PJM/PJTV Exclusive: An Interview with One of ObamaCare’s Strongest Foes (Updated)
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has distinguished himself as one of conservatism’s staunchest defenders. During his tenure as AG, Abbott has defended Texans’ 2nd Amendment rights, he has taken on the Obama Environmental Protection Agency’s CO2 overreach, he has consistently defended state sovereignty, and he has sought to protect Texans from the lawlessness on the borders. In March 2010, he joined Texas to the cause of overturning ObamaCare in court. Abbott and other state AGs attacked ObamaCare’s constitutionality, zeroing in on the individual mandate.
On Wednesday, I caught up with the attorney general and asked him where we are on the ObamaCare lawsuit. I also asked him about the Falcon Lake murder, which he has been following closely, and about his expectations for November 2.
Update: The AG also commented on a dangerous situation on the Texas-Mexico border that I hadn’t heard about until he brought it up. Now, here’s a story about it, courtesy of a Facebook friend of mine who lives near the border. The Mexican military and one of the powerful drug cartels had an extended gun battle just over the border around Nuevo Laredo, a battle so widespread that it reportedly forced the shutdown of a major highway:
According to reports coming out of Mexico the battle was between the gulf cartel and the Mexican military following grenade attacks that happened simultaneously in Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Matamoros and Hermosa. The fighting started in the Colonia Concordia and moved north with the cartels using public buses as barricades on the streets. Drug traffickers blocked off at least one intersection so the city stopped all public transportation and officials were warning citizens to stay indoors.
Like I said, I hadn’t heard about any of this until AG Abbott mentioned it. And check out this, from the end of the same story:
With all the violence happening in Nuevo Laredo we’ve received word that CBP agents seized 13 weapons and more than 13 hundred rounds of ammunition going into Mexico yesterday. The incident happened at bridge number two, when a CBP officer asked a 58-year-old Mexican citizen driving an Isuzu trooper to go to secondary inspection. Agents discovered a cache of weapons, ammunition and related gear hidden within the trooper. Some of the items included a 50 caliber riffle, a 458 caliber rifle, 10 pistols of varying calibers, more than 13 hundred rounds of ammo and a scope. CBP officers turned the driver over to u.s. immigration and customs enforcement for further investigation.
A Nation Defined and Defiled
. . . Lady Liberty’s inscription in part reads,”Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” It makes no reference nor does it imply that illegal aliens, often reprobate aliens, are invited to join us in the ongoing, 221 year old experiment in liberty that is America.
Nevertheless, that invitation has been extended to virtually everyone on Planet Earth, including those misanthropic earthlings whose primary purpose in life is to destroy us. All we used to ask is that immigrants enter the country legally and abide by our laws. It was assumed they would learn our language and willingly assimilate into our culture.
Most people would call that immigration policy suicidal, especially when many sneak in, violate our laws, and reject our language and culture. The United States calls it multiculturalism, inclusion, anything other than an asinine, national suicide policy.
This week the laughable Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection division, CBP, issued its annual report which included an admission that it has established “effective control” of only 873 miles of our 1,954 mile border with Mexico–and that’s an “improvement” over 2009! . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2308)
Just a note. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France. The inscription “give us your tired…” was a portion of a poem and was placed on the statue later and was not part of the original gift. Many on the left appear to think that somehow, we as a people, and our government, have to extend citizenship to everyone who wants to come in because of these words. America, like every other country, has a choice as to the number of immigrants allowed into the US in any given year, the education / skill level of those persons and the mental and physical health of those entering (it was Ted Kennedy that opened up that spigot). The sign on the statue of liberty is not a “carte blanche” invitation to the world.
Crime is down in Arizona. FBI says so.
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/06/02/brewer-arizona-crime/
President Barack Obama’s health care bill and the accompanying individual mandate is a tax. As such, it is Contitutional. Tax and Spend Clause and the General Welfare Clause in the Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1)
Why ARE we not hearing more about Mexico? There’s basically an Iraq happening across the border and we barely hear a peep about it unless an American gets caught up in it. Something like 45,000 people have been killed in the last 2 years in this. The brother of one of our employees was killed in Juarez 2 weeks ago by the Zetas because he refused to pay protection money for his business. He and 3 employees were shot to death inside their store. We have friends on the border in Santa Teresa, NM who can hear gunshots at night from their porch. The president of Mexico thought he could pit drug-gangs against each other and it has completely gotten out of control. They are decapitating each other now. Unreal. Is everybody just thinking to themselves, it’s just a bunch of druggies killing each other off, no big deal? It’s not, a lot of innocent people are getting caught up in this. Newly appointed police chiefs and mayors are getting assassinated left and right. Business people in Juarez are sending their families over to NM for safe-keeping in droves. Mexican drug money is flowing into real-estate, the horse-racing industry, anything to turn it into hard assets. I live in NM and all I know about it is snippets from friends and the daily horrifying 2″ x 2″ articles in the paper reporting yet another mass-murder. It says a lot about how we value our friends, neighbors and trading partners that it is pretty much just ignored. And we are the source of most of the drug money they are all fighting over. The whole thing is surreal.