I've been trying to stay away from blogging for a few days due to some serious real world work demands, but this is just too much:
House conservatives criticized President Bush, accused the Senate of fouling the air, said prisoners rather than illegal farm workers should pick America's crops and denounced the use of Mexican flags by protesters Thursday in a vehement attack on legislation to liberalize U.S. immigration laws.
"I say let the prisoners pick the fruits," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California, one of more than a dozen Republicans who took turns condemning a Senate bill that offers an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants an opportunity for citizenship.
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Referring to a wave of demonstrations in recent weeks, Rep. Virgil Goode of Virginia said, "I say if you are here illegally and want to fly the Mexican flag, go to Mexico and wave the American flag."
But the confederate flag is probably just fine and dandy, right? Not to mention that sentence is completely incomprehensible.
[wishing I had something pissy, but end up with a Bloom County-esque "ooo...oooo...hmph!" out of frustration and exhaustion.]
Posted by binky at March 31, 2006 01:12 AM | TrackBack | Posted to You Can't Make This Stuff UpHe wants armed robbers and rapists handling our produce? I know you are talking about much bigger things than this Binky - but from my perspective the "ick" factor should be reason enough to question this idea.
And I look forward to Congressman not-so-Goode banning the flying of the Irish flag in Boston or the Italian flag in New Jersey. That should go over really well.
Posted by: Armand at March 31, 2006 01:15 PM | PERMALINKick is right. i thought we'd moved past the "go back to your on stinking hole" dialectic on race, at least in the halls of power, but i guess not.
Posted by: moon at April 1, 2006 10:38 AM | PERMALINK