Why I Am a Democrat and Not a Republican- Part ten million
The House vote today to deny entry to Syrian refugees:
Wingnut Wrapup
It's been a while, but it's a little hard to get worked up about what some doofus in St. Louis thinks, when we have a raving lunatic in the White House. anyway, here we go: Matt Vespa, Town Hall: "Sorry Liberals, Ellison and DWS Remained Seated During Roughy Two-Minute Standing Ovation Honoring Fallen Navy SEAL's Widow" This is more important than two hundred Republicans in Congress conspiring to cover up treason. And by the way, it's not true, not that that matters to Republicans. Leah Barkoukis, Town Hall" "Cruz Defends Sessions Over Russia Report: It's a 'Nothing Burger' Treason: a nothing burger. A legal lesson from the Republican party. Cal Thomas, Town Hall: "Trump Reinvents Himself" One speech during which he did not degenerate into a shouting, spittle flecked maniac undoes two years of piggishness and hatred. Jim Jamitis, Red State: "Maryland Democrats Pick Chris Matthews’ Wife As State Party ...
Comments
(1) Congress has authority over migration, according to the Steve King version of the constitution, and should not cede it to the Presidency.
(2) Under the act, the Obama Administration could still let jihadists from Syria and Iraq into the country. Thus, it's too weak.
The other ""no" vote came from Walter Jones, who has announced he will vote against any bill with funds for resettling Middle Eastern refugees. He finds the bill problematic because it's limited to only Syria and Iraq.
But what brave Republicans to agitate to keep America safe from, say, a traumatised 7 year old child and her terrified parents.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me"
- ah who cares? It's a French statue anyway...
Scope the total lack of faith in America that the country could engender in anyone the gratitude to, one day, want to repay it by discovering a new cure, or building a new facility, or serve in the armed forces. The annulment of any pride in the transformative qualities that America might bestow on anyone who comes there with a mindful of terrible memories and a simple hope for a more normal life, like all those generations before.
That we used to read about.
That used to be an American tale.
Or the story of an American family.
no, no.... shit all over that soppy junk. It polls well with all them 'good Christian folk' to incubate a nation of fearful little bigots.
With lotsa guns... "to protect myself, y'know?"
'No such thing is a free pretzel, kid - fuck off and die'.
If this does not remind you of Germany in 1925, you surely know very little about European history.