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News/Politics 11-17-14

What’s interesting in the news today?

1. The case against executive action amnesty, from President Obama’s own mouth.

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2. And yet…..

From CNSNews  “The Obama administration announced on Friday a plan to create a new refugee/parole program for children in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras whose parents are legal residents of the United States.

“This program will allow certain parents who are lawfully present in the United States to request access to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for their children still in one of these three countries,” the State Department said in a news release. The department added that “[c]hildren who are found ineligible for refugee admission but still at risk of harm may be considered for parole on a case-by-case basis.”

The State Department said the new, in-country program is a “safe, legal, and orderly alternative to the dangerous journey that some children are currently undertaking to the United States.””

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3. His plans are definitely taking a toll on ICE workers.

From TheWashingtonExaminer  “Morale among officers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, already low, has reached a new bottom as illegal immigrants expecting amnesty from President Obama taunt and ridicule the overworked officers, according to a new report.

“Yes,” said one, “working for this agency is hell right now.”

That was the latest message to immigration policy critic Jessica M. Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies. She has charted the woes of the officers who carry out the president’s orders.

In a new paper, she wrote:

“The president’s gradual, calculated dismantling of our immigration system has caused morale to plummet in the agencies of the Department of Homeland Security. Career immigration officials have courageously objected in public, and sometimes resorted to lawsuits to draw attention to the administration’s subversion of the law. In denial about their principled objections to his scheme, now the president is hoping to stifle their voices by offering them a pay increase as part of this outrageous plan. His assumption that they are motivated by money shows just how little respect he has for the men and women who have devoted their careers to public service in immigration.”

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4. Is your state fudging the numbers?

From FoxNews  “America’s red ink runs much deeper than you think. 

Aside from the nearly $18 trillion national debt, many state governments are looking at future budgets that are trillions of dollars in the red. And they’ve hidden the numbers by dramatically under-reporting that debt, according to a new report by the think tank State Budget Solutions. 

The group looked at what are known as “unfunded liabilities” — or debt states will owe down the road. It found a number of states are fudging their numbers — big-time — using tricks like assuming their stock investments will soar. 

The book-cooking could mean bad news for public pensions and other programs that rely on these budgets. The report finds that, nationwide, states have unfunded liabilities of nearly $5 trillion, or $15,000 per American (even though the states allegedly low-ball that number at $2.7 trillion).”

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5. More overreach from more govt. agencies under Obama.

From TheNYTimes  “The federal government has significantly expanded undercover operations in recent years, with officers from at least 40 agencies posing as business people, welfare recipients, political protesters and even doctors or ministers to ferret out wrongdoing, records and interviews show.

At the Supreme Court, small teams of undercover officers dress as students at large demonstrations outside the courthouse and join the protests to look for suspicious activity, according to officials familiar with the practice.

At the Internal Revenue Service, dozens of undercover agents chase suspected tax evaders worldwide, by posing as tax preparers, accountants drug dealers or yacht buyers and more, court records show.

At the Agriculture Department, more than 100 undercover agents pose as food stamp recipients at thousands of neighborhood stores to spot suspicious vendors and fraud, officials said.

Undercover work, inherently invasive and sometimes dangerous, was once largely the domain of the F.B.I. and a few other law enforcement agencies at the federal level. But outside public view, changes in policies and tactics over the last decade have resulted in undercover teams run by agencies in virtually every corner of the federal government, according to officials, former agents and documents.”

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8 thoughts on “News/Politics 11-17-14”

  1. I see where ISIS has beheaded another American. I understand that he has converted to Islam. That means that they violated to Koran and teachings of Mahammed. He forbids the killing of someone who converts.

    Sura 9:5 (approximately, the Koran doesn’t have verse numbers.)

    “And when the sacred months are passed, kill all those who join other gods with god wherever you shall find them, and siege them, besiege them, and lay wait for them with every kind of ambush; but if they should convert and observe prayer, and pay the obligatory alms, then let them go their way for god is gracious, merciful.”

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  4. Sounds more like he is bragging to me, michelle. Of course, I don’t know his heart, but I see no reason to think his conscience is bothered, whatsoever. He clearly needs to lead the lowly masses. He is a legend in his own mind, apparently.

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  7. I just heard another, more plausible explanation on Rush. Some guy said that Gruber is not bragging. He is a teacher. He’s teaching his class how to do it.
    As T.P. Barnum once said, “never underestimate the stupidity of the public” or some such.

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  8. I think the others are right Michelle. I doubt his conscious bothers him at all. If it did he never would have fleeced those “stupid voters” of half a million in consulting fees. He’s just another elitist that Obama listens to because he’s one too, and because they all think they know what’s best for people too stupid to make informed decisions.

    And don’t buy the lies from Obama about how he barely knew the guy. He says Obama asked him personally to do this.

    http://hotair.com/archives/2014/11/17/gruber-obama-personally-asked-me-to-help-disguise-unhelpful-obamacare-facts/

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_e00NjQvFM&feature=player_embedded

    “And why was Obama so keen on obscuring the nature of his signature law’s taxes? Perhaps because he’d just recently spent months relentlessly hammering John McCain over a proposal to tax health benefits “for the first time.” So he needed MacGruber to swoop in and help craft a strategy of evasion and deflection. Noah mentioned over the weekend that in his response to Grubergate, Obama insisted that he’d never misled the public on Obamacare (which virtually nobody really buys at this point, and for good reason) and disavowed Gruber’s seemingly endless damning comments. One formulation that stuck out to me was his assertion that Gruber “was never on our staff.” This is exceedingly weak spin. The video above contains evidence that the president was personally huddling with Gruber on the Obamacare sales pitch, charging him with fashioning accounting tricks that might provide a politically-necessary fig leaf — which Paul Ryan dismantled at the pre-passage “health care summit.” It’s impossible for the White House to just divorce itself from this guy. He was very much their guy. Not only did they furnish Gruber with $400,000 for his services, they made him a leading point person for “drafting the specifics” of the law with Congress. Via the New York Times:

    Along with these credentials, Mr. Gruber’s position as an adviser to the influential Congressional Budget Office also left him perfectly positioned to advise the White House on health reform. “The most important arbiter of everything was the C.B.O.,” said Neera Tanden, who was a senior adviser for health reform at the Department of Health and Human Services. The C.B.O.’s assessment of a bill’s efficacy and costs strongly influences political debate, but the office does not publicly reveal how it calculates those numbers. “We knew the numbers he gave us would be close to where the C.B.O. was likely to come out,” Ms. Tanden said. She was right. After Mr. Gruber helped the administration put together the basic principles of the proposal, the White House lent him to Capitol Hill to help Congressional staff members draft the specifics of the legislation.”
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    The problem is Mr. Gruber no longer needs to hide the truth because it hurts no one politically. Obama and several other lame ducks don’t care anymore if you know, so he brags about it now to impress other libs.

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