Welcome to Club 1600 – The Ultimate Escape From Reality

As you read the story below and view the pictures I want you to keep this quote from Obama in you mind: 

"We saw 400,000 jobs lost in the auto industry in the year before this restructuring even began. I will not pretend the hard times are over. Difficult days lie ahead. More jobs will be lost. More plants will close. More dealerships will shut their doors, and so will many parts suppliers.

"But I want you to know that what you're doing is making a sacrifice for the next generation." -- Obama June 2009 on the auto bailouts 

Byron York Washington Examiner: Wednesday night’s White House state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderon was, as far as the dinner itself was concerned, a fairly routine, if sumptuous, affair.  The East Room was a grand setting, and First Lady Michelle Obama brought in a favored Chicago chef to put together a complex and expensive menu.  “The main course of Oregon wagyu beef came with a Oaxacan black mole sauce with more than 20 ingredients that takes days to come together,” reported the Associated Press.

Of course state dinners are supposed to be special.  But where the Obama/Calderon affair really hit the heights was in the festivities after the dinner, which took place in a huge tent — the word “tent” doesn’t quite do it justice — set up on the South lawn.  As the AP reported:

R&B diva Beyonce topped the entertainment bill for the dinner, taking place in the East Room of the White House, with the action later moving to a luxury marquee on the South Lawn of the presidential mansion. The marquee, the size of two-thirds of a football field, decked out in elaborate black decor and nightclub-style lighting, featured a stage and baskets of flowers and models of Monarch butterflies dangling from the ceiling.

It was a scene the most ostentatious party-giver would have envied: the White House turned into a luxurious, high-dollar nightclub. (Club 1600, perhaps?) But there’s no need for further description, because the White House photographer has posted several pictures of the action on the White House Flickr photostream, and they tell the story best.  For example, there’s this shot of the crowd listening to the entertainment: ...

You know what this spectacle reminds me of, all those dime store dictators and despots who live high off the hog as their people suffer. Castro and Kim Jung Il readily come to mind. Perhaps this “let them eat cake” attitude really is part of the statist ideal.

It really chafes me when I think how this gaudy display was paid for with money stolen from our children’s future and for what? To celebrate a little lying hypocrite who comes over here to bad mouth one of our states? This is just too much to be believed. 

If any of the GOP 2012 hopefuls are really smart, they will uses these images for one hell of an attack ad.

Via: Memorandum

Via: The Washington Examiner

Via: UK Telegraph 

Democrats give lying hypocrite Felipe Calderona standing ovation

I thought Obama joining Mexican President Felipe Calderon in bashing Arizona was bad enough, but today’s spectacle in Congress takes the cake. Democrats squeal whenever the right accuses them of being American haters, but when you see them spring to their feet to applaud that lying hypocrite Calderon what else can you conclude?

Thankfully some Republicans spoke up about Calderon’s BS, Orin Hatch said: 

 “It’s inappropriate for a head of state to question our laws, especially when the state of Arizona only acted in the best interest of its citizens and with the support of seventy percent of its people,” said Hatch in a statement. 

“The state of Arizona is stepping in where the federal government has failed,” said Hatch. “It is trying to stop waves of illegal immigrants, many of whom are dangerous gang members and drug and human traffickers, from crossing into its communities." 

Hatch could have been much for forceful here. There is little need to sugar coat Calderon’s lies and hypocrisy.  I guess we will have to wait for a female Republican to say what needs to be said.

What I don’t understand about the Democrat’s continued stance against Arizona’s law is that it is a political loser. Just today, Rasmussen has released a new poll showing that Arizonans have increased their support for the law from 67% to 71%.  Even nationally, the majority of Americans support what Arizona is doing. 

Fox News: A Fox News poll finds 65 percent of American voters think states should have right to make their own immigration laws and protect their borders “if they believe the federal government has failed to act,” while 32 percent disagree. Moreover, a 52 percent majority favors their own state passing a bill similar to Arizona’s new immigration law. Some 31 percent would oppose it and another 18 percent is unsure…

The key provisions of Arizona’s immigration law receive significant support. Over two-thirds (65 percent) favor allowing local authorities to question anyone who they think may be in the country illegally, while 76 percent favor allowing local officials to detain anyone who cannot prove their immigration status.

Rasmussen also found that most Americans blame Mexico for our immigration woes and think compensation is in order: 

Obama and President Felipe Calderon of Mexico denounced the Arizona law at a joint White House press conference yesterday. But most Americans don’t believe Mexico wants to stop the illegal flow of its citizens into this country and think America’s southern neighbor should be asked to compensate U.S. taxpayers for costs incurred by illegal immigration. 

So why are Democrats taking their stance. With numbers like these on such a hot button issue, even winning the Hispanic vote won’t save them.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: The Hill

Via: Rasmussen

Via: Fox News 

Mexican President Felipe Calderon bashes Arizona’s immigration law from White House lawn

I find this incident beyond infuriating. If ever there was truly an example of how broken Washington has become this is it.

First, we have a president who is deliberately stirring the racial pot for political gain. Anyone who is willing to take 10 minutes to actually read Arizona’s law, will immediately see that there is no racial profiling or possibility for it to happen.

Second, we have the Mexican president, who does little next to nothing to combat illegal immigration from his side of the border, standing on our soil and treating us like the bad guys. To add insult to injury, Mexico’s immigration laws are 100 times more draconian than anything found in America. Despite these facts, not a single official from this farce of an administration even calls Calderon out on his blatant hypocrisy.

Finally, despite the high level of hypocrisy from Calderon, our own president who is supposed to have our backs, is out there joining in on the bashfest with Calderon. There was a time here in America when Obama’s actions would have deservedly earned him the title “traitor”. 

If Obama were truly serving America’s best interest, he would have had a closed-door session with Calderon. During that session Obama would have administered some long over due tough love to our southern neighbor. Obama should have in no uncertain terms let Calderon know that the days of shuffling off their unhappy citizens to America is over. Tell Calderon we are securing our southern border as tight as a drum and if the Mexican government doesn't start seriously looking after the needs of its people, America would engage in the most massive deportations this country has ever seen. The last thing Mexico wants is a massive influx of its former unhappy citizens. Without a way to sneak back into the US, these unhappy souls would finally bring the much needed pressure to the Mexican government to change its ways.

Given how the numbers are running against Obama on illegal immigration, he is playing with fire. Sarah Palin alone will crucify him for not sticking up for America during Calderon’s BS and in this case it will be well deserved.

Via: Memeorandum

Video h/t: Breitbart TV

Via: ABC News

Via: Michelle Malkin

Via: Rasmussen