"The national media may get tired of stories about young illegals crossing the border in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. But as these youngsters are sent to places as distant as Chicago and Lynn, Mass., other troublesome stories are likely to emerge, on local newscasts (which are often starved for news) if not on Obama-protective mainstream media. ...
Oldtimers may remember that the influx of Mariel refugees from Cuba hurt Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election. Carter failed to carry Florida, where many refugees were housed, and Arkansas, where many were sent to Fort Chaffee. Also defeated that year were some incumbent Democrats who hadn't seemed to be in great trouble: U.S. Sen. Richard Stone of Florida and a young governor of Arkansas named Bill Clinton. Most current voters were not alive in 1980 or have forgotten the political fallouts from the Mariel influx. I'm sure Bill Clinton hasn't. I suspect that, if asked, he might have some advice for Democrats in states to which the underage illegals are being sent." — Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
The Maui Wowie Free Press
by Roachclip Johnson
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Honolulu 411 -
The Maui Wowie Free Press
has learned former local resident and member of the islands legendary 'Choom Gang', Barry Soetoro, has gone on in life to become a real American success story.
A writer, author, comedian, political commentator and actor (stage name Barack Obama) , is once again nominated for a prestigious award.
An episode of the comedy
“Between Two Ferns” which features a cameo by Soetoro as a sitting President being interviewed has been nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program category.
The awards will be announced Aug. 25. A win would add to Soetoro's already impressive award shelf, having won a Grammy in 2005 for the audio version of his best selling fictional autobiography, "Dreams from My Father". He scored a second Grammy in 2007 for the audio version of his comic account of a Keynesian economist and politician out to save democracy, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”
He also scored big time cheese with a Nobel Peace Prize for his work bringing peace to the streets of Chicago while working as a community organizer there.
Soetoro is presently in his 6th year of a run portraying for television audiences a bumbling, much traveled and leisure oriented gay President of the United States, which initially opened to rave reviews, but recently scathing
reviews have resulted in fallen popularity, and said by some in need of being mercifully ended.
Congressman Steve Stockman Thursday filed a resolution directing the House Sergeant-At-Arms to arrest former IRS Director of the Exempt Organizations Unit Lois Lerner on charges of contempt of Congress.
“Asking the Justice Department to prosecute Lois Lerner for admittedly illegal activity is a joke. The Obama administration will not prosecute the Obama administration. How much longer will the House allow itself to be mocked? It is up to this House to uphold the rule of law and hold accountable those who illegally targeted American citizens for simply having different ideas than the President,” said Stockman. Under the resolution Lerner would be held in the D.C. jail and would have full legal rights and access to an attorney.
“It’s time to for House to stop tacitly endorsing this administration’s illegal activity by refusing to hold him accountable. I expect Democrats to defend and even praise criminal activity. The question is whether Republican leadership will join them in mocking the House and breaking the law,” said Stockman.
Contempt of Congress is a criminal offense (Act of January 24, 1857, Ch. 19, sec. 1, 11 Stat. 155.) Congress’ power to hold someone in contempt has been recognized by the United States Supreme Court four times.
Democrats admit the House has the power to arrest those in contempt of Congress. “I could have arrested Karl Rove on any given day,” former House Speaker and current House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi told The Huffington Post just days ago, on June 20. “I’m not kidding. There’s a prison here in the Capitol. If we had spotted him in the Capitol, we could have arrested him.”
CNN has also recognized Congress’ power to arrest those in contempt of Congress, going so far in 2008 as to televise potential locations where Rove would be held.
The New York Times also recognizes the House’s power to arrest.
“From the Republic’s earliest days, Congress has had the right to hold recalcitrant witnesses in contempt — and even imprison them — all by itself. In 1795, shortly after the Constitution was ratified, the House ordered its sergeant at arms to arrest and detain two men accused of trying to bribe members of Congress. The House held a trial and convicted one of them,” the Times wrote in a Dec. 4, 2007 editorial.
“In 1821, the Supreme Court upheld Congress’s right to hold people in contempt and imprison them. Without this power, the court ruled, Congress would “be exposed to every indignity and interruption, that rudeness, caprice, or even conspiracy, may mediate against it.” Later, in a 1927 case arising from the Teapot Dome scandal, the court upheld the Senate’s arrest of the brother of a former attorney general — carried out in Ohio by the deputy sergeant at arms — for ignoring a subpoena to testify."
"We demand Obama and Congress take responsibility for the unprecedented influx of so-called “unaccompanied minors” streaming across the border. Specifically, since there is no practical way at this point to prevent thousands of people daily from illegally crossing into the United States – short of militarizing the southern border – we demand Obama and Congress house the immigrants in Washington DC.
In order to make certain this effort does not impose additional burden on already seriously besieged American tax payers, we also demand Obama’s wealthy Democrat base pay for the housing and other needs of the impoverished illegal immigrants."
Petitions.White House.gov
NDC - If you were CGI Federal, you’d probably be laying low when it comes to government contracts. After all, it’s likely that they can be considered the sole factor in Obamacare’s initial failure to meet any of it’s benchmark goals. Their shitty website, terrible management and utter incompetence probably cost taxpayers millions and made getting basic health care coverage a nightmare for almost every American who encountered the system. Fortunately for CGI, however, this is America, where our government considers initial failures to be mere bumps in the road to unbridled success, so CGI Federal, which has already wasted billions of taxpayer dollars, will now be responsible for wasting billions more, as it was just awarded an open-ended contract to compete for huge services task orders.
"CGI Federal Inc.announced today that the General Services Administration (GSA) has chosen the company as a prime contractor under a new contract vehicle known as One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS). The multi-award contract has an unlimited ceiling, allowing CGI to compete for billions of dollars in complex professional services task orders across all agencies in the U.S. federal government.
GSA oversees the business of the federal government, among other things supplying federal purchasers with cost-effective, high-quality products and services from commercial vendors. CGI is one of 74 awardees under OASIS, an “indefinite delivery indefinite quantity” (IDIQ) contract that will allow awardees to compete on a range of program management, management consulting, logistics, engineering, scientific and financial management services. Awardees will also be able to offer technology solutions as an ancillary service. For the first time, agencies will be able to purchase high-value professional services along with supporting IT solutions through a single contract, saving customers time and money."
Ah, the Age of Obama.....
