White House strategy: Export jobs. Import debt. Play America First card. Repeat.
My syndicated column today draws on Monday’s blog post about the hypocritical new nativists of the Democrat Party playing the America First card against the GOP and Chamber of Commerce.
Good companion reading: Think bigger – what’s really behind the Dems’ attacks on the Chamber of Commerce.
Also: David Harsanyi – Barack Obama and the Chamber of Secrets.
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Look who’s nativist now
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
Oh, this is side-splitting: After exporting U.S. jobs, importing foreign debt and kowtowing to global thugs shamelessly over the past two years, the Obama administration is now playing the America First card. Democrats deserve a Guinness World Record award for their election-season cognitive dissonance.
President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, White House senior adviser David Axelrod and their mynah bird operatives across the country accused Republicans last week of benefiting from “money from foreign corporations” — which liberals claim the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is funneling into domestic political ads.
Democratic clown prince Al Franken is leading a Senate inquisition against the chamber. A Democratic National Committee ad lambasted the GOP for “Stealing Democracy,” complete with piles of Asian currency. Endangered Democratic candidates across the country are dutifully parroting the line of attack, which originated with the Center for American Progress, funded by far-left billionaire George Soros.
It’s beyond comical to watch the party that cries “RAAAACISM” whenever conservatives question their shady foreign funny money suddenly sounding the alarm over non-U.S. campaign cash. And it’s beyond galling to hear Democrats fret about foreign intrigue while the foreign agent-in-chief has inextricably tied America’s fate to the Chinese holders of our T-bills. Guess we’re all “nativists” now, eh, Obama?
The chamber-bashing claims are so baseless that The New York Times concluded that “there is little evidence that what the chamber does in collecting overseas dues is improper or even unusual, according to both liberal and conservative election-law lawyers and campaign finance documents.”
Liberal CBS journalist Bob Schieffer scoffed at Axelrod: “If the only charge three weeks into the election that the Democrats can make is that somehow this may or may not be foreign money coming into the campaign, is that the best you can do?”
The Associated Press and the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Factcheck.org also shredded the White House smear, and Democrats told the Los Angeles Times they were uneasy with the McCarthyite tactics.
GOP candidates should remind voters of all the shady foreign and mystery cash the Democrats and their deep-pocketed donors have pumped into the political system.
Convicted fraudster and former top Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu — who ran several Hong Kong companies into the ground and built a massive Ponzi scheme with still-unidentified sources of income — raised millions for the Democratic Party and its candidates, including Hillary Clinton and Obama.
Obama Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, a soft-on-China corporate lawyer, collected thousands of dollars from “monks” and “nuns” at a Buddhist temple while running for governor of Washington.
The Federal Election Commission imposed a record-setting $719,000 in fines against Democrats for the 1996 Chinagate campaign finance scandal.
And the Obama campaign itself solicited foreign donations on its website — even cashing in a contribution from one Canadian donor who warned, “I am not a (sic) American citizen!”
Acknowledging the hypocrisy of the Team Obama assault on the Chamber of Commerce, one top Democratic staffer warned this week: “The White House may reap the whirlwind.”
As well they should. While they gin up anti-GOP fear and hostility among blue-collar Americans worried about the economy, Team Obama has presided over job-killing policies that are driving companies overseas. The Obama drilling moratorium forced several American oil rigs to abandon the Gulf of Mexico. Radical environmental rules are strangling coal workers in West Virginia, where Democratic Senate candidate and Gov. Joe Manchin has filed suit against the Obama Environmental Protection Agency.
Wyoming GOP Sen. John Barrasso and Utah GOP Rep. Rob Bishop pointed out in a new report on the Democrats’ War on Western Jobs that the White House green agenda is driving mining jobs overseas and increasing our reliance on foreign nations for metals and minerals that power our economy and are integral to national defense technology.
In another high dose of cognitive dissonance, Obama has been pushing solar panels and other green technology pet projects as a way to create jobs and promote energy independence — while ignoring the fact that the rare earth metal market needed for such green technology is dominated by … China. After years of environmental obstruction of the industry, Democrats are now rushing to re-open rare earth metal mines in the face of this national security threat. The last one shut down in 2002. It could take up to 15 years to get it back up and running again.
The inconvenient truth: American workers are reaping what the newly nativist left has sown.
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America-loving American citizens are reaping what the newly phony nativist America-hating “left” has sown.
Meanwhile, China is buying up Texas oil properties and foreigners are snatching up foreclosure properties at record pace!
We’re not just outsourcing jobs – but outsourcing our resources.
Won’t be long before the whole of the USA is foreign owned..at this rate.
Typical lemming. Get the script, learn the lines then act. Franken is a joke and a disgrace. It’s pretty funny when the liberal media is balking against the dumbocrats and their feeble attempt to give this issue credibility.
This is the most entertaining election I’ve ever known. Duh Won has been so good for the dumbocrat party. I wish him success in his failure.
Again, this is what happens when you have no moral or ethical principles, but only tactical positions du jour: you have to spend a lot of time dodging your own past, and you never know who you’ll end up standing shoulder-to-shoulder with.
So how is Obama exporting jobs? Is he running all the corporations that have been going overseas and to Mexico for cheaper labor for the past 20 years? If you had put in a link showing where I can find this then okay. Michelle you are always better about this. Maybe you are blowing smoke?
Alas, exporting jobs is something that our last FOUR presidents have in common. God help our poor country…
drivingjack said:
Heres the so called smoke
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2564473/posts
The US must be competitive. We can not just hang onto jobs. Unfortunately we have been supporting a public school system that is not competitive and not producing scientists and mathematicians or engineers. Check the teachers at your local schools and see how little they know math and science.
So it is no surprise jobs go overseas. But it doesn’t happen quick enough for Obama whose stated goal is to spread the wealth around. Who does not think he meant American wealth spread across the globe to dictators and socialists?
HA has an article about gibbs and when he worked for a group that wouldn’t disclose its donors and still won’t! Yes, the same gibbs trashing the CoC on their donors in his daily wh snooze hour! This bho, team, and the d’s are so below slug slime, we can’t measure the slime under them.
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The failure of all government worldwide to respond adequately to the Chinese Yuan currency manipulation is the biggest exporter of jobs to China.
bho has no concept of cause and effect. He is stuck in this dream that when he’s finished the world will be a better place. He wasn’t elected to better the world or live in a dream state of an alternate reality. bho’s entire life has been devoted to destroying and corrupting the foundation of this country because he favors his view of what opportunity and prosperity should be. He’s not brilliant enough or capable enough to make that happen. The next job which he needs to lose is his own.
A great and hard-hitting column, Michelle.
I’d like to see the WH respond to every point [chirping crickets]. Instead they are worrying about who is at the wheel of the car they have driven over the cliff while high on slurpies (or something like that from Obowma’s stump speechin’), and are scrambling like cockroaches on meth to get out the Demoncrap vote.
Rank hypocrisy at it’s finest from this upstanding and transparent administration. Rock on.
Oh I don’t know-fear of Cap & Trade, unknown cost of Obama Care, new and ever more onerous regulations, shutting down our drilling in the Gulf while subsidizing Mexico’s drilling in the Gulf, destroying the pensions of tens of thousands of auto parts workers to shore up still failing UAW pensions–stuff like that you ask?
But do not let facts get in the way of dimwittedness-you are so good at it.
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give a man to fish and you feed him for a day
teach him to fish and he will spend his weekends
in a boat drinking beer
Dan Dority: How’d it go with drivingjack?
Al Swearengen: I have just fled my own office in horror at his f@#$ing dimwittedness.
Thank you stillontheroad. I love having my smoke cleared!
ArizonaNeanderthal – point well taken. Thanks.
Yes. They have a plan to subvert America and that plan is in motion. Free enterprise will no longer exist in this country if they succeed. There are many seemingly small, and not noticeable by most, pieces to their plan.
A metaphor for their plan could be this.
How to do you steal a 747?
One small piece at a time.
….
How do you dismantle America?
One small law at a time.
They’re doing it now. In pieces. And the GOP isn’t fighting back they way it needs to fight back.
Once control of congress, and hopefully the White House, is retaken, they had better wake up and fight like their lives depend on it. Nothing less will be sufficient.
Using a fine Democrat tradition, I am accusing Obama and Axelrod as Gay couple.
It is up to them to prove they are not Gay couple.
Actually I think Barrack and Michele O are a gay couple.
Harsh, very harsh.
Mind if I quote you?
Let’s wakeup here! This has nothing to do with 2010. 2012 is when boat loads of foreign cash fron Asia and the Middle East will wash over O and the gang. They are setting up the foreign cash is okay narrative.
I’ld have to say I laughed at how alot of dems jumped on that, however I live in a Dem stronghold, more of your “Dixiecrats” type though. And when I voted Early I was dissapointed, I mainly voted republican minus on one area in which I voted for a Democrate in the State ellection, however thats as the Republican was/is a RINO and a snake and his challanger was an old fashioned type democrat, so lesser of the two snakes which minus Richard Burr seems to been all the NC election was a pit of vipers. And unjustly many of our local ellections were only democrats with no one running against them. Or in one case three of them versus each other. Some Democracy.
Obama failed economics in college, prove me wrong.
Fits right in with Dinesh D’Souza’s Anti-Corporatism theory, which … really does explain Obama quite well.
Spreading the Wealth Around was never just between Americans in his head. Transferring America’s wealth for “Social Justice” to the West’s former colonies is part of the Dream for him.
Uh … sorry, anti-Colonial theory.
Dang. Don’t type and try to talk to someone else….