The 'race card' is all that the Democrats have in 2014

(My new American Thinker post)


We saw a preview of the Democrats' strategy when Attorney Genera Holder declared war on Texas over the Voting Rights Act. We remind you that the Supreme Court said that 2013 is not 1965.  

Why the Voting Rights Act?  What else are they going to talk to blacks and Hispanos about? Unemployment?  Public schools?  Black on black crime?  Out of wedlock births?  Youth unemployment? High school dropout rates? Crime in minority districts?  

All of the aforementioned problems require governing and serious people willing to say things that many people don't want to hear. The strategy for 2014 is to energize blacks and hispanos to show up by reminding them that Obama loves them and the GOP doesn't.  

Beth Reinhard has a good post on the importance of turnout without President Obama on the ballot:  

"Without President Obama's name on the ballot, Democrats and civil rights leaders increasingly view voting rights as a rallying cry that could boost minority participation in key midterm Senate races in 2014.  Facing a challenging election landscape in which African-American and Hispanic turnout typically dips, Democrats are seizing on Republican attempts to pass voter identification laws and the Supreme Court's ruling that Congress rewrite the landmark law protecting minority voting rights. Attorney General Eric Holder is suing the state of Texas to continue monitoring its electoral laws and districts. Civil rights leaders, who met with Holder and President Obama at the White House on Monday, are launching a massive voter registration drive next month to commemorate the 50^th anniversary of the historic March on Washington."

The strategy is risky:

First, let's remember that  Americans support Voting ID laws;

Second, the strategy could energize the other side as we saw in 2010 and 1994; and,

Third, the Obama team assumes that blacks and Hispanos are really stupid and not think for themselves, i.e. blind love!

The tragedy is that going to war with Texas over "voting rights" will do little to help the minorities that the Obama administration claims to represent.

Jobs and GDP growth are the two ingredients that will help Hispanics and blacks.

Of course, the Obama administration does not want to talk about jobs or GDP growth. They certainly don't want blacks and hispanos to hear that they have a better chance of finding a job in Republican Texas than Democrat California!

They just want Hispanos and blacks hear that the GOP hates them.

How cynical is the Obama team?  Very cynical or "muy cinico" as they say in Spanish!

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The terrorists 'partying like it's 1999'

(My new American Thinker post)

There is a 1999 feeling to the news today:  

"The terror threat prompting the U.S. government to close nearly two dozen embassies and consulates Sunday is the most specific, credible threat information in years, CBS News senior correspondent John Miller reports. Intelligence officers have reporting from a reliable source that a major plot is under way and that the team to carry it out has been selected and is in place, Miller reports. The threat information has been described as the most specific and credible since the foiled plot to blow up British planes en route to the United States in 2006, Miller reports. The specificity ends there."

First of all, I am glad that we are taking the threat seriously and responding to it. 

At the same time, the terrorists won a big one in Benghazi.  Senator Graham is right that they've been on steroids since Benghazi. They killed Ambassador Stevens and 3 others.  

They saw President Obama get behind a "video" narrative to keep the issue from the front pages.  

We even locked up a US citizen for making the video. 

They've also heard President Obama say over and over again that we've dismantled Al Qaeda.
 
What lesson did the terrorists learn?  It's 1999 all over again!  We are back to treating the war on terror like a police matter rather than a direct threat to our country.
 
I hate to say it but Al Qaeda is partying "like it's 1999."  It certainly feels that way when they force us to close embassies all over a region.  

Click here for Sunday's show with Bill Katz of Urgent Agenda:

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Still very skeptical about the new moderate in Iran

Forgive me if I'm a big skeptical about that new "moderate" in Iran.  

He is getting a lot of coverage because of comments that he's made about Israel and the US.

Let's hope that this is the beginning of something new.  However, I guess that I will have to wait and see.    Iran is still Iran and that's a scary thought in the Middle East.

We discussed this issue and others with Bill Katz of Urgent Agenda:

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