Change you’re going to get

From a Michelle Malkin post today:

Obama’s illegal alien aunt (and campaign donor!) is a deportation fugitive; Bush administration moves to protect her

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Turns out Aunti Zeituni Onyango, one of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama’s many relatives made famous in his memoir, is an illegal alien. And not just a run-of-the-mill illegal alien on welfare. [snip]

Barack Obama’s aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.

Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as “Aunti Zeituni” in Obama’s memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango’s case.

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Via cjburch, this Ace of Spades commenter sums it all up: “Obama’s aunt is here ILLEGALLY living in poverty, and is a deportation FUGITIVE. She’s collecting WELFARE and has DONATED to Obama’s campaign, ILLEGALLY! Obama. Family in poverty as he makes millions. Complete lawlessness. Giveaway your hard earned tax payer money to illegal fugitives. CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.”

Of course, Bush is slowing down proceedings against her.

As our politicians like to remind us, We are a Nation of Laws!

Yesterday was the day wished forgotten by that misbegotten collection of pseudo-economists we elected to congress and the Presidency.

Yes, in 2003,  Bush signed the bill overwhelmingly passed by Congress.

Greenspan cut interest rates to 1% to stimulate home ownership.

Amazing! That worked so well in the past five years, we’re going to do it again.

Whorehouse Harry Reid and his House Madam, Pelosi just pimped up another massive Viagra Bill for housing and Bush, on his spavined nag, signed it, as he rides off to Crawford.

Bernanke dropped rates to 1% again.

On Tuesday, we have an avowed communist (in his own words, he redistributed candy in first grade) who doesn’t know the difference between a dividend and a doughnut and someone who wasn’t smart enough to steer clear of the S&L debacle.

Did someone forget to change the reel in this movie?

Republicans have traded the “compassionate conservative” for the “populist capitalist”:

“John McCain is a populist. He believes in free markets; he believes in limited government and having the free enterprise system produce the jobs and the prosperity that he seeks, but he does think, as did Teddy Roosevelt, that you do need government there with some oversight and some regulation to avoid excess.”

It’s an odd message for a man whose base doesn’t trust him.  If McCain thinks he can win by trying to attract disaffected Clinton voters while driving conservatives away, he’s got another thing coming.  Those people are going to vote for the liberal, not the quasi-liberal.

Michele Malkin catalogs Barack Obama’s numerous “gaffes”, but the last is most disturbing:

And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Mr. Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us” — cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm — and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”

Is it too late to reconsider a McCain presidency? Obama’s dangerously naïve worldview is the real gaffe here. Bush couldn’t put two sentences together, but I’ll take those over Obama’s telling me that terrorists and their state sponsors aren’t dangerous to us.

Peggy Noonan isn’t finding much push back for her criticisms of President Bush in the conservative heartland.  I’m not surprised.  Those not too tired from holding their noses because of his policies are completely exhausted from defending his ineptitude.  After staunchly defending President Bush for many years, I’m now a member of both groups.

Sadly, November won’t make things better either.

The election of 2006, how the Democrats changed the country. The links will take you to the data for verification.

Part 1

A little over one year ago:

1. Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high
2. Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon
3. The unemployment rate was 4.5%

Since voting in a Democratically controlled Congress in 2006 we haveseen:

1. Consumer confidence plummet
2. The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon
3. Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase)
4. American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses)
5. Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars
6. 1% of American homes are in foreclosure

America voted for “change” in 2006, and we got it!
Remember, it’s Congress that makes the law…not the President. He has to work with what’s handed him. Of course sometimes they are hand in glove with Congress.

Quote of the Day: “My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.” - Barrack Obama

Part 2

Taxes.

Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.

Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008

Single making 30K-tax $8,400 Single making 30K-tax $4,500
Single making 50K-tax $14,000 Single making 50K-tax $12,500
Single making 75K-tax $23,250 Single making 75K-tax $18,750
Married making 60K-tax $16,800 Married making 60K-tax $9,000
Married making 75K-tax $21,000 Married making 75K-tax $18,750
Married making 125K-tax $38,750 Married making 125K-tax $31,250

Both democrat candidates will return to the higher tax rates. It is amazing how many people who fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever.
If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people who fall into the categories above can’t wait for it to happen.

Part 3

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?

I have been hammered with propaganda that it’s the “Iraq War” and the “War on Terror” that is bankrupting us. RIDICULOUS!

$11 billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
$2.2 billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
$2.5 billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
$12 billion dollars a year spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
$17 billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
$3 Million dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
$90 billion dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
$200 billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages caused by illegal aliens.
Illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.
During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
“The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes is Committed By Illegal Immigrants In The United States”

The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!!
The total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.”

Are we voters that stupid? I guess so.

Sometimes I just shake my head wondering how I voted twice for George Bush.  Those were some really bad Democratic candidates.  Fortunately, the president’s Supreme Court appointments saved him from committing a miscarriage of justice.  Chief Roberts and Justice Alito joined a 6-3 vote against his attempted intervention in the death penalty case of Jose E. Medellin.

Mr. Medellin, human refuse, gang member, and rapist/murderer of 2 Texas teenage girls wasn’t informed that he could seek help from the Mexican embassy.  The International Court ruled this was a violation of the Vienna Convention.  The president, siding with Mexico and the IC, asked the Texas judiciary to reconsider the case.  God Bless Texas, they refused, and after today’s decision, prosecutors are pushing for an execution date. 

Why would the president try to interfere with the Texas judiciary on behalf of a murderer?  And, not being satisfied with no, drive it to the Supreme Court?  I simply don’t buy the excuse he was trying to fulfill our international obligations.  He ignored every international body conceivable to start the Iraq War.  As the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, it was his duty to do the same here.

Now I’ve seen everything–RINOs endorsing other RINOs conservatism.  An endorsement from President Bush isn’t the best way to burnish your conservative credentials.  The McCain camp might want to give the White House a ring and say thanks, but no thanks.

So John McCain is the new face of the Republican Party. If true, count me out. I just spent 8 years watching President Bush sabotage the conservative movement on almost every major domestic policy issue. I’m not going to shot myself in the foot over and over again just to get a Republican elected.

It’s time for conservatives to reexamine their relationship with the Republican Party. The old platitudes about any Republican being better than a Democrat just aren’t true. I didn’t derive much consolation from the fact that George Bush was a Republican when he was partnering with Teddy Kennedy on illegal immigration and education.

It’s also well past time to look at the bigger picture and not blindly accept the notion that nothing matters besides the War on Terrorism. Conservatives need to resist the temptation to become single issue voters. That’s not to say that you’ll agree with everything a particular candidate does, but you do have to look at a much broader canvas.

And that’s why the Republican Party and John McCain have lost me. When you look at the broader core of what John McCain and the Party under a McCain presidency would represent (global warming, illegal immigration, socialized medicine, higher taxes, expansion of government scope and size, etc.), there’s very little reason to support it or him. The ever so prized independents and liberals are welcome to it.

Moonbats love the thought of impeaching President Bush. But Brattleboro, VT moonbats are adding an additional twist:

Brattleboro residents will vote at town meeting on whether President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should be indicted and arrested for war crimes, perjury or obstruction of justice if they ever step foot in Vermont.

The Brattleboro Select Board voted 3-2 Friday to put the controversial item on the Town Meeting Day warning.

I’d love to see President Bush roll into town with the Secret Service to do a little trust fund baby housecleaning.

Peggy Noonan’s interesting article explores Democratic and Republican infighting.  She argues the Clintons are fracturing the Democratic Party along gender and race lines.  But more interesting from my standpoint is the person held culpable for fracturing the Republican Party:

George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues. 

Amen, Peggy.  But sadly, conservatives, myself included, brought this pox on our own house.  We supported President Bush even though we knew he wasn’t conservative.  The main arguments for electing him came down to name recognition and he wasn’t a Democrat.  Sounds an awful lot like the argument being made for John McCain, no?  McCain will probably pick a token conservative vice president too.

McCain might be most “electable”, but is 4 more years of compassionate conservatism really winning?  It’s more like losing a bit slower.

Democrats are so predictable. As President Bush attempts to stimulate the economy with broad based tax cuts, Democrats are pushing for more welfare. Who knew that food stamp recipients were such key drivers of our economic growth? You learn something new everyday, but in this case, it’s more like Democrats make you dumber everyday.