Governor Selectivator

As a conservative hostage in my home state of California (or as our state's chief executive refers to it "Cauleephourya", I have been bemused by his selective engagement of issues and his stated reasons for his actions or lack thereof...

Our state is still in fiscal crisis, our budget process has descended into a battle of how to spread the deficit around as opposed to fiscal responsibility. One of the drains to our state is the unmitigated and growing population of illegals. Politically, this issue trumps Iraq as a concern of our states citizens. The school system (rated 46th int he nation) has had to take extraordinary measures and endure excessive expenses to "dumb down" learning to provide for the English-Challenged squatters. The API scores (rating of high school students scholastic level) validates this crisis. Scores in schools with high illegal population are well below the 800 (test score standard). In contrast the high income and less illegal populated areas have scores that are well above the standard and well above the nations average. In a state with some of the highest housing and energy prices, the influx of illegals has artificially depressed wages making it tough for an already challenged lower-middle class to make ends meet.

Despite this compelling state-centric impacts and the cries of his legal electorate Governor Schwarzenegger has opted to not engage the issue and dismissively shirk his responsibilities by stating "this is a "federal responsibility"

So, let's give the terminator the benefit of the doubt and describe him as a strict constitutional constructionists. However,...

The Governor seems to have no problem engaging issues of a global scale. Skipping those issues that only impact the nation, he opts to spring to action and cure "Global Warming". He has been seen in London, Paris and other cities of international import articulating "his plan" to reduce carbon emissions and "lead the world" in this struggle for planet Earth. BTW, the issue of Global Warming ranks 12th on the list of concerns, well after; Iraq, Immigration, etc.

Of course, I scribe to the tenet that you shouldn't just toss out a problem without making a suggestion as to how to fix it, so here goes...

If the Governor is struggling to engage Immigration and Border Security due to his perception of constitutional boundaries...(apparently the only border limits he opts to recognize). Here is his justification and tool to engage the issue with legal vigor...

As the chief executive official of the state, he has the constitutional power to nominate leadership and otherwise has responsibility to oversee the States Department of Labor and a sub-arm of that department CAL OSHA. This governmental body is responsible to see that wages are paid based on the laws of the State (minimum wages, time recording, overtime etc). CAL OSHA is supposed to insure work sites are safe. Also, the department is suppose to advocate to insure California citizens can seek and secure legal employment.

WOW, there is was all this time, a true, legit and (bonus) a left leaning organization just ready for the Governator to engage and address problems of import to his citizens. He can conduct employer site inspections, access and review employee records, seize and where appropriate arrest purveyors of illegal documents and insure employers are conducting business in line with the laws of California.

So, Mr. Governor there you go a solution to your ability to engage the issue and advocate for the LEGAL CITIZENS of your state. I'll bet your relieved now...no thanks necessary just show that bravado so often reflected in your movies and ENGAGE THE ISSUE.


Commentary pro or con or off the wall...all are encouraged to ENGAGE

Lies That Divide

This agenda-riddled Congress and our voter-tone deaf President have painted anyone against the current immigration reform legislation as uninformed racists spurred only by hateful talk radio. The biggest of these "lies that divide" is their painting our choices as limited to two extremes.
The average American doesn't want the USA to administer mass deportation nor feels it is a necessary consequence. They also don't see a dimes worth of difference difference between..."immediate probationary status" and "amnesty".

Since the bill doesn't require illegals to do anthing and we are woefully unprepared to process 12 million plus "probationary" status illegals,...nothing will happen...AGAIN.

Most Americans in poll after poll....

1) Want a fence erected and the required mechanisms deployed to get control of the border
2) Want the worst of the worst illegal employers held to account which requires INS job site inspection (fines and jail as circumstance warrants)
3) Want a streamlined/respectful process for legal immigration (not a jump in front of the line program) Just something that looks like due diligence with background checks, a prod for assimilation and doesn't take years for a legal immigrant to fulfill.

There is no reason anything has to be done, to or for the current population of illegals. They will have to choose to get in line or stay in their current status as illegal jobs dry up as employers start to go to prison.

The legal immigrant deserves a better program and process.

There is a mandate for these simple, straight forward, fair and logical steps, which of course, makes it impossible for this Congress to write it and for Bush to sign it.

Hence, most of us have to play the uneviable role of legal obstructionist to keep this Congress and this President from doing anything.

Their credibility and suspect loyalties are the biggest obstacle to meaningful progress.

Inaugural Address, my dream for Jan 2009

Presidential Inaugural address Jan 20th, 2009

My Fellow Americans,

We come together to celebrate another ceremony of liberty and a demonstration of our citizens’ empowerment; the transition of the Presidency. Our republic has seen, felt and endured all manner of internal and external challenges. Generations that preceded us have never faltered in the defense of liberty. A new set of challenges faces our generation. Our founders, our fathers, our mothers and ancestors call us to meet this challenge to keep the dream called America alive for our children, as they did for us.

We come to this point in history with unprecedented pressures and unique obstacles; however we also come to the battle with unprecedented abilities and gifts. We face the challenge of Islamic Extremists who have hijacked the tenets of their faith. Who send children to kill other children using insane acts of self destruction? Who ruthlessly kill their own brothers and sisters to vanquish the call for peace and love. This hate must be vanquished and it will require a singular strength of character of Islamic people throughout the Middle East and good people of all faiths throughout the world. In this struggle for peaceful co-existence we must use the power granted us with increased discretion and accuracy. We can ill afford to fire before we take aim at the heart of the true enemy. The true enemies of peace are the evangelicals of hate personified by Osama Bin Laden and all those who subscribe to his philosophy of intolerance. This President and the American people promise to the world that we will remain engaged in this battle, but we also promise to improve our aim. Our efforts to assist the world to eradicate the merchants of hate will be executed with increased accuracy and through greater alliances with like-minded people of other nations.

For the past six years we have attempted, (with goodness in our heart and at the cost of 5,000 U.S. lives and one trillion dollars), to partner with the Iraqi people to allow them to breath the air of liberty. Regardless, of the current state of affairs and any mistakes we have made, our intention has always been a mission of honor. Selflessly motivated our goal remains the same…”to allow the Iraqi’s to determine for themselves what nation and what manner of governance their children will inherit”. The time has come to pass the torch of destiny to the Iraqi’s. The nation with such rich heritage has the talent, assets and call of their own history to seize this challenge and opportunity as their own for their own. However, we owe the Iraqi people the opportunity to pursue their destiny with minimal interference from outside forces (including that of our own). It will be the policy of this President that from today until a time of the Iraqi’s choosing, our forces will redeploy to the perimeter of the nation of Iraq. We will bring control to Iraq’s borders and keep additional external outside forces from entering the nation to contaminate the integrity of the process while this nation’s seeks to build its new day. We will also work with the Iraqi government to assist in the disposal or deportation of outsiders already in the nation by lending air support and other non-ground force assistance.

Speaking of border security… The true stake holders of America, (its legal citizenry) have waited too long and been over promised and under delivered too many times the basic fulfillment of border integrity by this government. Especially during a time of war with terrorists our nation deserves an unmitigated and unencumbered process for TRUE BORDER SECURITY and control over other PORTS of ENTRY. We must know who is entering this nation and it is well within our rights to erect any structure, deploy any resource and engage any would be entrant necessary to insure we have control of this nation's populace. It will be the policy of this President to assert the necessary means to bring true and lasting Border Security to this nation by years end. We also have allowed the tenets of our own fundamental laws to be violated with reckless abandon by employers who not only flagrantly violate employment laws, but also subjugate an entire class of people to impoverishment and artificially depress US workers wages. For employers seeking additional access to legal workers, you will find a friend in this President, for employers seeking additional resources to assist in accurate identification in the hiring process you will find additional resources at your disposal, for those of you who wish to continue with the status quo, you will find an engaged and assertive executive branch who will hold you accountable for your actions.

We also must recognize the blessings of a nation that is so rich in opportunity, so filled with the air of liberty, and so embracing of cultural diversity that millions of other souls wish to join the dream that is America. This wave of would-be American enthusiasts continues to be a necessary ingredient to the soup that is the American Melting Pot of Freedom. Millions seek legal access to this nation and our process has been overwhelmed by those seeking to breathe liberties air. Those seeking legal access to American dream will find an advocate and an assertive ally in streamlining the legal process for those already in line, and for those willing to join the line in the proper order. This President will work with the Congress to erect a process that is both prudently thorough and necessarily efficient to streamline the timeline for those seeking to join America by entering through our front door. We will welcome you with open arms with a process that respects your dignity and is mindful of the realities of our War on Terror. I have a personal message and appeal to our new legal immigrants; we want and need to add your special uniqueness to our nation, we also want you to embrace the culture and tenets of America. When you accelerate your acclimation of American language, culture, and values you will accelerate America’s embracement of your unique gifts of culture, heritage and values. This is the secret sauce of the American Melting Pot, this mix of flavors that augment and enhance each other.

On one matter of housekeeping, my first official act is to grant a Presidential Pardon for Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Campean...today!

As all Americans engage in the challenges of this age, we must be mindful of the enemy within. We must also be mindful of tending to our own house to insure that the intolerance of hate and destruction in the Middle East is not transported to the United States. We as a people must reject racism, religious intolerance and only embrace merit based decision making.
There is another internal enemy of this Democratic Republic. We have a cancer eating away at the soul that is liberty. Our republic is under siege by an avalanche of special interests who have unfairly earned disproportionate access and attention of our legislators, administrators and other government officials. The true stake holders of this Republic, the American people who we are elected to represent, have had their messages drowned out by the moneyed, the incorporated and the internationalists. These singular agenda riddled merchants of manipulation are a cancer on the republic. There is no greater plague endangering our children’s inheritance than the earmarks stamped as liabilities on their future earnings. It will be the policy of this President to veto any bill that is laden with inappropriate spending directed to line items not in the national interest. I will use the pwer of the FTC to oversee and where necessary restore true market forces to our industries. Until the Congress presents bills that are uncontaminated by these artificial intrusions to the federal treasury my pen will stay in my pocket. I promise you, the American Tax Payer, you have elected a President with total respect for your hard-earned income and tax revenues you pay to sustain this nation. I call on the congress to cast out the politics of disproportional representation and clean their own houses. Until that time, I can only promise that the dirty laundry of politics as usual will not pass to the White House nor will an ill laundered bill be signed. It will be this Presidents policy and more importantly its actions to conduct business in the most open, transparent and honest manner in our history. I cannot promise that nothing will go wrong, but I promise swift and immediate action when wrong is found and I promise to fill the air in the white house with the breath of honesty, integrity, and honor. We will promote an agenda of doing what’s right even when no one is looking. Speaking of looking...I challenge all of the media to re-examine, re-invigorate and re-engaged their role as the publics watch dog. I encourage you to approach your awesome responsibilities with agenda free objectivity…you are a key component to this nations of liberty and help shape the degree our Republic is enjoyed by all citizens.

Finally I say to you the “sell out of American interest” is over. Our nation will remain a significant player in international affairs and trade. However, we are going to review the terms and dynamics of commerce, alliances and treaties to insure all of our relationships are based on mutually beneficial commerce. A new day of integrity has dawned and the dream that is America has re-awoken and the benefactor of this awakening is the world. God Bless America.

Opps, I just woke up,..well it was good dream while it lasted

Please send this to your favorite Presidential Candidate, maybe elements of this will be added to their speech

Jobs Some Americans Won't Do

In an effort to lend understanding to the immigration debate and other matters of the day, here are Bill's top ten jobs American's won't do, or put differently ten Americans who won't do the job;

President Bush-
Won't secure the border
Won't seek out and engage Bin Laden
Won't insist that the justice department investigate Big Oil
Won't Pardon Ramos and Campean

Senator McCain
Won't represent the US citizens of his own state

Senator Feinstein
Won't advocate for the US workers having their wages depressed by illegal imported labor

Governor Schwarzenegger
Won't engage immigration issues because it is a Federal responsibility, but has no problem engaging Global Warming

Senator Clinton
Won't reveal what her tax increase plan actual entails

Senator McConnell
Won't stand up for core Republican values

Secretary Chertoff
Won't finish the border fence

Attorney General Gonzales
Won't engage true terroists but will engage in all other manner of government intervention

Federal Trade Commission
Is the see no evil monkey brigade for Big Oil


The American Electorate
Won't get off their bum butts long enough to vanquish these faux-leaders

Dear President Malaki...

Dear President Malaki,

For the past four years we have been your partner to build a better future for your people.

We have given you a "chance" for freedom and governance by the people. Now, we're going to get out of your way and let you decide for yourselves what your future will look like. Apparently our presence in you cities is part of the problem. Don't worry, we'll be close.

In fact, for the next 2 years, we'll form a perimeter around your country and control your borders. Through a projection of our air power and a redeployment of our troops from your cities to your borders, we will insure that outside influences (Iranian, Syrians, Al Qaeda etc) stay out. You will have to clean up and vanquish those already here.

However, if you want us to, simply give us a ring...if you have discoverd an Al Qaeda , Syrian, or Iranian hide out and you want us to do a "fly by" with an A-10, a crusie missle or Helo gun ship...we're your air force home boys. Simply send us a fax to confirm as we will need to document your request. Please include longitude and latitude coordinates and your signature...you know for the record in case there's a problem.
Fourth,

2 years from today, when you have stood up and asserted for your children's and your nation's future, we'll leave. We'll probably head North and take care of that naggy neighbor of yours with eyes on your territory. Once you have finished your nation's identity clarity civil war, we'll reconginze the last government standing and forge an alliance of mutual interest.

Until then just think of us as your temporary air force and border patrol.

BTW; thanks for this opportunity to hone our border security skills, once we get it right we are going to import that acumen to our own country.

This isn't good-bye it is simply a re-definition of our role in your country

Yours Semi-Eternally,

George Walker Bush

Impeach El Presidente

High Crimes and Misdemeanors

The chess pieces on the political landscape seem to be aligned against John Q and Jane Q Public. A political perfect storm of “rhinos”, “demos”, “big business” and “non-citizen radicals” have found a common ground on “immigration deform”.

Fear not there still is hope for the now disenfranchised 75% of U.S. Citizens who have been left nearly voiceless and worst called unenlightened bigots by this administration.

Here is the 4 tier strategy to pull America out of the Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole.

1) Be Legal Obstructionists, for the next 83 weeks of the Bush Presidency leverage the few sane legislators left to block any attempt by this Perfect Storm crowd to turn chaos into anarchy. Buy us time through stubborn blocking of any comprehensive legislation that requires that we trust an untrustable President on the issue of border security and interior enforcement until we can place a candidate in the White House who will get the job done. We may not be able to get the borders sealed, but we can turn back some of the tide by keeping President Bush from his last gasp at a "legacy of invasion".

2) Back Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, or Fred Thompson the only reason the pundits are saying these candidates don’t have a chance is that we buy off on the need to pick an odds on favorite. All these guys need is a little momentum and the ISSUE rises to the top even if the candidate doesn’t.

3) Write your Senators and ask to Impeach President Bush for failing to fulfill his role as the chief law enforcement officier. His obstruction of law enforcement namely; the Border Patrol intimidation tactics and anemic interior enforcement is a crime. No, Boxer and Feinstein aren’t going to do a thing but help Bush (amazing Irony) but it will keep the thought ever present in their minds.

4) In any future election cycle, make this a front and center issue. A litmus test and flush anyone who won’t sign up as being on the “protect and defend” side of this issue. (Meaning protect American workers from sub-standard wages and defend the nation from unmitigated illegal border crossings).