in a room to hammer out a deal to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government.

But Obama said the problem with that solution is that one-on-one negotiations with the Boehner “isn’t necessarily good for the extreme faction in his caucus.”

“It weakens him,” Obama said. “So there have been repeated situations where we have agreements, then he goes back, and then it turns out that he can’t control his caucus. So, the challenge here is, ‘Can you deliver on agreements that are made?’ ”

“One thing that I’ve shown is that if I say I’m prepared to compromise on something, then I can deliver votes,” the president added.

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