Tony Katz, host of The Tony Katz Radio Spectacular (6pm EST, 3pm PST) provides his unique take on President Obama’s speech regarding “immigration reform.” For the full text, visit his personal site at TonyKatz.com.
The President recently made remarks on the concept of “immigration reform.” He stood regally, read from his tele-prompt-ers (peppered with awkward pauses due, most likely, to a poor Tele-promp-ter Management Administrator) and spoke about things that almost made sense. However, he would quickly correct himself by speaking in his more familiar tongue of nonsense. Simply, it was a speech that was meant to say, “I gave a speech.” It was, once again, quasi-action designed to give the appearance of action from an administration that is deeply and gravely opposed to the concept of action – on a subject (illegal immigration) that requires definitive action.
I have grown accustomed to the nonsense from this administration. I have watched them with their deft skills maneuver around big issues, skirt major decision and purposefully fail to achieve solutions. This is the mark of the Statist. Problems offer opportunities for expanding power (government control) whereas solutions remove the opportunity to expand power (government control). Many people quote Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel when he said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” What they fail to mention, however, is the second part, which is the most telling, and most damning. Emanuel continues, “…and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
