Crucial week for Obama, nation as Supreme Court renders decisions

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
6/25/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Health care plan, Arizona immigration law all up in the air

Many feel this will be President Obama's most important week in his second bid for another term come the elections in November. Many important decisions will be made by the Supreme Court and Congress this coming week, and the validity of many of the president's policies will be put to the test.

No matter how the Court rules on the Arizona law, which, both Obama and Romney will be forced to react to it - and how they do so will be closely watched by the Latino vote.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of Obama's landmark health-care law. In addition, the high court will render a decision on Arizona's tough anti-illegal immigrant legislation.

Congress is also to take action on the issues of federal student loans and highway projects, which are set to expire within the next week.

In addition, the House will vote on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress due to his refusal to turn over some documents related to the "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation.

All of these issues by themselves would be a decisive factor in the re-election of a president. The fact that all of these questions are set to be answered in a single week may very well be the where and when Obama's second term bid was made or broken.

"We are in a short period right now where the candidates and the terms of the presidential debate will be defined, with several critical issues coming to a head and voters' perceptions of the economy, and who will best deal with it, clarifying," Steve Rosenthal, a longtime Democratic strategist says.

Paramount is the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act, with a decision set to be handed down either Monday or Thursday.

When the president signed the legislation into law, Obama touted it as a historic moment. Insisting he had done something that seven presidents had tried and failed to do, telling ABC's Charlie Gibson in December of 2009 that "this will be the single most important piece of domestic legislation passed since Social Security."

If the Court rules against the law, it would be seen as a repudiation of a major part of Obama's first term in office.

"The health-care decision alone makes this the most important week of the campaign," Dan Schnur, the director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California says. "No one really knows how the court decision will motivate or discourage the two sides of the debate, but it's hard to see any other real-world event between now and the election that carries such a large emotional impact for so many voters."

Immigration has emerged as an extremely timely issue, with Obama making a direct appeal to the growing Hispanic vote by announcing that his administration would cease to deport young illegal immigrants. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney sought to counter Obama's move by announcing a series of policy proposals during a speech in Florida last week to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO).

However -- no matter how the Court rules on the Arizona law, which, among other things, both Obama and Romney will be forced to react to it - and how they do so will be closely watched by the Latino vote.

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Keywords: Presdient Obama, Supreme Court, immigration, Congress, Fast and Furious

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Dave Francis
10 months ago
FORE IT’S TOO LATE

Good Lord! What did we do when we rented President Obama for four years? I even violated my own law when instead of electing the guy for the issues involved, I voted for the personality over Arizona Senator John McCain. Now we have a pharaoh in power, which has torn up the most precious of document called the Constitution, in his pursuit of absolute power. In his term he has hired a bunch of Marxist and ultra left Socialists that have done almost irreparable damage to our economy. His henchman like the despicable U.S. Attorney General has been on a ‘Witch Hunt’ escalating his intimidation on initially Arizona, with his warlord rumbling against Alabama and Georgia. Because these states dared to introduce legislation, to remove illegal aliens that are not only stealing American welfare by court mandate, but by causing mayhem by drunken drivers on our highways, but attacking children and women. This miserable human being called Eric Holder who reigns over us with a big stick, with his legions of overpaid public servants called attorneys.

This week President Obama issued an executive order to shield Holder, from the need to release thousands of documents in the ‘Fast and furious’ gun running scheme. Every prudent American has their suspicions of who is implicated in the rat hole called the Department of Justice. It seems like the murdered U.S. Border Patrolman Brian Terry is to wait in vain for the absolute truth. The question has always been where does the cover up lead? Perhaps to the steps of the White house itself? Eric Holder through all his testimony has never offered sincere apologizes to the elderly parents of Brian Terry who suffered this horrible loss. Watching the U.S. agents on the border, their job is aimlessly, hopelessly trying to stop the illegal alien invaders, which is shown to be an endless task. Why even bother when the U.S. government has placed regulatory obstacles in their way. Unlike the alphabet TV channels that always display the huge fences that seen to stretch for miles. In a true accounting, the fence is nothing of the sort, when there great expanses of nothing but old, tired barb wire, that a Texas long horn cattle could navigate. Both political parties must take the blame for this conspiracy that has gone on for decades.

Then we have Obama forcing the American people to forfeit their money to pay for a Socialist style health care. Money extorted from taxpayers, for probably a large proportion of people who live like leeches of the rest of us. Not just illegal aliens, but a mixture of the population who sleep late, eat their fast food, watch TV and play video games on a computer. With this potentate in power unemployment is through the roof. Food stamps are at a full time high and the lines of illegal aliens, who have smuggled their babies over here before they were born, have been instructed by verbal guides that once here their child can claim citizenship. This in itself has become a hundred billion dollar industry of child health care, education and a long list of financial payments, that even citizens are declined to collect. Illegal Immigration has become blight and Americans under President Obama will pay a dear price.

It will be them against US in the 2012 election and both Obama and Romney are already trying to pacify the majority of ethnic voters across the U.S. The only possible the American voter can gain the momentum to remove Obama and his crowd from office; not saying that even Mitt Romney is any better and should drive the old incumbents out and replace them with TEA PARTY leaders. Only then will we return sanity to this Congress. Only by replacing the Senators and Congressman in both traditional parties will anything ever change and who seem completely oblivious to the survival of the middle class? Under Obama we will sink even deeper into a high spending orgy and with Romney more latitude for Wall Street. Just the TEA PARTY will reroute America on a path of Success, if they can significantly displace the usual, spineless politicians with new ideas, which will elevate this country to a decent future for all. It would be highly complementary to also dump the Governors, Mayors, Police Chiefs and every elected official with TEA PARTY associates and rid ourselves of those bodies who pamper special interest groups, Obama fodder and the whole slew of individuals are working against the greater good of ALL Americans.
REMEMBER THAT IF EITHER OBAMA OR ROMNEY IS PRESIDENT, THAT WITH THE GROWING NUMBER OF TEA PARTY POLITICIANS IN HOUSE AND SENATE AND AT STATE LEVEL ASSEMBLIES AS WELL, NEITHER THE REPUBLICANS OR DEMOCRATS WILL HAVE A MAJORITY TO PASS TAX AND SPEND LAWS, SPECIAL POLICIES FOR THEIR FRIENDS AS WITH “Solyndra” SOLAR PANELS FIASCO.

Taken from a blog by Debbie Schlussel, a Conservative political commentator, radio talk show host, columnist, and attorney who wrote:

Here's more hard evidence that Barack Obama's newly announced amnesty for "kids" under age 30 is creating long-term damage to America. And it's a policy, by the way, which Mitt Romney wouldn't say he'd reverse . . . because he won't. We've long known that anchor babies --- not just their illegal alien parents --- are a huge drain on American society and our dying economy. They cost the State of California --- just that state --- millions of dollars. But now even a liberal children's foundation is sounding the clarion call through a study that says America's future will be undermined by the children of immigrants, that they will destroy an economy which is already pretty sick and wounded.

The education, health and socioeconomic lot of the children of immigrants, the fastest-growing population group in the U.S., has raised concerns about how those children will perform when they enter the workforce.

Many of the parents are Hispanic and speak little or no English. And though the story of the U.S. is one of immigrants whose children assimilate, some researchers worry about the prospects for this generation. Their performance, they say, could undermine the U.S. economy as the children grow up, affecting everything from medical services for baby boomers to home prices.

Two very important laws must be imposed at once, so no more foreign invaders are encouraged to break the immigration ‘Rule of Law’. ‘THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT’ must be passed and advanced, so illegal aliens can no longer steal jobs from the millions of Americans unemployed. The ‘BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ACT (H.R.140) must be compulsory so babies smuggled into America, so parents cannot take benefit from welfare, once the child become an immediate citizen. Half a million pregnant women enter the United States looking for handouts annually, for their children. Let your Senator or Congressman/Women know how you will vote, by giving your name to the politician’s aides and that you want them to sponsor E-Verify and the Birthright Citizenship bills. Citizen voters should phone Congress at the central Switchboard at 202-224-3121.

If you want to read the specifics concerning the lawlessness traitorous actions within Washington, then bookmark the ‘AMERICAN PATROL’ website. Investigate other headlines today as, Congress has a right to probe 'Fast and Furious', Illegal alien charged with statutory rape , EU should 'undermine national homogeneity' says UN migration chief, Father of Brian Terry: Tell Obama and Holder to 'get their heads out of their butt', After drunken invader kills son, mother billed for cleanup, Report: Medicare billions going to Castro, Cuba... , The imperial presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, Obama's desperate amnesty gamble, Video proves Obama knew about 'Fast and Furious' in 2009, etc., AMERICAN PATROL is a up to date disclosure site of the nationwide E-media and newspapers, blogs and commentary that the Liberal press prefers to keep from the public. Daily, the truth is revealed about illegal immigration and the corruption in Washington and state Capitols.

Interesting enough my message cannot get into the mainstream Liberal press.

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