Because, you see, if he passed a bill, the issue would go away. And then Hispanics wouldn’t be mad at the GOP. It is quite a buried lede. The story here is not as the Post’s headline reads: “Republican immigration position likely to alienate Latinos, Obama officials say.” It is, instead, “Obama Wants Divisive Racial Issue, Not Immigration Reform.”
This leads me to paraphrase a most cynical old shipmate of mine, from about a decade ago. If BHO were to level with the American people, he might say something along the lines of:
I’m not good at getting stuff done. I’m good at talking about stuff as if it should have been done, but somebody else impeded my progress, and you should hate them for it.
The polls seem to indicate that those pawns are awakening to the fact that they’re trapped in a game of which they’d been unaware.
Chess is really an inferior metaphor for this post. There is no ambiguity in chess. It is 100% transparent, all the time. What a shame this administration is the opposite of that.
Contractors must now prove that any Russian pornography used in fulfilling U.S. government orders was made without children.
That’s the bizarre message that U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration sent out this week when its Labor Department placed Russian pornography on a blacklist of products that “might have been mined, produced or manufactured by forced or indentured child labor.”
The 29-item list, published on the Labor Department’s web site on Monday, “is designed to make sure that federal agencies do not buy products made with forced or indentured child labor,” according to a fact sheet on the department’s web site. . . .
“[The blacklist] requires federal contractors who furnish such a product to make certifications designed to help ensure that forced or indentured child labor was not, in fact, used to make the product,” the fact sheet says.
It was not clear Tuesday when and why the U.S. government might require contractors to provide pornography from Russia or any other country.
Obviously, the Labor Department doesn’t want unionized porn performers to be forced to compete with cheap foreign pornography imports. Sort of a Smoot-Hawley for porn.
Allow me to suggest that let’s not scream “raaaaacism” at these idiots. Rather, let’s point out the ironic absurdity of someone whose native language is Spanish telling other people to “go back to Europe.”
Think about the moronic Luddite impulse on display here. Not only is this lady’s language imported from Europe, but she’s yelling through a bullhorn — a device employing technology invented by Euro-Americans like Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. And she’s yelling outside a baseball stadium (Abner Doubleday?) in Anaheim, a town founded by German settlers in 1857.
Where did the Brown Berets get the inspiration for this kind of rhetoric? It was not from the Klan or the Know-Nothings or other white nativist groups. Rather, the roots of Chicano radicalism — like so many other contemporary radicalisms — can be traced to the 1960s.
This megaphone-wielding moron isn’t imitating the Klan or neo-Nazis, she’s imitating SDS, SNCC, the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground. She isn’t mimicking J.B. Stoner or George Lincoln Rockwell, but rather Mark Rudd, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton and Bernardine Dohrn.
Yelling “raaaaacism” at these ethnic hustlers doesn’t achieve the same effect as when liberals scream “raaaaacism” at conservatives. Why? Because the the Brown Berets’ implicit claim to legitimacy is rooted in the radical conception of non-whites as universally victimized.
Conservatives don’t really win any important argument merely by pointing out that militant are racist, because the radical rhetoric of the militants is cloaked in the sacred mantle of victimhood. If their claims of victimhood are valid, then their militancy is justified.
Debunk the victimhood narrative, however, and you have exposed the militants as peddlers of a bogus mythology, charlatans who are not authentic spokesmen for any legitimate grievance.
Therefore, let me point out that, judging by her greater fluency in Spanish than English, this Brown Beret woman is evidently not a native Californian, a fact that would tend to undermine her authority to tell other people living in California to “g0 back to Europe” or anywhere else. (Really, why should she single out Europeans? Does she have no quarrel with the immigrants from Korea, Pakistan and Kenya who have taken up residence on the sacred soil of Atzlan?) And far from seeking the universal oppression of Latinos, not only did these Tea Party protesters — supposedly hateful white racists — fail to inflict violence on her, but on none of them even suggests that she “go back” to wherever she came from.
The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned.
(Via Hot Air.) Let’s make sure we all understand the principle involved here: Obama spends 20 years in Rev. Jeremiah “G–D— America” Wright’s church, and that’s no big deal. A low-level USDA appointee says bad stuff about white people and under the bus!
