The Justice Department today filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Arizona over the new state law with regard to how Arizona will deal with illegal immigrants.  Now that the bait has been swallowed what happens next?

Yes the bait has been swallowed.  Congrats to the state of Arizona though, the law is well written, well thought out and is probably succeeding in forcing some illegal immigrants to leave the state and as such is having at least its perceived desired effect.  I suspect that the true reason though is to force the federal government to truly deal with the issue, something no one has been able to do in 40 years.  It also has the side benefit of making the administration look weak on the issue of border security, which it is.

This was a brilliant move because all the State law does is restate the current federal law and allow the states police officers to inquire if someone is in the US legally and if not then take that person into custody.  Something the justice department in 2002 noted in a memo stating that state police have “inherent power” to arrest undocumented immigrants.

Now the Obama Justice Department seeks to hide behind the Supremacy Clause in the constitution which states that federal laws take precedence over state laws, however this only applies when laws conflict, these laws don’t conflict.  Nothing in the Supremacy Clause has any bearing on enforcement.  Just because the federal government chooses to not enforce federal law doesn’t mean that states can’t enforce their laws when they are the same.

So a couple of things will likely happen with this lawsuit, the first happened today and the federal government took the bait and filed suit.  We knew the libs couldn’t take this lying down and by doing this they now set in motion the rest of the sequence of events.  We’ll have this play out in the courts for the next couple of years, maybe sooner, setting up a probable review by the Supreme Court in 2012.

The Supreme Court will most likely uphold what Arizona has done, again probably by a 5-4 vote with all of Obama’s favorite socialists voting for him and falling one vote short to the five men in black who stand between the liberal socialists and the constitution.

Then by allowing Arizona’s law to stand the floodgates will open and you will see many other states follow suit.  It will be smaller states at first like Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, and others probably in the South.  This will exacerbate the problem in states like California, Texas, and Florida because those states will be automatic safe havens for illegals.  This of course makes the problems worse in those states because the crime and expense will double or triple at least.

This may finally force the federal government to take this problem seriously and work to secure the border.  Yes that means fences, walls, border patrol agents, and better electronic surveillance.

So we thank the Obama Administration for putting their politics first and the people second.  In this instance it works to the people’s advantage…

As the US economy goes, so goes the world economy is the old adage.  Generally speaking that seems to be holding true.  In the past we seventy plus years we’ve always taken the approach that the private sector has to grow its way out of a recession.  It’s worked every time its been tried but we’ve taken a different approach this time.  We seem to have opted for the approach that general government spending will get us out this recession.  An approach that has never worked.

Another item of concern is that our liberal government no longer seems concerned with the deficit.  When we’re needing to ramp up spending for defense of our country that’s bad for liberals and as such not acceptable.  Many of us can remember the eighties when liberals cried that all this deficit spending on defense was a horrible debt to pass to future generations.  Now we’re deficit spending on social programs, more unemployment benefits, hiring more government bureaucrats, etc, and that’s somehow ok.

We’re seeing unprecedented regulation from the FCC, EPA, FTC, etc.  These things all cost business money, not just big business, but small businesses as well.  Thus causing them to have to lay off workers, or refrain from hiring more workers.  Later this year most Americans are headed for big tax hike because the President and Congress seem determined to let current tax cuts expire.

Now it is rare when we find a European government to contrast this to since most of them are more socialist than ours however Germany has taken an approach that mirrors our previous recession management strategy.  They are cutting taxes, reducing regulation, and cutting the size of government.  As a result of this approach Germany’s unemployment is falling, their economy is expanding faster than the US, all other European countries, and China.

If more countries followed Germanys lead recovery would come faster, if the US followed Germany and our own previous experience we could likely grow our way out of this recession by the next Presidential election.  We won’t mind you, and that is likely why Obama will be discarded in 2012, relegated to scrap heap of worst Presidents next to Jimmy Carter…

As a member of the NRA and someone who is generally opposed to most of the gun laws oppressing the law abiding citizen I have to reach out and say thank you to Mayor Daley and his band of 45 rubberstamp aldermen.  With them forcing a new law down the throats of Chicago residents that is clearly unconstitutional we’ll get the Supreme Court to clarify a few other issues.

First off the one gun per month portion of the law.  Several cities and states have limits on the number of firearms one can purchase in a month.  This is clearly a violation of the “shall not be infringed” part of the 2nd Amendment.

Next is the portion that states that people can have only one loaded firearm in the house and that any others must have trigger locks or be disassembled.  I think much of this was addressed with the Heller case but clearly the court needs to state that jurisdictions can’t limit the number of firearms that a person may own and cannot tell the people how many may be loaded at a given time.  This clearly infringes on the 2nd amendment rights of Chicagoans.

Next we have the provision that says you can’t have it on your porch, garage, or anywhere outside the home.  This is an interesting provision of the law and it will be interesting to see if the justices throw this out from the perspective of 2nd amendments rights or private property rights as it clearly violates both.

Another area of interest will be the portions that deal with fees and registration.  Now having registration is nothing new and many states do that already.  That said this notion that you have to pay fees to exercise your rights under the constitution shouldn’t stand.  Now on the subject of registration for those convicted of a gun related offense.  This one is somewhat sticky, if you’re talking about those convicted of armed robbery, rape, murder, or other violent felony then it would probably pass constitutional muster.  However this law doesn’t limit it to those offenses, it also includes non violent misdemeanors like carrying a concealed weapon that don’t prevent the person convicted from purchasing firearms in the future but would prevent them from keeping it loaded in their home.  While most of the concealed carry restrictions at the state and local level are violations of the 2nd amendment it will be interesting to see how the court comes down on this one.

Clearly Chicago’s new restrictions violate the 2nd amendment and some elements probably violate the 14th amendment as well.  While it will be another opportunity for the rights granted by the 2nd amendment to be more clearly defined via the court it is unfortunate that many more Chicagoans will die because their City government places a higher value on their power than the constitutional rights of its citizens.

It is truly amazing how far we have come in terms of leadership in this country.  With this oil spill now going on 50+ days its interesting to compare how our two most recent presidents have handled crisis.  While Obama wanders aimlessly around the gulf looking for someone’s ass to kick in his own backyard George W. Bush was kicking the Taliban’s ass up one side of Afghanistan and down the other within 50 days of September 11, 2001.

Obama runs around looking for a BP executive to lynch and while there is certainly enough blame to go around, including officials within the Department of the Interior, that’s not fixing the problem.  Where has all this government regulation landed us?  Our tax dollars are funding departments like the Interior and we still get oil washing up on beaches?  This isn’t supposed to happen with all the government oversight, this isn’t supposed to happen while Obama is president.  He cares, remember?  These things are supposed to magically go away I thought.

Smelling blood in the water Mitt Romney goes around telling the media we need a leader not a politician.  We couldn’t agree more, but we also need a leader and not an ambulance chasing opportunist like Romney.

So first of all I will state and Conservative Matters isn’t advocating, condoning, or inciting violence by anyone or any group.

So the headline on Drudge read “DEMS FEAR VIOLENT BACKLASH”.  Really?  They weren’t fearing the backlash when they thought it would be contained to the ballot box…  Why, because they’ve stolen enough elections in the last 100 years that they have insulated themselves fairly well.  They have career cronies now running nearly every federal department.  Even when the voters wise up for a couple of years and vote them out of power the opposition never gets very far because the socialists run the government not the people…

But now things are changing, the people (or at least a vocal group of them) are standing up to the socialists in power and going with what may truly be the last patriotic stand in America.  From here forward the path will be set, we’ll either be on an ever faster path to full blown communism culminating in very violent revolution somewhere down the road.  Or we’ll listen to few patriots and begin to take back our government.

Liberals, Socialists, Communists, Democrats, only fear one thing and that is losing power.  Losing power is no longer defined as who controls congress or the white house.  They’ve seen that happen and have succeeded in losing that only temporarily.  Their true power is in the courts that they control, the education system that they control, the media they control, the various government agencies that they control.  These people secure socialism everyday.

The extreme far left leadership in congress and at the white house have only fear now.  They believed that they were doing what the people wanted in spite of the fact that every poll was against them.  Now they’ve rammed something down the throats of the people and they expect the people to just take it like they have for 80 years and just accept one more incremental step towards complete government control.  The people seem to be standing up this time, only time will tell if they have the strength to stand up to the rest of this agenda.

For those of you that consider yourselves moderate Obama voters, for those of you that didn’t vote in 2008 because you didn’t like either candidate, and of those of you that now are part of the majority in most every poll that “disapprove” of Obama’s handling of the country, this is what you wanted.  You are as much to blame, accessory’s, co-conspirators, etc.  You are at least partially to blame for this mess, with your inability to make educated, rational decisions you have allowed the federal government to become one of the top five employers in the US.  You have allowed the federal government to thwart the constitution at every turn. 

 

We can only hope that many of you who have created this mess feel some of the pain perpetrated by those you have selected so that you may be educated and learn from this experience so that you not don’t make the same mistake again but help educate others to not make the same mistakes.  In the mean time we’ll pray that there are still a few people strong enough to hold back the tides of socialism a little longer, but there are cracks in that dam and water is beginning to seep through….

It’s interesting to see the contrast between former President George W Bush and President Barrack Obama in the way that they handle crisis.  After September 11, 2001 Bush squarely lays the blame at the feet of the terrorists who carried out the attack along with some blamed reserved for the bureaucracy of government.

President Obama lays the blame for this UNSUCCESSFUL terrorist attack not on the terrorists and counties that aided them.  No he lays the blame on the intelligence community, the very people who are not allowed to defend themselves.  He takes no blame himself, he pins no blame on the bureaucrats he has leading those intelligence agencies.

President Obama is proving constantly what conservatives knew before he was elected.  He, and the Democratic Party, are only interested in power and are more concerned in bestowing rights on terrorists than protecting the American People.

How many brave American’s will die at the hands of a ruthless enemy because of poor leadership from America’s political leaders? How long will they fight an enemy abroad so that enemy can be treated as a common criminal Americas courts? How many tax payer dollars will be spent on lawyers, housing, trials, etc? How long, assuming these terrorists are convicted, will these terrorists be alive exhausting all their appeals in America’s judicial system? How many brave Americans will die abroad during the trial?

How many Americans will be beholden to the establishment running Washington because they collect a check from the government? How many of these Americans will have the wherewithal to vote against the people handing them money they didn’t work for? How many millions must we spend in the largest expansion of government power ever in the history of our nation? How many duplicate government agencies will we continue to fund?

How many people will transition from private employers to government employment? How many will quit working altogether with the belief that government will support them? How long is the road to socialism, are we there yet, will we know when we get there? How long before they run out of other peoples money?  How many leaders, elected or otherwise, will stand up against the socialist tide?

How long until people of courage take back our government? Who will be the Jefferson, Adams, and Washington of the next revolution? Who in congress will put country before party? How long until the other 50% of the electorate see the similarities between our current leaders and Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Adolf Hitler, and Hugo Chavez?

How many will die needlessly? How long will revolution take? Who will lead us from the perils of socialism?

If not you, who? If not now, when?

The title of President of the United States has long been referred to as the most powerful man in the world.  This was largely based on the persons role as Commander in Chief of the most powerful military in the world and the fact that this person holds the keys to the deadliest nuclear arsenal ever conceived by man.

 

In ten short months though it is apparent that Obama is bent on consolidating his political power. He maintains an enemies list that dwarfs the one that drove Nixon from office.  He appoints Czars that seem to have unchecked power over all aspects of the private sector.  His pay Czar is asserting that he has the power to force private businesses to pay their employees what ever he thinks is “fair”.  His minions at the FCC propose to take over control of the internet.

 

It is clear that Obama strives to control his population in ways that even Hugo Chavez would envy.  When will we have a media Czar?  He already controls 90% of the media, he has al but declared war on FoxNews.  How long before he decides that FoxNews is “threat” to his security and orders them shut down?

 

How long before he decides what phones you can have, how long before he orders phone companies to remove access to websites that he thinks are against his message, he already has a rubber stamp congress that is telling car makers what cars they can build and sell.  He already owns two of the three car companies in the US.

 

There is no industry that he doesn’t seek to regulate.  The price of oil is headed back up again, when it reaches $150 a barrel again next spring we’ll be treated to the obligatory stories about how obscene the oil companies profits are and probably have an energy Czar to determine what is an acceptable level of profit for oil companies as well as the pay for oil company executives.

 

There will always be certain segments of the population who think that just because it doesn’t affect them it’s ok to regulate it.  Sooner or later it affects everyone.

A poll by Rasmussen paints an interesting picture.  It paints a picture that Huckabee is leading the horserace to be the GOP nominee in 2012 against Obama.  I find this interesting simply because Huckabee is the most like John McCain.  Seems like the media is already trying to secure a weak field for Obama in 2012.

Rasmussen’s poll shows Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin at 18% behind Huckabee and Romney who really shouldn’t bother running again.  Yet Palin draws thousands everywhere she goes and Huckabee has a hard time drawing a crowd at the county fair.  Huckabee draws support from the moderate middle of the road republicans that secured a win for Obama by giving the nomination to McCain in 2008.  I doubt that will hold as conservatives will be out in force and the only potential candidate that has shown core conservative beliefs so far is Sarah Palin.

She brings a no nonsense get it done mentality to politics that people identify with.  She doesn’t speak like a lawyer like Romney, she doesn’t come off as a kook like Huckabee.  She is the only reason that McCain didn’t lose every state except Arizona, and without her he might not have carried that one.

So when the pollsters ask about who should be the GOP nominee they really should be asking who is best prepared to take back America from the grips of socialism, who is best to take back our country from state run media that is rooted in communism?  From what I see that clearly is Sarah Palin, she has that unique ability to bring common sense and plain spoken values that people connect with.  She doesn’t come off as just reading from talking points like Romney does.  She talks to people, talks with people, not at people like they are subjects.  She is a great communicator something that we haven’t seen in thirty years.

The media has been working hard to ignore Sarah Palin for the last several months, they are deathly afraid of her as they know she has the ability to beat Obama and that the usual liberal playbook of labeling her a racist won’t have much effect.  We don’t need 2007-2008 all over again where we have a field of over ten candidates with only one conservative among them and he gets bounced out after South Carolina.  We need get behind Sarah early, we need to make certain that we don’t dilute the voting with more candidates than should really be there.