17 July 2014

Many Obama critics have also not been to the border recently & Arizona politician mistakes a bus full of YMCA kids for undocumented immigrants 17&16JUL14

THESE politicians are so hypocritical it is sickening. Of course, if Pres Obama had any backbone he would call them out on this himself. Really Mr President, stand up to these fools, call them out for their ignorance, racism and hypocrisy. At this point WHAT do you have to loose???? And check out how Arizona repiglican tea-bagger candidate adam kwasman (MAJOR DRAMA QUEEN) made a complete and total ass of himself while giving a hateful anti-immigrant speech in Oracle, AZ and when told a bus full of illegal immigrant children was coming into town, joined the rush to "greet" them with screaming and yelling against their presence. The problem is it was a bus of YMCA child campers. Fortunately kwasman is a seasoned repiglican tea-bagger and he did what they do when caught being stupid and ignorant, he lied. Unfortunately for him the media was able to roll the tweets and tape. Just keep in mind, he has been an Arizona state representative so he will no doubt be elected to the US House. From the +Washington Post .....

Many Obama critics have also not been to the border recently

By Sebastian Payne July 17 at 5:03 PM

President Obama speaks at the Paramount Theatre in Austin on July 10. The president also visited Dallas, but he chose not to go to the Mexico border, despite many in Congress urging him to do so. (Jack Plunkett/AP)

The surge in migrant children trying to cross into the United States at the southern border has led to sustained Republican criticism of President Obama for not visiting the site of the crisis. But many of those critics have themselves not been to the border in the past few months, a survey conducted by The Washington Post reveals.
Since the number of unaccompanied children arriving from Central America surged in May, many members of Congress in both parties have argued the president has mishandled the situation and should witness the crisis first hand.
Two of the most vocal critics, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), have not visited in the last two months. Cruz’s office noted that the senator toured an air force base in San Antonio last month where many of the children are being held after arriving at the border. Among Democrats, House Democratic Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said it “wouldn’t hurt” Obama to visit the border, but he has not been either.
Members of the congressional leadership who have not been to the border include chair of the House Republican Conference, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), and Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wy0.), chair of the Republican Policy Committee Chair, who recently said Obama was “projecting worldwide U.S. weakness” through his mishandling of the border situation.
Obama visited Texas last week and declined to go to the border, stating he was “not interested in photo ops” but “interested in solving the problem.”
Many Republican members of Congress from Texas have explicitly hit out at the president for avoiding the border — including Reps. Kenny Marchant, Joe Barton and Jeb Hensarling — even as they themselves have not visited, at least until now.
The Texas delegation is scheduled to visit to the Rio Grande Valley on Friday on a trip led by Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Tex.), to examine the crisis first hand. Other members who have not been since May are planning trips during the August recess. “There’s no way to fully grasp the scope and depth of the crisis through a simple briefing in Washington,” said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.).
The majority of members on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, who has jurisdiction over the agencies dealing with the border crisis, have not visited the border since the crisis developed in May. The committee’s chairman Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.), who has supportive of the president, has not been to the border since May but visited Guatemala and Mexico in April. Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) urged the president to go to the border last week. Along with Ron Johnson, committee members Sens. Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.), and Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.) have all publicly criticized Obama's decision to visit the border. None of them have gone themselves.
Among members on the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) wants to build a fence across the entire southern border, Reps. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) and Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) have criticized Obama over his handling of the situation. None of them have been to the border. A person close to the committee says that a trip was organized for members of House Homeland Security Committee on July 3, with an invitation to all committee members, but some declined due to prior commitments over the holiday weekend. Half of the committee, plus other representatives, visited the border patrol station in McAllen, Tex.

Sebastian Payne is a national reporter with The Washington Post. He is the Post’s 35th Laurence Stern fellow

Arizona politician mistakes a bus full of YMCA kids for undocumented immigrants

By Abby Phillip July 16

That's a bus full of YMCA campers. (Politwoops/Sunlight Foundation/Twitter)

We may have reached peak political theater near the U.S.-Mexico border. According to AZcentral.com, Arizona state Rep. and 1st district congressional candidate Adam Kwasman (R) rushed to the scene in Oracle, Ariz., on Tuesday to participate in protests against housing some of the thousands of undocumented immigrant children who have come across the border in recent weeks in a facility nearby. Kwasman was in the middle of a fiery speech about "Lady Justice" when he spotted a yellow school bus and dashed off with the protesters to greet it. He snapped a picture which he tweeted with he message "Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law." "I was able to actually see some of the children in the buses and the fear on their faces. This is not compassion," Kwasman told 12 News reporter Brahm Resnik. There was just one problem: Those weren't undocumented kids. They were YMCA campers from the Marana Arizona school district. Kwasman later deleted his tweet, which was archived by the Sunlight Foundation's Politwoops Web site. When a reporter confronted him with, well, the facts, he insisted that whether the kids were immigrants or just children on their way to a field trip, he saw sadness in their eyes. "They were sad too," Kwasman noted. According to AZ Central, reporters on the scene noted the busload of children taking photos of the media circus as they drove by. The entire exchange is worth watching: