Schumer Shutdown, DACA, and Roe v. Wade

Things have been hectic for me lately so my writing has unfortunately taken short shrift again accordingly.  That said, I wanted to share a few thoughts on important topics to me.  Each of these issues is deserving of a more thorough article, but instead, with the constraints on my time, I am forced to give you the Reader’s Digest versions.

First, the asinine and cynically corrupt fools that participated in the Schumer shutdown of the government should be held accountable with the loss of their seats of power, if there were indeed any justice left in this nation.  Why these folks would vote against a spending bill which funds all the pet projects that the Democrats adore and contains nothing of substance for which they loathe is beyond me.

They have chosen, under the “leadership” of Senate minority leader Schumer to place the desires of DACA people over that of all other Americans.  The truly ironic fact that displays the cynicism of these folks that care more for illegal aliens and expanding their own political power through the immigration of more future Democrats is that congressional work on DACA was proceeding well already.  There was no need to attach a non-related immigration rider onto this spending bill.

Perhaps President Trump is right.  The senate may need to use the nuclear option and return to a simple majority to end debate and pass spending bills.  Oh, and by the way, Senators of both parties, why don’t you ALL do your damned jobs and pass a yearly budget for once and stop running the government on these continuing resolutions and then we wouldn’t be faced with these impending shutdowns every so often.  I am disgusted beyond belief with the Senate, and particularly with those that would fail to fund our nation’s defenders by holding them hostage if we don’t allow more illegal immigrants into our nation.

Second, regarding DACA, this is an issue which absolutely needs to be addressed, and should be the next priority after the Schumer shutdown is put to rest.  I have just listened to this blowhard asshat Schumer on TV blame the president, the Republicans, and everyone but himself and his cynical power-hungry crew, for this unnecessary shutdown.

His predecessor, Harry Reid, was a liar of such magnitude that he would make Hillary blush.  He was completely without any sense of honor or decency.  I had hoped that Senator Schumer would restore some sense of honor to the leadership of the senate on the Democrat side.  This speech doesn’t bode well for that notion, but I digress.

It is my opinion, that people who were minors when brought to the United States by their illegal alien parents should not be forced to leave the United States.  A bill should be passed that allows them and their parents permanent legal status to work and enjoy all of the rights and responsibilities of the United States with the exception of not being allowed to vote -- EVER for the parents and at least for ten years for the DACA child in question.  No, it is not the fault of these dreamers that their parents brought them illegally to the U.S., but a price must still be paid for breaking our immigration laws.

Further, as these good folks are granted legal status, an end to extended chain migration MUST be a non-negotiable part of this new law.  No aunts, uncles, third cousins and so forth should be granted legal immigration status simply on the fact that a related minor child was illegally brought into this country.  Of course this will not ever pass congress, as the very reason the cynical Democrats want passage of this is not out of any altruistic caring for the people in question, but because of the largely supported assumption that these people will become reliable Democrat voters.  THAT is the truth of which they will never publicly admit.

Finally, today, January 22, 2018, marks the 45th anniversary of the egregious Roe. V. Wade decision by the Supreme Court of the United States of America.  Since this “right” to kill our unborn children was dubiously discovered within the United State Constitution by our Supreme Court, over 60 MILLION children have been “legally” killed by abortion.  Further, this pernicious evil has occurred in defiance of our founding document as a nation, the Declaration of Independence, which states that we are endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right to life.   
               
Our third President and author of our Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, once stated, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”  And while the great Thomas Jefferson was referring to the evil institution of slavery, of which he paradoxically participated, the concept of God’s justice is still as valid today as it was those several hundred years ago.

When a nation destroys our innocent unborn, while God may not smite us all from the heavens above, He will allow us to suffer the consequences of our evil actions when it comes to our support of abortion.  And just like we had to suffer through our bloodiest war that nearly ripped our country asunder at the loss of over 600,000 American lives to finally end the evils of slavery, one wonders what the cost of justice will be for 60 million innocent unborn lives?

Oh, and on this horrific anniversary, ironically there is a blessed silver lining for me.  Happy birthday to my amazing daughter!

UPDATE:  It has now been reported as of mid-day today that Senator Schumer and his crew have duplicitously "ended the Schumer shutdown" by basically striking a deal with Republicans that mirrored the exact same deal offered on Friday night.  They basically shut things down to get a guarantee on a DACA vote that was not stalled and was moving forward.  This was nothing more than cynical political posturing.

The Democrats' Government Shutdown and the Ramifications for Our Fallen Heroes

I had strong suspicions that Obama was not going to be good for America when he was first elected, but I did try to be as objective as possible and give him the benefit of the doubt as I waited to see how he governed.  It didn’t take long to see that my suspicions and fears were not only justified but were considerably underestimating the damage that this man, with his utter lack of regard towards America and its constitution, would bring.

 

I thought surely that the American people also saw this after Obama’s first ruinous term in office where he presided over a fabricated economic “recovery”, where REAL unemployment numbers are still buried in the double digits, while continuing to go from one scandal to the next larger one that would have surely resulted in his impeachment if he had an “R” behind his name instead of a “D”.  

I was wrong.

 

Oh, I wasn’t wrong in my assessment that he needed to go; I was wrong in my assessment that Americans would finally see through this unqualified charlatan community organizer who had single-handedly decimated the world’s greatest economy through socialistic policies and perks to his well-heeled supporters, while destroying what respect and standing America had left in the world.

Now this petulant and arrogant man-child refuses to even talk with the equally petty, foolish, and arrogant GOP leadership in the House in order to come up with a suitable solution to this Democrat-instituted government shutdown.  He has specifically wanted to cause pain for Americans so that he will have leverage to get his way, once again, when dictating to the spineless Republicans how things will be.

Now it is one thing to PAY park service personnel to keep 90 year old World War II veterans away from the open-air and unfenced WWII memorial on the national mall, while allowing thousands of illegal immigrants and their supporters to BUILD A STAGE and hold a rally on that same mall yesterday.  It is quite another for this petty politician to try and create leveraging pain with his latest escapade.

It has been reported today that the family members of several brave service members killed in battle will not be afforded the death benefits owed to them, including travel to get the remains of their loved ones for funerals when those remains are flown back to the U.S., all because of the government shutdown.
 

I find that particularly egregious and pernicious since the House and Senate specifically authorized an additional funding resolution ensuring that such things would not occur.  Indeed, Secretary of Defense Hagel even returned many furloughed DOD personnel to work, but evidently providing the last honors for our fallen heroes is unwarranted in his and President Obama’s estimation under their shutdown. 

Even if Secretary Hagel doesn’t have the moral scruples to do the right thing and fix this problem, President Obama easily could.  If necessary, a simple executive order to allow our fallen heroes and their families the proper honors due to them could easily be addressed.  Lord knows, he is not a stranger to writing executive orders, seeing as how he has easily dwarfed the amount written by any other president in history.

Instead, President Obama and the Democrats would rather use our servicemen and women as pawns in this foolish shutdown of theirs.  Politics trumps doing the right thing to them evidently.  It is one thing to chase tourists out of national parks and keep them from taking pictures of Old Faithful.  It is quite another to disrespect those brave souls and that gave their last breath defending what used to be the greatest nation in the history of mankind.  Of course such sacrifice is incomprehensible to President Obama.  As his former Secretary of State said regarding the four American’s killed in Benghazi due to his calculated aloofness, “What difference does it make?”

Let me tell you right now, Mr. President, it makes all the difference in the world!  

When we no longer honor those that have given their very lives in service to America, then that America is no longer worthy of being defended.  Shame on you, Mr. President!  To borrow a slightly modified sentiment from your wife, for the first time in my life, I am deeply ashamed of my country!  I am ashamed of its “leadership”; I am ashamed of its president, and most of all I am ashamed of those Americans that don’t see what difference it makes as they continue to support such treasonous cowards in high office.  Indeed we no longer are the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, and we have only ourselves to blame for it.