by Sibyl West | May 14, 2013 | Citizen Report

“This is probably the first session I’ve seen in a long time where the Texas Senate has been far more conservative than the House. They’ve [the Senate] managed to pass meaningful legislation that conservatives support while the House has twiddled their thumbs, waiting for time to run out.”

- Eliza Vielma, AFP Legislative Affairs & New Media

What’s up at the TxLege? Well there doesn’t seem to be much sense of urgency in the house. Yet. They’re still in the tease-the-reporters phase. Over at Trailblazers we find this:

“Asked if he was keeping all his options open, Pitts downplayed the referral of the bill by Straus’ office to Appropriations. ‘Uh, they didn’t refer a lot of Senate bills until now,’ he said.” [Pitts is saying Straus didn't refer the bills until now.]

Continue reading Pitts won’t say if House will punt water-fund issue to voters

Senators are very concerned about the House’s slow pace with only 13 days left in the 83rd Legislative Session. It’s now or never to push the House to do the job we sent them there to do and get some of these important bills heard.

Details – Great Conservative Senate Bills  that the House needs to push to pass:

• SB 2 – Expanding Charter School Cap – This bill was placed on the General State Calendar for this week, but just got taken off the agenda and is back in calendars again.
• SB 7 – Health Care Savings - Description here; currently sitting in calendars
• SB 8 – Targets Medicaid Fraud; sitting in calendars
• SB 11 – Drug testing before receiving benefits; Hasn’t been heard in House Human Services yet
• SB 12 – Allowing admission of more evidence in a trial re: sexual offenses committed against a child – Background here; sitting in calendars
• SB 21 – Drug screening before receiving unemployment benefits; sitting in calendars
• SB 149 – Clarifies and Strengthens conflict of interest provisions at Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT);  made it out of committee, headed to calendars.
• SB 150 – Paying down debt of CPRIT through their collected royalties, etc to help alleviate taxpayer cost; sitting in House Public Health
• SB 1263 – Parent Trigger (Ed Reform); sitting in House Public Education Committee
• SB 1406 – CSCOPE Oversight; Placed on General State Calendar for tomorrow (5/15)
• SB 1458 – Revisions to Teacher Retirement System of Texas law in relation to benefits; sitting in calendars
• SB 1655 – Financial Relief for Electric Customers; Relating to authorizing the Public Utility Commission of Texas to direct the comptroller to return the unappropriated balance of the system benefit fund to retail electric customers; sitting in House State Affairs

I hope you’ve got your rep on speed dial. Let’s get to work. Click here to find out who represents you.

Watch here if it doesn’t show in your browser.

Sibyl West:  Live scream or live stream? Mark Levin is a lot more than just a ranting curmudgeon with a talk show. He is a brilliantly learned and capable lawyer, former Chief of Staff to Attorney General Ed Meese during the Reagan administration and a NY Times best selling author. And yet, though he makes the constitutional case and calls out the powers that be on behalf of everyday Americans, I find him a humble man. He doesn’t like to go on Hannity’s show nearly as much as the latter, his friend, would like (Levin prefers not to have his head powdered with makeup and all that). But the IRS bombshell is Levin’s baby so he felt compelled. I’m glad he did.

We need more patriotic lawyers to stand up to the bullies, men like Levin and Jonathan Saenz and Kelly Shackleford. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country and do the job that Boo-hoo Boehner and the GOP just won’t do.

ALSO >>> Mark Levin: GOP reaction to IRS-tea party brouhaha ‘impotent’ [VIDEO]

Sibyl West: Twitter was going crazy this afternoon while we were waiting…

jaketapper WH press briefing scheduled for 12:30, then 1:45, now 3:15 5/10/13 1:35 PM

It’s hitting the fan now, folks.

White House holds ‘deep background’ Benghazi briefing - Politico

The White House held an off-the-record briefing with reporters on Friday afternoon to discuss recent revelations about the Benghazi investigation, sources familiar with the meeting tell POLITICO.

The meeting began around 12:45 p.m. and postponed the daily, on-the-record White House press briefing to 1:45 p.m. White House press secretary Jay Carney did not respond to a request for confirmation of the meeting.

The off-the-record session was announced to reporters in the wake of an ABC News report showing that White House and State Dept. officials were involved in revising the now-discredited CIA talking points about the attack on Benghazi.

Emails obtained by ABC News show that State Dept. spokesperson Victoria Nuland requested that the CIA scrub references to an Al Qaeda-linked group, which, Nuland told White House officials, “could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings.”

Related:

Streeettttch! Carney blames Romney for politicizing Benghazi

Jay Carney: Republicans Leaked Benghazi Emails to the Press (Video)

Jay Carney: We Only Made One Change to the Benghazi Talking Points Memo (Video)

Geraldo: Sources Tell Me Benghazi Was About Running Missiles to Syrian Rebels

 thebcast·

Published on May 10, 2013

Flashback October 2012 - Glenn Beck- Why Obama Hid the Truth of Benghazi?

Don’t miss >>> Our report – Benghazi: Asking the Right Questions

UPDATE*** More from TheRightScoop:

Geraldo: My sources tell me they were in Benghazi to round up missiles to send to Syrian rebels via Turkey

Report: Two new witnesses to testify at next week’s Benghazi hearing

via Paula Helton | May 4, 2013

Fox News’s Chad Pergram reports on the identities of three witnesses scheduled to speak at next week’s House Oversight Committee hearing on the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. Two of the witnesses have not spoken publicly before.

BREAKING: Fox First: Testifying at next week’s #Benghazi hrng: Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of mission at US Embassy in Libya.

BREAKING: Fox First: Testifying at #Benghazi hrng: Mark Thompson, fmr Marine & Dep Coordinator for Ops in State’s Cntrrterrorism Bureau

BREAKING: Fox First: Testifying at #Benghazi hrng: Eric Nordstrom, Diplomatic Security officer. Top security officer in Libya prior 2 attack

via Twitchy.com

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Sibyl West:  Prediction – Hillary Clinton will never be POTUS. Period.

Sibyl West:  But don’t worry. “The bill that’s in place right now probably can’t pass the House.” Yeah, I feel better already. Not.

Analysis of Future Flow In Gang of Eight Plan: More than 30 Million Immigrants Granted Legal Status In 10 Years, With The Ability To Bring Their Relatives

An Additional 25 Million Will Be Granted Nonimmigrant Work Visas, Bringing Total to 57 Million

via Stephen Miller | May 3, 2013 | Sessions.Senate.Gov

The Gang of Eight has stated, “this legislation does not significantly increase long-term, annual migration to the United States” and has indicated the legislation shift the United States from low-skill and chain migration to high-skill merit-based. Conspicuously, however, they have refused to provide an estimate of future flow. A conservative analysis of the legislation, with low-range estimates for the new and expanded visa programs, reveals that the proposal would dramatically increase the future flow of low-skill workers and chain migration and provide legal status and work authorization to 30 million immigrants over the next 10 years—who will then be able to bring in family members, initiating a wave of non-merit-based chain migration that will greatly increase low-skilled immigration.

Here is a shorthand way of looking at the explosive growth in the number of people who will be granted work authorization and permanent residency over the next 10 years, largely on a non-merit based track:

·         An estimated 2.5 million DREAM beneficiaries of any age (including those no longer living in the country) will be eligible for citizenship in five years.

·         DREAM beneficiaries will be able to bring in an unlimited number of parents, spouses, and children (not subject to any cap) and those spouses, children, and parents will get permanent legal status in five years and be eligible for citizenship in 10.

·         An estimated 800,000 illegal agricultural workers will become legal permanent residents (green card holders) in five years and will then be eligible to bring in an unlimited number of spouses and children.

·         An estimated 8 million additional illegal immigrants, including recent arrivals and millions of visa overstays, will receive legal status and work authorization. These 8 million will be able to bring in their relatives as soon as 10 years from now. Those relatives, over time, will be able to bring in spouses, children, and parents.

·         An estimated 4.5 million aliens awaiting employment and family-based visas under current cap limitations will be cleared in less than 10 years, not subject to the family-based annual cap (thus freeing up room for more family-based migration that is subject to the annual cap).

The bill increases the level of immigration through current and new visa systems. Here are just some examples of how the bill increases legal immigration through visas:

·         The bill creates a new merit based visa, which allows for up to 250,000 visas annually. If a little over half of the visas are issued over a 10-year period, the increase in the number of immigrants would be 1,250,000.

·         The bill creates a new guest worker program (W-1) for low-skilled workers with a cap of 200,000 visas annually. If a little over a half of the guest workers visas available are issued over a 10-year period, the increase in the number of immigrants would be 1,000,000.

·         The bill creates a new nonimmigrant agricultural workers program (W-3 & W-4 visa) which allows up to 112,333 annually. If half of the visas are issued over a 10-year period, the increase in the number of nonimmigrants would be 561,665.

·         The bill exempts Priority Workers (EB-1 under current law), STEM graduates, and spouses and children of LPRs from the employment-based visa caps. By taking the average number of immigrants in the two exempt categories over the past 10 years, the exemption will account for an additional 762,000 immigrants over 10 years.

·         The bill increases the H-1B visa cap up to 180,000 with a floor of 110,000. If half of the H-1B visas are issued over a 10-year period, the increase in the number of immigrants would be 1,450,000.

·         The bill leaves current employment visa caps unchanged and moderately decreases family caps, allowing 301,000 visas a year with some exemptions, but allows for unused visas from 1992 through 2013 to be recaptured. Over a 10-year period, the number of legal immigrants would be 3,879,094.

The total number of immigrants obtaining legal status from the programs listed above is 24,702,759 over a 10-year period. That number does not include other immigrant and nonimmigrant visa programs in the bill (e.g.refugee and asylum seekers, W-1 visas, W-2 visas, W-3 visas, W-4 visas), nor does it include student visas who are now allowed dual intent.

The Gang of Eight’s bill will drastically increase low-skill chain migration. Some of the chain categories are subject to an annual family-based visa cap of 161,000, including adult unmarried sons and daughters of citizens or LPRs, and married sons and daughters (under the age of 31) of U.S. citizens. However, the bill completely exempts the largest categories of chain migrants from the family- and employment-based visa caps, including spouses and children of LPRs or citizens and parents of citizens. The following illustrates how the exempt chain migration categories will dramatically increase the future flow by millions of immigrants over the next 10 years:

• An estimate 2–3 million DREAM beneficiaries are eligible for legal permanent residency and citizenship after just 5 years. After receiving LPR status, the DREAMers may bring a spouse and child through the bill’s exempt chain category and, once granted citizenship, can bring their parents as well (not subject to cap). Assuming 1 million DREAMers bring any combination of two people, the future flow of immigrants would increase by over 2 million. This does not include other chain migrants that a DREAMer may petition under the caps, including adult unmarried sons and daughters, and married sons and daughters. Subsequently, the chain migrants will have the same opportunity to petition for their relatives in the same manner as the DREAMers.

In sum, over the first decade, the total number granted will be well over 32 million (not taking into account chain migration from increased legal flow). Adding in all the various categories of nonimmigrant work visas, and the number climbs to more than 57 million. Further, because approximately 7 million illegal immigrants are on a 13-year track to citizenship, there will be a second wave of chain migration initiated just outside the 10-year window (substantially increasing the net low-skill immigration).

To view this document as a PDF, including two charts which break down each category by visa and by year, please click here.

U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) serves on four Senate committees: Armed Services, Judiciary, Environment and Public Works, and as Ranking Member of the BudgetCommittee. Visit Sessions online at hiswebsite or via YouTube, Facebook, andTwitter. Note: Please do not reply to this email. For further information, contact Sen. Sessions’ Press Office at (202) 224-4124.

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by Ramparts Patriot | April 29, 2013 | Citizen Report

Even though the Austin school board has unspent bond money from previous bonds, they’re coming to us again for mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money.

Please vote against the bond on May 11th

Given that they didn’t need all the money from previous bonds – which means we were so generous in the past that even a bunch of hard-core Austin liberals couldn’t spend it all – there is every reason to wonder if the amount of money asked for in the coming bond request is justified.  I mean, they’re asking for almost $1 billion – that’s billion with a ‘B’.

Polling information here.

Just to offer a taste of the poor judgement used by AISD, in 2010 when the school board was in deep financial trouble, they talked about laying off teachers and closing schools, but they adopted a new multi-million dollar bi-lingual language program, to teach Spanish to American students by using the foreign language in all classes.  This creates an artificial barrier to learning math and science.  Why would you try to teach math to an American kid in Spanish??  Its like they try to check all the stupid-boxes when they decide how to run our schools.  Now, they want more money.

Vote NO.  Starve the beast.

UPDATE***

More reasons below to oppose the May 11th school bond proposal (Note, early voting starts TODAY).

This article is a fantastic summary of the reasons to vote against this extortion, though I’ve summarized the strongest reasons below.

We’ve recently learned that we can defeat the liberal downtown collective, if we turn out.  We learned this lesson when we defeated the so-called “affordable housing” bond package in Nov 2012.  According to the Statesman,

“Conservative-leaning suburban precincts on the city’s western edge and northern and southern fringes overwhelmingly rejected the measure….. Most of the precincts that rejected Proposition 15 (the “affordable housing” bond) are in Travis County Precinct 3 (the GOP district), and three-quarters of Proposition 15’s losing margin came from Precinct 3 voters.  In contrast, most precincts in the city’s core…. supported the measure.”

So, we know we can win city elections, if we vote.

Reasons to vote NO:

1) The bond would nearly DOUBLE the debt of AISD, from $1.12 billion to $2 billion in one stroke.

[To find the number just select "Austin ISD" from the menu and look at the number at the low right hand corner - $1.12 billion!!!]

2) Austin has several under utilized schools, mostly in the liberal parts of the town, where public sentiment about nonsense like the school being the focal point of the community, keeping the empty schools open.  Under utilized schools should be closed before we give more money for repairs.

Jan. 20, 2011

• “The Austin school district is struggling with budget issues and central campuses that are underutilized.”

• “Only 25 percent of all Austin households have kids. Compare that with Round Rock’s 43 percent; Pflugerville’s 53 percent; Cedar Park’s 49 percent; and Kyle’s 46 percent.”
• “Mayor Lee Leffingwell asked the district to keep the schools open because Austin’s planning goals are to discourage sprawl by promoting inner-city growth.”

Why, oh, why are we funding empty schools, and then being asked to turn over more money????

3) We just passed $300 million in taxes in Nov. 2012 for the city of Austin, plus the bond package for the medical school. Before that it was light rail, which took another billion dollars and gave us an underutilized train from Austin to Leander, and look how well that turned out – CapMetro fares for the MetroRail train cover only 5% of operating costs – 5%!!  Guess who makes up the other 95%?

Every election the downtown liberal elites come to us with hat in hand for more money, never justifying how they’ve spend the last pile of cash.  Enough!

4) The budget election was scheduled for May because the spring elections always have low voter turnout city wide, which favors downtown liberals who always turn out in high numbers, and district employees, giving these constituencies disproportionate influence over an election’s outcome.

5) This is nothing but a property tax increase to fund poor management.  School repairs should be budgeted for annually, and not funded time after time with a frantic scramble for money at the 11th hour.  Why does AISD and the school chancellor allow the schools to fall into disrepair in the first place?  The answer is, so they have money for the various pet social programs which the school district funds.

You see, they know we’re not paying attention when the annual budgets are created and funded, so they don’t have to defend their irresponsible programs to us.  They also know that when the time comes to fund infrastructure, they can defend that to the public, even if the need was manufactured through deliberate neglect – infrastructure spending its not controversial.  Its like a bait-and-switch or a shell game.

Vote No on the May 11th AISD school bond proposal.

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Sibyl West: I would be interested to see what happens, since every time I vote NO the bond seems to pass anyway — and if it doesn’t the bureaucracy thinks of ways to ignore the people’s wishes. Here is just one example of that kind of chicanery. Add to that the common practice of bureaucrats using the allotted money for some purpose other than the one for which it was procured… well, let’s just say I need a nose clip when looking at local government.

Sibyl West: Don’t miss this post by Jamie Glazov over at FrontPageMag today. It explains a LOT.

Muslim Mommy Dearest

by Sibyl West | April 26, 2013 | Report

Thursday evening April 25, 2013 Peggy Venable of Americans for Prosperity Texas hosted a conference call regarding the controversial CSCOPE curriculum in Texas.

The indefatigable MissLizaFace sends this in.

In case y’all missed last night’s CSCOPE Teletownhall with Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, I’ve just uploaded the audio online for y’all to listen to, post or share.

> AUDIO <

He had some interesting things to say – the most interesting to me being the fact that he’s now working with the LBB to “follow the money” in regard to CSCOPE and the Regional Education Service Centers.  I’m glad someone is looking into the finances of all of it. With the Services Centers betraying the public trust, we NEED as much oversight and transparency we can get and this is the session to do it.

As I listened to the description of the program I remembered one of my oft repeated truisms, “The inherent virtue of a bureaucracy is that no one is responsible for anything.” When we try to determine who is responsible for writing the CSCOPE curriculum we are faced with a many headed yet faceless hydra of “Regional Service Centers.” Dewhurst says he does not know who wrote it. And yet, if I heard correctly, Texas ISDs are spending $16M on this PER YEAR. It seems like an end run around all the work the State Board of Education in Texas has done to preserve proper curriculum. And CSCOPE is only the beginning, it seems, of federal interference in state public education.

Our previous reporting on this subject is here.

UPDATE***

CSCOPE Day at the Texas Capitol!

WE NEED YOUR TESTIMONY!

CSCOPE has finally made it to the Texas House Public Education Committee!  Representative Toth will layout HB 760 before the Public Education Committee, which will be hearing testimony from citizens like you!  We need you to come out and support the review of CSCOPE and the review of Regional Service Centers.  Your voice will help us stop CSCOPE!

• Date: Tuesday, April 30th
• Place: Texas Capitol E2.036
• Time: Try to be there no later than 2pm!

TAKE ACTION: 

• If you haven’t already, be sure to take action by sending your legislator our Oppose CSCOPE action item!
•  Oppose CSCOPE: Support HB 760 & SB 1406

Sibyl West:  I always knew the left would retaliate with “lawfare” blowback. I even talked with Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott about it here. United we stand.

via Sara Marie Brenner | April 24, 2013 | WatchdogWire.com

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As we explained last week, Greentech Automotive, the electric car company founded by Virginia’s gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, has sued our reporting partners at Watchdog.org following an investigation into their use of a controversial government “cash-for-visas” immigration program.What makes this story important is the close ties this company has with “former” chairman and Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Terry McAuliffe and the fact that Hillary Clinton’s brother is also involved with this company.

There may be other companies across the country (not just in Virginia) that have used this EB-5 program in a dishonest or fraudulent manner. After all, whenever government offers handouts to businesses, there is potential for abuse and foul play.

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This blog is being renovated at the moment and this is not the final version. More soon. ~ Sibyl West

Sibyl West: Early this afternoon a picture I had of the governor which was hanging on my wall somehow fell down and shattered on the floor. As I picked up the broken glass I wondered if it was some kind of omen that something might have changed in regard to him. I didn’t have to wait long for the answer. This evening I received this piece from a trusted source who is the Executive Director of  Grassroots America – We the People PAC and the Chair, TX Legislature’s TEA Party Caucus Advisory Committee, JoAnn Fleming. See what you think.

Betrayed!

by JoAnn Fleming | April 17, 2013 | GAWTP.com

Remember, what goes up …

Today, Governor Rick Perry made a sharp left turn. According to sources inside the GOP Caucus meeting, Perry has decided to abandon his own promises to the people of Texas. One year ago – on Tax Day 2012, no less – Gov. Perry unveiled a “State Budget Compact” and promised us he would champion and push for these five principles:

1. Practice Truth in Budgeting

2. Support a Constitutional limit of spending to the growth of population & inflation

3. Oppose any new taxes or tax increases; make the small business tax exemption permanent

4. Preserve a strong Rainy Day Fund

5. Cut unnecessary and duplicative government programs and agencies

One year later, due to a lack of leadership, these promises won’t likely survive the legislative session. Once again, we get a lot of talk, but little real action. Today, Perry signaled to Texas House Republicans that these promises really no longer matter.

If that’s not bad enough, Gov. Perry is asking House Republicans to walk the plank for him in support of busting the spending cap, putting Texas further into debt, and raiding the Rainy Day Fund. In exchange, Perry promised to campaign for those legislators who would follow him in this reckless quest to betray the conservative base and to violate foundational conservative principles.

Our answer? Anyone thinking about following this unprincipled approach should remember the “Cruz Missile” that blew up all conventional political wisdom last year and sent an earthquake through the middle of Austin.

The conservative grassroots of Texas that united to send Ted Cruz to the United States Senate is more committed than ever to protect this state from the establishment ruling class in both parties. We will consider any votes to bust the spending limit, to drive Texas further into debt, and to drain the Rainy Day Fund to be a declaration of war on our children and grandchildren. Texas is NOT Washington, DC, and we don’t take kindly to betrayal.

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Grassroots Texans & TEA Parties of Texas speak out on Tax Day Monday against a raid on the Rainy Day Fund & More State Debt

Sibyl West:  Here is the information I received in advance:

What: Grassroots TEA Parties of Texas speak out on new taxes, fees, more state debt, and the planned raid on the Rainy Day Fund.  Those assembled will reflect many of grassroots groups that united to elect US Senator Ted Cruz, and they will be united again for the primaries of 2014.

Date: Tax Day, Monday, April 15, 2013

Time: News conference begins at 10:00 AM & ends at 11:00 AM

Location: State Capitol, Lt. Governor/Senate Press Room # 2E.9

“Soaring debt is just as wrong for our state as it is for the federal government.” - JoAnn Fleming

Here is coverage of the event.

Austin Press Conference Today

by Becky Phillips | Monday, 15 April 2013 12:46 | GAWTP.com

Sibyl West:  File this under Inconvenient Truths. From a few months back and yet the report is very clear. And if these facts were known, how did we get to Diane Franken-feinstein’s “Assault Weapons” ban rhetoric? Answer: Because the Democrat-Media Complex let a few important facts slip through the cracks to support their pre-packaged anti-gun campaign. Hat tip Janet Airlines on Facebook.

Janet Airlines

Follow · January 22 

So they finally had to come out and admit it, now that the Coroner has released some info along with police.

An AR-15, or the so-called “Assault Weapon”, was not used in the school shooting. The shooter even tried weeks earlier to buy a rifle but was turned down in the background check. So he had to kill his Mother to steal her rifle. There were initial reports, right after the shooting, that police found the AR-15 in his car, NOT IN THE SCHOOL. The rifle was not used. The shooter went into the school with 4 handguns, NOT an Assault Rifle as the media has charged. I remember in the initial hours of this shooting, the Police said they found the rifle in the car. But the Administration-controlled MSM had a pre-planned attack already waiting, to ban so-called assault weapons and jumped on that line of reporting, knowing it was a lie, which included people like Piers Morgan who said the shooter used an AR-15 that shoots hundreds of rounds per minute, as if it were a machine gun. Could it be that the Democrat Liberals and THEIR MEDIA were pushing for the new law, hoping they could do it, before the Coroner released the info? Absolutely.

VIDEO: < HERE >

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Sibyl West:  I’d ask where the GOP was while the controversy over preserving this as a historical monument was going on, but I know the answer — they were, as Dr. Marty Fox always says, lying in a fetal position somewhere. Disgusting. And they quote Reagan all the time to get our votes, but they didn’t lift a finger or even speak into a microphone in protest. Just see what the Republican Party really thinks of Ronald Reagan. The Bushies who run it just want to forget he ever existed. Watch.

jim hoft·

Published on Apr 4, 2013

(Exclusive photos) Mourning in America: Univ. of Chicago completes demolition of Reagan home

Click on the first pic and see the details of that formerly well maintained building as it stood all these years. Hats off to Marathon Pundit who drew attention to the issue while there was still time for something to be done.

Sibyl West:  I would call it our April Fools’ Day offering except this is real, unfortunately.

Q: What is the difference between a politician and a deadbeat boyfriend?

a) One spends your money recklessly and the other…er, wait…there is no difference!

b) The deadbeat boyfriend doesn’t screw the entire family.

Washington D.C.

Ramparts360 Where is the congressional action/ concern about repealing Obamacare? Tolerating the intolerable is the definition of cowardice. 3/28/13 7:25 AM

Texas

Hat tip Liz Theiss. I had to check this with a trusted source inside the capitol. Here is what she said.

“She is absolutely correct.  Patterson led the charge at the sham Republican convention that rammed this pre-amnesty “Texas solution” through.  I heard him and saw him myself speak for bringing in unskilled workers AND those here do not have to return to country of origin before applying for a ‘temporary’ work visa.  Temporary is not defined.  Patterson is responsible for putting Texas at risk.  Right after this passed, along with Obama’s amnesty, illegals poured over the border – per our friends with Texas Border Volunteers.  Patterson wraps himself in motherhood, apple pie, flag, being a Marine and the author of concealed carry, but he sold us out.

People need to know this.”

Now you do.

UPDATE*** DRUDGE REPORT headline 3/1/13:

Exclusive: Illegal Border Crossings Double, Border Becomes Less Secure as Beltway Gets Close to Deal on Immigration Reform