So here's this thread in a nutshell: two groups, one hating everything Obama does, the other loving everything Obama does, screaming at each other, using the federal lawsuit against Arizona as a pretext.
neither is speaking for the majority of Americans, who voted for Obama (for healthcare reform, fiscal reform, and to stop the Republicans from looting the treasury), but who oppose illegal immigration and support Arizona's implementation of Federal immigration law.
WE are the majority. We oppose illegal immigration and amnesty for illegal aliens. But we're glad we voted for Obama, because he is carrying through on those other things, as much as someone can under the circumstances.
But we are certainly disappointed in Obama's move against Arizona, and consider it mainly political--trolling for the votes of American citizens who refer to themselves as "Mexican" (not even "Mexican-American," according to a Pew poll).
Yet we will probably vote for him again in 2012, and for many/most Congressional Democrats this year, because even though the Democratic Party leadership's ethnic group advocacy is a bone in our collective throat, what the Republican leadership has done to us and promises to continue doing to us is even worse.
The fact is that neither major party--nor any minor one--truly represents the majority of the American people. We are not their constituents, actually.
Both parties are beholden--to various degrees--to special interests with big money or big voting blocs.
So the American majority isn't in love with either party. We just do the best we can with what we've got. That's why we often vote in governors of the party that's in the minority in the state legislature.
This lawsuit is a case in point. The American majority doesn't like the hard-right majority of the Supreme Court, put in place by several Republican presidents.
But if SCOTUS slaps down this lawsuit we'll be grateful for that.
Those of the majority who are registered Democrats should contact our Congressional reps and tell them how much we believe this lawsuit is a waste of taxpayer money and a subversion of the DOJ.
But even on this issue, don't think we'll be fooled by Republican tirades. It was the Republican Party leadership that almost passed "comprehensive immigration reform" during the Bush II reign, and was only stopped by a revolt of the rank and file. Yet Republican voters continue to fall for their leaders' lies today.
The Republican politicos keep telling us to forget what they actually did when they were in power, and only listen to what they say now, when they can't do anything about it. Talk is cheap, isn't it?
We don't get fooled again.
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Obama may survive, but this will really cost the Dems in the Congressional elections this November. This will please Latinos who are a small percentage of the off-year electorate. But it will really annoy swing voters. This will cost House and Senate seats.
It will please 3/4 of Latinos--the others realize that their own livelihood suffers from competition from illegal alieans.
As for it costing the Democrats--I'm sure it will. I keep wanting to throw my lot in with the Democratic Party, but they keep doing everything in their power to convince Americans who don't belong to an ethnic minority or a public employee union that they're in the wrong party.
But since I'm pro-abortion (so to speak), not a Bible-thumper, don't believe economics can be reduced to a bumper sticker, believe all the words in the Second Amendment count, and don't regard half the country as not really Americans, I don't have anywhere else to turn either.
What Fox News said that I didn't, however, was that I now expect Obama to sue every "sanctuary city" and the like for trying to override Federal law as well.
I'm holding my breath.
Yes, the difference between Arizona's law and a "sanctuary city" law is that Arizona's law seeks to enforce federal statute and expel those not granted federal permission to reside here.
The "sanctuary city" laws seeks to obstruct enforcement of the federal statute and grant residence to those who have not received it under the Federal Government's unique authority.
"we will probably vote for him again in 2012"
one of those rare occasions when i totally disagree with you. americans are more angry now than even they realize themselves, and as this case and the arizona law move through the system (and the media) and folks start realizing the issue involves arizona trying to stop what is really an 'invasion' from a failed country by a culture of people that offer nothing (except maybe jobs that shouldn’t exist in this country anyway) and can do little more than reproduce and obama is not only not doing anything to stop it but is in fact trying to stop those who are..... he’s toast in 2012.
I agree that it's a peasant invasion, and that it's an act of cultural suicide to tolerate it.
Mexican immigration law expressly forbids immigration that changes that country's demographics, BTW.
So my saying Obama will get a second term isn't denying what you said here--only that this isn't the only issue.
And heck, I speak Spanish, so I'm ready for the future Mexifornia, compadre...
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