Posted on 11/21/2014 4:53:21 AM PST by Lucky9teen
“If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies, ok? … lack of transparency is a huge political advantage and basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical to getting this thing to pass.”
18 visits over a 5 year period, and Obama doesn’t know who he is?
Obama on March 28, 2011: Univision Town Hall: “Well, I think it is important to remind everybody that, as I said I think previously, and I’m not a king. I am the head of the executive branch of government. I’m required to follow the law. And that’s what we’ve done. But what I’ve also said is, let’s make sure that we’re applying the law in a way that takes into account people’s humanity. That’s the reason that we moved forward on deferred action. Within the confines of the law we said, we have some discretion in terms of how we apply this law. The same is true with respect to the kinds of the length of time that people have to spend outside of the country when their spouses are already here for example.”
Obama on Feb. 14, 2013: Google Hangout “The problem is that you know I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of
the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed, and Congress right now has not changed what I consider to be a broken immigration system. And what that means is that we have certain obligations to enforce the laws that are in place, even if we think that in many cases the results may be tragic. And what we have been able to do is to make sure that we’re focusing our enforcement resources on criminals — as opposed to somebody who’s here, just trying to work and look after their families.”
“What we have tried to do is administratively reduce the burdens and hardships on families being separated. And what we’ve done, obviously, is pass the deferred action which made sure that the dream, uh, uh dreamers, young people who were brought here and think of themselves as Americans, are American except for their papers, that they’re not deported. Having said all that, we’ve got to stretch our administrative flexibility as much as we can. And that’s why making sure we get comprehensive immigration reform done is so important.”
Obama on Sept. 17, 2013: Interview with Telemundo’s Jose Diaz-Balart: “Here’s the problem that I have, Jose, and I have said this consistently. My job in the executive branch is to carry out the laws that are passed. Congress has said, here’s the law when it comes to those who are undocumented, and they allocate a whole bunch of money for enforcement. What I have been able to do is make a legal argument that I think is absolutely right, which is that given the resources we have, we can’t do everything that Congress has asked us to do, what we can do is then carve out the DREAM Act folks.”
“But if we start broadening that, then essentially, I would be ignoring the law in a way that I think would be very difficult to defend legally. So that’s not an option. I do get a little worried that advocates of immigration reform start losing heart and immediately thinking, well, somehow there’s an out here — that if Congress doesn’t act, we will just have the president sign something and that will take care of it, and we won’t have to worry about it. What I have said is that there is a path to get this done and that is through Congress.”
Not to worry. That pic i posted was originally from Janis Ian. She has a keen sense of humor. I know all about Folk. I live in Kerrville, home of the Kerrville Folk Festival and attend many of the concerts. Some great players around the campfires after the concerts.
I've attended several Kerrville Folk Festivals and enjoyed everyone of them (Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, in the old, old days). I have a few KFF CDs, including an old Women of Kerrville which includes Tish Hinojosa (her later duets with Chip Wheeler are wonderful), Lynn Miles (I Always Told You The Truth), and Cheryl Wheeler (youth everywhere love Ms. Wheeler's song "Potato" and her walk in the woods with her dog, John).
Kerrville State Park is a delightful place to camp. During the right season, when you open your tent flap in the morning it's not unusual to find deer grazing all around you, within a few feet of your tent.
Wow
Seventy-five Septembers is Cheryl Wheeler's very nice tribute song to her grandmother (I know about Wheeler's sexual orientation).
Dar Williams is the Dar Williams who will later become famous, and still be barefoot and then go all Mary Chapin Carpeter "Somebody Feed Me" large on us - which offended people for some reason, but anyway the song's about how Christians and pagans aren't all that different. Riiiiiight. The solstice, so Amber called her uncle. Gee. When Christians sit with pagans only pumpkin pies are burning.
Catie Curtis and Susan Werner - my kids grew up loving Werner's "Last of the Good, Straight Girls" from the CD of the same name ("gone the days of the corduroy jumpers and your birthday string of pearls"), but Werner's agnostic gospel CD is . . . interesting.
Tish Honojosa is, on the CD and still is, an absolute angel - and in some twisted way, through a sampler CD playing in a Cambridge funky shop while my youngest was looking at jewelry, she led me to Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez, for which I'll always be grateful. And, Chip Taylor is John Voight's brother. Who knew?
Cosy Sheridan?
Lucy Kaplansky?
Diane Ziegler?
Hudson and Frankie?
Or my favorite far-leftie since the very late 1970s, UT's own Nanci Griffith.
Hudson and Frankie, along with Lyle Lovett, are sidewalk people in front of the Woolworth's on the cover of Nanci's 'Last of the True Believers,' the album with Rita and steel-guitar-playing Eddie and their Love at the Five and Dime, a Nanci song that Kathy Mattea later recorded, which Nanci reprised on One Fair Summer Evening and perhaps Anderson Fair, both live albums.
I'd enjoy hearing your KFF stories and I'd love to meet you and your sister.
Please accept my condolences regarding your cherished wife. Perhaps a KFF someday in the future in memory of her life. I'd be honored and humbled.
Last time I checked, some, but not all, of the notes were available at http://www.bobdylan.com/us/news/basement-tapes-track-track.
Jon Ims - The Day Daddy Cut The Big One
Jon wrote 'She's in love with the boy' and Trisha Yearwood had her biggest hit with it. I also got to hear Lucinda Williams sing around the campfire after she wrote 'Passionate Kisses, Drunken Angel and 'changed the locks'. Great times for songwriters.
BTTT
Oh, my.
And what did I do to deserve the honor of watching this? :)
Six Blocks Away
Drunken Angel
Lines Around Your Eyes
Sweet Old World
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Passionate Kisses
Metal Firecracker
Lines Around Your Eyes
(I like Like Lines Around Your Eyes and Metal Firecracker)
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Right in Time
2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten.
Thanks for pointing me to John Ims. I need to learn more about him.
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