William L. Houston

President Obama is keeping his ear to the ground.

Recently, he invited a race-based coalition of bloggers, "Blogging While Brown," to meet with Corey Ealons, the White House director of "African-American Media," at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The White House meeting was about ""letting them know we are open and available for conversation -- a two-way conversation."

I can't help but scratch my chin and wonder: would President Obama be willing to have a similar "two-way conversation" with an alliance of bloggers called "Blogging While White" and respond to the concerns of the White community? Maybe he could chat with the leading voices of the White community about their concerns about, hell, I don't know ...

... the evacuation of the Gulf States?

It would certainly be smart politics. 91% of black voters support the Obama administration. In 2008, Obama lost the White vote, and that was before Obamacare, the Gulf Oil Spill, the Wall Street bailouts, and the Tea Party took their toll on his popularity.

To be sure, "structural racism" exists in America: blacks can organize as blacks and advocate black interests while getting invited to the White House by the President of the United States himself. On the other hand, the Tea Party is demonized by the Left and charged with "racism" for no other reason than being appealing to Whites.

Am I the only one who notices this?

Yesterday, 57% of voters in the small town of Fremont, Nebraska decided to defy the American media elite in New York City and political class in Washington, DC. They passed a new law that bans local businesses and landlords from hiring and renting to illegal aliens.

A similar law was narrowly defeated in 2008. In the last two years, grass roots activists in Fremont collected more than 3,000 signatures for another shot at real immigration reform. The Nebraska Supreme Court finally granted their request.

Since 1990, about 2,500 illegal aliens have taken up residence in Fremont to work as a cheap labor force in a nearby meatpacking plant. The familar burden of illegal immigration - the not-so-cheap social costs of crime, lost jobs, healthcare, and education - has fallen squarely on the shoulders of local taxpayers.

The ACLU has already pledged to file a lawsuit to block enforcement of the new law. According to the head of the ACLU's Nebraska division, the Fremont ordinance is “completely out of step with American values of fairness and equality.” An ordinary Nebraskan might respond that the ACLU is out of step with the American ideal of self government.

The favorite argument of the opponents of the Fremont ordinance has been that the various legal challenges brought by the ACLU and other left-wing Hispanic groups will cost over a million dollars and will force the town to cut social services. Thus, the citizens of Fremont should surrender their inalienable right to make their own laws to federal judges, "immigration experts," and special interest groups.

Putting up a fight over such antiquated notions is a waste of time. Let the Obama administration, the National Council of La Raza, Long Island Wins, and the ACLU make all the important decisions. Everything will be fine.

As to be expected, the Left is already furiously playing the race card and browbeating the citizens of Fremont over an alphabet soup of "racism," "nativism," "white supremacy, and "xenophobia." The new ordinance has been called "anti-Hispanic." Anglos have been accused of offending and insulting the Hispanic community. I'm sure leftists (who probably had never heard of Fremont before, much less ever visited Nebraska) are already busily organizing a boycott, "hunger strike," or a "human rights demonstration" somewhere. 

They are full of compassion ... for everyone but ordinary, upright, small town White Americans. They have utterly no concern whatsoever for the negative impact of illegal immigration on American natives. The very idea that American natives have any interests whatsoever is decried as "nativism."

Anglo-Americans (whom leftists call "rednecks") don't fall into the politically correct "people of color" category. They are regularly subjected to the most vicious hatred, contempt, and xenophobia to be found anywhere on the political spectrum. I've seem leftists rant and rave about the "intolerance" and "bigotry" of all the ignorant, backwoods, trailer trash hicks in flyover country without batting so much as an eyelash.

The people of Fremont can look forward to getting shouted down with the Arizona treatment. In trying to restore law and order to their small community, they will be cast as pariahs by many of their fellow citizens. Whether the "bonds of affection" that Abraham Lincoln once spoke of prove enduring remains an open question.

According to Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, President Obama told him in a private meeting that his administration would only secure the border if Republicans agreed to support "comprehensive immigration reform." If Republicans got what they wanted, Obama explained they would have no incentive to support his plan:

The White House has denied Kyl's accusations. From a Democratic perspective, the political logic of Obama's position makes perfect sense. Border security is highly popular and could easily pass Congress on its own legs. Amnesty for illegal aliens is unpopular and must be smuggled into law as part of a larger package.

Someone is lying here. I doubt it is Senator Kyl.

According to Hillary Clinton, the Obama Justice Department plans to sue Arizona to block the state from enforcing its popular new immigration law. This comes immediately in the wake of the Obama administration closing off federal land in Southern Arizona to American citizens. 

Heavily armed Mexican drug traffickers are literally occupying Arizona and terrorizing American citizens ... and the response of the federal government is to neglect its own constitutional duties (i.e., protecting the states from foreign invasion) and use the courts to deny the people of a state their "inalienable right" to self government.

Meanwhile, the clueless liberals here in DC (where money falls from the sky) don't understand why there is so much "anti-government sentiment" in flyover country. Let them eat cake: that is the sentiment in the Beltway.

I'm gradually coming to the conclusion that a national tragedy is inevitable. The people of the states are starting to believe that the federal government is incompetent and utterly useless.

It can't protect the states from invasion. It can't plug a small hole in the Gulf of Mexico. However, it can tax us and redistribute our wealth to favored protected classes and racial grievance groups. It can use the federal courts to strip us of our right to make our own laws.

In the near future, the people of the states are going to start questioning their loyalty to such a discredited and illegitimate regime. If I was an Arizonan, I would feel deserted by my government. I would be outraged at a boycott sponsored by people who are supposedly my fellow citizens.

I'm afraid we are hurtling toward an ugly finale.

If Barack Hussein Obama is thrown out of office, the Left will explode with accusations of racism and the inherent wickedness of Middle America. There could be race riots on the scale of Watts and Los Angeles. If Barack Hussein Obama remains in office, the "anger" and "anti-government sentiment" on the Right (combined with leftist misrule) could evolve to the point where old ideas like nullification and secession reenter the mainstream.

Either way America loses. It might very well be our destiny.

Barack Obama is taking a beating in Florida.

54% of Florida voters now have a negative view of the President; 37% approve of his leadership. This includes 50% of independents who disapprove of his job performance. On healthcare, 56% of Floridians oppose Obamacare while only 34% support it. His approval rating is down to 40% in a key swing state. 

It is worth keeping in mind that Florida (at least for now) has been spared the worst effects of the Gulf Oil Spill. Democratic volunteers are reporting a hostile political climate heading into the 2010 elections: 

"I can't tell you how much anger there is out there," he said. "I have people ready to spit in my face."

Pensacola has already been hit by the oil spill. Tar balls have been washing up for two weeks now on the pristine white beaches of the Florida Panhandle. Alabama has been struggling to keep the oil away from its own beaches. Ocean currents have kept the Mississippi beaches unspoiled by the Deepwater Horizon gusher, but the fishing and shrimping industries have been devastated.

At least for this election cycle, Obama and the Democrats can write off the Gulf States. The full extent of this disaster (and the impending Democratic losses) won't be known for several months. 

Note: The Democrats can write off Arizona too. Their response to the "human spill" of illegal aliens flooding across the Mexican border (and the incompetent federal response) has been to boycott and demonize Arizonans for taking matters into their own hands.