What was the point of Obama’s immigration speech?
The only reason I can think of for the speech was precisely to get the Gang of Eight senators to release their framework, as they’ve already done. In other words, as the L.A. Times pointed out the other day, the White House knows that any amnesty bill seen as coming from Obama will be poison to Republicans. But the senatorial cabal hadn’t come to an agreement yet, so I suspect Schumer called the White House and asked if they could please schedule a speech for Obama on immigration, then leak that, so he could tell his Republican co-conspirators that they had to hurry and beat Obama so they didn’t look like they were playing catch-up. So, having announced there was going to be a speech, the Obama administration had to follow through, but they had nothing new to say so they just hit F11 on their keyboard for the stock amnesty speech.
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The point was to jet off to Vegas for a few hours, simply because he can.
rbj on January 30, 2013 at 5:45 PM
If Schumer’s take is right, then the GOP is even more spineless than imagined (a difficult feat, for sure). That said, I’d suspect that Obama gave the speech because he needed some attention to feed his black hole of narcissism.
besser tot als rot on January 30, 2013 at 5:48 PM
Ok, you figured out the reason…but Obozo just outsmarted our Great Hispanic Hope for 2016, right after he outsmarted the Drunky Crier on the debt ceiling. How about sharpening the analysis at your formerly intellectual conservative magazine? Allahpundit pointed out this would happen the day before Obama’s Vegas speech.
sauldalinsky on January 30, 2013 at 5:54 PM
What is F 11?
Bmore on January 30, 2013 at 5:56 PM
1.6 million dollar speech.
Was it worth it?
portlandon on January 30, 2013 at 5:56 PM
What’s the point of ANY of his speeches and “what difference does it make”?
Resist We Much on January 30, 2013 at 6:00 PM
1.6 million dollar speech.
Was it worth it?
portlandon on January 30, 2013 at 5:56 PM
peski on January 30, 2013 at 6:02 PM
It’s nothing on mine. I use Ctrl-V.
sauldalinsky on January 30, 2013 at 6:02 PM
Quote fail.
peski on January 30, 2013 at 6:02 PM
I posted this on the Rubio thread:
Everything you have heard about either side of this issue is crap.
President Jugears spilled the beans in his Nevada campaign speech. His speechwriters probably didn’t think anybody would notice. But I noticed.
He said that we needed them to come in from the shadow economy. Yep, he said it — go to a mp3 of the speech and listen.
He wasn’t primarily talking about illegal aliens — he was talking about the John Galts among us. There are a lot more of them than even I suspected and they are screwing up the government’s numbers.
The smallest workforce since WW2 yet the indirect taxes from sales of gasoline and similar items are close to normal levels. But the key thing is the gun buyback programs. Every one of them has turned into a street corner gun show with gun buyers with suitcases full of cash buying guns from people standing in line to turn in their weapons for a gift card from the cops.
They are stunned that the economy isn’t crushed despite their efforts. The answer is — going Galt. They need the immigration bill to root out the ones they don’t care about (braceros and other little people). Then everybody who is left in the shadows is either a tea partier, libertarian, or a criminal.
They will use the comprehensive immigration law to cover them going hunting dropouts from the system.
That is why it’s urgent — the official economy (with its 16 trillion) is about to collapse because TOO MANY PEOPLE have dropped out. The death spiral is about to go full throttle and the commies know that the backlash will end up rooting out most of the traitors IF THEY DON’T FIND SOMEONE TO BLAME BEFOREHAND.
Lock and load. And stockpile. There is little time left. Rubio is a useful idiot to the traitors.
platypus on January 30, 2013 at 4:35 PM
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/30/pushback-gingrich-vitter-national-review-malkin-coulter-erickson-oppose-rubios-immigration-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-6686221
platypus on January 30, 2013 at 6:02 PM
To impress the dolts who voted for him by sounding lofty.
Bishop on January 30, 2013 at 6:07 PM
On a mac it clears the windows so you can see the desktop.
Bmore on January 30, 2013 at 6:16 PM
Kirkorian’s probably using a computer from the 80′s.
sauldalinsky on January 30, 2013 at 6:22 PM
I think obama is jockeying to be Rubio’s 2016 campaign manager.
Pork-Chop on January 30, 2013 at 7:33 PM