Hypocrisy and Hope

President Obama has taken hypocrisy to depths never before explored from the Oval Office. The latest: accusing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of funding campaigns with foreign money. For real? Does he really want to look under that rock?

First of all, the C of C operates on a $200M budget. They are spending $75M on 2010 mid-term elections, a small fraction of which MAY be, but probably isn't foreign money. We don't know. What we DO know is that AFL-CIO, Sierra Club, and SEIU take in tons more foreign money than the C of C, and they donate tons of money to mid-term elections. And Obama accepted multiple donations for his presidential campaign from Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck (really - on-line donations from Disney characters paid by "untraceable" pre-paid credit cards)! I guess the difference is Disney characters are American -- but BP is not and Obama accepted at least a million from them.

David Axelrod says they could clear the whole thing up by disclosing which accounts the money comes from. True. That way, the CEOs of all the AMERICAN companies that donated would have the pleasure of having Obama minions and union thugs on their front lawns (it has happened before). Also, to be fair, AFL-CIO, NEA, SEIU, and MoveOn would also need to disclose. It is true disclosure would create transparency, but when has this administration ever been interested in transparency other than during his presidential campaign when he repeatedly lied about how transparent his administration would be. In fact Obama himself could disclose his birth certificate and college records. I'm thinking if he did we would all find out he's not as smart as the machine has made him out to be. In fact, his economic policies pretty much suggest that anyway. And how much Chinese money is being used to pay his salary and salaries of his czars?

No, I don't think Mr. Obama really wants to turn over those stones.

More Immigration Madness

Suppose you are hiring. Suppose someone applies with a Social Security number and everything. Suppose you suspect she might be illegal. What do you do? You cannot check her out as you are not permitted to inquire on ones immigration status. You cannot NOT hire her based on your suspicion as that would be discrimination.

At this point I suppose you flip a coin. Heads you hire her, uncertain of her status, and hope like hell your suspicions are unfounded. Tails you don't hire her and hope like hell the ACLU isn't knocking at your door the next day slapping you with a discrimination suit.

So the coin comes up heads. You hire her. Later you discover that she is indeed illegal and that she had committed Social Security fraud to convince you to hire her.

So you flip the coin again. Heads you continue employing her, knowingly breaking the law yourself, but also knowing that no one will enforce that law. After all, it hasn't been enforced for about 3 administrations now. Tails you show some integrity, disregard the fact the authorities disregard the law, follow the law, and fire her. And again hope like hell the ACLU doesn't show up.

Then suppose all throughout this time liberal progressives have been running your state into the ground morally, culturally, and financially. So you run for governor because no one else who wants to save your state has the money to compete against said liberal progressives. Now suddenly you are under fire for how those coin flips turned out.

But go through those coin flips scenarios again with opposite results, and you will STILL be under fire.

So, what exactly would the liberal progressives have you do? And if you can figure it out, give Meg Whitman a call so she knows the next time. I guess she should have just turned the girl in when she became aware of her status so the feds could find her another job with someone who didn't know.