If the SCOTUS is not going to kill it, why take the case?? There was no lower court disparity. All the lower courts were in complete agreement..

Too early! Senate blocks it! The ref throws a flag -- 5 yards for premature end-zone dancing...

OK, ya got me on that one.. :D

Landru is toast.. Pure and simple...

So, it's a win win for me :D

How about: if Obama does something Republicans consider too drastic on immigration, then let them pass a bill through both houses and put it on Obama's desk before his action is implemented?

OK, fine.. But will Obama give them the time to do that??

My only point is Obama's claim that he has exhausted all possibilities is bullcarp...

If he doesn't give the new Congress a crack at it, he simply has not exhausted ALL possibilities...

Would you agree with that??

No worries, I read all the comments, in time. Sometimes just requires patience, though.

"Patience has never been one of my virtues. Well, actually I don't have any virtues, but if I did, I am fairly certain that patience would not be one of them."
-Crowley, SUPERNATURAL

:D

Michale

OK, didn't read the article, but saw the headline: "lonliest president since Nixon"?? I'm at a loss to understand why they didn't say "since Carter." Carter disdained the Washington establishment and paid heavily for it. Not like the WSJ to pass up taking a shot at ol' Jimmy...

nypoet22 [10] -

Let me know if he wants his engraved certificate... heh...

Michale [15] -

There you go. Sorry for the delay.

LizM [17] -

That's correct, it only takes 4 of SCOTUS. I think Roberts won't overrule himself, because he also thinks about "his" court's legacy in history. If he was going to kill it, he could have easily done so a few years ago. Why do it now? Makes no sense, which leads me to believe that the other 4 conservatives voted to take up the case.

John From Censornati [22] -

Nope, the quacking was all from my own fevered brain. I guess I went a little quackers...

Heh.

Michale [27] -

Too early! Senate blocks it! The ref throws a flag -- 5 yards for premature end-zone dancing...

Heh.

[28] -

How about: if Obama does something Republicans consider too drastic on immigration, then let them pass a bill through both houses and put it on Obama's desk before his action is implemented?

Because, you know, that's the way it is supposed to work. If Republicans were capable of doing ANYthing, that is.

"Just because Obama acts, doesn't mean Congress can't." Keep repeating that, it might sink in.

[29] -

No worries, I read all the comments, in time. Sometimes just requires patience, though.

:-)

-CW

A Ferguson protester had her car stolen while she was leading a "FUCK THE POLICE!!" rally.... :D

I guess "wealth redistribution" is no fun when it's YOUR wealth that is being redistributed, eh lady??? :D

Michale

Get that???

Rioting and looting is not only justified, it is "necessary"..

It's like I have said all along.. A scumbag being killed is just an excuse. These protesters just want to take and destroy...

Michale

The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century. If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole—especially by keeping our workforce young, in contrast to an increasingly geriatric Europe and Japan—it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”

Who said that??

Who said that illegal immigration hurts blue-collar workers and burdens already over-burdened social programs designed for AMERICANS....

Who said it??

None other than Barack Obama....

Michale

The US would be happy to do so..

IF...
A) the savages could police themselves and quit trying to destroy allies in the region...

and

2) if the source for the world's oil was someplace else...

But, alas, they can't and it's not..

So, the US will continue to protect it's interests with varying degrees of success...

Michale

Thanks for proving my point.

Which is simply that the US should keep doing what it does well and stop doing what it doesn't know how to do throughout the Middle East.

Oh well, it's relevant to this commentary too, I spose.. :^/

Michale

But, having said all the above, let's go back to your idea about what Obama should say...

Obama hasn't run out of options with regards to amnesty for illegal immigrants... He has a BRAND NEW Congress that has a WHOLE BUTTLOAD of new power...

Until Obama tries to work with THIS Congress, his claim that he has "tried everything" is complete and utter bullshit...

If Obama followed your advice, if Obama put out his Amnesty For Criminals plan and put a date on it's implementation, say 1 May or 1 Jun, I would wholly and completely support that..

Apparently, you agree with it too because it was your idea....

THAT is what Obama should do. Give the new Congress a chance to get immigration done right...

If he doesn't. If he unilaterally gives amnesty for criminals without exhausting EVERY POSSIBLE option, then he is a fraud and will PROVE himself to be nothing more than the leader of the Democrat Party...

He will have PROVEN he is not worthy to be President Of The United States...

Agree???

Michale

The way Congress is supposed to work is for Republicans and Democrats to fight like cats and dogs and hammer out a compromise that can move this country forward...

No where is this more apparent than the Keystone Construction legislation that's poised to make it thru Congress. Granted, Democrats have nefarious and totally partisan reasons for pushing it thru, but the point is, the system worked!

Legislation HAS moved thru ALL of Congress!!!

HALLELUJAH!! OH FRABJOUS DAY!!!

Obama's response???

VETO :^/

So, let me see if I understand this...

Congress has finally and actually agreed on legislation. Something that is actually GOOD for this country and GOOD for the American People..

And Obama is not going to approve it...

Well, if there was ever any doubt that Obama doesn't really care about this country or care about whether Congress works or not...

There is no doubt now...

Obama cares more for his own personal gain and doesn't give a rat's ass what's best for the country...

Michale

The simple fact that this country has such a big problem with illegal immigrants wanting to get INTO this country should be a big indication of how great this country is... :D

I am also constrained to point out that, without the US there would be no NATO..

Without NATO, Putin would likely own all of Europe..

Do we make mistakes? Of course we do. But it simply cannot be argued that this planet is a better place because of the USA then it would have been without the USA..

The USA is exactly like a (world) cop...

Everyone bitches and moans and whines and cries about cops (see Ferguson, MO) right up to the second that they NEED the cops..

THEN the cops are their bestest buddies..

Michale

Obama Met With Ferguson Activists – Said He’s Concerned They “Stay on Course”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/11/obama-meets-with-ferguson-activists-says-hes-concerned-they-stay-on-course/

THAT is the most stoopidest, the most moronic..

Yea, Ferguson protesters.. By all means. Stay the course. Continue to loot and burn and destroy...

Obama has GOT to be the most dumbshit POTUS this country has EVER seen!!

The christmas holiday shopping season is going to come early to Ferguson, courtesy of our Moron-In-Chief...

Michale

Was all that quacking actually inspired by Dr Rant Paul (R)?

No, it was inspired by Odumbo.. Or is it Obumbler?? Or it might have been Barry Hussein Soetero...

You see how ridiculous you look???

Michale

Taking out Bin Laden comes to mind...

Our efforts in the Gulf Of Aden...

Combating Ebola in West Africa..

Shall I continue???

Michale

Maher's new rule about low voter turn-out was excellent.

http://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2014/11/16/bill-mahernew-rules1114/

If you look at the totality of history and what MAY have happened had the US not intervened, I think we have done pretty well..

You are not speaking German or Japanese, the Red Menace was forced into hibernation and we have the Pet Rock to look fondly back on... :D

The US, like me here in Weigantia, is right a LOT more often than we are wrong... :D

Michale

So, like, is there some sort of school that teaches American civilian leaders and military types how to be the world's police force because, you know, they suck at it.

I disagree..

Iraq War II was a smashing success, BECAUSE of boots on the ground...

What would your response be to the atrocities of the IS??

Another problem involves the answer to the question about how long and how far US boots on the ground should go in trampling into multiple Middle Eastern national civil wars, not to mention the great Sunni-Shi'a conflict throughout the Middle East?

As long as it takes to insure their wars are not a threat to the US and it's allies...

Like it or not, the US is the world's police force...

Michale

I just learned that it only takes FOUR Supreme Court justices to accept a case, not five. And, so, it is quite possible - I would argue, very probable - that the Chief Justice wanted no part of this undertaking to kill the Affordable Care Act and will, in the end and once again, save Obamacare.

This should, at the very least, temper your bubbling certainty regarding the demise the Affordable Care Act.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/opinion/law-in-the-raw.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A10%22%7D

One problem here, Michale, is that you seem to believe that accomplishing the stated mission requires ONLY boots on the ground, despite the lessons that should have been learned, failed mission after failed mission.

Another problem involves the answer to the question about how long and how far US boots on the ground should go in trampling into multiple Middle Eastern national civil wars, not to mention the great Sunni-Shi'a conflict throughout the Middle East?

Could ya close that attribute for me in comment #12??

Danke...

Michale

Don't blame me.. I am all for us supplying our OWN troops..

To accomplish the stated mission, ground troops are inevitable..

I have no qualms about the US putting their boots on the ground first... NO nation should fight our own battles for us..

But, Obama quit taking my calls, so..... :D

Michale

Now THERE is a leader with some large brass ones...

Yeah, well ... based on that analysis I wouldn't be surprised if we end up supplying the ground troops for your little Middle Eastern wars ...

The problem here is Obama see's his job as Leader Of The Democrat Party and NOT President Of The United States.

And those two jobs are at odds.. By doing his "best" for the Party, he is screwing over the country...

Michale

Kick his ass, JL!!! :D

Michale

"I guess I'll shake your hand, but I'll only have one thing to say to you - get out of the Ukraine."
-Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to Putin....

Now THERE is a leader with some large brass ones...

Kudos....

Michale

If he does, the comments here in Weigantia will be in the thousands!!! And there will be a huge bumper crop for the Annual Weigantian Fundraiser! :D

Michale

Vladimir Putin delivered the unkindest cut, patting Mr. Obama’s shoulder reassuringly. Normally that’s Mr. Obama’s move, putting his hand on your back or shoulder as if to bestow gracious encouragement, needy little shrimp that you are. It’s a dominance move. He’s been doing it six years. This time it was Mr. Putin doing it to him. The president didn’t like it.
-http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-loneliest-president-since-nixon-1415920451

It's going to be a long lonely 2 years for President Obama. One could almost feel sorry for him if it wasn't for the fact that he had plenty of warning and the American people were telling him this would happen...

This is a particularly dangerous time for this country... For one must always worry about the man who has nothing to lose..

And, if ever there was a man in politics who has nothing (politically) to lose, it is Barack Obama.

Democrats should be wary that he doesn't pull them down with him.. As he did in the 2014 mid-term nuclear shellacking..

Fair warning...
Michale

Oh, and by the bi....

I know you are somewhat new here around Weigantia, but it's customary, when you are so blatantly and egregiously wrong about something and another was so dead on ballz accurate about that same something, that you acknowledge this..

Since you were so dead on ballz wrong about the mid-terms in general and Kentucky specifically (Grimes lost by 15 Points fer chreest's sake!!) I await your concession.. :D

OK... *NOW* I am done gloating... :D

Michale

The premium for my ACA-compliant health care plan rose only 3% this year. The preventive care benefits are very good. I hate that Obamacare.

Yea, as long as you got yours, frak the rest of the American people, right??

{sssiiiiggghhhhhhhhhh}

It used to be that Democrats and Liberals actually CARED about their fellow Americans. Actually put others before themselves...

These days, the Left is nothing more than a pale imitation of what they accuse the Right of being..

And ya'all wonder why I am an NPA....

Michale

You mean the "deal" where the US has to cut emissions by 30%-50% by 2020 and China is allowed to pollute and pollute til 2030 and THEN discuss caps??

Has the bar fallen so low that THAT is considered a "good deal"???

Being so nebulously defined means she can define the position herself -- and she'll do so knowing that she's got an absolute army of supporters behind her.

Or, more accurately, it will be a way for Harry Reid to define her...

"Sorry, Lizzy.. That's not in the job description..."

How Harry Reid still has his minority leader job is beyond understanding...

epublicans are already calling President Obama's new deportation policy 'unconstitutional,' before they even know what is in it.

Oh come on! Everyone knows what's in it! 5 million fresh newly minted Democrat voters...

"Can anyone show me where, exactly, it says that Congress cannot act on an issue that the president is also acting upon? There is no such law, and you won't find it in the Constitution, folks.

Sure we will..

The President shall faithfully enforce all laws enacted by the legislature......

Seems Obama has a REAL big problem with this part of the Constitution...

Obama wants to tack on this little addendum..

...... only as long as such faithful enforcement is to the benefit of the Democrat Party and to the detriment of the United States Of America..

No one has come up with a reasonable plausible and accurate explanation as to exactly how giving amnesty to immigrant criminals benefits the American people and the country...

Therefore, the ONLY possible and logical conclusion is that Obama and the Democrats are saying, "Screw the country. We're going to do what's right for the Party.. The American people can vote us out until their blue in the face.. Frak ya'all!!"

That's the Democrat Party in the here and now...

Michale

Oh com'on! Let's be accurate..

Obama is not "getting things done"...

Obama is frakin' up the country to serve the agenda of the Democrat Party..

That is the ONLY thing that Obama is "getting done"....

The election cloudburst is over, but there is another storm about to break (and this doesn't even count the storm the media will soon be egging on in Ferguson, Missouri, either).

Let it come! I got my I AM DARREN WILSON t-shirt... Wearing it today, as a matter o' fact...

But seriously, I have to admit you are right about the media's role in Ferguson. Juan Williams has a real good piece on it.. I don't agree with everything he says on the issue, especially his description of the Brown scumbag as "possibly belligerent".. But he does aptly describe the media's attempts to paint Michael Brown as a 'victim'...

I am going to skip ahead to the MDDOTW award.. Gots to go earn my keep...

"I owe, I owe, So off to work I go!!"
-Bumper Sticker

:D

We considered giving Mary Landrieu some sort of award for her desperation move in Congress to force President Obama to give the green light to the Keystone XL pipeline. Landrieu faces a runoff election in a few weeks, and she is desperately hoping that standing up for gas and oil and breaking with Obama will give her a better chance to keep her job. She is wrong, if the polls are correct -- she's going to lose, and lose badly. Even if Landrieu does manage to put a bill on Obama's desk, he'll veto it, meaning that the entire exercise is nothing more than Landrieu grasping at straws. But we find the whole thing more pathetic than disappointing, if truth be told.

So far, so good... I commented a day or so ago how pathetic Landru is being.. If she had ANY shred of decency in her or ANY sense of patriotism, she would concede the election now and quit dragging the Democrat Party FURTHER down into the gutter...

Instead, we're giving the Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week award to Charlie Rangel. Not so much for his original gaffe as for the ridiculous way he tried to justify it later.

Awwww bummer.. :( hehehehehe

When you walk the high moral road on an issue, you are simply not allowed to let the standards you're attempting to set for others slip, in any way. That's a hard fact, but it's true. Charlie Rangel knows full well there are negative associations with the term "white cracker." He has lived long enough to figure that one out. There is simply no excuse for his own lapse in language. Which is why he's this week's Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week. Do unto others, Charlie, as you would have them do unto you. Or you forfeit your right to complain about it when they do.

Ok, Ok, you got me on that one... That IS more deserving than Gruber's comments...

But hardly surprising.. Rangel is almost as big a racist as Sharpton, Jackson and Crump... At least Rangel only makes his money peripherally by being a scumbag racist...

So, kudos to your choice... Dead on ballz accurate..

But, IMNSHO opinion, Gruber deserves at least a dishonorable mention.. :D

Get to the rest later.. Gotz ta run :D

Michale

If you quote me, you're lying - Newt Blingrich