ICE … Vote of No Confidence to Leadership, More Interested in Amnesty than Enforcing Immigration Law

ICE agents … vote of no confidence to ICE Director John Morton and Assistant Director Phyllis Coven.

Will the liberal MSM report on this little uprising among the ranks of ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement? It would appear that the rank and file agents are fed up with the leadership of ICE and their lack of enforcing immigration law in the United States. The National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council cast a unanimous vote of no confidence in ICE Director John Morton and Assistant Director Phyllis Coven, on behalf of their 7,000 ICE agents.

According to the letter Obama’s senior ICE leadership have been actively pushing a political agenda which would lead to an immigration reform bill centered around large scale amnesty, while at the same time failing to inform congress and the American people of the imminent dangers and severity of the illegal immigration crisis. At present the understaffed ERO has been overrun to the extent that large numbers of criminal aliens have been released back into their unsuspecting communities.

Read the letter in its entirety of the Vote of No Confidence.

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Obama Economy Loses 131,000 Jobs in July 2010 … We Are Heded in the Right Direction As Per Obama

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Jobs in July 2010 fell by 131,000 according the the US Department of Labor.

Total nonfarm payroll employment declined by 131,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was
unchanged at 9.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Federal government employment
fell, as 143,000 temporary workers hired for the decennial census completed their work.
Private-sector payroll employment edged up by 71,000.

In June 2010 following the disappointing jobs numbers, Obama stated “we were headed in the right direction“. What say you Mr. President after these pathetic job numbers? Some thing tells me that Obama was just scratched from a couple more House and Senate campaign stops for Democrats.

Just when you thought it could not get any worse, it did. In addition, the government revised payrolls for May and June to show 97,000 fewer jobs than previously reported.

How anemic has the Obama jobs recover plan been that Obama wants to tout as working and headed in the right direction? For the first seven months of 2010, the U.S. economy added an average of less than 100,000 jobs a month. After shedding how many millions of jobs, Obamanomics can only add back less than 100K per month. UNREAL. What’s his answer … tax the people some more, provide more spending that is unpaid for in a form of welfare for teachers and call it a jobs bill.

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7 Year Old Julie Murphy 50 Cent Lemonade Stand Closed Because $120 Temporary Restaurant License Was Required

FILE THIS ONE UNDER … GOOD GRIEF, YOU MUST BE JOKING!!!

WHAT HAS THIS COUNTRY COME TO WHEN CHILDREN CAN NOT HAVE A ROADSIDE LEMONADE STAND!!!

7 year old Julie Murphy had her lemonade stand shut down  in Oregon City, OR because the powers that be IDIOTS of Multnomah County claimed that she did not have a $120 temporary restaurant license. Are you serious? Let this be a lesson to the youth of America, you are dealing with an out of control, heavy handed insane government that is looking to control your every action from cradle to grave. What’s next, a $200 license fee for selling mud pies? What ever happened to common sense in this country?

It’s hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red.

So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you might just sigh and say, there they go again.

Except this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named Julie Murphy. Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. The government regulation she violated? Failing to get a $120 temporary restaurant license.

Just curious, did Lucy of Peanuts fame have a license to practice psychiatry? Hmm? Better than that, a degree and was she board certified? I guess it’s a good thing that Lucy did not live in Oregon or she would be fined and serving jail time.

What a message this sends to children where it was once a right of massage an a way of life to have children selling lemonade in their cute and adorable sidewalk stands. Come on folks, why would 7 year old  Julie Murphy have to pay for a temporary restaurant license, she is too young to even pay taxes. Or is that next … arresting the 7 year old for not charging sales tax. As Another Black Conservative aptly states, its a sign of a government run amok.

This is a perfect example of where common sense has left the building. Because we have become a society that wants to live a risk free and irresponsible life, we elect government to watch out for us at every turn. The trade off is freedom is eroded and commonsense takes a backseat.

Did any of these inspectors ever stop to think that children’s lemonade stands have been around forever and millions of people have not keeled over and died because of them? If pass generations have successfully survived the hidden threat of “food-borne illness” from lemonade stands, then I think this generation can pull through just fine. We don’t need government to protect us from every tiny possible danger.

Every possible danger? Talk about your typical liberal BS! It is not the governments job to protect us from every possible danger. What’s next, children not allowed to play dodge ball? Oops bad example. Ok, how about climbing trees?

What has become of the country that we grew up in? The age old practice of having children learn the value of a dollar, in this case 50 cents, and the sense of accomplishment, entrepreneurship and pride in running their own little stand? Instead that dream is squelched by an over-reaching government and foolish bureaucrats who say you can only do it if you pay us first.

Exit Question: With all that is going on in this country … does government really need to be picking on children like this to make a buck? What a terrible message to send to children.

Bill Haslam Wins Republican Primary for Tennessee Governors Race … Will Face Democrat Mike McWherter

Haslam wins big in Volunteer state … GOP poised to pick up Tennessee governorship in 2010.

Bill Haslam has been reported the winner of the Tennessee GOP primary for governor. Haslam, the mayor of Knoxville, has a sizable 48% of the vote and cruised to victory over Congressman Zach Wamp and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey.

 Bill Haslam, the mayor of Knoxville and considered a moderate Republican, easily won the Tennessee GOP primary for governor Thursday, the Associated Press projected.

With 76 percent of the state’s precincts in, AP reported Haslam had 48.2 percent of the vote as he defeated Congressman Zach Wamp and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey.

Halsam, who helped fund some of his own campaign, will now face Mike McWherter, a Democratic businessman and son of a former governor. The race is to succeed Gov. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, who is prevented by term limits from running for a third term. Political handicappers think Republicans have a good shot at winning back the governor’s office.

It’s official Haslam has won and will face Democrat Mike McWherter in the governors race in the Volunteer state to replace term limited Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen. Prior to today’s primary in the most recent Rasmussen poll, Haslam lead McWherter 50% to 32%. If all things go as usual in Tennessee, a Haslam victory in November 2010 will represent yet another GOP gubernatorial pick up.

Christina Romer, Chairwoman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, Has Decided to Resign

And so it begins, they are scurrying from the S.S Obama …

President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, has decided to resign according to reports. Sources inside the White House say that she has bee frustrated in her job. Who would not be frustrated when you have to spin a complete failure as success. What a settling sign for Americans and the economy as the Chairwoman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers flees the ship.

Christina Romer, chairwoman of Pres. Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, has decided to resign, according to a source familiar with her plans.

Romer, an economics professor at the University of California (Berkeley) before taking the key admin post, did not respond to repeated calls to her office.

“She has been frustrated,” a source with insight into the WH economics team said. “She doesn’t feel that she has a direct line to the president. She would be giving different advice than Larry Summers [director of the National Economic Council], who does have a direct line to the president.”

Frustration with the slow job growth? Maybe the frustration is from the fact that Christina Romer knows better ane that Obamanomics are a complete disaster. Romer knows that tax hikes mean loss of jobs and that is exactly what Obama intends to do. Christina Romer had no choice to resign, especially when she and her husband David Romer wrote “The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks.”  

In short, tax increases appear to have a very large, sustained and highly significant negative impact on output… the more intuitive way to express this result is that tax cuts have very large and persistent positive output effects.”

Who will be the next off the SS Obama and get away from this disastrous Presidency as fast as possible?