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Obama Fails Again: Are We Surprised?

Posted on | July 9, 2014 | 54 Comments

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail)

The escalating mess at Murietta and the general bankruptcy of President Obama’s “immigration policy” — the scare-quotes necessitated by its haphazard and improvised nature, so that it isn’t actually a policy at all — isn’t something I’ve said a lot about, because the disaster is so obvious that everyone sees it without me feeling any need to point it out. Whatever there may be left to say about this catastrophic situation, Adriana Cohen says it pretty well:

The massive crisis of tens of thousands of illegal children and hundreds of thousands of illegal adults flooding over our borders is, no surprise, not President Obama’s fault. It may have been entirely preventable, and certainly was highly predictable. But as usual, six years after he took office, the blame belongs elsewhere.
It’s the Republicans, blocking immigration reform, the Obama administration wants you to believe. They’re even trying to hang it on Obama’s favorite blame target, George W. Bush . . .
The crisis is in fact wholly owned by the Democrats.
Democrats . . . have been pushing for years to let people without Social Security numbers have driver’s licenses and welfare benefits. They’ve pushed for in-state university tuition for people who don’t belong here. Obama himself acted to dramatically reduce deportations — specifically of children — and has broadly signaled he wants to legalize the estimated 12 million illegals.
Who can blame the hundreds of thousands flooding across our borders for thinking they are welcome? The Democrats told them so. Never mind that 92 million Americans are unemployed or no longer looking for jobs. . . .

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Category: Immigration

Comments

54 Responses to “Obama Fails Again: Are We Surprised?”

  1. K-Bob
    July 11th, 2014 @ 1:22 am

    Crap! I forgot!

  2. K-Bob
    July 11th, 2014 @ 1:24 am

    Yeah, but most folks don’t get using “sight” as a verb.

  3. K-Bob
    July 11th, 2014 @ 1:25 am

    Then he’d have a set of spinners.

    For a little while.

  4. Quartermaster
    July 11th, 2014 @ 6:55 am

    All seriousness aside, you point a shotgun. A shotgun must be fitted to the user if it is to be properly used. “Point” and “aim” may seem similar, but aiming is deliberate. Pointing is something that happens naturally when the gun is fitted to you. It takes some effort on the part of the Gunsmith to fit it to you.