The #1 political axiom.....Americans vote their pocket book

Since Arizona passed it's tough immigration law, many of the half million illegal aliens there are saying that they'll leave the state and seek jobs elsewhere. I predict that these other states will see a spike in social service demands, crime, wage depression, and unemployment claims by citizens. Hopefully this will compel them to pass similar illegal-immigration laws as well.

Obama and the democrats want badly to amnetize(is that a word?) all 12-20million illegals and in effect create a permanent majority for themselves, because most of those will be on the government welfare rolls and will certainly vote for democrats to keep the cash and prizes coming. It's the same reason democrats want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state....instant democrat voters.

But even Obama and Emanual aren't stupid and idealistic enough to try to pass an amnesty bill in an election year. Many current democrat voters are losing their jobs and/or having their wages depressed because of illegal immigrants working for peanuts. Legitimizing that will alienate those dem voters and make conservatives out of them. If a candidate or party is seen by the voters as taking money out of their pockets, they are likely to lose. All politicians know this. Hopefully this will give time to other state legislatures to pass similar laws.

Odd headline of the day

Remember the Sesame Street game..."Which of these things does not belong with the other ones" Let's play it today ourselves....here's the list and you pick out which one doesn't belong with the others....

Deep Sea oil derrick, US Coast Guard, US Navy, SWAT Team, British Petroleum Company representatives.

If you guessed SWAT Team, clearly you're brighter than our boy-genius President.....

Mr. Obama said SWAT teams were being dispatched to the Gulf to investigate oil rigs and said his administration is now working to determine the cause of the disaster.

What exactly do para-military attack squads know about investigating marine oil spills? BP is asking for American naval expertise in the areas of acoustic equipment, remote vehicles, and engineering expertise....none of which SWAT has any working knowledge.

I hate to be an alarmist but what could a SWAT team possibly do to assist in the investigation and clean-up of an oil spill in the middle of the Gulf? Is the administration going to seize this crisis, like they do all crises, as an opportunity to effectively take control of the petroleum industry in the US just as they did the car, banking, insurance, and healthcare industries? Just asking.

Obama the Marxist

Chairman Zero went off teleprompter yesterday and revealed more about his beliefs regarding entrepreneurship, capitalism, and the free market than he probably intended.....[emphasis mine]

We’re not, we’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that’s fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or providing good service. We don’t want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy.

Whose business is it of his to decide how much money is enough to have earned? I think the 5-6million that he made last year far exceeds his worth. The difference is he has the power of the federal government to take as much as he wants of what I earned and I can't take one thin dime from him. In that one sentence Obama showed that he thinks the State should have a hand in determining the income of all Americans according to what it thinks is fair.

Also, the core responsibility of the financial system is not to grow the economy. That's just what happens when the State gets out of the way, and businesses are allowed to pursue profits in any legal way they choose. The only, the single, the lone responsibility of any business is to make as much money for the stock-holders as is legally possible. There was never a private business started in the history of the world for any reason other than to make as much money for the owner as he could make.....period. It's not to provide high-paying jobs to shiftless union thugs. It's not to shower retirees with generous benefits packages. And it's not to grow the economy.

Washington Kabuki theater

These pretend hearings in which half-witted congress-persons act like they are grilling the Goldman-Sachs people are outrageously transparent. Here's what's really happening:

[Set the scene]
Obama wants to reign in American free-enterprise and place their operations under greater government scrutiny so he can redistribute more money to democrat voting bases that he defined the other day, unions, brainless youth, blacks, Latinos, and uncontrollably emotive women.

In order to do that he needs to create a plausible financial crisis with which to terrorize the American people, along with a proper Wall Street villain to torment in Kabuki-style congressional hearings. That way the voters and the obedient media would clamor for immediate reform which would put pressure on congress to vote for it quickly.

[Enter stage left] -- Goldman-Sachs. There are something like 15 former GS executives working for Obama, GS gave Obama himself almost $1million dollars in campaign donations, all democrats who have financial oversight duties received large donations from GS, and during the investigation, GS CEO met with Obama at least 4 times that we know of.

[Our antagonist] -- Goldman-Sachs volunteered to be the bad guy in these pretend hearings in exchange for certain allowances that were to be cleverly hidden in the reform bill.

Essentially they said, "Look Chairman O, we'll come to congress and let them grandstand for the cameras and the dutiful media so you can have a bad guy at whom to focus your phony outrage, if you will include the following items in the reform bill which will allow us to make billions in profits down the road....part of which will wind up in your campaign chest as well as other democrats' PAC's too."

Doubtless the white house visits were to outline precisely what Goldman-Sachs wanted in the bill in exchange for his cooperation in this charade to bamboozle the American people into supporting Obama's seizure of control of Wall Street.

I realize the feckless media is regurgitating this dog-and-pony show as if it's a real investigation and the hearing mean something but don't' be fooled. They are all in bed with each other and they're winking and elbowing each other under the table as they trick us yet again into supporting something that will end up hurting us in the long run.

Andre Carson used the phony charge of racism as a political tool

Over at his site, Andrew Breitbart is calling for all the members of the Congressional black caucus, who lied about being called the N-word by tea-party activists during their idiotic march with Nancy Pelosi to vote on Obamacare, to apologize for bleating about racism when there isn't a shred of evidence of any. Jesse Jackson's half-witted son (pictured above filming the whole stupid stunt) has yet to produce any evidence of white racism.

Rep. Andre Carson claimed that he and other black congress-critters were yelled at by white protesters and called the N-word 15 times yet, even after a reward of $100,000 promised by Breitbart to be donated to the NAACP, not one audio or video clip has been produced. In this day and age of video-cell phones, iPod recorders, and TV cameras not a single second of audio or video footage has been produced to show anybody calling any congressperson the N-word.

Andre Carson and the other members of the congressional black caucus should be ashamed of themselves for being degenerate liars. They cry racism whenever it suits their political needs and then preposterously accuse anyone who asks for evidence of said racism, of being a racist.

AP is shocked, shocked to find bias in the media

The AP plunges headfirst into self-parody with this gem......

LONDON — Britain's general election is less than two weeks away, but it's not just the politicians and spin doctors out to sway the voters — the country's newspaper journalists have also jumped into the fray.

Unlike the United States, where many print reporters aspire to a measure of objectivity and media bias is seen as corrupting, many of Britain's most-read papers take sides — and aren't afraid to flaunt it.

I don't know how it would be possible for any media to be more biased and slanted than our main-stream media here in the US. Our feckless networks and fish-wrappers long ago abandoned even the pretense of objectivity and embraced "advocacy journalism" in which the reporters and reporterettes formed a template based on personal political bias and correctness, made every story fit their narrative, then reported it as truth.

You know our media has chosen sides when the National Enquirer is nominated for a Pulitzer for outing Silky Pony's affair with Rielle Hunter....a story the media refused to cover because they collectively, wanted him to be politically successful.

Obama unintentionally ID's his voting base

As the democrats head toward the buzz-saw that awaits them at the polls in November, President Zero offered this rallying call for his core constituency to return to the polls to help the doomed democrats out. Among other things, he called for.......

"young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again."

I guess that's a fair description of typical, democrat voter blocks....people who pay scant few taxes if any, and women who either vote with their emotions or are aroused by the suave sophistication of The One. How ever you look at it, America is half full of some of the stupidest voters anywhere.

Exit question: Why is it OK to rally voters by appealing to their sense of race solidarity, that is unless their race is Caucasian? Then you're a racist.

Matador gets what's coming to him....OUCH!!!

Normally I'd hate to see somebody get injured like this but the barbaric nature of bull fighting makes my reaction to this story more of a, meh *shrugs*....

MADRID (AP) — One of Spain's top matadors was seriously injured in Mexico when a 1,100-pound (500-kilogram) bull gored him in the groin and hoisted him into the air, causing major blood loss, his manager said Sunday.

Jose Tomas lost up to eight liters (17 pints) of blood after being gored Saturday by a beast named Navegante in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes.

The bull's horn penetrated 4 inches (10 centimeters) into Tomas' groin and punctured a vein and an artery.

I'm not a big animal rights guy by any stretch but, when you make sport out of brutally spearing an animal slowly to death, I root for the bull to gore the matador and will certainly not lose any sleep over this "athlete" getting gored almost to death. I mean seriously, what kind of animal-torturing savage to you have to be to not root for the bull?

Promiscuous women alert!!!

There must be a lot of scantily-clad, lose, promiscuous women in Southeast Asia right about now.....

(Reuters) - A 6.9 magnitude quake struck in an ocean area north of the Philippines on Monday and was felt throughout Taiwan, officials said, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no mass tsunami warnings.

Well, I guess that crazy Iranian cleric was right about loose women causing earth quakes.

First annual "Everybody Draw Mohammad" day

From Hotair via my buddy Pat over at Belchspeak, Dan Savage at Thestranger has come up with this excellent idea to thumb our 1st amendment-loving noses, not only at the barbaric Muslims who find the mere mention of their prophet offensive, but also at the quisling trolls at Comedy Central who cowardly bowed to the threat of violence and abandon their freedoms of expression, when they censored images and even the name of Mohammad, in two recent Southpark episodes.

I'll certainly be offering up an image or two, so join me in showing the radical Islamic hordes that they can't kill every one of us for mocking Islam. If you make a drawing and have a scanner, send it to Dan, Pat, Allahpundit, or me and with a little luck, one of us will receive an ironic death threat for our mockery and of the religion of peace. I would consider it a patriotic honor to have been threatened for standing up for my Constitutional guarantee of free speech and so should you.

Don't forget, May 20th. Send them in early and I'll post whatever I get on that day.