When I was a kid, there was a phrase that when someone put the finishing touch on something, people would say, "Well that's the icing on the cake!"
We don't say that much now, but it would be dead right for what Barack Obama is doing to this country.
Right now, Obama and his administration are obsessed with immigration. His goal is not to reform our laws to make them work and put logical restrictions on the number and type of immigrants we allow across our borders, either as visitors, residents or, ultimately, new citizens.
His goals are to increase the numbers of people from Third-World countries we admit, to legalize those here illegally and forgive them their crimes and to increase the number of so-called refugees from Third-World countries, most of whom have no interest in becoming Americans but who want all the goodies we provide to the less fortunate.
When Barack Obama and his political henchmen get done with his plan to transform this country, we'll end up being a country of one state.
He's taking us apart bit by bit. When he's done, we'll no longer be the United States – 50 states with rights and obligations, with states' rights preeminent – but one country under the thumb and rule of the federal government with no individual states rights.
We'll not be the United States because at every level, he and his minions in legislatures, the courts and the bureaucracies are overriding state laws and enforcing federal restrictions instead.
Obama is helped by politicians who have sold out their oaths of office, betrayed the residents of their states and bought into Obama's the wildly progressive goals.
I'm probably being too easy on him by calling it "progressive." In reality, it's more likely socialist, communist, but no matter what you call it, totally despotic.
The changes Obama has already made, and those that are imminent, are dividing this country in more ways than the average person can imagine and probably in ways that even the above-average, thinking person did not anticipate.
Yes, he said he would transform the country, but few realized his intended scope.
Consider that every time Arizona attempted to enforce immigration laws and prevent illegals from crossing the border or stop them from committing crimes, the feds moved in and sued them or had the courts rip apart their efforts.
Just this week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a finding by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which stuck down the 2006 Arizona law that denied bail to illegals charged with felonies.
We're talking about people here illegally and charged with felonies including crimes such as shoplifting, aggravated identity theft, sexual assault and even murder.
The ruling means they now can be released instead of being turned over to immigration authorities for deportation.
Why should people like that be granted bail and released on our streets?
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, who argued against the finding in court, issued a statement denouncing "the serial disregard of the system of federalism that the 9th Circuit habitually ignores," and he called it a "callous rejection of legitimate state interests and the Supreme Court's disappointing indifference."
After the swarm of more than 68,000 unaccompanied minors across our border, we had politicians like Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., saying the kids should be treated like a "refugee Baby Jesus."
On Oct. 30, in an op-ed on Univision.com, Pelosi wrote to the illegals that Obama promises them bold action – meaning amnesty, and soon.
Drudge had a front-page picture last week showing a young female illegal taunting immigration officials and flipping them the bird.
These are people who feel entitled and deserving and have no respect for our laws or our country.
The sick part of all this is that they've been encouraged by politicians, church leaders of all faiths and do-gooders who are too stupid to see the damage they're causing.
Ultimately, Barack Obama, the Democrats and, quite frankly, too many weak-kneed Republicans have created this mess.
Last Friday, Vice President Joe Biden announced that refugee status will be granted to people under 21 from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador if their parents are in this country.
It's irrational that they should get a freebie, but remember those three countries sent those thousands of kids here. This is just part of Obama's overall plan to tell everyone, "Come on in! What's ours is yours!"
It's not an accident. Remember, Obama went to Mexico and met with officials from those three countries to discuss the illegal kids.
Would it be too much so speculate the plans for this amnesty were laid out then? Ya think?
And as Biden announced refugee protections on Friday, Obama, in Australia, announced he would sign the executive order to prevent deportation of some 5 million illegals. It's also expected Obama will grant work permits to millions of illegals, and the door will be opened to the families of the illegal children!
Lawyers are being lined up to help illegals as well as websites and information hotlines.
Obama rules. He knows what he wants, and he'll get it, regardless. He either forces it through Congress and the courts – see Obamacare – or he'll use his pen and make law by executive order, regardless of whether it's legal or constitutional.
He's putting the icing on the cake of his new America. The only problem is that he's made the cake under the icing rotten, and it will poison all of us unless we get ourselves back on a road to freedom.
It is that critical: We either stop this destruction of our beautiful country, or all is lost.
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