Liberals are all about ‘the humane thing to do’ when justifying illegal immigration.

So, fine: with an added benefit of driving Liberals crazy, BlueCollar suggests the humane solution to an illegal immigration problem is to invade Central America.

After all, there’s a fatal flaw in Liberal ‘they’re fleeing Central American violence’ logic.

Taking in illegals here…doesn’t stop the problem there. Think about it.

If Liberals really want a humane solution, isn’t that to stop Central American violence? It would let its citizens stay in their homes, keep families together, and build a safe future.

And the USA would save a lot of money.

In 2010, the annual costs incurred by the USA for an estimated 13mn illegals was $113 billion, much of that burden shouldered by the states. (State breakdowns are here.)

If Liberals get their ‘open border’ dream, it’s easy to see the number of illegals doubling, which means the annual cost to America would double as well…to $226 billion a year!

The 2003-2010 Iraq War – on an annual average – cost America half as much!

When gang violence breaks out, the city of LA doesn’t spend tax-dollars to re-locate its peaceful citizens…they send in specially trained tactical police to get the bad guys.

Why not do the same in Central America?

Sending specialty forces to cripple the violent activities there solves its problems…

…and cost us half what we’d be spending here annually doing it the Liberal way.

To quell the wailing over an overstretched military, let’s use capable illegal immigrants already in the USA to man that specially-trained force of shock troops, after all…

…(Liberal Lament #1) it would get them out of the shadows…

…(Liberal Lament #2) they would – temporarily – earn a lot more than minimum wage…

…(Liberal Lament #3) and provide them the diversity of culture and pride of their native heritage by giving them a chance to fight for their homeland…while…

…(Conservative Lament #1) paying back America for decades of bearing the cost…&…

…(Conservative Lament #2) make it possible for them to return to their native land.

We said in a July 29 blog that liberal media would push the ‘danger’ narrative.

It tugs the heartstrings, which they hope will pull the Hispanic voter out to the polls, and, of course, pull the lever for Democrats in November.

Now the narrative builds, and, surprise, its the New York Times leading the way.

Expect it to keep building. Congressman like Gutierrez need it to attack Republicans.

There’s a reason why Democrat and Demagogue both start with D-e-m…

The irony drips…

A Democrat Congressman, who, with Obama and other Democrats endanger the lives of thousands of kids by luring them 2000 miles away from Central American homes…

…accuses Republicans of scapegoating the kids that make it here alive…?

Given the stories of hundreds of corpses (many kids) being found in their efforts to get here, doesn’t he realize that – even if true – those kids would rather be scapegoated…

…then dead?

By Democrat standards, it’s okay to manipulate and endanger lives of kids for votes…

…but not okay for Republicans to try protecting future kids from further endangerment.

When a fair-minded economist like Irwin Stelzer finds reason to be cautious about the quarterly economic report put out by the Obama administration, strap in and hold on.

First of all, the 4% growth reported in the Apr-thru-Jun* 2nd quarter numbers is subject to revision anyway; add to that ‘inventory replacement’ made up almost half the growth.

That happens every year: after the 1st quarter holiday buying spree, shelves are bare, so removing that ‘seasonal adjustment’, growth was a paltry 2.3% (IF the 4% is real).

And the investment houses are warning clients at least 1% of the ‘growth’ reported is in line with catching up from bad weather that depressed the economy in the 1st quarter.

Add that to ‘seasonal adjustment’; now 2nd quarter growth is 1.3%, again if 4% is real.

Then there’s the jobs number, reported as 209,000. While the media hypes it up as more good news for Obama policy (remember…it’s less than 100 days to elections):

1. new jobs are 10% lower than the 230,000 expected,
2. those jobs may be more part-time jobs, not full-time jobs,
3. they may have been temporary jobs to help build post-holiday inventories (which explains ‘unexpected’ rise in new jobless claims, because temps were laid off?),
4. that ‘new jobless claim’ rise was 302,000 newly unemployed workers…

Incredibly, Obama has recently started touting the economy as a major achievement! It might seem ridiculous to many, based on the ‘misery index’ evidence…

…but not so ridiculous when you consider he can control gov’t economic reporting!

Discussing this Friday, even Rush Limbaugh missed a chance to expose Obama’s ploy.

He pointed out that govt numbers can’t be trusted, and the economy’s still suffering, but the reason Obama plans to pivot to the economy is because he can build uncertainty.

Obama knows, if he can create uncertainty by making enough voters feel the economic conditions MIGHT be improving (so then, why change?), he could keep the Senate.

For fence-sitting voters to vote GOP, Republican candidates must convince them the GOP has a better plan…to keep fence-sitters, Obama only has to make them uncertain.

Between now and November, Obama will hammer at how Republicans are only out for themselves…and the only thing that might help voters is to stick with Democrats.

Two things you can count on when reading Gov’t economic and jobs reports, between now and the November mid-terms: expect the numbers to be rosy…and bogus.

Republican candidates would be well-advised to plan accordingly…

…and message effectively.

(*Updated to correct 2nd quarter months as Apr-thru-Jun)

The DC District Court has ordered the Justice Dept. to release Fast-&-Furious info.

They have to turn over a ‘Vaughn Index’ by Oct 1st, listing documents withheld, specific statutory reasons, and how any disclosure would damage that statutory claim.

We can hear echoes of hard-drives crashing already.

A National Defense Panel report is a clarion call: our Western Pacific position is weakening, vis-a-vis China, and Islamic terrorism threats are greater than pre-9/11.

Russia’s threatening Europe, the Mid-East is in flames, Africa is smoldering…

…and the Obama administration wants further military reductions?

Boiled down, the money quote is on page 6 of the report: “…national defense needs should drive national defense budgets, not the opposite…” (emphasis added)

Billions are thrown at failed Green projects (Solyndra, etc);

Billions are requested for immigration when enforcement, not funding, is the problem;

Billions are requested in VA reforms, when greed, not funding, is the problem;

Billions are back-doored for Obamacare Big Insurer bailouts, and overpaid in O-care subsidies; billions are handed out in crony-exemptions and sweetheart tax deals…

…while our National Defense needs are driven by… budget constraints?

News reports indicate the House GOP has ok’d the lawsuit against Obama.

The complaint is that he acted lawlessly (which he did, twice) to delay implementation of the Obamacare law’s harmful employer-mandate sections, until after 2014 elections.

Before they pull that lawsuit trigger, they better re-think their logic.

Republicans stated before Obama’s illegal delays that an employer mandate would be harmful to employers, their employees, the economy, and job growth…

…but now they’re suing Obama… because no one is being harmed?

What happens if a court finds in favor of the GOP, or if Obama throws up his hands and says ‘okay, you see what Republicans have done, they knew this employer mandate was a problem, and with this lawsuit they forced me to hurt Americans’…?

Talk about bad optics!?!

The esteemed Rivkin and Foley make a case for Boehner’s lawsuit against Obama.

While compelling and well-reasoned, the flaw is exposed in the last sentence:

“The problem will be cured once the judiciary declares unconstitutional the president’s unilateral suspension (of the law’s provisions) and vacates the executive branch measures through which these suspensions were affected.”

Doesn’t that require an impartial judiciary?

What are the odds of that, in this highly charged political atmosphere?

No better than 50-50.

“VA manipulated vets’ appointment data, audit finds”

Can’t wait to hear about the findings of ‘a broader investigation’ next month.

“Shock U.S. Senate Report: Left-Wing ‘Billionaire’s Club’ Using Environmentalism to Control the US Economy and Subvert Democracy”

Remember all those Left-wing billionaires Harry Reid says Democrats don’t have?