Border Crisis Will Be Obama’s "Katrina Moment"

by JASmius

....say Democrats.

Which I dispute only in the sense that President Bush, contrary to the zealot belief of the Nutroots, did not have the ability to artificially create and direct a Category-5 hurricane with Dick Cheney's super-secret weather control apparatus.  Barack Obama, by contrast, most definitely lured this influx of diseased humanity northward, and like a greedy angler, does not want to throw them back:

Representative Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, warns that President Barack Obama could be facing his own "Katrina moment" if he refuses to visit the border facilities housing Central American children.

"I'm sure that President [George W.] Bush thought the same thing, that he could just look at everything from up in the sky," Cuellar said Monday on Fox News Channel's "Your World with Neil Cavuto." 

Cuellar is among a growing number of Democrats joining a bipartisan push for Obama to take a personal look at what is being described as a "humanitarian crisis" on the border.

Translation: They want Obama to make a meaningless photo-op in order to create the illusion that he gives a damn about the hundreds of thousands of human chads he's directly responsible for importing in order to save congressional Democrat derrieres in November.  Because that same strategery worked so well for Dubya and the Republican congressional majority in the 2006 midterms.

Thousands of aliens from Central America, mostly minors and mothers, have been streaming over the U.S.-Mexican border and surrendering to American border agents in recent months. Parents are paying Mexican drug cartels to smuggle the children under the belief that they will be allowed to stay in the United States.

And who gave them that impression, hmm?

Up to a third of the girls report being raped along the way and border patrol agents say some of the children have been killed by their smugglers.

You see, it's things like this that make me want to walk up to "commie-bastards," who defame ordinary patriotic American citizens as "racists" and "bereft of compassion" for simply defending their communities from the White House's jackbooted determination to inflict pestilence upon them, and punch those "commie-bastards" right in the mouth.

But be not afraid, my Democrat friends.  Barack Obama has all the compassion of ten demigods and more.  How are we to know this?  Trust him:

Obama plans three fundraisers in Texas this week and has been criticized for declining invitations from Governor Rick Perry and several Democrats to tour the border facilities where the illegal immigrants are being held in confined spaces with limited access to bathrooms.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was asked Monday about the bad optics of Obama raising political cash in the state while refusing to visit the border himself.

"We're not worried about those optics," Earnest replied, "and that's simply because the president is very aware of the situation that exists on the southwest border."

Oh yea of little faith, why do you doubt?

Of course, the White House is not worried about "those optics".  They're entrenched in power forever, which relieves them of the bother of having to pretend to care about "optics."  Democrats like Henry Cuellar aren't, and The One doesn't give any more of a frog's fat leg about them than he does his army of electoral reinforcements.  Who cares if his party's congressional wing gets decimated this fall?  He'll pull his coup sometime in the ensuing two years - arguably it's already begun - and then can liquidate Republicans at his leisure and appoint loyal Democrats who don't panic and can see the "big picture" to his rubber-stamp legislature.

Besides, fundraisers.  It's like asking a masturbation addict to stop what he's doing and eat his brussel sprouts.

By the way, remember when O asked Congress for a blank $2 billion check to, as somebody has been saying recently, "swoop in and house and feed and clothe and medicate" the migrant tsunami and otherwise steal back the "compassion" baton?  Guess what he's not asking for in this latest visit to the federal ATM?:

Barack Obama is holding off for now on seeking new legal authority to send unaccompanied migrant kids back home faster from the Southern border, following criticism that the administration's planned changes were too harsh.

Instead when Obama formally asks Congress for more than $2 billion in emergency spending Tuesday to deal with the border crisis, the request will not be accompanied by the specific legislative changes that the White House has indicated it plans to seek, according to two congressional aides. The aides spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the matter by name ahead of the announcement.

White House officials said they still intend to pursue additional authorities to speed the return of the children who've been arriving by the thousands, mostly from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. But for now the White House request will focus on additional money for immigration judges, detention facilities, legal aid and other items that could address the situation on the border, which the administration has termed a humanitarian crisis.

How quaintly....constitutional.  The One "wants" the "legal authority" to deport these hundreds of thousands of nascent Democrat voters and he's "humbly" asking Congress to give him that power, but he "knows how busy" they are, and how "desperately" he needs to look "compassionate," so he's "willing to wait" while the "more important" matter of doing whatever it takes to keep them here permanently is attended to first.  Because, you know, fundraisers.

Of course, if he really wanted to deport all these illegals en masse, he'd just do it, legal authority be damned.  Not unlike the way he's shipping them to conservative states and enclaves as fast as divinely possible.  But we're supposed to politely divert our eyes from that gaping obviousity, I suppose.  "Compassion's" price of admission, and all that.

Second look at "callousness and cruelty"?