{"id":21058,"date":"2014-07-10T17:07:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T21:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21058"},"modified":"2014-07-11T07:09:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T11:09:22","slug":"texas-not-turning-blue-while-obama-in-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21058\/texas-not-turning-blue-while-obama-in-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Not Turning Blue While Obama in State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama went to Texas this week, and all he got was a few million dollars in campaign donations amid a bipartisan smackdown.<\/p>\n<p>Obama was in the Lone Star State to help fundraise for various liberal candidates and causes as part of a much larger effort to \u2018Turn Texas Blue\u2019 for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>But his performance outside the rubber chicken circuit angered officeholders across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is Obama\u2019s refusal to visit Texas\u2019 southern border where tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors are streaming into the country and causing a humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know whether he heard what I said,\u201d Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-TV\/2014\/07\/10\/Perry-I-Dont-Know-Whether-Obama-Heard-Me\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> Sean Hannity. After being ignored by Obama for months, Perry finally got a brief face-to-face with the president aboard Marine One.<\/p>\n<p>Perry urged Obama to deploy the National Guard to the border as a national security measure. Obama demurred. \u201cA leader acts,\u201d Perry said, \u201cand what I haven\u2019t seen out of this president are actions that make me think he understands what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Henry Cueller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/US\/henry-cuellar-texas-democrat-border\/2014\/07\/07\/id\/581247\/\" target=\"_blank\">agrees<\/a>. The Texas Democratic congressman says that Obama\u2019s refusal to visit the border and get a firsthand account of the situation risks creating his own \u2018Katrina moment;\u2019 a reference to George W. Bush\u2019s slow response to a hurricane disaster that quickly sunk his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this Texas Democrats had been gearing up to capture the state\u2019s top political offices.\u00a0 The 2014 election was supposed to be a milestone. But with Obama\u2019s failed policies and lackluster performance hurting its credibility, it looks increasingly like a tombstone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama went to Texas this week, and all he got was a few million dollars in campaign donations amid a bipartisan smackdown. Obama was in the Lone Star State to help fundraise for various liberal candidates and causes as part of a much larger effort to \u2018Turn Texas Blue\u2019 for Democrats. But his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4547,514,14,838,561],"class_list":["post-21058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-henry-cueller","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-president-obama","tag-rick-perry","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21061,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21058\/revisions\/21061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}