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The drive for renewable energy plays into the capitalist drive for profits – planetary catastrophe is inevitable under capitalism regardless of whether we transition from oil to renewables.

Principia Dialectica 2009 Principia Dialectica, "Capitalism Isn’t Addicted to Oil - but Profits," September 30, 2009, http://www.principiadialectica.co.uk/blog/?p=564-http://www.principiadialectica.co.uk/blog/?p=564, mcmc

In 2008, the companies making the largest worldwide profits were all oil companies (
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which already exist, and will continue to arise, whilst capitalism persists. 

OR

Government support for fossil fuel extraction is emblematic of capitalism’s inherent drive for profits, making planetary destruction inevitable.

Magdoff and Foster 2011 Fred Magdoff, professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont in Burlington, John Bellamy Foster, Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon, What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism, NYU Press: 2011, 66-77, mcmc

The irreversible exhaustion of finite natural resources will leave future generations without the possibility of
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to ever worsening environmental conditions with respect to the planet as a whole. 

Destruction of the environment is inevitable under capitalism.

Wachter 2012  Petra Wa¨chter Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Review of   The ecological rift – capitalism’s war on the Earth, by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York, New York, Monthly Review Press, 2010, Environmental Politics 21:3, 533-5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2012.671611
The ecological rift is a warning that if we go ahead with business as usual
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arguments to support the claim that the capitalist system is destroying the Earth. 

Resisting capitalism’s reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale

Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol
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abject Other to that of a ’glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix. 

The alternative is to reject the affirmative as an intellectual refusal of capitalist ideology
Johnston 2004, Johnston, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, 2004 Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture %26 Society, December v9 i3 p259 page infotrac

Perhaps the absence of a detailed political roadmap in Zizek~’s recent writings
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comforting fiction ("Capitalist commodity fetishism or the truth? I choose fetishism"). 

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Uniqueness for Obama winning

Link

Swing voters key – influenced by developments during campaign

Galston 12 (3-12-12, William A., Senior Fellow, Governance Studies The New Republic, Brookings "Ignore Swing Voters at Your Peril%21" http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2012/0312_vote_galston.aspx

Still, there are some aspects of independents’ decision-making and weight that these
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enough to determine the outcome—and campaigns ignore them at their peril.  

OBAMA KEY TO PREVENT ISRAEL STRIKES ON THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM
Hayden 2/19 (By Tom Hayden 2/19/12 The coming war with Iran Is GOP rhetoric setting the stage for an Israeli attack? http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/coming-war-with-iran/content?oid=5104826-http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/coming-war-with-iran/content?oid=5104826 - BRW)

Standing in the way, according to the article, is President Barack Obama,
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campaign winds. The question is whether any organized force has his back. 

EXTINCTION
Hirsch 5 - Professor @ UC San Diego (Jorge, "Can a nuclear strike on Iran be averted," November 21^st, EMM - BRW)
The Bush administration has put together all the elements it needs to justify the impending
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of the Hiroshima bomb, enough to erase Earth’s population many times over. 

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Adequate funding exists for environmental and security responsibilities but most hold the line on spending

EPA 2012 ~["EPA’s FY 2013 Budget Proposal Focuses on Core Environmental and Human Health Protections / EPA budget supports President Obama’s vision of an America that is built to last" http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/D38E604EF465557A852579A3005F4630-http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/D38E604EF465557A852579A3005F4630~] IK

WASHINGTON – Today the Obama Administration proposed a FY 2013 budget of %248.
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of this agency and ensured the protections the American people expect and deserve." 

Enforcement of energy regulations drains EPA resources and forces budget trade-offs

OECD 2000 ~[January 2000, OECD is an International organisation helping governments tackle the economic, social and governance challenges of a globalised economy, "Voluntary approaches for Environmental Policy: An Assessment", http://books.google.com/books?id=rIoDuRBzf-0C%26pg=PA31%26lpg=PA31%26dq=.+As+a+result,+public+authorities+can+demonstrate+to+public+opinion+that+they+are+able+to+diligently+undertake%26source=bl%26ots=po8_xqiSKg%26sig=0NGGnZDAnR1lDhVacLwneW5Mf8o%26hl=en%26sa=X%26ei=VfoWUITzKMqe6wGHoIG4DQ%26ved=0CF4Q6AEwAA~%23v=onepage%26q=.%20As%20a%20result%2C%20public%20authorities%20can%20demonstrate%20to%20public%20opinion%20that%20they%20are%20able%20to%20diligently%20undertake%26f=false-http://books.google.com/books?id=rIoDuRBzf-0C%26pg=PA31%26lpg=PA31%26dq=.+As+a+result,+public+authorities+can+demonstrate+to+public+opinion+that+they+are+able+to+diligently+undertake%26source=bl%26ots=po8_xqiSKg%26sig=0NGGnZDAnR1lDhVacLwneW5Mf8o%26hl=en%26sa=X%26ei=VfoWUITzKMqe6wGHoIG4DQ%26ved=0CF4Q6AEwAA~] IK

Voluntary approaches may be attractive for the legislator (or the regulator) which pursues
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used for other tasks of the agency such as monitoring of other policies. 

Cuts come from water safety

Crow 2012 ~[Patrick Crow is a Washington Correspondent, "Congress Trims State Revolving Funds, EPA Budget, http://web.ebscohost.com.mutex.gmu.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=29%26hid=112%26sid=15b4a8da-9190-4985-a9a2-53ee277a3033%40sessionmgr104-http://web.ebscohost.com.mutex.gmu.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=29%26hid=112%26sid=15b4a8da-9190-4985-a9a2-53ee277a3033%40sessionmgr104~] IK

The Senate and House of Representatives have approved spending bills that would cut the Clean
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initially had proposed a %241.5 billion spending cut for the agency 

Water supplies are a prime target for bioterror attack

Greenwire 2008 ~["Cincinati pilot program looks to protect water from terrorists," http://www.eenews.net.proxy.lib.umich.edu/Greenwire/2008/05/27/archive/14?terms=EPA+security~~]  IK

A U.S. EPA program would help water utilities get earlier warning of
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. Three other cities to be announced this year will receive similar grants. 

Extinction

Ochs 2002 ~[Richard, analyst for the chemical weapons working group, "Biological Weapons must be abolished immediately",  ,  http://www.freefromterror.net/other_articles/abolish.html~~] IK

Of all the weapons of mass destruction, the genetically engineered biological weapons, many
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Can we imagine hundreds of such plagues? HUMAN EXTINCTION IS NOW POSSIBLE.

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The United States federal government should ban all government subsidies for energy.

Free market energy solves the aff – forces energy innovation to keep up with market expansion. This innovation solves the US economy and makes the US an economic leader
Makridis 2012 
~[Christos Makridis, Green Chip Stocks Staff Writer, Green Chip Scholarship Entry, http://www.greenchipstocks.com/articles/renewables-economic-tools-for-success/790~]jap-http://www.greenchipstocks.com/articles/renewables-economic-tools-for-success/790%5djap

Overwhelming scientific evidence concludes that a transition away from a fossil fuel based economy is
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alleviate the overdependence on authoritarian regimes, creating a pathway towards economic prosperity.

Federal energy policies prop up the state—they kill individual liberty.
Taylor, 93—Jerry Taylor is director of natural resource studies at the Cato Institute. "Energy Conservation and Efficiency:
The Case Against Coercion" http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-189.html-http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-189.html Accessed Date: 8-4-12 y2k

Energy policy debates often serve as cover for hidden agendas concerning how life should be
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are undreamed of today without sacrificing the freedom to live as we choose.

You should reject every violation of liberty.
Petro ’74 ~[Sylvester is Professor of Law @ Wake Forest Univ. Toledo Law Review, p. 480~]

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Thus
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invasion of freedom must be emphatically identified and resisted with an undying spirit.

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Text: The fifty states of the United States and all relevant localities and territories should 

Counterplan solves the entirety of the case – the States have access to the same toolbox as the federal government
Wiener 10, Program Evaluation Analyst, and Koontz, Ohio State Associate Natural Resources Professor, 2010,  (Joshua and Tomas, "Shifting Winds: Explaining Variation in State Policies to Promote Small-Scale Wind Energy", Policy Studies Journal, November, Vol. 38, Iss. 4, PAS) Accessed on ProQuest 8-6-12

Previous research has identified several common policy tools used by state governments to promote environmental
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of many renewable technologies that policymakers can support to fulfill the RPS obligations. 

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Text: The President of the United States should issue an executive order to ~insert plan~

Executive orders are the most effective way to implement policies
Mayer 1 (Kenneth, Professor of Political Science @ University of Wisconsin – Madison, With the Stroke of a Pen)

These chronicles of presidential decisiveness and unilateral action are at odds with the prevailing scholarly
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President’s lawmaking role is substantial, persistent, and in many cases disturbing."

Executive orders increase presidential power
Risen 4 (Clay, Managing editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, M.A. from the University of Chicago "The Power of the Pen: The Not-So-Secret Weapon of Congress-wary Presidents" The American Prospect, July 16, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_power_of_the_pen-http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_power_of_the_pen)

In the modern era, executive orders have gone from
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most controversial issues, from civil rights to labor relations to reproductive health. 

Pres powers key to strong U.S Leadership
Mallaby 00 (Sebastian, Member, Washington Post’s Editorial Board, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb)

Finally, some will object that the weakness of the presidency as an institution is
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on cultural forces that nobody can change, such as isolationism or multiculturalism. 

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The debate over nuclear energy is a debate about memory – the nuclear industry relies on a narrative of technological progress that calls on us to forget the trauma of the past in favor of the bright future promised by nuclear energy.

Hayase 12 Nozomi Hayase," Fukushima to ~%23Ajisai Revolution; The Mosaic of Recollection"  JOURNALING BETWEEN WORLDS Global Citizen Blogging July 18, 2012, http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/-http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/

The shock and aftermath of the tsunami temporarily swept people’s feet off the ground.
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of memory against forgetting." Our struggle is to resist forgetting our past. 

However, the dominant narrative of nuclear energy can and is being challenged – one alternative source of memory about nuclear violence comes from the poetic praxis of the Japanese band Frying Dutchman:

Hayase 12 Nozomi Hayase," Fukushima to ~%23Ajisai Revolution; The Mosaic of Recollection"  JOURNALING BETWEEN WORLDS Global Citizen Blogging July 18, 2012, http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/-http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/

The resistance didn’t come from the political arena, where promises for change are often
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country’s past, the visceral experience of the dark side of nuclear power. 

The task of your ballot should be to join in this struggle of memory against forgetting – your ballot can contribute to the discursive mosaic of resistance surrounding the memory of nuclear violence. Each act of remembering is key to bringing about an inter-connected struggle to reclaim the nuclear public sphere.

Hayase 12 Nozomi Hayase," Fukushima to ~%23Ajisai Revolution; The Mosaic of Recollection"  JOURNALING BETWEEN WORLDS Global Citizen Blogging July 18, 2012, http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/-http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/

This mosaic is our collective recollection. It becomes a shield against forgetting and disrupted
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In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, our remembering has just begun. 

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Both the aff’s policy and their knowledge production work to further the logic of consumerist society – only breaking with this logic allows us to challenge the consumerist ideology that is destroying the earth and creating massive inequality around the world.

Princen et al 2002 Thomas Princen, Associate Professor U of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment,  Michael Maniates, Michael Maniates Professor of Environmental Science and Political Science Allegheny College Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies Oberlin College, Ken Conca, Professor School of International Service, American University, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sc.B., Brown University Confronting Consumption, 2002,  mcmc,  p. 4-14

Such intuition is even making its way, albeit slowly, into scholarly circles,
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? Who decides? And who wins and who loses in the process? 

And – Consumption is driving the earth to the brink of extinction through massive environmental destruction –beginning the search for new alternative ways of organizing society locally and massively decreasing consumption is the only hope for earth’s survival.

Barry 10 (Glen, Ph.D. in "Land Resources" from the U of Wisconsin-Madison, Jan 7, www.australia.to/2010/index.php?option=com_content%26view=article%26id=308:resisting-global-ecological-change%26catid=69:reports%26Itemid=272-http://www.australia.to/2010/index.php?option=com_content%26view=article%26id=308:resisting-global-ecological-change%26catid=69:reports%26Itemid=272)

The human family faces imminent and (Copenhagen would suggest) inevitable collapse of the
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the likelihood that a humane and ecologically whole Earth remains to be renewed. 

The alternative is to shift the focus of the economy from production to consumption.

By replacing a focus on production with a focus on consumption we open up space for analysis of the socially constructed role of consumption as a mode of power – this is key to overcoming the abstractions of the growth model.

Princen et al 2002 Thomas Princen, Associate Professor U of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment,  Michael Maniates, Michael Maniates Professor of Environmental Science and Political Science Allegheny College Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies Oberlin College, Ken Conca, Professor School of International Service, American University, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sc.B., Brown University Confronting Consumption, 2002,  mcmc,  p. 14-17

Given our dissatisfaction with prevailing, fragmentary approaches to consumption and its externalities, we
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as depleting value, as risking ecological overshoot, as stressing social capacity. 

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Uniqueness: Prices High

Link: Aff lowers prices

High Oil prices key to the Russian Economy
Nichol 2012 Jim Nichol, Coordinator Specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U.S. Interests, Congressional Research Service, February 10, 2012, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33407.pdf-http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33407.pdf

Russia’s economy began to recover from the Soviet collapse in 1999, led mainly by
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and high rates of crime, corruption, capital flight, and unemployment.

Russian economic decline causes nuclear prolif, accidents, and miscalc.
Cohen 2001 Stephen Cohen, Prof of Russian Studies at NYU, June 7, 2001, http://www.thenation.com/article/russian-nuclear-roulette?page=full-http://www.thenation.com/article/russian-nuclear-roulette?page=full

The bad news is this: Because of what has happened in Russia since the
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to rely more heavily than it already does on its fragile nuclear controls. 

Impact’s extinction
Leslie 96 John Leslie, Professor Emeritus of philosophy @ University of Guelph, 1996, The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction, p. 32

Probably, however, it has been accidental nuclear war between the United States and
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as low as the regimental level could result in three hundred nuclear explosions.

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Terrorism o/w and turns case- access to nukes and dense populations means a terror attack would 1. Kill econ- causes US to reallocate budget 2. Kills heg- proves the US cant

CIR solves terrorism – multiple reasons:

1. Castaneda ev indicates CIR best way to bridge gap between mexico and the US- which solves border security and terrorism

2. Providing legal avenues of immigration solve – allows for better resource focus to solve terrorism

Griswold and Anderson10

Daniel, director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C, and the author of the new Cato book, Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization, and Stuart Anderson, Executive Director of the National Foundation for American Policy, Cato-At-Liberty, May 12, Bracero Guest Worker Program Model for Immigration Reform, http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/04/29/to-control-the-border-first-reform-immigration-law/jap

We know from experience that expanding opportunities .... reducing illegal immigration in agriculture. “

3. Immigration reform is the key issue to Mexico relations – facilitates migration cooperation

Hakim 8

The US and Latin America: Repairing a Damaged Relationship, Peter Hakim, The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Winter/Spring 2008

No country in the world has a more varied and extensive ..., and set the stage for additional changes.

We are going to turn case

1.      Cooperation with Latin American is critical to address energy security, warming, pollution, and other environmental concerns.

Lowenthal ‘9

Abraham F. Lowenthal, professor of international relations at the University of Southern California, a nonresident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, president emeritus of the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the founding director of the Inter-American Dialogue. “The Obama Administration and Latin America: Will the Promising Start Be Sustained?”. NUEVA SOCIEDAD NRO. 222. July-August 2009. http://www.nuso.org/upload/articulos/3617_2.pdfjap

Apart from the scheduling ... countries of the Americas.

2.      Comprehensive reform key to hegemony

Gittelson, 2009

(Robert, has developed practical, first-hand experience in dealing with the immigration issues that are challenging our country today,  THE CENTRISTS AGAINST THE IDEOLOGUES: WHAT ARE THE FALSEHOODS THAT DIVIDE AMERICANS ON THE ISSUE OF COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM,  23 ND J. L. Ethics and Pub Pol'y 115)

However, the above list of security .....hemisphere. That is the very real threat of communism and/or socialism.

3.      CIR solves the economy-taxes and stimulus.

Gittelson, garment manufacturer in the Los Angeles area for over twenty-five years, 2009

(Robert, has developed practical, first-hand experience in dealing with the immigration issues that are challenging our country today,  THE CENTRISTS AGAINST THE IDEOLOGUES: WHAT ARE THE FALSEHOODS THAT DIVIDE AMERICANS ON THE ISSUE OF COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM,  23 ND J. L. Ethics and Pub Pol'y 115, lexis,  )

Conversely, should we enact CIR, ....security through an economic stimulus.

Ext daly 11/7

a.       Quick fiscal cliff is key to open door for CIR

b.      Its inev going to get decided quickly if there is bipart. If Obama is pushing it through with his PC it will pass (plan takes this away)

c.       Passing it quickly is key to open lame duck for other issues.

Fiscal cliff is top of the docket- Obama leverage solves

AP 11/7 Top Democrat wants quick deal on ’fiscal cliff’, Associated Press, November 7, 2012, http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/general/view.bg?articleid=1061173074

The fiscal cliff is the one-two punch of expiring .... controlling over fiscal issues.

In a world where they don’t have a non unique you default neg

Fiscal cliff is the immediate challenge- immigration reform next

PBS 11/7 From Fiscal Cliff to Immigration Reform, What Will the Next Four Years Bring?  PBS NewS Hour, Nov. 7, 2012, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec12/future_11-07.html

Pressing business awaits the White House.... be had on immigration. There's a grand bargain to be struck there.

Link debate

1.      Plan unpopular- causes congression grid lock

a.       Debates over energy

b.      That’s mcehntee 12

c.       Kills Obama chance to talk about CIR, causes backlash

Wind power drains capital – requires extensive political battles

Brannen 12 7/23/2012 Brannen, a writer living on Martha’s Vineyard, is a recent Ocean Science Journalism Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Offshore wind farms will be encouraged in tracts along the East Coast, http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/offshore-wind-farms-will-be-encouraged-in-tracts-along-the-east-coast/2012/07/23/gJQAD2Pu4W_story.htmljap

The legal battles and political .... life and underwater archaeological sites.

Massive disagreement over energy policy

Banks 12 Common Ground in Energy Policy, John Banks, nonresident fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution's Energy Security Initiative; and adjunct professor for electricity markets at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, August 14^th 2012, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/finding-the-sweet-spot-biparti.php

A divisive energy policy debate ....are illustrative of this theme.

2.      Plan would be pushed to the top of the docket which means CIR gets pushed back

Immediate focus on fiscal is key to solutions

Ferraro 11/5 Obama Would Push For Fiscal Cliff Deal If Re-Elected, Democratic Aides Say, Reuters, 11/05/2012, Thomas Ferraro, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/05/obama-fiscal-cliff_n_2080331.html

If President Barack Obama wins re-election, he's expected to move quickly, perhaps within a day, to renew his bid for a bipartisan deal to avert a "fiscal cliff" that threatens to push the United States into recession, top Senate Democratic aides said on Monday. A victorious Obama could reach out to Republicans as early as Wednesday and pledge that, with the election decided, it's time to find common ground to deal with the year-end expiration of Bush-era tax cuts and the launch of automatic spending cuts that would suck $600 billion out of the economy in 2013. "He wants to get the process started immediately," one aide said. "We could move quickly," another aide said, explaining that the basic ingredients of any deal - increased tax revenues coupled with cuts in entitlement programs - have been debated thoroughly for the past two years. "Everyone knows what needs to be done," he said.¶ Two Democratic aides said White House officials have discussed the matter with top Senate Democrats, though it remains unclear exactly how a re-elected Obama would proceed.¶ But as one aide said, the White House intends to move quickly because it "wants a big deal" before the current Congress adjourns in December. The White House had no comment.

We only need to win one link to prove the plan causes CIR to not pass

Obama fails to win over the public after legislative victories – the reality is the opposite he actually loses credibility after legislative wins

Harris, 2010

(John F., Why President Obama loses by winning, http:~/~/www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39772_html, 10/14/2012)

Thursday’s passage of financial reform, ....measures he is clearly succeeding:

We’re on the brink – lack of border security encourages terrorist infiltration

RSN 11/5 Immigration Reform News and Impact on US Homeland Security November 5, 2012, ¶ Right Side News, http:~/~/www.rightsidenews.com/2012110517341/us/homeland-security/html

Last week, Canadian officials shut down a...….That is wrong. The border is better now than it ever has been." (CBS News, Mar. 25, 2011)

Fiscal cliff compromise paves the way for immigration reform

Goldfarb and Montgomery 11/7 After Obama’s reelection, overtures from Republicans on debt negotiations, Zachary A. Goldfarb and Lori Montgomery, November 7, http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/after-obamas-reelection-overtures-from-republicans-on-debt-negotiations/2012/11/07/8db0416e-28f6-11e2-bab2-eda299503684_print.html

Less than 24 hours after the election, President ....reform, during Obama’s second term.