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June 15, 2008

Ending Open Borders and the Old Boy Network

...and making government responsive to the 96.3% who want their towns back

 

 

Alas, someone who hears us!

 

Conservative State Rep. Leo Berman, Republican of Tyler, is taking a stand. He is standing up for ordinary Texans who have overwhelmingly suffered as a result of our open-borders corporate-government-payoff policy, and have overwhelmingly called for something to be done to stop the bleeding before it's too late.

 

“We don’t have any leadership in Texas that’s committed to real immigration reform,” Berman says. “I’m going to lead an effort among a dozen Republicans to introduce 20 to 30 new bills dealing with illegal immigration. If we can’t do anything on those bills, then at the end of the session, I will announce my candidacy for governor, on the pledge that if elected, I’ll do something about the issue.”

 

This looks like a great idea. Rick Perry has essentially done for American sovereignty and the health and safety of the people of the State of Texas what that little terrorist did by taking Molotov cocktail to Governor's Mansion last week: leave an appalling legacy. I make no bones about the fact I do not like Rick Perry; he’s a Sleaze with a capital S, but if he could at least keep it to his private life, I might consider leaving well-enough alone. Of course just a week or two ago, do you know where Perry was? In Mexico asking how high we need to jump to appease corrupt leaders bent on “reconquista”. Meanwhile underage girls are kidnapped and raped by illegal aliens, whole families are killed by illegal alien drunk drivers, hospitals are shutting down and schools are going belly-up because of illegal alien freeloaders, and Americans can’t find the jobs they need to do in desperate times, because of the 30% of illegals who actually work rather than drink beer all day so they can go out and run over Americans, rape Americans, and spread infectious diseases (that’s not an attack on Mexicans, by the way; most Mexicans are happy that generally the lowest common denominator in their country has left for the northern frontier, and I can’t blame them.)

 

Love this:

 

Gov. Rick Perry — who has announced his plans to run for re-election in 2010 — has opposed Berman’s bills in the past. “I think any of those types of legislation that create divisions are bad. We need to look at ways to be bringing people together, rather than driving wedges between them.”

 

Yes, we wouldn’t wish to drive a wedge that separates citizens and legal aliens from those who are here illegally. And we wouldn't want to enforce that pesky border, er, I mean, "wedge", either. How terrible would that be. Worse yet, how many millions of dollars in bribes would Perry lose from corrupt businesses that hire illegals if he went along with the overwhelming will of the people of Texas and passed an illegal immigration law as tough as say, those long in place in Mexico.

 

Perry’s not the only state Republican who still doesn’t get it: “House Speaker Tom Craddick has also opposed most state-level fixes to what he sees as federal issues. ’Historically, the federal government has dealt with immigration.’” Come down out of your ivory towers and see how those of us who don’t have walls and guards around our mansions are forced to live. Perry and Craddick both need to go.

 

There are of course others in Austin government who are opposed to Berman’s wish to respond to the will of the people, and we aren’t even including the typical Democrats. No, these are all Republicans infected with the same virus that has made the national party so ill: a revival of Rockefellerism, which would even rather keep thumbing its nose at the electorate than win elections.

 

And Berman’s now armed with the irrefutable endorsement for immigration reform voiced by Texas Republican voters.

 

In March, Republicans casting ballots in the primaries voted on a measure saying that “Federal, state and local officials should be required to enforce U.S. immigration laws in order to secure our borders.” They approved the referendum by 96.33 percent.

 

But it’s still going to be an uphill battle to win over the leadership, Berman acknowledges.

 

I propose we drag all of these worthless leaders out of the capitol building by their ears and force them to meet in a home in a random middle class community overrun with the various plagues caused by illegal immigration – both literal and figurative – and if they should become ill (heaven forbid), we'll take them to the same hospitals the rest of us are forced to visit and wait behind the long line of those who have no excuse to be here, are stealing healthcare (by not paying for it), and bringing a host of new and strange exotic diseases (many of which we extinguished in the United States many moons ago) into not only our emergency rooms, but our schools.

 

It is our state and these elected officials represent us. I’ve about had it and I’ll be darned if I stand by and allow a one of them to get re-elected – ever. If they would like, they can certainly take their mamby-pamby elitist Nero-esque mentality and start their own political party. Call it the Screw You, America: We’re Going to Get Rich off Your Backs Whether You Like it or Not Party.

 

When Speaker Craddick says, “Historically, the federal government has dealt with immigration,” what he really means is, “Historically, the good ‘ol boys have run the show. Now, you ordinary people out there think you’re political power brokers because you have Fox News, Lou Dobbs, talk radio, and the blogs. Well, we ain’t goin’ quietly and we aim to remind you ignorant citizens who really is boss 'round here.” Hope you remember what being a legislator was like, Craddick, because the voters have had enough, and unless you declare a dictatorship, next Election Day, you’ll be packing your bags, as will your buddies in the legislature and the governor’s mansion… make that the Governor’s Rubble. Rick and his cronies should go back in time to that old Louisiana where fat men sat in smoke-filled rooms with the framed bass hanging on the wall, where they divvied up their share of the taxpayers’ money and special interest bribes in Dukes of Hazard style. Or swap that fish out with a moose head, keep the cigar smoke, and move two thousand miles east to Tammany Hall. Either of these will suffice, I’m sure, for these diehard nostalgics of yesteryear.

 

Such backward self-serving miopses who’d do anything to stay in power and aggrandize themselves, including lying, cheating, and dare I say burning down their own living quarters so the state might furnish an upgrade to suit their egos (not that anyone would do that today, mind you) are a scourge on efficient government of the people, by the people, and for the people; and the sooner the voters are rid of them, the better off everyone will be. If taxpayers are even slightly fortunate, Leo Berman’s bills will pass and he’ll run for governor. What a day for Texas that would be.  

 

 

Posted by Martin at June 15, 2008 05:20 PM

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