Traffic alert: Theres a massive clown car pileup in the Beltway. And with the White House court jesters of sequester behind the wheel no one is safe. Fiscal sanity of course is the ultimate victim.
President Obama has been warning America that if Congress allows mandatory spending cuts of a piddly-widdly 2 percent to go into effect this week the sky will fall. The manufactured crisis of sequestration was Obamas idea in the first place.
But that hasnt stopped the Chicken Little in Chief from surrounding himself with every last teacher senior citizen and emergency responder who will be catastrophically victimized by hardhearted Republicans. Curses on those meanie Republicans! How dare they acquiesce to the very plan for cuts -- or rather negligible reductions in the explosive rate of federal spending growth -- that Obama himself hatched?
How low will the kick-the-can Democrats go? Among the ridiculous claims the administration is making: The National Drug Intelligence Center will lose $2 million from its $20 million budget. That scary factoid appears in an ominous Office of Management and Budget report purporting to calculate the Sequester Disaster. So lock the doors and hide the children right?
Wrong. As Reason magazines Mike Riggs points out the NDIC shut down in June 2012 and some of its responsibilities were absorbed by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Ready for more reckless feckless farce? Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano played Henny Penny during a panicked speech at the Brookings Institution Tuesday. She warned that her agencys core critical mission areas would be undermined by the sequester. To cynically underscore the point waves of illegal aliens were released this week from at least three detention centers in Texas Florida and Louisiana according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the release of some illegal immigrants Monday night but would not say how many or from which detention centers.
The real punch line as Ive reported relentlessly is that the catch and release of criminal illegal aliens has been bipartisan standard operating procedure for decades. The persistent deportation and removal abyss allows hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens -- many of them known repeat criminal offenders -- to pass through the immigration court system and then disappear into the ether because we have no determined will to track them down and kick them all out of the country.
While Napolitano shrieks about decimation of the DHS workforce DHS workers tell me that the double-dipping of retired ICE brass -- who get back on the payroll as rehired annuitants -- is rampant.
While this open-borders White House phonily gnashes its teeth over the sequesters effect on national security its top officials are lobbying for a massive nationwide amnesty that would foster a tsunami of increased illegal immigration for generations to come. The shamnesty beneficiaries will be welcomed with open arms discounted college tuition home loans and Obamacare. And as every outraged rank-and-file border agent will tell you DHS top officials have instituted systemic non-enforcement and sabotage of detention deportation and removal functions.
In another emetic performance Obama parachuted into a Virginia naval shipyard this week to decry Pentagon cuts that would gut our military. But I repeat: The reductions in spending are CINO: Cuts In Name Only. If the sequester goes into effect Pentagon spending will increase by $121 billion between 2014 and 2023. Fiscal watchdog GOP Sen. Tom Coburn adds that $70 billion is spent by the Defense Department on nondefense expenditures each year.
Send in the clowns. Wait. Dont bother. Theyre here.
Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010).
Traffic alert: Theres a massive clown car pileup in the Beltway. And with the White House court jesters of sequester behind the wheel no one is safe. Fiscal sanity of course is the ultimate victim.
President Obama has been warning America that if Congress allows mandatory spending cuts of a piddly-widdly 2 percent to go into effect this week the sky will fall. The manufactured crisis of sequestration was Obamas idea in the first place.
But that hasnt stopped the Chicken Little in Chief from surrounding himself with every last teacher senior citizen and emergency responder who will be catastrophically victimized by hardhearted Republicans. Curses on those meanie Republicans! How dare they acquiesce to the very plan for cuts -- or rather negligible reductions in the explosive rate of federal spending growth -- that Obama himself hatched?
How low will the kick-the-can Democrats go? Among the ridiculous claims the administration is making: The National Drug Intelligence Center will lose $2 million from its $20 million budget. That scary factoid appears in an ominous Office of Management and Budget report purporting to calculate the Sequester Disaster. So lock the doors and hide the children right?
Wrong. As Reason magazines Mike Riggs points out the NDIC shut down in June 2012 and some of its responsibilities were absorbed by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Ready for more reckless feckless farce? Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano played Henny Penny during a panicked speech at the Brookings Institution Tuesday. She warned that her agencys core critical mission areas would be undermined by the sequester. To cynically underscore the point waves of illegal aliens were released this week from at least three detention centers in Texas Florida and Louisiana according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the release of some illegal immigrants Monday night but would not say how many or from which detention centers.
The real punch line as Ive reported relentlessly is that the catch and release of criminal illegal aliens has been bipartisan standard operating procedure for decades. The persistent deportation and removal abyss allows hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens -- many of them known repeat criminal offenders -- to pass through the immigration court system and then disappear into the ether because we have no determined will to track them down and kick them all out of the country.
While Napolitano shrieks about decimation of the DHS workforce DHS workers tell me that the double-dipping of retired ICE brass -- who get back on the payroll as rehired annuitants -- is rampant.
While this open-borders White House phonily gnashes its teeth over the sequesters effect on national security its top officials are lobbying for a massive nationwide amnesty that would foster a tsunami of increased illegal immigration for generations to come. The shamnesty beneficiaries will be welcomed with open arms discounted college tuition home loans and Obamacare. And as every outraged rank-and-file border agent will tell you DHS top officials have instituted systemic non-enforcement and sabotage of detention deportation and removal functions.
In another emetic performance Obama parachuted into a Virginia naval shipyard this week to decry Pentagon cuts that would gut our military. But I repeat: The reductions in spending are CINO: Cuts In Name Only. If the sequester goes into effect Pentagon spending will increase by $121 billion between 2014 and 2023. Fiscal watchdog GOP Sen. Tom Coburn adds that $70 billion is spent by the Defense Department on nondefense expenditures each year.
Send in the clowns. Wait. Dont bother. Theyre here.
Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010).
