Obama Unites the Extreme Left and the Extreme Right

By Chriss Street

Back in September of last year in an article titled “Revolution on the Left to Overthrow President Obama Begins,” I predicted that there would be a political “coup d’état” against the President by the extremist wing of the Democratic Party. Led by the prestigious Roosevelt Institute, Democrat affinity groups — such as union households, women and young people have been quietly trying to decapitate the President’s re-election campaign so that his plummeting re-election prospects did not drag down other Democrats in the 2012. These rebels believe President Obama political triangulation away from hard core liberal orthodoxy in favor of the crony capitalist interests of GE, Goldman Sachs and others, explains why Democratic Party affiliation fallen to a “22-year low of only 31%.”

The initial chorus of 45 liberal leaders, including former Presidential candidate Ralph Nader; Princeton Professor Cornel West; Chris Townsend of the United Electrical Workers of America, and President Emeritus Brent Blackwelder of Friends of the Earth have been actively undermining the Obama’s re-election campaign by speaking out and rallying financial support for Democrat Congressional candidates from “various fields and areas where the President either has either failed to stake out a progressive” position or where he had “drifted toward the corporatist right.” This growing populist movement refuses to use Obama’s name, and instead emphasizes: “His administration has tilted too much toward Wall Street; we need policies that empower Main Street.” President Obama has been forced to respond by endorsing of gay marriage and suspending deportations of illegal immigrants. These actions have been a source of joy to the left and adulation from the liberal media, but they are rapidly eroding his support among independents voters and are motivating Republicans to overcome their initial suspicions about Mitt Romney’s commitment to the true conservative cause. A recent USA Today/Gallup poll regarding opinions about the American Dream demonstrates how the President’s radical swing back to the left is affecting his re-election bid: “Among partisan groups, Democrats today are the most upbeat about the financial opportunity available to the next generation, but only on a relative basis. Less than half of Democrats (48%) are satisfied with the opportunity for the next generation to live better than their parents, compared with 37% of Republicans and 35% of independents.


Democrats are also significantly more likely than Republicans to feel satisfied with Americans' willingness to work hard to get ahead, 59% vs. 47%. At the same time, Republicans are a bit more likely than Democrats to be satisfied with the opportunity a poor person has to get ahead through hard work, 56% vs. 50%.”
But once an inter-party civil war has begun, new converts seem to pop-up to fan the flames of rebellion. Robert Unger, one of Barack Obama's former professors at Harvard Law School, filmed a YouTube video that is commanding big viewership by demanding: “President Obama Must Be Defeated In The Coming Election” because “He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States.” He must lose the election in order for “the voice of democratic prophecy to speak once again in American life.”

Unger acknowledges if Republicans wins the presidency; "there will be a cost ... in judicial and administrative appointments," but "the risk of military adventurism" would be no worse under a Republican. Under Obama "the Democratic Party proposes no new direction." He will continue to: "Give the bond markets what they want, bail out the reckless so long as they are also rich, use fiscal and monetary stimulus to make up for the absence of any consequential broadening of economic and educational opportunity, sweeten the pill of disempowerment with a touch of tax fairness, even though the effect of any such tax reform is sure to be modest." Unger lists his complaints of Obama as:

•His policy is financial confidence and food stamps.
•He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests
•He has left workers and homeowners to their own devices.
•He has delivered the politics of democracy to the rule of money.
•He has disguised his surrender with an empty appeal to tax justice.
•He has reduced justice to charity.
•He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care.

The humor is that Professor Unger’s progressive complaints are virtually the same list of indictments of the Obama Presidency that will be made this week at your local Tea Party meeting. It appears that Barack Obama has uniquely managed to unite these two book-ends of extreme American political ideology against a common enemy, himself !!!



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By Chriss Street

Barack Obama’s Executive Order to suspend deportations of illegal aliens for two years will act as a magnet to motivate millions of people from around the world to come to the United States and claim they have been quietly living here with relatives for the last 5 years.  The legal term for the President’s directive is “deferred action”, which has the effect of a two-year blanket suspension of INS deportations for most “unlawful” aliens. This will allow “lawful permanent residents” to work, go to school, collect welfare benefits and join the direct pathway to citizenship.  Although the Form I-551 Permanent Resident” green card has not always been colored green, President Obama just made a gift of billions of green dollars to buy the loyalty of tens of millions of future voters and their extended families.  

Aliens who desired the opportunity to come to the U.S. and become lawful permanent residents have been required to qualify under a preference system each year for a finite number of visas set by Congress.  Preference was given to direct family members, then specialty employment skills, and then political refugees.  In 2010 there were a total of 480,000 green cards issued.  Family-based green cards were issued to 226,000 relatives of citizens and permanent residents, 150,000 to specialized workers and another 100,000 to refugees and political asylum seekers.  By law, no nation’s citizens were allowed to receive more than 25,000 green cards. 

The Presidential Order implements most of the Dream Act legislation that pro-immigrant Congressional Representatives have tried and failed to pass for a decade.  President Obama dishonestly claimed his Executive Order was focused on giving permanent residence status to children when he said: 

“These are young people who study in our schools, they play in our neighborhoods, they're friends with our kids, they pledge allegiance to our flag. They are Americans in their heart, in their minds, in every single way but one: on paper. They were brought to this country by their parents -- sometimes even as infants -- and often have no idea that they're undocumented until they apply for a job or a driver's license, or a college scholarship.”

But research by the Center for Immigrant Studies determined that of the 1,998,000 individuals expected to be covered by the Dream Act; 1,139,000 (57%) would have been adults and only 859,000 (43%) would have been minors.   

In the past citizens and permanent residents who applied for direct family member visas for their relatives to come to the U.S. legally were required to provide financial sponsorship by signing Form I-864 Affidavit of Support.  This contractual agreement made the sponsors personally liable to pay back the government if their sponsored relative became a “public charge” and collected public assistance benefits based on need.  Millions of lawful permanent residents undoubtedly reapply for green cards on deferred status to get financial releases for their sponsors. 

There are approximately 18.5 million “lawful permanent residents” in the U.S. and 15 million unlawful permanent residents.  No one knows how many people around the world would like to immigrate to the United States.  But each year an average of 15 million people apply for the United States “green card diversity lottery” to compete for 50,000 visas, with the odds of winning at 300 to 1.  Mexicans are not eligible to participate in the lottery, because more than 25,000 Mexicans enter the U.S. each year.  But if Mexicans, who represent 30.1% of all current U.S. immigrants, had been allowed to apply for the lottery, the number of lottery participating would have risen to at least 21.5 million and the odds of winning would have jumped to 428 to 1. 

Given there will be no way to prove if a person has been quietly living in the U.S. for 5 years or just arrived, I estimate at least 6 million people will eventually apply to become “lawful permanent residents” as a result of the Executive Order.  The flood of new applications will generate billions of dollars of business for key Obama supporters.  For each application, an immigration lawyer will collect $4000 in fees and a local newspaper will pocket $1000 to publish the required “legal notices”. 

Last year, deportations of U.S. illegal immigrants reached an all-time record high of 400,000.  But President Obama described his suspension of deportations in a speech from the White House’s Rose Garden as: “It's the right thing to do, period.”  At a time when there are 20 million unemployed Americans, the President’s Executive Order will act as a magnet to attract millions of aliens to take American jobs, burden our schools and suck up social welfare benefits, period!

If you would like Chriss Street to speak to your organization, contact chriss@chrissstreetandcompany.com
Chriss Street’s latest book: “The Third Way” is now available at www.amazon.com