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Simple Requests for President Obama and Mexico's President Calderon

Phil, a commenter at Doug Ross's website, has some requests for president Obama and Mexico's president Calderon:

Dear President Obama:

I'm planning to move my family and extended family into Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me.

We're planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and we'll need your help to make a few arrangements.

We plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws.

I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here. So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Calderon, that I'm on my way over?

Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:

1. Free medical care for my entire family.

2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.

3. Please print all Mexican Government forms in English.

4. I want my grandkids to be taught Spanish by English- speaking (bi-lingual) teachers.

5. Tell their schools they need to include classes on American culture and history.

6. I want my grandkids to see the American flag on one of the flag poles at their school.

7. Please plan to feed my grandkids at school for both breakfast and lunch.

8. I will need a local Mexican driver's license so I can get easy access to government services.

. . . .

Read the rest.

Wow, That Was One Momentous Special Election. Amnesty Is Dead Too

The federal health care takeover is dead now that Scott Brown has won the people's Senate seat in Massachusetts. 

But the gift keeps on giving.

Now immigration "reform" is off the tablet too.

If climate [cap and trade] is on life support, immigration is in the grave. Democrats are reluctant to take up the politically explosive issue in an already shaky political environment.

The White House told Latino activists that it would take up the issue in a conference call last month. And New York Sen. Chuck Schumer is pushing an immigration bill this year. But Graham — the main Republican working on the effort — wasn’t particularly optimistic that a comprehensive bill could get done.

If they deal with the issue at all, Democrats are likely to focus on the least controversial measures like employment verification.

“I don’t see how you can convince the American people to support comprehensive reform if you don’t get the border piece right,” Graham said. “We’ve got to prove to the American people through an incremental process that we can solve this problem.”

That was a really, really important special election, wasn't it?  As neo-neocon writes:

Brown’s election was singular and extraordinary. I’ve never seen anything like it, and I’ve seen quite a bit.

How often has there been a US Senate election that has mattered so much? In an off year? An upset in a state where elections are usually foregone conclusions, and have been for decades? At a time when the whole country is hanging on the results, and participating as best they can, as well? In which the entire enterprise is vital to all because it is an attempt to derail an express train in Washington whereby a single party is trying to defy the will of the American people? And where the winner is such a charismatic and seemingly honest and sincere politician who came from nowhere? And in which the whole thing turned around dramatically in only a couple of weeks?

Awesome News Du Jour: Senate Votes to Cut Off Federal ACORN Funding

I know that "awesome news" has been rare since Obama took office -- every day's headlines bring more trouble -- but today we have some genuinely awesome news:  Breaking: Senate votes to cut off federal funding for ACORN

Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced an amendment to the HUD and Transportation appropriation bill to strip ACORN of all federal funding.  A week ago, Johanns wouldn’t have gotten the amendment to the floor.  Today, however, after three straight days of BigGovernment.com’s video exposés of ACORN offices in Washington DC, New York City, and Baltimore offering assistance to pimping, tax evasion, and trafficking in underage Salvadorean girls, Johanns not only got his vote — but he got an impressive bipartisan showing.  The Senate passed the Johanns amendment 83-7.

At the beginning of the vote, it appeared that Democrats might resist.  Initially, a half-dozen Democrats cast votes in opposition to the amendment.  A few more cast votes against it as the rest of the Senate voted, but the tide appeared to shift.  More and more Democrats signed onto the amendment, and votes started changing.  One male voice could be heard in the chamber saying, “I want to change my vote!”  Among those who changed their votes: Tom Udall (D-NM), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Herb Kohl (D-WI).

I do not have the official roll call record of the vote yet, but three of the seven Democrats voting against the bill were Dick Durbin (D-IL), Roland Burris (D-IL), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT).  I’ll get the rest in a few minutes, but it’s worth repeating what Jim Geraghty said on the Twitter stream: “Who were the seven Child-Whoring Pimp Assistance Program defenders?”

The big question will be whether the House follows suit.  Nancy Pelosi may not be inclined to let an amendment come to the floor, but James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles may not be done yet, either.  A few more of these videos and even Pelosi will have little choice but to slam the door on ACORN. The big test will be whether the Johanns amendment survives a conference committee.  This isn’t over yet.

Update: Thanks to Sean Hackbarth, we have the list of seven nays on the amendment so that the Child-Whoring Pimp Assitance 7 can be publicly identified:

• Dick Durbin (D-IL)
• Roland Burris (D-IL)
• Robert Casey (D-PA)
• Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
• Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
• Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
• Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

So can we assume that Illinois and Vermont are especially sympathetic to child-whoring pimp assistance?

Update (AP): Man, this house of cards is toppling fast:

Meanwhile, Jerry Schmetterer, director of public information for the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, told FOXNews.com that officials will be “taking a look” into Brooklyn’s ACORN office.

“We are going to be taking a look at the situation,” Schmetterer said Monday.

A spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said ACORN’S tax status as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization should also be probed.

“We’ve already seen the Census Bureau severe its tie with ACORN,” the spokesman, Kurt Bardella, told FOXNews.com. “Certainly, as an organization being subsidized by taxpayer dollars, their relationship with other government entities should be called into question, and whether or not it’s appropriate for them to receive taxpayer dollars.”

ACORN has demonstrated its willingness to engage in corruption in the pursuit of partisan politics again and again.  Voter registration fraud strikes at the very heart of our democracy.  ACORN should not be receiving a dime of federal funds.  Instead, it currently stands to receive BILLIONS under the phony "stimulus" bill passed by Democrats on a party-line vote.

Democrats made this mess.  It's time for them to clean it up.

Update:  Jim Geraghty tweet:  With just three videos, @andrewbreitbart & BigGovernment.com turned ACORN into the political equivalent of the Ebola virus.

Taboo Truths Obama and McCain Must Ignore

Read and ponder:  The taboo truths Obama and McCain must ignore to become president

Finally, Hillary Gets Clarity On Immigration!

By DemocracyRules
h/t Flopping Aces

After taking a terrible beating for beating around the bush on Immigration, and waffling more than a Belgian, Hillary come out with this at the last debate.  It's clear that she is DETERMINED to clear the air in a very crystal clear way:

"I do not think it is appropriate to give a drivers license to someone who is here undocumented, putting them frankly at risk, because that is clear evidence that they are not here legally."

Thank you Hillary, after all this time, we now know eggs -- ackly what you mean. Whew, for a while I was confused.

Global Non-warming Grips Canada

By DemocracyRules

Most people have never experienced -58 F temperatures, but Western Canadians have.

With wind chill, here are some predicted temperatures in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba for Tuesday:

• Edmonton: -65 F
• Calgary: -47 F
• Regina: -60 F
• Churchill Manitoba (Polar Bear country): -47 F

These temperatures include wind chill factors, which makes the bite harder.  With just jeans on your legs, it feels like a bunch of people are thrashing your bare legs with icy piano wires.  Bundled up properly, things are just fine.  I once walked to school when it was -90 F wind chill, and I was confused when the school doors wouldn't open.  The school was closed, so I walked home.  The skating rinks were closed when it went below -10F, which was always a disappointment for us kids.

"Police in Calgary are trying to determine whether a man found lying in the middle of a street Tuesday morning froze to death as overnight temperatures in the city dipped to -27F."  As a general rule, napping in the middle of the road is not a good idea, but when the pavement is that cold, and the wind chill makes things even colder, don't get drunk and don't lie down.

"Schools in parts of Saskatchewan are closed for a second day Tuesday after blizzard-like conditions rolled through the province a day earlier. Whiteouts have also made driving treacherous on some Saskatchewan highways...   There was traffic chaos ... as drivers tried to start their vehicles and then spun their tires and fishtailed on snow-covered roads made icy by the deep freeze." 

The global warming goons could call it a climate change 'anomaly', if it weren't for irritating statements like this: "With the wind chills and the bitter temperatures, this is the coldest cold snap since last year," said Dan Kulak, who said frigid temperatures could last for several days.  Ho hum, another Canadian winter.

Did I mention that many Canadians are global warming sceptics?