Month: February 2019

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said the situation at the southern border constituted a national emergency after witnessing it during his Air National Guard unit deployed to Arizona.

MARGARET BRENNAN: And we’re going to turn now to Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger who’s in Chicago but he is just freshly back from the border. He was serving with the Air National Guard at the border where he was flying surveillance missions out of Tucson, Arizona. Congressman this wasn’t your first border deployment. It’s the first one under the national emergency. Does it constitute a national emergency?

REPRESENTATIVE ADAM KINZINGER: Yeah I think it does. You know, I went down there kind of undecided. You know I- I put on my lieutenant colonel hat, was apolitical but obviously I’m looking at this, getting the information I can. And I think if this was just an issue of immigration it wouldn’t constitute a national emergency but what I saw was really disturbing. Let me give you just a couple of quick examples and I was just a small part of all the operations that were being done.

We found at one point a woman hunkered down in the desert because her coyotes who brought her over deserted her because they wanted to get away. Had she actually not been found by us I don’t know if she’d been able to find her way home. So yeah, she got picked up by Border Patrol, she’s going to be deported, but that was a way better option than being one of the 200, at least, bodies they end up finding in the desert every year.

And keep in mind I’ve done this, you know, we had a mission where we found 70 pounds of methamphetamines on somebody that was coming over and I’m just a very small part of that. This is the fourth time I’ve been to the border, my first time in Arizona, completely different terrain than my prior in Texas. Texas by the way, I was there under President Obama. So the Guard’s mission on the border is nothing new.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But border apprehensions are near a 50 year low. So when you’re talking about an emergency and- and you have border state governors tell you that’s just not what they’re seeing, how do you justify sending as much as 6,000 active duty troops?

REP. KINZINGER: Well what I didn’t see is a low in apprehension. I mean there were- there were beyond-  you’d get calls of —

MARGARET BRENNAN: That’s according to Customs and Border Patrol.

REP. KINZINGER: That’s fine. That’s fine. I’m saying, what- from my experience there were many, many groups that we would see on technology with camera radar or something like that that we could not go address because there were not enough Border Patrol agents. These agents sometimes left to take a truck and then walk two miles through terrible terrain to get to these groups only to have them run while they’re already exhausted and they get lost in that chaos. So is it down? Maybe.

Part of that’s because now they’ve understood how to abuse the asylum laws in this country. You have a lot of folks from countries that are not declaring asylum in Mexico where they should be because it’s the first country where they can actually declare safety and coming here they’ve learned how to do that. So now you have this crisis basically of- which I don’t think the actual migration or the calling for asylum isn’t of itself a crisis. But you now have a massive amount of people doing that. But I’ll tell you what I saw was a lot of people coming over the border, a lot of drugs in the border and a lot of human trafficking. I mean these coyotes that would get paid a lot of money to bring groups over and then desert them to save their own backside. It was extremely disturbing.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So am I understanding that with the picture you’re painting, am I understanding that you believe the president’s declaration of a national emergency is constitutional and that you will not vote to try to block it.

REP. KINZINGER: Yeah I won’t vote to try to block it. Look, I- I wish this would have happened a different way. I voted for comprehensive immigration reform. I think Republicans, the Democrats both have good ideas on immigration that we ought to all —

MARGARET BRENNAN: But do you think this is constitutional for the president–

REP. KINZINGER:  I do.

MARGARET BRENNAN: –to bypass the power of the purse strings of Congress?

REP. KINZINGER:  I do. Yes. Yes, because in this case like I said at the beginning, if this was just about immigration I would disagree. I do think this is a security threat. It’s a security threat with the amount of drugs coming over the border and the human trafficking that I’ve seen. And again in Arizona, I think they said last year there were 200 bodies at least that they found in the desert. It is not compassionate as your prior guest said to basically say, “We’re not going to do border security because in essence would encourage people to come across the border.”

It’s compassionate to say do it the right way. Do it- we’re going to have a secure border. We’re going to have an immigration system that is welcoming in which I fully believe in, doing it the right way instead of forcing in some cases very innocent people to pay the drug cartels, to pay the cartels money, to Coyote them into a very dangerous part of this country and then abandon them when the- when the heat gets too hot.

It’s pretty clear that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does not like being criticized, much less mocked. Nobody does, of course, but people who go into politics develop thick hides if they follow the customary career trajectory of starting with local office and working the way up to an office with national prominence over a period of years.

Of course, Donald Trump also started his political career even higher up the political ladder, at the top, in fact. And his sensitivity to criticism is one of his weak points. But, he had decades of experience in the media spotlight in New York City, so developed a skin thick enough to handle the media in Gotham, second only to the national progressive media in viciousness.

“Sandy O,” as she was known before winning the Democrats’ nomination for Congress in an ultra-low turnout primary election, had no such training, and in addition has up until now enjoyed the sort of privilege that hot young women live with, rarely being held to account for expressing nonsense, at least by the male half of humanity.

Speaking extemporaneously for almost an hour before a sympathetic group called “Girls Who Code,” about halfway through she unloaded on critics of her Green New Deal. The underlying premise was that we are doomed within 12years, so even if her scheme is impractical, even insane, at least it was something. This gives her the moral high ground and makes her “the boss” somehow.

I am not kidding. Here is the video, cued to the point where she begins to unload.

Kyle Olsen of The American Mirror summarizes the soliloquy:

Talking about how she tried to overcome her insecurities, she said, “I’m at least trying, and they’re not. And so the power is in the person who’s trying, regardless of the success.

“If you’re trying, you’ve got all the power, you’re driving the agenda, you’re doing all this stuff,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“Like, I just introduced the Green New Deal two weeks ago, and it’s creating all of this conversation. Why? Because no one else has even tried,” she declared, in an apparent snub to Barack Obama’s Paris accord.

“Because no one else has even tried,” she continued.

“Some people are like, ‘Oh, it’s unrealistic, oh, it’s vague, oh, it doesn’t address this minute little thing, and I’m like, you try! You do it! ‘Cause you’re not! ‘Cause you’re not! So, until you do it, I’m the boss!

“How about that?” she declared.

Ocasio-Cortez sat back in her chair and smiled broadly.

“If you don’t like the Green New Deal, then come up with your own ambitious, on-scale proposal to address the global climate crisis,” she ordered her critics.

“Until then, we’re in charge – and you’re just shouting from the cheap seats.”

Naturally, Twitter exploded with mockery, and Twitchy harvested some of the best commentary on this naked grab for power:

 

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on the widespread criticism of her Green New Deal: “I’m like, you try. … Until you do it, I’m the boss! How about that?!” pic.twitter.com/vkp15KBttd

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) February 24, 2019

 

Nancy Pelosi and the gerontocracy that still runs the Democratic Party see this and make their plans. So do Governor Cuomo and Mayor De Blasio. The 2020 Census will lead to re-districting of New York State’s Congressional districts because the state likely will lose at least one district, since its tax and regulatory burden is driving away residents. Ocasio-Cortez’s district can divided up and apportioned to neighboring districts, leaving her the sole option of running against an incumbent in 2022 in a district most which does not know her.

 

She’s the boss???

Does she not understand what the word “representative” (as in House of Representatives) means?

She works for the people of NY, NOT the other way around!

— Andy Schreiber (@andy_schreiber) February 24, 2019

 

More Civics 101:

 

She’s the boss???

Does she not understand what the word “representative” (as in House of Representatives) means?

She works for the people of NY, NOT the other way around!

— Andy Schreiber (@andy_schreiber) February 24, 2019

 

 

Since when did lawmakers become executives? Bosses are executives. Lawmakers legislate. Executives “boss”. She’s totalitarian to her core, a Stalinette waiting in the wings.

— Bruce Crawford (@BruceC76) February 24, 2019

 

 

To @AOC You are not the boss of me. Got it?

— NashNative (@mbcbna) February 24, 2019

 

Sandy O’s contemplated power grab illustrates that the strategy of Al Gore and the Warmists has worked. They have panicked people who have no interest or ability in critical thinking, using the prestige of “science” and a phony statistic supporting “scientific consensus” to create a demand for vast government regulatory and tax expansions.

It’s hard to feel sorry for someone so self-righteous, arrogant, and unreflective, but Sandy is a victim of her own sudden success in attaining an office for which she was unprepared and a degree of fame that would be hard for someone with thirty IQ points and two decades of experience on her.

Because she blindly follows leftist cant and intends to use her vastly inflated sense of her own influence and abilities to accomplish goals that violate human nature and the laws of physics, she will self-destruct. And we will be watching every step of the way.

Image credit: YouTube screen grab (corpped)

It’s pretty clear that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does not like being criticized, much less mocked. Nobody does, of course, but people who go into politics develop thick hides if they follow the customary career trajectory of starting with local office and working the way up to an office with national prominence over a period of years.

Of course, Donald Trump also started his political career even higher up the political ladder, at the top, in fact. And his sensitivity to criticism is one of his weak points. But, he had decades of experience in the media spotlight in New York City, so developed a skin thick enough to handle the media in Gotham, second only to the national progressive media in viciousness.

“Sandy O,” as she was known before winning the Democrats’ nomination for Congress in an ultra-low turnout primary election, had no such training, and in addition has up until now enjoyed the sort of privilege that hot young women live with, rarely being held to account for expressing nonsense, at least by the male half of humanity.

Speaking extemporaneously for almost an hour before a sympathetic group called “Girls Who Code,” about halfway through she unloaded on critics of her Green New Deal. The underlying premise was that we are doomed within 12years, so even if her scheme is impractical, even insane, at least it was something. This gives her the moral high ground and makes her “the boss” somehow.

I am not kidding. Here is the video, cued to the point where she begins to unload.

Kyle Olsen of The American Mirror summarizes the soliloquy:

Talking about how she tried to overcome her insecurities, she said, “I’m at least trying, and they’re not. And so the power is in the person who’s trying, regardless of the success.

“If you’re trying, you’ve got all the power, you’re driving the agenda, you’re doing all this stuff,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“Like, I just introduced the Green New Deal two weeks ago, and it’s creating all of this conversation. Why? Because no one else has even tried,” she declared, in an apparent snub to Barack Obama’s Paris accord.

“Because no one else has even tried,” she continued.

“Some people are like, ‘Oh, it’s unrealistic, oh, it’s vague, oh, it doesn’t address this minute little thing, and I’m like, you try! You do it! ‘Cause you’re not! ‘Cause you’re not! So, until you do it, I’m the boss!

“How about that?” she declared.

Ocasio-Cortez sat back in her chair and smiled broadly.

“If you don’t like the Green New Deal, then come up with your own ambitious, on-scale proposal to address the global climate crisis,” she ordered her critics.

“Until then, we’re in charge – and you’re just shouting from the cheap seats.”

Naturally, Twitter exploded with mockery, and Twitchy harvested some of the best commentary on this naked grab for power:

 

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on the widespread criticism of her Green New Deal: “I’m like, you try. … Until you do it, I’m the boss! How about that?!” pic.twitter.com/vkp15KBttd

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) February 24, 2019

 

Nancy Pelosi and the gerontocracy that still runs the Democratic Party see this and make their plans. So do Governor Cuomo and Mayor De Blasio. The 2020 Census will lead to re-districting of New York State’s Congressional districts because the state likely will lose at least one district, since its tax and regulatory burden is driving away residents. Ocasio-Cortez’s district can divided up and apportioned to neighboring districts, leaving her the sole option of running against an incumbent in 2022 in a district most which does not know her.

 

She’s the boss???

Does she not understand what the word “representative” (as in House of Representatives) means?

She works for the people of NY, NOT the other way around!

— Andy Schreiber (@andy_schreiber) February 24, 2019

 

More Civics 101:

 

She’s the boss???

Does she not understand what the word “representative” (as in House of Representatives) means?

She works for the people of NY, NOT the other way around!

— Andy Schreiber (@andy_schreiber) February 24, 2019

 

 

Since when did lawmakers become executives? Bosses are executives. Lawmakers legislate. Executives “boss”. She’s totalitarian to her core, a Stalinette waiting in the wings.

— Bruce Crawford (@BruceC76) February 24, 2019

 

 

To @AOC You are not the boss of me. Got it?

— NashNative (@mbcbna) February 24, 2019

 

Sandy O’s contemplated power grab illustrates that the strategy of Al Gore and the Warmists has worked. They have panicked people who have no interest or ability in critical thinking, using the prestige of “science” and a phony statistic supporting “scientific consensus” to create a demand for vast government regulatory and tax expansions.

It’s hard to feel sorry for someone so self-righteous, arrogant, and unreflective, but Sandy is a victim of her own sudden success in attaining an office for which she was unprepared and a degree of fame that would be hard for someone with thirty IQ points and two decades of experience on her.

Because she blindly follows leftist cant and intends to use her vastly inflated sense of her own influence and abilities to accomplish goals that violate human nature and the laws of physics, she will self-destruct. And we will be watching every step of the way.

Image credit: YouTube screen grab (corpped)