While many of us within the liberal and the populist wing of our Party have been frequently frustrated and disappointed by our President, his bold and decisive executive action on immigration reform injected a new sense of energy among our ranks. Personally, the President's action reminded me of why my family decided to vote for, contribute to and volunteer for candidate Barack Obama in 2008 and later for his re-election in 2012. While we may disagree with the President on a number of issues I think most of us are proud of the President's empathetic and compassionate commitment for those who come here for the very same reason as most of our own ancestors.
And despite all of the hysterics and histronics coming from the right, most of us are on the same page with the President on immigration reform.
Meanwhile here in Texas it took fewer than twenty four hours since the President announced his executive action on immigration before the lawsuit obsessed Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, soon to be Governor, weighed in with the predictable.
Sue the "lawless" President for his "unconstitutional" action on "amnesty."
It really does not matter to Greg Abbott or any Republican lawmaker for that matter, that the President acted within the framework of laws and actions available to him as the POTUS. These Republican shills for the rich ignore facts they don't like, or ones that contradict their ideologies, which are those that are prescribed by the 1% that owns the Republican Party.
All of the Republican puppets for the 1% must receive daily talking points from a head spin doctor, likely Frank Luntz, or maybe it is Rush Limbaugh, who prepares their scripts. When I explained this to my husband yesterday he asked me how I knew. I replied that it is easy to know. All recite the same lines. All spout the same buzz words and blow the same dog whistles. All repeat the same lies, knowing they are lies.
I have no formal training in political science or communications but I've been an activist long enough to understand a lot. Activists who have been in the trenches know all about Lee Awater and Karl Rove's scorched earth politics.
Another aspect I shared with my husband is to pay attention to the serial Freudian projection that drives Republican politicians, pundits and propagandists and their messages.
For the actual lawless ones are doing their best to frame the President with lawlessness.
President Obama and the Democrats did not shut down the government last year nor did we threaten our country with a financial default. Ted Cruz and his band of tea party anarchists gleefully shut down the government last year that resulted in furloughing millions of federal employees. Many of them had to apply for unemployment benefits. It seems that most federal workers do not earn six figure salaries for doing nothing, like Ted Cruz and his tea party deadbeats.
Our Party did not lie the American people into a completely unnecessary war that has been an unmitigated disaster on so many levels. This war unleashed the ISIS genie from the bottle.
Our Party did not abdicate its responsibility to govern.
Our Party would have never appointed so-called extreme left wing activists and politically ideological hacks (i.e. the Lyndon LaRouche groupies, transformed Marxists into right wing conservatives) to serve as Supreme Court Justices.
The Republican Party of the 1%, on the other hand, appointed right wing political activists as Supreme Court Justices. By enacting Citizens' United and its outcome, the John Roberts' SCOTUS essentially robbed voters of our voices in government. Money is speech. The Koch boys, the Sheldon Adelsons and the Waltons uncorked the champagne bottles.
Our Party did not appoint right wing activist judges who rule in favor of corporations over individual rights. Lawless corporations can now run rough shod over consumers.
Our Party did not invite energy CEO's to help fashion our nation's energy policies. Remember Ken Lay and Dick Cheney? Enron anyone? Brownouts in California?
Our Party has not ginned up Jim Crow Voter Photo ID suppression laws that have been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge. At least this is the case in Texas. Lawless Republican politicians have disenfranchised between 500,000 and 800,000 American citizens from their right to vote in the state.
A state judge has also ruled the Texas School Finance System as unconstitutional.
Straight R voters in the state elected a crook for its Attorney General.
Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry has been indicted for the abuse of power.
As Attorney General Greg Abbott let his and Rick Perry's friends loot the state cancer institute, (CPRIT).
This is only the tip of the iceberg.
So let's be serious about the meaning of lawlessness.
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