By
William L. Garvin
Trigger
Warning: The following material is not
suitable for politically correct, offense seeking, grievance industry,
illiberal leftists, or close-minded, name calling cyber-bullies. Proceed at your own risk!
Once
again, the Obama administration maintains its impressive record of negotiations
failure. Hillary’s hilarious “reset”
button with Russia resulted in getting our pockets picked with the START
treaty. Pledging “no American left
behind,” we traded five top level Taliban prisoners for an American
deserter. So much for not negotiating
with terrorists! (And has anyone noticed
that “Sergeant” Bo Bergdahl STILL has not received his Article 32 hearing let
alone his court martial?) Cuba ceded
nothing towards curbing their human rights abuses and now the president is
crowing about a treaty with the number one state sponsor of terrorism, Iran.
Iran
has a forty-year history of lying and cheating regarding their nuclear program
and avoiding UN and IAEA inspections.
John Kerry’s goal of “anytime, anywhere” inspections disappeared faster
than his military medals. Four Americans
in Iranian prisons are still there despite being President Obama’s “top
priority.” Of course, that was not
included in the negotiations because it would have “complicated” the nuclear
issues. Surprisingly, Iranian demands
for relief from the conventional arms embargo (on which Kerry caved!) proved no
such complication. Releasing the $100
billion in frozen assets and removing sanctions to boost their oil economy will
soon result in Iran being awash in terrorist cash. They have millions chanting “death to Israel”
and “death to America” but we are assured that they don’t really mean it. Both Kerry and the President say the only
alternative was war. Really? Wouldn’t “Negotiations 101” have pointed out
that ratcheting up sanctions and cutting off the black market oil trading might
have been a good intermediate step? Or
you could have supported the Green Revolution.
Or you could have sent a competent negotiator to the table. But you didn’t.
Meanwhile,
here at home, we have 276 “sanctuary cities” in 43 states that released 8,145
illegal aliens in the first eight months of 2014. This is on top of ICE releasing 67,879 in
2013 into the general population. The
theory of sanctuary cities is that they want “undocumented immigrants” to feel
free to report crimes without fear of deportation. The efficacy of this theory is no more
provable than the phantasmagorical “jobs created OR SAVED” or saved us from
“the worst depression ever.” The number
of subsequent crimes and rearrests is sufficient cause for alarm. We’re told that the “borders are more secure
than ever” but Kate Steinle was not the first person murdered in San Francisco
by a previously deported illegal however this murderer had been deported FIVE
times! Also remember that the murderer
of Sacramento County Deputy Danny Oliver and Placer County Detective Michael
Davis had been deported FOUR times! So
the question is “what border?” Curiously, President Obama has never commented
on any of these tragic losses nor did he comment on that of Chris Kyle.
We
do hear the Obama administration’s concern about “income inequality.” They seldom note that it has been worse under
him than the previous administration.
Maybe when hundreds of thousands, even millions of poorly educated, low
skilled workers come across the border with impunity, it might have an impact
on income inequality. It also provides
an abundant supply of minimum wage employees which defeats the normal increase
in wages dictated by labor supply and demand.
If it is pointed out that these are not “the best and brightest,” it is
easier to kill the messenger than to deal with the message. Some may remember when Castro cleaned out his
prisons and mental health institutions with the Cuban boat lift from Mariel in
1980. Truth is unsettling.
Finally,
it is impossible not to note the video exposing the callous nature of Planned
Parenthood operatives. It was bad enough
when one of their spokespeople said that it was between a woman and her doctor
as to whether a baby that survived an abortion could be killed, a la Kermit
Gosnell. Here a PP doctor calmly eats
her meal, sips her wine, and graphically describes how they crush a baby above
or below specific areas in order to preserve specific organs and tissues FOR
SALE. There is no shame, no discomfort, and
no awkwardness. It’s just another
transaction in the ordinary course of business, a business that receives over
$500,000,000 in taxpayer subsidies every year.
President
Obama, the first sitting president to address his remarks to PP, closed his
speech with “Thank you, Planned Parenthood.
God bless you. God bless you.” To paraphrase his former pastor, Jeremiah
Wright: “No, no, no. God won’t bless
Planned Parenthood—God will damn Planned Parenthood!’”
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