MITCHELL:

I wanted to ask you about a report in the New York Times today. The president’s going to take on immigration reform, which, of course, became impossible for George Bush. With all of his good intentions he wasn’t able to accomplish it, something that John McCain has been pressuring to have some action on. Is this really going to become a priority on top of everything else that he’s trying to do?

SHRUM:

Yes, I think they’re going to move on immigration. I hope the Republicans fulminate against it because they’ll get to the point where they won’t get a single Hispanic vote. Go ahead and make my decade, turn Texas into a Democratic state.

MITCHELL:

I don’t know about Texas.

SHRUM:

If it can happen in California, it can happen in Texas.

Bob Shrum reveals what we’ve always known about amnesty:

It’s designed to expand the Democrat Party and kill the Republican Party.

And, of course, the Republican Party’s way of dealing with it is self-defeating, to pander and so forth and act like they have the same attitude about it that Democrats do.

The only answer is Conservatism.

You approach people as people, not as members of groups.

You approach them as people.You tell them they live in the greatest country in the world, United States of America, that you love ’em, you want the best for them, but it’s up to them.  And this country provides more opportunity for people willing to go out and strive for it and work for it, and what our party is going to do is get out of your way, we’re going to get out of your way and we’re going to let you.

Now, if you’re illegal, we’re not going to violate our laws. But the Democrat Party way is to destroy the US culture in order get votes for power.

Why would the Republican Party want to go along with that? But they do ’cause it’s the path of least resistance, the path of least criticism, other than from their own voters.

Time to grow a backbone, and wake up people.

Neil Cavuto had one of the organizers of the Sacramento tea party, Mark Meckler, and asked him about this infiltration and the threats.

Cavuto :

“Mark, how seriously do you take these threats?”

MECKLER:

We don’t take them seriously at all, and I’ll tell you why. It’s not that they don’t exist. We expect people to attempt to infiltrate. The reality is this is a very broad-based grassroots movement. There is no leader at the top, there’s no individual event that they could disturb that would cause us a problem nationwide. Also the people, we trust the grassroots. We know that the people are skeptical of anybody approaching these events and we believe that people are going to handle it well. In fact, we invite everybody to come to our events. We don’t care whether they’re from ACORN, the Huffington Post, Daily Kos, we want them all there.

Yes, and they will all be there, trying to cause trouble…

These are people that are going to show up with anti-Obama slogans, they’re going to show up with pro-tea party slogans, that’s what they’re going to make themselves out to be, and they claim they’re going to try cause all kinds of trouble for the cameras.

The organizers claim,

“We’re not worried, we’re going to outnumber them, they can’t bring this about,”

but all it’s going to take is two malcontents causing a problem with the right Drive-By camera and that will be the only video anybody will see. The Media are not reporting on this now, and they’re not going to report on this as it happens.

This just flies in the face of the notion they put forth that this is a country in unified enthrallment of the Obama administration.

John O’Hara, who is the organizer of the Chicago Tea Party.
Mark Meckler there from Sacramento.
Cavuto :

“John, if the malcontents from ACORN show up, something tells me they’re not going to be sharing the same placards. Are you worried about that?”

O’HARA:

No, Neil, I’m not worried about it at all. If ACORN wants to send some of their paid pretend activists to show up, that’s fine.

MECKLER:

The people understand what these movements are about. The people who are involved understand that they’re not racists, they’re not fringe, they’re not even partisan. I mean these are events where we’ve got people across the board — Democrats, Republicans, conservatives, liberals, Libertarians, you name it, everybody’s coming out to these events.

O’HARA:

The real fringe group here, again, is these critics, ACORN, with their paid activists. It’s a typical left-wing smear campaign with ad hominem attacks rather than getting at the real issues we’re talking about.

So the organizers know it’s being talked about, they know it’s in the works, they know that ACORN and others are going to show up.

I don’t know how many of them are actually going to wear pro-Obama stuff.

I mean infiltration means you try to blame them. Taking it over would be another thing.  But they would love to be able to create the impression that the tea party supporters, the anti-Obamanots are a bunch of violent, out of control, destructive — like ACORN really is, and ACORN knows how to cause trouble ’cause it’s their business.

So we’ll see. I’m glad to see that the organizers are not being off-put by this. In fact, they’re welcoming ACORN to become part of the festivities.

These are grassroots things. These things have sprung up on their own.

But these things are exciting because they are the American people, who are just reacting to this thing, and it’s a great illustration

— and I hope they’re all huge, and this is people who have no leadership, no elected leadership.

We don’t feel they’re being represented anywhere, and they’re taking matters into their own hands.

And we are going to try to demonstrate to their leaders and to the Washington elites and the media, that not everybody has fallen in and not everybody is a bunch of  Obamamites following along with the diminution of the American private sector.

It just isn’t happening.

God Bless You All…

These tea parties are blossoming and growing all over the fruited plain.

People are fed up, and I’ll tell you what, it’s not about bonuses to AIG people.  That’s not why these tea parties are taking place.

These tea parties — God love you people doing them. These tea parties are taking place because people are tired of paying the freight for people who refuse to work, they’re tired of paying mortgages for people who are making no effort to pay them.  They are tired of bailing out failed companies.  They are tired of things like unions and card check being forced on small business.

These tea parties are a direct result of an outrage at this administration for trying to wipe out the fundamental building blocks of this nation’s founding.

That’s what’s under assault, capitalism and this nation’s founding, and that’s what these tea these tea parties are all about. They’re not happening because of bonuses to people that work at AIG.  One hundred fifty tea parties have taken place or are planned across the fruited plain.

Notice how we never hear about all these from the Media.  Boy, didn’t they enjoy the Anti-War Protest?

I guess destroying the country from the inside of government doesn’t seem to interest all the elites in the media now the Democrats are running the show.

For the last 8 years, I remember being told…

“It’s Patriotic to criticize the President, the Military and about anything they could come up with…”

Aren’t we just being patriotic?

Last week, the surge didn’t really make any difference. It was the political coalitions that did come together that Pelosi just denied have come together and have worked!

This party cannot even get on the same page about all this. This is a party that has invested in defeat, and Pelosi still is. Obama is obviously privy to this. He’s running a different campaign here than she is, and he’s obviously seen some focus group data that indicate that he’d better get on board this thing because the American people like victory, and to try to talk it down and to suggest it isn’t one is not going to help. The thing is, I know what a lot of you are saying, “He’s just a plain old fraud. I mean, this is worse than Clinton.” I agree with you.

On CNBC, a lady was promo-ing some things coming up in her program, and one of them was Obamanomics.

What the hell is Obamanomics? And then I remembered, Obama had a meeting with close economic advisors, and it’s the retreads from the Clinton years. There’s been no change, and there certainly isn’t anything new. Obamanomics?

Boy, he dropped that Middle East trip real fast, didn’t he? Now he’s gotta get on the domestic side. And he’s got this is a group of ten or 12 people. Robert B. Reich and Larry Summers and Warren Buffett.

Who else is in this? Robert Rubin. Yeah, how’s CitiBank doing there, Robert? The stock price of CitiBank, Robert, what’s, it around 15 bucks? And this is Clinton‘s treasury secretary savior.

He’s running multiple campaigns, at least two, and that’s why he’s unsure of himself when he’s speaking off the teleprompter.

The focus has to be on his lack of experience, not that he’s a fraud, because the people that are going to vote for him don’t care. This is going to be a referendum on Obama. It really is. So people are going to have to vote against him.

Well, I know that’s not a perfect world. You want to have somebody out there you could vote for. But this campaign, this election is going to be a referendum, up or down, on Obama. And people are going to have to be convinced that there is a great risk in electing this guy, and just running around and telling him he’s a fraud, that’s just going to be interpreted as politics as usual.

“Well, look, that’s the same thing you guys said about Clinton. We like Clinton. It’s the same thing you guys said about him.” Yeah, even though it’s true, even though the guy lies through his teeth, even though the guy is just all over the ballpark and says things strategically and tactically without any foundation.

See, we know what the foundation is. The foundation is pure, ultra-leftist and liberalism.

So the campaign has to make them feel scared of Obama being in power. Whatever takes place has to make them frightened of what this guy is — and not because he lies, and not because he’s a fraud, ’cause most people think all politicians lie, and most people think that all politicians are frauds. So for one party to say that about another and vice-versa is not going to change anybody’s vote.

“This is what USA Today had to say about your position on the surge. ‘Why can’t Obama bring himself to acknowledge the surge worked better than he and other skeptics thought that it would? That’s a conditioned response on their part. What is the stubbornness say about the kind of president he would be?'”

OBAMA:

There’s no doubt that the violence has gone down more than any of us anticipated, including President Bush and John McCain. If you — if you — if you had talked to them, uh, and — and said, you know, what, we’re going to bring down violence to levels that we have, I think — I suspect USA Today’s own editorial board wouldn’t have anticipated that.

Pelosi today on The View says the surge isn’t working because the politicians of Iraq have not taken control of their country. Obama says it’s worked better than even Bush or Cheney thought, or McCain thought.

Now, that’s the first time he said this. I’m telling you he is running a dual or maybe a triple campaign. He is saying one thing to one group of people, another thing to another group of people, and he’s trying to have it both ways. That’s why he’s stuttering around.

Pelosi is just an idiot.

Obama said it wasn’t gonna work, had no chance of working. Then he said it’s done really okay, but it’s because the politicians came together. He said the reason the surge worked is because the great Sunni awakening and the Sadr army and the Shi’a all came together over there, this is while he was there saying this.

They’re all over the place, and Pelosi, a day after he says this, goes out and says, it didn’t work because the politicians have not gotten their act together.

Now, again, in Pelosi’s case, because she’s not the candidate here, in Pelosi’s case, she knows the audience. It’s an ultra-left-wing audience. They don’t want to hear about success. They don’t want to hear about how things work. They want to hear anything but failure. She knows that most of the hostesses on that show want to hear nothing but failure.

Now here is Obama saying on Meet the Press, no doubt the violence has gone down more than any of us anticipated, including Bush and McCain. And if you want to talk to them and say, you know what, we’re going to bring down violence and levels we have, nobody would have — that was the objective.

Why do you think it was planned, Senator? What was the point of the surge? This is where his inexperience and his real lack of intelligence and judgment display themselves. Why plan the thing? They’ve got some polling data that says he’s on the wrong side of the surge business, the American people love hearing about successful military operations.

The American people don’t want to lose military operations, they don’t want to lose wars.

And Obama, he’s gotta get himself on the right, “Oh, yeah, worked better than anybody ever thought,” why plan it? You think they planned a 50% success surge? Why even plan the operation if you don’t plan for it to succeed as wildly and as thoroughly as possible?

It’s an emotional thing. It’s party loyalty; it’s ideological loyalty; it is devotion to a personality and a cult. Most people are not thinking about Obama. They just think they want change, the Bush administration has been bad, they’ve been led to believe the country is going to hell in a hand basket, he’s going to fix it, he’s going to make the rest of the world like us, that’s going to make us safer.

There isn’t a whole lot of thought going into Obama’s support and his campaign illustrates it. He’s all over the ballpark. He’s saying five different things about every subject.

PELOSI:

The surge’s purpose was to have a military time frame where there would be military, uh, security to enable the government of Iraq to make the political changes necessary for reconciliation. I said it before when I was here, and I’ll say it again. Even with all the time that has elapsed, they still have not done that. The purpose of the surge was to pass the laws to bring reconciliation, so we could bring our troops home safely soon, honorably and responsibly; and that has not happened. Now the government of Iraq is saying, “We want you to go home,” so maybe the time has come for us to sit down with them and figure that out.

None of what she said is accurate. The surge was not done to bring the troops home soon. The surge was done to help achieve victory to quell a bunch of violence, insurgent violence and defeat terrorists who are keeping that country just torn apart.

It has succeeded overwhelmingly!

OBAMA:

There’s no doubt that the violence, uh, has gone down more than any of us anticipated, including President Bush and John McCain! Uh, if — if you had… If you talk to them, uh, and — and “You know what? We’re going to bring down violence,” to levels that we have, I think — I — I suspect USA Today’s own editorial board wouldn’t have anticipated that.

The ego of this guy knows no bounds. Well, you talk to anybody, why, it’s worked better than anybody thought. Aside from having not heard that before from anybody, but especially from Obama, the idea that the surge worked better than anybody thought is akin to saying, “You know, those bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, man, they worked better than we thought.” Why drop the bomb, why do the surge if you didn’t intend it to work well? But aside from that, here you got Pelosi saying in one story that it didn’t work, didn’t accomplish anything, you’ve got the Democrat presidential nominee, presumptive, Obama saying, it “exceeded everybody’s exceptions.” I know what Pelosi is doing, and she’s just pandering to an audience that watches that stupid TV show. But this thing with Obama is what’s fascinating to me because with every story he tells about the surge, he has a different view.