White House Controversies Scrutinized by the Conservative Base

The Republican base including 'tea party' supporters seem to be digging in to all of the controversies that are facing the President. At the same time, the Presidents Chief-of-Staff, "Dennis McDonough is telling the White House staff to devote no more than 10% of their time to the controversies involving the Internal Revenue Service, the Justice Department and the terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, a Democrat aware of McDonough's instructions confirmed to CNN," as presented on 'Political Tracker' under 'Politic's on the CNN webpage.
Clearly, the present times are some of the most trying times in the Obama Presidency, but the President realizes that he 'must stay in his game' and not let any single problem or a variety of them to affect his ability to govern within the Executive branch as the 'PONTUS'.
Endless criticism seems to be coming from the Republican party, and a few prominent Republicans have called for the impeachment of President Obama. Some from the conservative base are even calling the present situation in Washington even more serious than 'Watergate'. They are also pushing high awareness on the present issues in an attempt to tie up the news with reports that they want to control, again with the ultimate goal of not allowing the President to promote his plan of running the Executive Branch of government.
President Obama was not born yesterday, nor is he new to the office as President of the United States. In case his Republican critics forgot, the President was re-elected to his second term, and has 3 years to go.  The President plans on turning up awareness centered around issues of the economy and gun control. In the meantime, the President will also take time out from his job as President by playing a round of golf as he has done today.
Of course, the right wing conservative base will criticize the President endlessly in the coming weeks just has they have done during his entire Presidency to date. Talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin will no doubt have their broadcasts full of the White House controversies, along with the President deciding to take off to play golf during these trying times at the White House.

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Proposed Bi-Partisan Immigration Bill

The Senators in Washington haven't had much luck lately on getting bills passed. It seems so difficult for them to agree on anything, and then pass legislation that is truly supported on both sides of the isle. The bills usually just pass by a few votes if it passes at all. Never does it seem that both political parties agree on much of anything, especially the legislation that they are bidding to put into law.
The topic now floating around in Washington that seems to be of interest of both parties is the topic of immigration reform. Does anyone think that this Congress has any ability to do some real good as far as immigration. Yet, it deserves a mention here. This may be as far as it gets in Congress.
  Eight Senators devised and released a comprehensive immigration reform plan that they say will stop illegal immigration. It also address approximately 11 million immigrants who are now in the country illegally. Imagine, 11 million immigrants. Because it is not practical to have all of these illegal immigrants go back to where they came from at once, mostly from Mexico, there must be a way to systematically work with illegal immigrants. Some of them have illegal parents, but the offspring were born in America. Is it right to deport anyone who was born in this country, whether their parents were illegal or not? It wasn't their choice to be born here, but they may have already been here going into their adult lives. They haven't been able to legally contribute to society, because they haven't even had the ability to hold a Social Security Card so that they can work legally. They deserve a shot to become legal citizens if they are willing to go about what it takes to become legal. If not, and if they do not take advantage of doing what it takes to become a legal citizen by a certain period of time, then they truly need to be deported. Some illegal aliens that have been born here and lived in this country their whole lives and are the first to be considered for legal immigration and possible citizenship and should have to take easier steps to reach their goal.
My opinion here obviously is not the opinion of every citizen of this country, and I'm sure that there is a good portion of people that disagree with my reasoning, especially the mainstream conservative party.
Still the bi-partisan group of Senators now have devised a bill that the Congress must consider to more forward.
Still, I have no faith in the present Congress. If their desire is to shoot down every bill that is thought of by a Democratic senator, then not much will get passed in President Obama's second term in office.
One of the reasons why bills did not get passed in the past was because of the elections of 2010. The Democrats lost control of the Senate. Now just about every time the vote gets close in the Senate, and even in many cases where the majority of Senators agrees on a bill, a filibuster is introduced and the bill still does not pass. So truthfully now with the present Congress, I see no way that the Congress will ever pass ANY type of immigration legislation. If it passes, I will present an article with details from the bill as it will then stand.

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Children Killing Children by Guns

The topic of guns in the hands of children continues. One very consistent talking point made during a Senate debate in April was that expanded background checks would not have prevented the Newtown massacre. This statement was published in an article by Michael Allen on May 10, 2013 on the opposingviews.com website. But you can only truly agree with the parents of the slain Newtown children that it's no longer about their children, but it's about future children who may be killed by guns. 
The number continues to rise, as a minimum of 71 children have been killed by guns since the Newtown school tragedy. 

According to Mother Jones, the statistics for children being killed by guns breaks down as follows:

40 killings were unintentional and 31 were alleged homicides.
The most common scenario was kid-on-kid: At least 29 of the accidental deaths occurred when a kid under 17 pulled the trigger.
The average age of the victims was just under six years old.
20 victims were girls and 51 were boys.
 The problem was worst in the South: Florida had the most kids killed (four accidents, five alleged homicides), followed by Ohio and Tennessee (four accidents and two alleged homicides in each state), followed by Alabama (two accidents, two alleged homicides) and South Carolina (four accidents).

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