The politics of SB 1070

Yesterday’s Federal court decision to strip the law of its key provisions is a blow to state’s rights and the will of the people of Arizona.

Governor Brewer has confirmed that Arizona is appealing the decision.

Doug Mataconis wonders how this will play out for the midterms:

…[I]t’s going to be interesting to see what impact this decision has across the country. Polls have shown repeatedly that a large majority of Americans support Arizona’s law and a new polls shows that similar majorities oppose the Justice Department’s decision to sue the State of Arizona.

One can imagine that these voters are going to react negatively to this decision, although, of course, there’s not really much they can do about it since the matter is in the hands of the Court.

Andy McCarthy thinks this decision means tough political seas ahead for Democrats:

…[T]he gleeful Left may want to put away the party hats. This decision is going to anger most of the country. The upshot of it is to tell Americans that if they want the immigration laws enforced, they are going to need a president willing to do it, a Congress willing to make clear that the federal government has no interest in preempting state enforcement, and the selection of judges who will not invent novel legal theories to frustrate enforcement. They are not going to get that from the Obama/Reid/Pelosi Democrats.

Elections have consequences.  The Federal judge who wrote the decision was an appointee of President Clinton, who has been out of office for a decade, yet his decisions and appointments have ramifications today.  And President Obama has made his opinions on judicial activism very clear.

These elections–midterms, the general election in 2012–have consequences.  Dire consequences.  Conservatives need to mobilize and step up to the plate.

Brown and Obama

This should put the final nail in Gordon Brown’s political coffin with a week to go before the UK’s election:

Gordon Brown prostrated himself as a “penitent sinner” yesterday after a brush with a voter triggered a calamitous chain of events that threatened to derail Labour on the eve of tonight’s pivotal TV debate.

The Prime Minister spent an unscheduled 45 minutes inside the terraced house of Gillian Duffy apologising to the Labour-supporting widow for insulting her behind her back.

His muttered description of her as a “bigoted woman”, picked up by a microphone as he drove off from their combative but apparently friendly encounter, plunged Labour’s high command into its most serious crisis of the campaign.

Brown heard the recording of his comments during an appearance on a radio station.  The video of that is here, because his reaction to the comments is priceless:

He just knows he’s screwed.  Here’s a clue–when running for political office, don’t insult little old ladies.

More importantly, Brown’s comments were made in response to Ms. Duffy expressing concern about illegal immigration from Eastern Europe into the UK, and now Gillian Duffy is a national figure.

My reaction to all of this is nothing new, just that Gordon Brown is your typically egotistical and arrogant politician who doesn’t understand and probably will never understand why the dirty rubes just don’t get his elitist and utopian point of view.  This arrogance transcends political allegiances and is found on all sides of the political spectrum.  Brown has apologized to Ms. Duffy, but really, he’s not sorry.  He made these comments without any hesitation.  This is how he thinks.

Ironically, last week’s passage of Arizona’s new immigration law (SB 1170) has made illegal immigration an issue in th e US as well, and when I read what happened with Gordon Brown, it got me thinking about our leader.

Given what we know about him, his past associations, his leftist ideology and his elitism, does anyone really believe that President Obama thinks differently from Gordon Brown?  He’s given clues with his comments after the law was passed (with 70% of Arizonans voting for its passage), suggesting that our fellow American citizens were “misguided”, which is just code for “you ignorant rubes are so racist”.  Everything is for political expediency.  In that sense there’s really no difference between career politicians whether they’re here in the states or across the pond.

You still lie, Mr. President

Remember when Congressman Joe Wilson gained national attention last September when he blurted out “You lie!” in the middle of the President’s healthcare speech to Congress?

Rep. Wilson objected to the President’s statement that illegal immigrants would not be covered under the proposed healthcare proposal.

Well, it’s go time on healthcare reform and it looks like coverage for illegal immigrants is in the works:

…[Democratic party] leaders have their work cut out for them in the House to garner the 216 votes they need to pass the Senate bill and a corresponding package of changes.

New York Rep. Nydia Velasquez, the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said her group is in talks with party leaders to change the Senate’s restrictions to bar illegal immigrants from purchasing insurance on the exchanges.

The President lies.  Democrats are liars.

At this point, what are the odds that left wing goodies like this are NOT included in the final legislation?  This is a literal cramdown of  enormous proportions and a travesty of the American political system.  W hat a disgrace…

UPDATE. Via Ed Morrissey, the Hill reports that the members of the CHC can be swayed:

…[O]ne member of the Hispanic Caucus said that, when the issue was raised in November, Cuellar was the only Hispanic Democrat who vowed not to bring down the House healthcare bill over the Senate’s tougher treatment of undocumented workers.

On Wednesday, Cuellar said he doubted he would be alone if it happens again.

“If [the Senate language] comes up for a vote over here, I think there will be other folks who’ll be with me in not voting no over that language,” he said. “Are you going to stop the whole thing because of this provision here? I almost hate to say this, but it’s a cost-benefit analysis, a big-picture view.”

That’s the argument Cuellar said he expects to hear from Obama at Thursday’s meeting.

Of course that’s what the CHC will hear from the President.  The underlying narrative in the push for reform over the last few weeks has been the “fall-on-your-sword and we’ll work out the kinks later” meme.  The abortion issue will be tougher for Democrats to overcome than immigration, but in the end I think the CHC will cave.  I hope I’m wrong.