The Patriot Post Chronicle 6-19-2013

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The Patriot Post Chronicle 6-19-2013
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Putting the Carrot Ahead of the Stick

June 19, 2013

The Foundation

"The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents." --James Madison

Editorial Exegesis

"The Senate on Tuesday voted against tough border security measures that it promised to put in place years ago. Tell us again why we should trust them to secure the borders later after granting amnesty first. ... In 2006, Congress passed the Secure Fence Act, requiring 700 miles of double-tiered fencing get built along the Mexican border. ... A year later, Congress quietly passed a law that largely neutered the fence requirement, and today, only 36 miles of it have been built. ... Since the Senate is desperate to get amnesty done as soon as possible, it can't let little inconveniences like securing the border or tracking people coming into the country get in the way. As we've said many times in this space, border security has to come before any effort is made to grant legal status to today's 11 million illegals. For good reason: Failure to do so will only encourage more to cross the border, in the justifiable belief that once here they, too, will get citizenship without having to wait in line. We're already seeing illegal crossings increase even before the law is passed. ... History already proves that putting the carrot ahead of the stick doesn't work. The 1986 immigration law also promised to close gaps in the border in exchange for amnesty. But as soon as soon as Democrats got amnesty on the books, they started putting roadblocks in the way of enforcement. The result was that just three years after the bill's passage, illegal border crossings had actually increased, and today the number in the country illegally has climbed fourfold. A few days ago, [Senator Marco] Rubio said immigration reform had to ensure 'that we will never have another wave of illegal immigration again.' But with the Senate turning down every meaningful border security measure, that's the only thing we can guarantee will happen again if this bill becomes law." --Investor's Business Daily1

Upright

"The same pre-planned chaos that attends the healthcare bill ... is built into this [immigration] legislation as well. Consider just one aspect of it, namely family reunification. Does anyone seriously believe that once this bill passes, whatever the current definition of 'family' is won't be vastly expanded? Furthermore, an integral part of that reunification is based on the so-called conventional wisdom that America is home to '11 million' illegal aliens. What if it's 25 million? Or 30 million? How can we be certain it's not? Yet far more importantly, how is it that not a single attempt has been made to determine exactly how many illegals are in the country before any legislation is passed? The answer is simple. If the 11 million number is a sham, then the family reunification totals that could reach double that number or more, are equally fraudulent, which brings us to another unpleasant reality for the American public: Are you ready to see a level of legalization that would fundamentally and irrevocably alter the character of the nation?" --columnist Arnold Ahlert

"In the context of a war [in Syria] that has killed some 93,000 people so far, it is not clear why the 150 or so casualties the White House attributes to chemical weapons should make a decisive difference, except that the president threatened 'enormous consequences' in response to any use of such weapons. ... This perceived need to preserve credibility is a key ingredient in any foreign policy quagmire because it discourages second thoughts and dictates stubborn persistence in the face of failure. No matter how misguided in theory or disastrous in practice an intervention is, changing course is always a threat to credibility, a threat that looms larger the farther a president goes down the wrong path. All the more reason to resist what Obama used to call 'a war of choice.'" --columnist Jacob Sullum

"Arab and Muslim peoples have been at war with other nations and each other for centuries. The two major factions of Islam -- Sunni and Shia -- are in constant conflict over which one is Prophet Mohammed's legitimate heir. The 'infidel' West can't help settle any of this and is more likely to unite the warring factions against us, as it has in the past. ... The president wants credit for withdrawing American forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, but with Syria he is involving the U.S. in another war that can't be 'won,' at least not in a way that will advance American interests." --columnist Cal Thomas

"President Obama is preparing bilateral negotiations with the Taliban. This the same Taliban that chopped the heads off two young boys, aged 10 and 16, for supposedly accepting food from police in exchange for information. This is the same Taliban that still embraces shariah, and still holds an American soldier, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, captive. ... The U.S.' decision to get involved by backing the very people who slaughtered thousands of Americans on Sept. 11 is more than shortsighted. It is a ground shift in the American government's mentality with regard to the war on terror. For a dozen years, American troops fought to remove the Taliban from power and to cripple al-Qaida. They fought to create safe ground for American allies and hostile ground for American enemies. Thanks to the Obama administration's morally relativistic, ignorant and confused policies with regard to the Middle East, it appears that their blood may have been spilled in vain." --columnist Ben Shapiro

Insight

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." --American journalist H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic of undeveloped people, or of a decadent generation." --President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

Demo-gogues

It's moving, all right: "Across the board, people are feeling like ... America is moving and it's moving in the right direction. ... I'm very proud of the record that we've been able to put together over the last four and half years." --Barack Obama

Government can fix it all! "When people say the whole problem is government, they don't understand. Government can help ... by making smart choices -- by investing in American manufacturing so we're bringing more of our jobs back from overseas; investing in our roads and our bridges and our ports to make sure that we are staying competitive all around the world; educating our children from the earliest years, keeping them safe from gun violence; rethinking our high schools; making college more affordable; making sure we stay at the cutting edge in science and technology; securing our energy future; addressing climate change." --Barack Obama with a list of leftist dreams

Remedial geography needed: "I'm not going to waste taxpayer money on a dumb fence and that's what [Sen. John Thune's] amendment would be. ... A smart fence, which is what Senator [John] McCain and I want to build -- since he's from Arizona, I think he knows more about this than the senator from South Dakota, who only has a border with Canada that is quite different." --Sen. Mary Mary Landrieu (D-LA) (South Dakota does not border Canada, Senator.)

Leftist sacrament: "As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about [abortion]. I don't think it should have anything to do with politics." --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), despicably hiding behind "faith" to defend the murder of innocents

It's outrageous that babies are sacrificed on the altar of abortion: "Here we go again. Every single year we have to go through the same [abortion debate] nonsense with the same morally presumptuous and morally arrogant attitude that we know better. 'We know better than women and their doctors. We know better about their health care. We know better about their moral choices in very personal decisions.' It is morally outrageous, frankly." --Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)

Say what? "I'm of the opinion now ... that if you really were to question all [Republicans], that there is a sort of continuity of thought that rape is really not so bad." --Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY)