Illegal Immigrants, the GOP's gift that keeps giving
Caught a few fish yesterday. I gave what I caught to my friends, in the hope that they will have a fish fry and I will be invited. Got to keep the mercury levels in my blood elevated, you know.
Now on to another pressing topic, one I’m getting tired of, that won’t go away; the suddenly pressing issue of Mexican Mestizos and Central American Indians crossing the US-Mexico border, “illegally,” to pick our lettuce, wash our dishes, bus our tables, pour our concrete and a host of other jobs which young, white suburban slugs will never deign to do.
So anyway, the MSM is all-agog that the US Senate and House will reach a compromise soon on their competing immigration reform bills. Please, don’t bet the farm on that. The Republicans in control of Congress know they are in hot water, deep doo-doo, and, if the election were held today, likely to lose. So, as I’ve written before, the GOP is attempting to ride the wet backs of poor Indians and Mestizos back into control of the US House.
Remember that one of the main tenets of reactionary Republicans is, compromise is weakness. Therefore, House Republicans will not, in any way shape or form, come to any type of compromise with the Senate bill, just passed, before the summer recess and fall elections.
However, cracker Rep. Charlie Norwood of GA revealed the real intentions of reactionary Republicans, in both the US House and Senate, on NBC’s Meet the Press, acknowledging,”…that a ‘good guest worker program’ was needed, though he appeared to draw the line at any path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants currently in the United States.”
So there you have it, the Rovian strategy in a nutshell. Incumbent Republican congressmen, and what few GOP women in habit the US House, will race bait all summer long, promising to round-up, incarcerate and deport all illegal aliens and ship’em back to where they came from. This rings clear and true to the mostly white Christian right, who’ve seen their economic status steadily erode under their feet for nearly thirty years, but who also remain faithful to a “free market” economy as they do to Jesus.
If all this race baiting works and Republicans hold on to majority control of the US House and Senate, despite all the party’s ethical woes, look for an “immigration reform” law which codifies indentured servitude as a “guest worker program.” Our ersatz-cowboy king in The White House has been pressing for a guest worker program since 2004, so look for it to be a reality, should the GOP retain control of both Houses of Congress, after the November elections, probably sometime early next year. That way reactionary Republicans can look like they are having their cake and eating it too; a law with plenty of jail time for any unfortunate caught crossing the borders after a certain date, a slightly stronger slap on the wrist of those who hire them and a guest worker program to legally exploit cheap labor for now and into the foreseeable future.
Further reading: King*: Illegal-immigration apologists ignore its consequences
Raw Data: Comparison of House, Senate Immigration Bills
*Ranting of Iowa 5th US Congressional District Representative Steve "the blue-eyed Tom Tancredo" King (note: spells out the word "illegal" in all capitals in "schoolgirl style.")
Now on to another pressing topic, one I’m getting tired of, that won’t go away; the suddenly pressing issue of Mexican Mestizos and Central American Indians crossing the US-Mexico border, “illegally,” to pick our lettuce, wash our dishes, bus our tables, pour our concrete and a host of other jobs which young, white suburban slugs will never deign to do.
So anyway, the MSM is all-agog that the US Senate and House will reach a compromise soon on their competing immigration reform bills. Please, don’t bet the farm on that. The Republicans in control of Congress know they are in hot water, deep doo-doo, and, if the election were held today, likely to lose. So, as I’ve written before, the GOP is attempting to ride the wet backs of poor Indians and Mestizos back into control of the US House.
Remember that one of the main tenets of reactionary Republicans is, compromise is weakness. Therefore, House Republicans will not, in any way shape or form, come to any type of compromise with the Senate bill, just passed, before the summer recess and fall elections.
However, cracker Rep. Charlie Norwood of GA revealed the real intentions of reactionary Republicans, in both the US House and Senate, on NBC’s Meet the Press, acknowledging,”…that a ‘good guest worker program’ was needed, though he appeared to draw the line at any path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants currently in the United States.”
So there you have it, the Rovian strategy in a nutshell. Incumbent Republican congressmen, and what few GOP women in habit the US House, will race bait all summer long, promising to round-up, incarcerate and deport all illegal aliens and ship’em back to where they came from. This rings clear and true to the mostly white Christian right, who’ve seen their economic status steadily erode under their feet for nearly thirty years, but who also remain faithful to a “free market” economy as they do to Jesus.
If all this race baiting works and Republicans hold on to majority control of the US House and Senate, despite all the party’s ethical woes, look for an “immigration reform” law which codifies indentured servitude as a “guest worker program.” Our ersatz-cowboy king in The White House has been pressing for a guest worker program since 2004, so look for it to be a reality, should the GOP retain control of both Houses of Congress, after the November elections, probably sometime early next year. That way reactionary Republicans can look like they are having their cake and eating it too; a law with plenty of jail time for any unfortunate caught crossing the borders after a certain date, a slightly stronger slap on the wrist of those who hire them and a guest worker program to legally exploit cheap labor for now and into the foreseeable future.
Further reading: King*: Illegal-immigration apologists ignore its consequences
Raw Data: Comparison of House, Senate Immigration Bills
*Ranting of Iowa 5th US Congressional District Representative Steve "the blue-eyed Tom Tancredo" King (note: spells out the word "illegal" in all capitals in "schoolgirl style.")
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