President Obama was blaming politics for inaction on immigration as he spoke to around 1000 Hispanic supporters in Orlando recently. Disingenuous? More than just a tad...
Immigration: During his 2008 campaign, Obama relentlessly promised Hispanic voters that one of his first priorities would be to bring about a comprehensive plan for immigration (illegals and otherwise) and pass it into law. For his first two years in office, President Obama had large majorities in both Houses and obviously this meant he had control of the government regarding numbers. But during this period he did nothing about immigration. He never as much as presented an Immigration Bill - and had he - he wouldn't have needed a single Republican vote in order to have it passed! It's taken him 3.5 years - by coincidence no doubt, five months just before a re-election bid and a potential 21 million Hispanic votes for the taking - to bring forth his half-assed, stop-gap measure.
Oh...and as for Hispanic employment prospects during Obama's reign: Hispanic unemployment has risen over 11% since Obama took office.(Gov. figures).
The Budget: As far as the two budgets Obama presented - and it only takes a simple majority to pass a budget - 51 in the Senate - the Democrats did not pass the President's two budgets. In fact, the last 2 budgets that Obama proposed did not get a single vote....not one single Democrat voted for his budgets!
The above are just two examples from The Obama Catalogue of Blame Games; always sending the tab to the opposition when really he, his party and administration should shoulder - among others - these two major failures. For it was the Democrats - and they alone - that were responsible for the failure to pass a budget and immigration legislation during the first two years, when they had over all control.
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Oh...and as for Hispanic employment prospects during Obama's reign: Hispanic unemployment has risen over 11% since Obama took office.(Gov. figures).
The Budget: As far as the two budgets Obama presented - and it only takes a simple majority to pass a budget - 51 in the Senate - the Democrats did not pass the President's two budgets. In fact, the last 2 budgets that Obama proposed did not get a single vote....not one single Democrat voted for his budgets!
The above are just two examples from The Obama Catalogue of Blame Games; always sending the tab to the opposition when really he, his party and administration should shoulder - among others - these two major failures. For it was the Democrats - and they alone - that were responsible for the failure to pass a budget and immigration legislation during the first two years, when they had over all control.
Obama relies on his charm, charisma and articulate speech making to shepherd enough Democrat voters, who never actually fact check him about anything he ever says; for it certainly can't be his honesty or track record that might well have them flocking once more into his ballot box. (Photos: Copyright Control)
