Even Messiahs Must Pay Homage
September 2nd, 2009 by 
Kevin
An important milestone for E-Verify is on the horizon, as it may soon be required for all federal contractors. Before Bush left office he instated regulations for federal contractors requiring them to use E-Verify when hiring employees. The US Chamber of Commerce immediately appealed the regulation in court and it\’s been tied up in court ever since. Obama has repeatedly taken the easy way out and delayed the implementation of the regulation with the excuse that it was out of his hands, it\’s up to the courts.
Now the courts have ruled that the US Chamber of Commerce is smoking some serious dope and have throw out their case. The way is open and clear for the E-Verify regulation to be implemented. And coincidentally the last time Obama delayed it he delayed it until September 8th. Within the next week Obama has to decide if he\’s going to implement the regulation or else find another excuse to avoid it. Compared to the health care debate, this is relatively small potatoes but it could signal quite a bit about how vulnerable Obama is feeling.
If there is one thing that Obama does better than Bush did, it\’s piloting his public approval ratings straight into the ground Hindenburg style. Until recently it was simply the shine coming off that rose. Now the game is a little different, in much the same way it was for Bush. Bush, while rabidly unpopular with the left and soon the center, retained the loyalty of the right until around late 2005/early 2006. Then you started seeing his approval drop even further as even Republicans expressed disapproval.
Now his approval rate has dropped that further drops indicate that even Democrats are abandoning him, and the latest Zogby poll indicates that\’s exactly what\’s happening. Democrats are frustrated with the lack of progress and the inept manner in which this administration has behaved so far. This is obviously a path which can\’t be sustained if Obama intends to accomplish anything in his term, much less win re-election. As much as he likes to pretend to be above it, he realizes this better than anyone.
So what are his options? After all the right always disliked him. The center is realizing they were had on Election Day and elected an ultra-liberal who taxes and spends impulsively. The left oddly enough is mad because Obama hasn\’t governed left enough. Essentially the amazing spectacle that his campaign was is coming back to haunt him. Everyone was promised the moon and they got a few crumbs of extremely moldy cheese.
So what\’s this got to do with E-Verify?? Well Obama is going to toss the left a few token measures and hope that satisfies them for now. He can\’t move to the left any more on any of the high visibility stuff. The public is just too wound up over this health care issue. E-Verify is a relatively low profile (to non-politicos) that could give him some credibility with the left. It also gives him the chance to get a waiver on bringing up the immigration issue again, which nobody left of McCain wants to see brought up again.
While it would be great to see E-Verify required for federal contractors, this is destined to be the sacrificial lamb on the alter of Obama. Even Messiahs, it seems, must pay homage.
[Crossposted at True North]
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September 2nd, 2009 at 9:20 am
Glad to see you on top of this, but as you have described it, I would have read the tea leaves differently. Come Sept. 8th, Obama can either permit the law to take effect, which is the quiet path, or he can make a bigger splash, go against his previous “waiting for the courts” reasoning and come out directly for countermanding yet another of Bush’s popular policies. The right can’t very well appreciate him less, but the left is less likely to take notice of something he does not do than the center is to notice something that he does do. Heck, the left only notices what the MSM tells them to notice, anyway. Problem solved.
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Guess we all knew the special interest groups, lead by the US Chamber of Commerce and a large majority of pro-illegal worker organization, would try to upend the US Federal court order from apply E-Verify in September? If I had my way I as a citizen would–BOYCOTT– any company, store, factory, farm or manufacturing plant that didn’t display an E-Verify notice in their working place. They certainly don’t care one-iota for the American workers jobless or not? Both illegal immigration and health care are tied into the same knot and will have a hard time passing. Immigration reform will be the battle of the century and all those politicians who sign up for it, are likely be signing up also for unemployment benefits.
This piece of potential immigration reform legislation, is not being fully advanced to the public and veiled until after enactment? Legislators have dug there immigration reform grave and must now suffer the consequences. Accept they are looking for an easy avenue, to get out of the coffin they hammered in with their own nails. As with most civilized countries we are predisposed to treatment for any illegal alien in emergency hospitals. Except that this hospitals have become an open-house for any minor ailment to very expensive problems like dialysis?. In addition any public option, must have some stipulation in the bill that illegal immigrants from gaining access. The problem is there is absolutely nothing in this health care bill containing any text to–CLOSE LOOPHOLES–that would disallow millions of illegal immigrants from participating?
Either way illegal Immigrants will get full access to THE PEOPLES health care, if the Democrats pass a path to citizenship or better known as BLANKET AMNESTY. The American people no longer believe in the propaganda that spills from the national press, about the illegal immigrant travesty, public health care from the mob in Washington? Perhaps we should look towards the single payer system that has succeeded in Europe? Instead of listening to the choking rhetoric from the special interest organizations that have erupted on radio and television.
They can yell from the hills that there is only 13 million foreign nationals and families occupying our soil, but that number has been programmed into us for about 10 years. Most bloggers estimate at least twenty million plus, with more appearing everyday and more on the way if a path to citizenship is forced through the Congress? How counterproductive can this be in passing health care treatment, when the teeming numbers already here pay nothing in the emergency room? Even the employers who hire them pay nothing, then slink away and leave the debt for taxpayers to pick up or the hospital to absorb? Even if it could be calculated the amount of money in government expenditures over decades, given to support these invaders, it would pay for the wars our politician subject us too? When are these pandering lawmakers going to work for all Americans and protect their jobs. Which they didn’t establish in the original stimulus bills, but even then left a gaping loophole for illegal foreign workers.
We must assure that all American workers are gainfully employed, not individuals who have no right to be in our nation? It makes me sick to see veterans of Korea, Viet-Nam, the Gulf war walking the streets homeless, while illegal immigrants get gratification from employers and lawmakers. WE NO LONGER CAN SUPPORT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. OUR COUNTRY IS NEAR BANKRUPTCY. DEMAND E-VERIFY TO CHECK THE IMMIGRATION STATUS FOR EVERY US WORKER, BY CONTACTING YOUR LAWMAKER AT 202-224-3121. VOTERS SHOULD COMMAND NO MORE WEAKENING OF ANY LAWS INCLUDING 1986 (IRCA) IMMIGRATION CONTROL & REFORM ACT. JOIN NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIAL WATCH AND BE STUNNED HOW MILLIONS OF VOICES HAVE MADE AN INCREDULOUS DIFFERENCE.