Obama’s immigration policy change will only have maximal political effect if the wingers freak about it and force Romney to condemn the brown enemy within.
Those of you who consume winger media: how goes the freak out thus far?
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Obama’s immigration policy change will only have maximal political effect if the wingers freak about it and force Romney to condemn the brown enemy within.
Those of you who consume winger media: how goes the freak out thus far?
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schrodinger's cat
I thought you read them so that we don’t have to.
4tehlulz
I don’t read the Washington Post.
Xecky Gilchrist
I haven’t been able to hear anything over the weird flubbery sound of 20 million pairs of pants being shit.
Litlebritdifrnt
According to Limbaugh it is all about getting votes. According to him “all abortions are by democrats so they are aborting themselves out of existence, so they need the illegals to make up the numbers.” No. I am not making this shit up.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
Fortunately (for me at least), I have far more important things to do than to listen to pathological liars, racists, and sociopaths.
curiousleo
A good Friday song.
amk
@Litlebritdifrnt: lmao. talk about freaking out of the racist pig.
JPL
The President was to speak at 1:15 and he’s late. Maybe Boehner’s tears made him reconsider.
jl
Not so sure about that. Most groups with large immigrant population keep a much closer watch on the issue than others.
If wingnuts do freak, thatg will force Willard to act weird and strange and perhaps even in ways that might suggest he is not altogether trustworthy, repeatedly, in front of the whole country. But Willard will do that anyway.
So, yeah, a freakout would provide a little extra juice to to public contempt for MItt, but I don’t think needed to get attention of groups directly affected by the directive.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
If this plays out like Slutgate it may take a month for the Right to have its hysterical paroxysm
TooManyJens
Drudge is on it.
Comrade Javamanphil
He might not need the wingnut pretty hate machine to force his hand. Steve King (R-IA) is ready to sue. Popcorn time.
Mino
Browns gonna take yur jobs. Southern response ala Lamar! Alexander
Linda Featheringill
Redstate is calling it a constitutional crisis, disregard of separation of powers, etc.
Plus some name calling.
Sticks and stones.
redshirt
Chalupas for all!
Felinious Wench
Red State is calling it a Constitutional Crisis.
Malkin is spitting over how he’s circumventing the “Rule of Law.”
Politico is quoting Republicans saying “He’s ignoring the Constitution and going around Congress, the slick bastard.” (paraphrased)
Rubio is crying “it’s a short-term solution, damn it! We need more!”
The general emerging meme is outrage at the temerity to go around Congress and get this done. And how it’s that good ol’ slippery slope to full amnesty. And “it’s cravenly political.” Republicans in Congress are apoplectic.
It’s absolutely delicious.
Linda Featheringill
I was trying to wait to listen to the formal announcement from the White House [looks like the rose garden]. But Obama is late and I gotta get back to work. I’ll try to catch up later.
[I do wonder if this will be as big as Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage?]
Mino
@Mino: Sorry, Texas’s own Lamar Smith issued that idiocy.
zifnab25
@Litlebritdifrnt: Remind me again, how many kids does Limbaugh have?
Anoniminous
Sorry.
Illogic, unreason, bad grammar, and an inability to spell gives me hairballs.
The Value-Added of BJ is I don’t have to read that shit to know what they are
thinkingopinionating.demkat620
Who just tried to freak at the presser? What happened?
Culture of Truth
“This huge policy shift has horrible consequences for unemployed Americans looking for jobs and violates President Obama’s oath to uphold the laws of this land,” House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith said
bemused
@demkat620:
I heard that too but couldn’t hear what was said by the interrupter.
Culture of Truth
LIMBAUGH:
jl
Isn’t it just a directive on how to prioritize deportations?
Hope Obama does more of executive directives like this one. Some on economy would be nice.
Cynical political side is that Obama is implicitly saying “you like this? Better vote for me and reasonable Congress or it will go away” And gives opportunity for other side to make fools of themselves, and opportunity to open fissures in GOP.
On non cynical side, it gets some responsible governerating done.
Bubblegum Tate
The wingers I read haven’t made a peep about it. I guess they haven’t gotten their talking points yet, but I can confidently predict that a decent chunk of them will latch onto Allen West’s “this is just opening the door to vote fraud!” bullshit and repeat it ad nauseum.
Culture of Truth
THE DEBT THE DEBT
“It will also place a further strain upon limited resources as it will be easier for those granted work authorization to attain government benefits during this time of extraordinary debt.”
bemused
An msnbc reporter said he didn’t recognize the shouter who seemed to have a temporary press pass.
FlipYrWhig
Interesting… I guess the Republicans found it within themselves to counteract executive power after all! BTW, this is why complaints about the Rule Of Law never go anywhere towards convincing anybody of anything, whether they’re aired by left-leaning civil libertarians or wild-eyed wingnuts.
amk
Apparently some daily caller thug reporter is booing his speech. Now the peak wingnut has arrived.
Anoniminous
@Culture of Truth:
FIFY
demkat620
@amk: I am shocked it was one of Tucker Carlson’s clowns.
Shocked I say!
quannlace
Mitt’s just miffed that this steals coverage of the start of his Magical Mystery bus tour.
different-church-lady
Considering that Romney today decided to go dog whistle on homophobia, I’d say the odds are pretty good he’ll volunteer without any resistance.
Raven
@Bubblegum Tate: They are going apeshit on the Athens paper. I’m doing my best to inflame them!
Southern Beale
Fucker Carlson’s henchman just heckled Obama at his press conference. That’s how it goes.
Twitter is in an uproar.
JenJen
DEY TOOK ERRRR JERRBS!!
Sasha
Considering that a winger media person rudely interrupted the President and attempted to start an argument as Obama was making his Rose Garden statement, the freak-out continues apace.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Apparently Mittens reaction it come up with a new campaign motto
https://www.mittromney.com/donate/doing-fine-tshirt
“We’ll be doing fine again when Mitt’s in office.”
WTF? Does this clown understand anything about politics? Hell, even advertisement? Is “Mitt; you could do worse” his next motto?
ant
@amk:
um, peak wingnut is a lie.
Raven
“Neil Munro of the Daily Caller interrupted Obama, asking something about favoring foreigners over Americans”
FlipYrWhig
@amk: Maybe next a Romney staffer will come to an Obama event with an air horn. People don’t like rudeness and bullshit.
Davis X. Machina
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: No, but “Mitt. You could do darker” is.
kindness
Over at NPR the reichtwingnutz that have taken over the comment sections have gone all in. I swear, NPR must be on one of the right wing list-serves where they are notified to go over in force and push the comments in their direction cause it’s crazy there now.
4tehlulz
Are reporters frisked before being seeing the president?
If not, this might be a good time to start.
Mike Lamb
@jl: Yes, basically it is. Also known as prosecutorial discretion.
To paraphrase: Separation of powers, you keep using that term. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Mino
@ant: Peak wingnut is an under-estimatation, every time.
gbear
I’m hoping that the next cool thing that Obama figures out is a way to entice Clarence Thomas into either a new position or an early retirement. Ponies for everyone.
Brachiator
Liberal public radio station is covering it, and has a listener poll.
Of 502 taking the poll, 53 percent support the president, 34% think it goes too far, and 12% say it has not gone far enough.
Obviously, this poll is nonscientific, yada yada yada
A political analyst says the change in policy will have no impact on “undecided voters.” Obviously, this is also nonscientific yada yada yada.
Listener comment on the site:
Out here in Southern California, I expect the top rated afternoon drive time talk radio guys, John and Ken, to go ballistic over this. I am guessing that the most common view will be that the children of illegal immigrants to not deserve any breaks, and things like the Dream Act only encourage illegal immigration and anchor babies.
amk
@4tehlulz: +1. The crazification factor has hit the peak.
Mino
@FlipYrWhig: Haven’t they already done that with vuvuzelas at one of his speeches? Or, maybe I’m prescient?
rlrr
@zifnab25:
Remind me again, how many kids does Limbaugh have?
Depends on what you mean by “have.”
Davis X. Machina
@Mino: You can’t say ‘vuvuzelas’ in the Michigan state legislature, you know…
Nina
Freak Republic’s talking point – the brown people are going to take the black people’s jobs, which will somehow turn all the blacks away from the Democrats. Magical thinking.
BGinCHI
@Raven: This Neoil Munro?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Munro_%28writer%29
Fucking Scots. First school lunches and now this!
dedc79
I doubt the republican nutters will be content to hear the romney campaign call this a political stunt (which was mostly how they responded to Obama’s gay marriage statement). Even Romney, who always seems to manage to avoid being tied down to any position on anything, is probably going to have to say something substantive about this – even if it’s as simple as “No, I disagree with this new policy”.
Nemo_N
Moments ago, at CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked Joe Arpaio his opinion on this.
David Koch
@Mino: no, they did that at Axelrod’s speech.
PZ
Video of the Daily Caller “reporter” being a no-talent ass clown-
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/06/out_of_line_1.php?ref=fpblg
David Koch
@Nemo_N: yup, he was actually billed as “America’s Toughest Sheriff”. I wish I was making that up. No wonder CNN’s ratings are in the toilet.
handy
@Brachiator:
I can’t wait until 4 PM rolls by just so I can jump into my car and listen to the shrieks of terror from those two. It will be delicious.
JenJen
@Raven: Great. So any minute now we can expect a flurry of tweets from Jake Tapper defending the Daily Caller as a legitimate news organization.
rlrr
@Nemo_N:
Will he be asking David Duke?
Martin
@Brachiator:
They’ll be apoplectic, but they always are. Fuck em. Piolín has 10x the audience.
I remember the Amtrak crash and John and Ken within the span of 5 minutes went from bitching about tax dollars going to mass transit given the budget crisis to bitching about why the train didn’t have a hundred million dollars more in safety features.
Unfortuantely, though we’re the biggest beneficiaries of this policy, its not going to help Obama. He’s already got the state locked. Should help him hold Nevada though. Might help the state budget as well, though. Wouldn’t mind that one bit.
BGinCHI
@Nemo_N: Charles Manson was busy.
Culture of Truth
Jeff Gannon used to.
Mike Lamb
@Nemo_N: David Duke must have had a prior commitment…
redshirt
@Mino: You cannot reach infinity, only get infinitely closer. Same with Peak Wingnut.
Davis X. Machina
@David Koch: Thinking back 30 years, I remember living in Atlanta in the fall of ’82, where there used to be a radio station that just played CNN’s audio, during the Israeli invasion of south Lebanon, and the naval evacuation of the PLO’s top command and remaining fighters to Tunis. At the same time I had a shortwave converter in the car — yep, they made ’em’ — and there wasn’t much to pick from between BBC World Service coverage and CNN.
Somebody seriously fscked up somewhere along the line.
kindness
Even though this will bring good will (and votes) from Hispanic Americans to President Obama, let’s face it….This has got to be bad news for President Obama.
jibeaux
@Davis X. Machina: Well, that made me smile.
bupalos
From a quick survey, it looks like they intend to cast this as another brick in the wall of “Obama isn’t an American/ is too stupid and/or lazy and/or black and/or tyrannical to understand the constitooshun.”
Tactically this seems like a good move and very analogous to the contraception thing. At the very least, it set in motion some dominoes that will cross Rubio off the veep list.
Snowwy
I plan to remember this heckling bullshit the next time some wingnut fuckhead demands I respect a Republican president…
Davis X. Machina
@bupalos: There are only so many plausible ways to neutralize a top-of-the-ballot Republican.
Obama can make only one guy at a time our ambassador to Beijing, after all.
Nemo_N
Hey, that guy might have heckled Obama but there was a decapitated head of Dubya in Game of Thrones so it’s all good, both sides do it.
Villago Delenda Est
@quannlace:
I am the Eggman! I am the Eggman! I am the Walrus!
Brachiator
@Martin:
RE: Out here in Southern California, I expect the top rated afternoon drive time talk radio guys, John and Ken, to go ballistic over this.
Piolín is morning drive time, and his show is entirely in Spanish. John and Ken are Number 3 in afternoon drive time, and are probabably stronger in Orange County than in Los Angeles County. Their bark is worse than their bite, but they love to rally anti-illegal immigration callers.
The speech is not going to help or hurt Obama much in California, but I don’t think it will help him in Nevada. It’s going to bring out more anti-Obama voters and contributors. I don’t see how it’s going to help the California budget much.
shortstop
@bupalos: Obama will probably lose some “independents” and “undecideds” over this. However, he just solidified Nevada and Colorado and made the GOP spend a lot more to defend Arizona. So, not to put too fine a point on it, fuck you, “independents” and “undecideds.”
Villago Delenda Est
With Rmoney, you won’t have to wait 3 1/2 years to be disappointed. He’ll disappoint you from the moment he takes the oath of office!
Sasha
A Rep shouts “Liar!” at Obama on the House floor, Romney’s bus pulls a Westboro on Obama in Ohio, a winger reporter breaks all decorum and tries to start an argument with Obama as he’s giving a speech.
If I didn’t know better, I’d say that the GOP has decided its best strategy is to provoke Obama until he finally lashes out and then paint him as an angry (and thus dangerous) Negro.
If Obama doesn’t take the bait soon, expect someone to deploy the en-dash-dash-dash-daash-dash word to his face before November.
David Koch
Obama spoke for 10 minutes and he didn’t even mention the public option once!?
He sold us out!
gnomedad
@Mino:
Enhanced.
slag
@PZ: Excellent. DougJ called this one nicely. Le freak c’est tres tres chic!
Mino
@Culture of Truth: I see what you did.
Violet
Sorry, I’m just getting to this thread, but reading through the comments, a winger REPORTER heckled the President? WTF? How is that acceptable behavior?
hells littlest angel
@Xecky Gilchrist: Some day I will plagiarize that, so I may as well apologize now.
Mino
@David Koch: Ah, Axelrod, so only half a senior moment there.
@redshirt: Yep, ass-ymptotic, indeed.
@gnomedad: Now, that stretch surprised me. Why would pasty old white men care about that? Except the food stamps bit.
Mino
@Davis X. Machina: If you’re a female, you might not be able to say anything, much less vuvuzela.
Another Bob
You don’t have to consume “winger media” per se to get a sense of a communal grand mal freakout that’s going on amongst the wingnuts. My own local paper’s website, sfgate, has a story up about the policy and the wingers are crawling over it like flies on shit. A typical example:
different-church-lady
@David Koch:
Which was seen by campaign beat reporters as seven minutes longer than he should have.
Gus
@different-church-lady: I’m obviously not a dog, ’cause I don’t see how you get homophobia out of that. Can you enlighten me?
Martin
@Brachiator: If they’re documented, even under work permits, they’re taxable. If this can create a few hundred thousand more taxpayers in the state, it’ll help.
@Violet:
Reporter was white, president is black. It’s all good. It’s not like Obama tried to use that reporter’s drinking fountain.
different-church-lady
@Gus: The play on Obama’s “evolution” regarding marriage equity. It’s the kind of shit GOP campaign ops seem to think score big points. It’s meat for the dittoheads that talk the code.
Brachiator
@Martin:
Illegal immigrants already work and pay taxes using stolen and fake documentation. But it may help them avoid exploitation and make it easier to get better paying jobs. A net long term win, I agree, but not much of an immediate impact on the state budget.
Note: David Cruz, a local radio commentator says that Latino leaders are surprised and pleased over Obama’s announcement today.
Erik Vanderhoff
@Culture of Truth:
Immigrants are not generally eligible for federal welfare grant funds unless they are refugees. Any complaints of welfare going to illegals or work-visa holders should be directed to the state and not the federal government.
mds
@Raven:
Okay, Neil. Tell you what. The Obama administration will decline to prioritize deporting native-born children who grew up here, too.
Brachiator
@Culture of Truth:
So, once again Limbaugh not only demonstrates what a repugnant piece of crap he is, he also insinuates that illegal immigrants are going to commit voter fraud in order to “thank” Obama for assisting them.
taylormattd
The wingnut blowback is at DEFCON 9.
I mean look at this (http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/06/15/white-house-to-grant-immunity-work-permits-to-dreamers/):
Oh wait, wrong wingnuts.
feebog
This is a two-fer. Not only is it a brilliant political move, which will help solidify or even bump the 65 to70 percent support that he has already, but it is the right thing to do. Most people understand that a two year old kid did not make the decision to imigrate illegally, their parents made that decision. If they have been working toward the american dream, they deserve a chance to accomplish it.
Svensker
@taylormattd:
Digby was doing it, too. Jeez.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
@feebog:
Might even be a three-fer.
Not to be all dismal and concerny, but between this and the switch in support for same-sex marriage, I half wonder if the Obama campaign realizes the non-zero chance that they might lose, and are leaving little “booby traps of righteousness” in place in case of a Romney victory.
Romney’s already noted that any future President can overturn an executive order at any time. But now, there are at least two uphill fights he’ll have to deal with if he wins.
(Not that the GOP would ever hesitate to strip away as many rights as possible on Jan 21st… but you can at least make sure they’re gonna have a bad time if they do).
Tommy T
This should answer your question:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2895742/posts
Tommy