USDA with its pants down
Bensblurb # 561 July 22, 2010
Now she wants to speak to Obama!
Here's a question I have heard nobody ask: Why didn't USDA simply restore Mrs. Sherrod's old job rather than offer her another one? Had she been screwing up? Had she been preparing another lawsuit against USDA, after winning her original one that netted her $300 grand? Was USDA planning to abolish her job anyhow to save money? Rural development was never a priority there.
Sounds to me like USDA was just looking for a good reason to dump her and then leaped when the opportunity arose, via her taped NAACP speech. Further, after viewing a contentious interview she had this week on CNN with Roland What's-his-name, it looked to me like she had a short fuse and went off quickly against his arguments. Apparently she’s no sweetie pie. We’ll surely hear more.
...as Holder tries to keep Arizona from protecting its border...
“At the nexus of the Democrats’ two most urgent policy priorities — reducing CO2 emissions and immigration reform that includes amnesty for 12 million illegal immigrants — lies an uneasy reality: Enactment of the latter may prove to be the key obstacle to achieving the former.
The economic and national security implications of open borders have been examined in depth. Less study, however, has been devoted to the possible environmental impact of immigration.
People migrate to the United States to improve their standard of living. But the liberal wish of immigration amnesty may have deleterious effects on the environment, as millions of people from developing countries settle down in, or are encouraged to move to, the world’s largest energy-consuming country and quickly embrace all the CO2-causing ways of the world’s richest economy.
This liberal conundrum is illustrated by the events going on today in the Gulf of Mexico, since a demand for fuel sparked the recent chain of events.
According to liberal wisdom, population growth is the primary cause of heavier traffic, urban sprawl, further depletion of natural resources and increased CO2 emissions. And immigration is the principal cause of U.S. population growth today. More than 1 million people become permanent U.S. residents per year."--Gary Bauer
...In Federal Power Grab:
“I'm cautiously optimistic that the Arizona law will be upheld and I believe that it should be. It would be quite a federal power grab to bar states from protecting their residents from widespread violations of federal immigration law that the federal government is unwilling vigorously to enforce.”--Paul Mirengoff, in Power Line.
Obama names new head of health care, with no congressional review?
“It may be high time to hire someone who’s run something, turned a profit, maintained a payroll, balanced a budget, or hired and fired people. There is something terribly adolescent about Obama — an infatuation with himself and with pretty words, a lack of decisiveness, an inability to make tough choices, and an unwillingness to take responsibility for his own actions. By 2012, the country may be ready — desperate, even — for a grown-up executive.”--Jennifer Rubin, in Commentary
Finally...
William F. Buckley famously said: "I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard." After 18 months of the Obama administration, we have a demonstration of how right he was, noted a blogger recently..
--Ben Blankenship
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Now she wants to speak to Obama!
Here's a question I have heard nobody ask: Why didn't USDA simply restore Mrs. Sherrod's old job rather than offer her another one? Had she been screwing up? Had she been preparing another lawsuit against USDA, after winning her original one that netted her $300 grand? Was USDA planning to abolish her job anyhow to save money? Rural development was never a priority there.
Sounds to me like USDA was just looking for a good reason to dump her and then leaped when the opportunity arose, via her taped NAACP speech. Further, after viewing a contentious interview she had this week on CNN with Roland What's-his-name, it looked to me like she had a short fuse and went off quickly against his arguments. Apparently she’s no sweetie pie. We’ll surely hear more.
...as Holder tries to keep Arizona from protecting its border...
“At the nexus of the Democrats’ two most urgent policy priorities — reducing CO2 emissions and immigration reform that includes amnesty for 12 million illegal immigrants — lies an uneasy reality: Enactment of the latter may prove to be the key obstacle to achieving the former.
The economic and national security implications of open borders have been examined in depth. Less study, however, has been devoted to the possible environmental impact of immigration.
People migrate to the United States to improve their standard of living. But the liberal wish of immigration amnesty may have deleterious effects on the environment, as millions of people from developing countries settle down in, or are encouraged to move to, the world’s largest energy-consuming country and quickly embrace all the CO2-causing ways of the world’s richest economy.
This liberal conundrum is illustrated by the events going on today in the Gulf of Mexico, since a demand for fuel sparked the recent chain of events.
According to liberal wisdom, population growth is the primary cause of heavier traffic, urban sprawl, further depletion of natural resources and increased CO2 emissions. And immigration is the principal cause of U.S. population growth today. More than 1 million people become permanent U.S. residents per year."--Gary Bauer
...In Federal Power Grab:
“I'm cautiously optimistic that the Arizona law will be upheld and I believe that it should be. It would be quite a federal power grab to bar states from protecting their residents from widespread violations of federal immigration law that the federal government is unwilling vigorously to enforce.”--Paul Mirengoff, in Power Line.
Obama names new head of health care, with no congressional review?
“It may be high time to hire someone who’s run something, turned a profit, maintained a payroll, balanced a budget, or hired and fired people. There is something terribly adolescent about Obama — an infatuation with himself and with pretty words, a lack of decisiveness, an inability to make tough choices, and an unwillingness to take responsibility for his own actions. By 2012, the country may be ready — desperate, even — for a grown-up executive.”--Jennifer Rubin, in Commentary
Finally...
William F. Buckley famously said: "I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard." After 18 months of the Obama administration, we have a demonstration of how right he was, noted a blogger recently..
--Ben Blankenship
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posted by Ben Blankenship at
10:55 AM
