There Was a Call On My Answering Machine From Lindsay Graham That Said “Shut Up, Bigot!”
June 16th, 2007 at 11:12 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesAnd I don’t even live in South Carolina.
Junior’s asshole buddies are showing their true colors on the Shamnesty bill by continuing to shit in our mouths and then insist we’re eating a hot fudge sundae. Homeland Security Chump Michael Chertoff is “urging” that the bill be passed so that we’ll have somebody to pick his fucking lettuce. Oh, and his message to you and me? Shut up.
He says that unless there is meaningful immigration reform, U.S. farmers might have to curtail operations or move offshore because of labor shortages.
“I don’t believe Americans in large numbers are going to go pick lettuce,” Mr. Chertoff says.
“What you will see is a major shift of our businesses, certainly the agriculture business, out of the country, and that that is going to be a very, very bad thing,” he says.
Mr. Chertoff also faulted much of the right-wing blathersphere for its opposition to the Senate bill.
“We are fighting a very heavy headwind,” he says, pointing to talk radio as a major culprit.
I’m tickled pink to be a part of the Right Wing Blathersphere, you silly twatwaffle. At least we can tell the difference between shit and shinola, a talent that your years of living off the public trough seems to have eliminated. Chertoff was just part of the fun, however. Trent Lott shot his mouth off as well. Why couldn’t he have stayed in obscurityland like he was supposed to?
At some point, Mr. Lott said, Senate Republican leaders may try to rein in “younger guys who are huffing and puffing against the bill.”
Lott is the stereotypical elitist telling the dissenters to get in line or else. I used to think that it was only bedwetting leftists that wanted to decide what was best for me, despite my opinion. I’ve come to realize that it’s a ruling class of elitists – party notwithstanding – that wants the rest of us little people to lie there and take it like a bitch.
As long as the GOP is led by the likes of Bush, Lott, McCain, Graham and Kennedy (yeah, I said Kennedy), they will continue to lose BIG on election day and may become an even bigger minority after the 2008 elections. Insty sums it up nicely here.
Apparently they do. Good luck with that, guys. The political press can run with stories about bloggers being in full revolt over immigration, but it’s not really a case of bloggers vs. the Administration. Rather, it’s a case — like Harriet Miers, Dubai Ports, PorkBusters, etc. — of the Bush Administration ignoring the clear warnings available in the blogosphere. And once again, it’s not just bloggers who think the Administration is crazy. So far, every time they’ve done that they’ve had their head handed to them. That’ll happen this time, too, and if they should happen to “win” and pass their bill, the consequences for the GOP will be even worse. “Bizarre Republican Death Wish?” Indeed.
Frankly, that’s okay with me. I’ve long been unhappy with both Democrats and Republicans. The GOP has been better on national security, though that advantage is fading with time, but overall both parties have been lame and more likely to unite in opposition to citizens’ rights and liberties than to compete in protecting them. I’ve often at least sort-of hoped for a third party that would combine the GOP economic-libertarian strands with the Dems’ social-libertarian strands. I don’t know if the GOP’s self-destruction makes that more likely, but it seems like it might. At any rate, if people really want to commit suicide it’s hard to stop them, and that seems to be the GOP’s main goal at the moment.
Last but never least, Ace points out that it’s not wise to continue attacking your base and that the GOP will pay a deeper price if they cram this one in our collective out door.
But they’re not listening. Useless humps like Trent Lott are so used to legislating in secret and without public scrutiny that they’ve come to believe that doing so is their actual right, and that democratic pressure from the public is some sort of usurpation of the Divine Right of Legislators.
I will say it again: Do. Not. Do. This. If You Value. Your Political Lives. Don’t consider it a threat; consider it an intervention.
Damn straight.
June 16th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Best argument I’ve heard (on TV) from a Republican Congresswoman who’s name I missed.
“Your bathtub is running over; do you head for a mop and a bucket or do you turn off the spigot?”
I rest my case.
June 16th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
It’s time.
Iowahawk for President.
Smantix for VP.
Cranky for Secretary of the Interior.
Preston for the new position of Secretary in charge of forcibly removing all illegal aliens.
No more pussies in Washington. It’s time for some Pricks.
June 17th, 2007 at 9:09 am
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June 17th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Is A’merca ready for a VP who makes Dick Cheney look like Mother Theresa?
I’d like to think so.
June 17th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Regarding the line from Instapundit: “I’ve often at least sort-of hoped for a third party that would combine the GOP economic-libertarian strands with the Dems’ social-libertarian strands.” – it seems that the closest body to that line of thought is the Libertarian Party. You may want to visit their web site if you are interested in what they have to say.
You will probably find a few disagreeable planks in their platform, however, that would be no different than any other political party.
June 17th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
I’m done with parties. I’ll stay independent. Voting against Republicans is nothing new to me; I’ve been voting against Mike Castle for a while now. Not that it matters. One of my senators is that asshat Joe Biden, so it really doesn’t matter who I vote for in any election. I’m free to do what I want, any ol’ time.
June 18th, 2007 at 12:48 am
Unabrewer…don’t you want to be a Prick? Stand firm with us!
June 18th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Chertoff: “What you will see is a major shift of our businesses, certainly the agriculture business, out of the country, and that that is going to be a very, very bad thing,” he says.
Yes. Let’s work towards importing manual labor and continue exporting the high-tech and heavy industrial/manufacturing jobs through policy that accommodates outsourcing. Because that would be a very, very good thing.
There’s just no end to the dishonesty and idiocy being poured out of these guy’s skulls, but that quote is especially rich in something new: a quest for slavery. Well, publicly subsidized indentured servitude for select business, anyway.
The new, just passed, minimum wage law is supposed to ensure that all of those new legal employees get a nice jump in wages. Oops. There goes that labor savings agri-business so desires. So, with no follow-up enforcement of old law, much less any new ones, a new wave of 20 million illegals will crest as soon as the current shadow dwellers get a tan. Slavemasters unite! Save our lettuce, our nickel, and our plantation!
Perhaps we could pay a coyote to traffic in a new Homeland Security chief from Mexico. It seems to have a much stronger enforcement and border security head and policy than our own (or one that preserves its interests anyway)… doing the job Chertoff and Bush won’t do.
June 18th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Drivel, it does seem like they’re trying to expand the lower classes (manual laborers) and export the middle classes (skilled/tech jobs) overseas while keeping the political/royalty classes above the fray and profiting from the whole situation.
I suppose we should go ahead and start working on our strawberry picking skills since most of us are closer to the lower end of that spectrum. It’s a shame, because America used to be the only place on the planet where upward mobility was attainable through hard work (something other than picking lettuce, sorry to say).
It was fun while it lasted.
June 18th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
I hate to keep bringing you down, Preston, but it is happening before our very eyes. The biggest one off the top of my head is the textile industry. It used to be huge, terribly productive, and a vast employer of that legal low to middle class labor pool that so financed much of agrarian America and that could create a desirable, exportable product with long shelf-life. In the span of about a decade, it has virtually disappeared, decimated by capital flight to the cheapest labor corporations can find whether or not the labor pool at the destination subsists beyond hand-to-mouth workers. China is practically the exclusive manufacturer of our imported textiles with end products now trucked in by the nation’s Wal-Marts that need drive prices lower and lower to a social class that has difficulty earning a living wage.
It’s a downward cycle that repeats and serves as microcosm to the whole free trade concept. The middle class that serves as the strength of this nation (that upward mobility you so rightly noted) continues to get pinched.