It’s unlikely that this could beat the catch, tag and release proposal, but since The Toot has been retained at a considerable price tag to judge the Hispanic Racism One Upsmanship Day Week in the GOP, we might as well take note of this entry from California Representative Duncan Hunter:
At a tea party rally in Ramona in San Diego County over the weekend, Hunter fielded a question about the issue.
“Would you support deportation of natural born American citizens that are the children of illegal aliens?” a man in the audience asked.
“I would have to, yes,” Hunter said.
He continued:
You can look and say, ‘You’re a mean guy. That’s a mean thing to do. That’s not a humanitarian thing to do.’ We simply cannot afford what we’re doing right now.
“We just can’t afford it anymore,” Hunter said. “That’s it. And we’re not being mean. We’re just saying it takes more than walking across the border to become an American citizen. It’s within our souls.”
Souls? I’m not sure he’s even got one.
April 29, 2010 at 4:24 am
While this is crazy nativist wingnuttery, I believe it would allow us to deport Carlos Mencia back to Unfunnystan. So there are trade-offs which need to be considered.
Also, this may mean there’s still time to deport the Irish.
April 29, 2010 at 11:47 am
Both worthy causes – at least if we can throw in George Lopez as well.
I call a timeout to reconsider.
April 29, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Can we deport Jay Leno too? His name ends in a vowel, and he’s not funny.
April 29, 2010 at 7:51 am
What part of illegal don’t you understand in legal not-an-alien?
April 29, 2010 at 8:15 am
So the old douche-bag Duncan Hunter has been replaced by the young douche-bag Duncan Hunter? WTF? Why wasn’t I informed of this?
April 29, 2010 at 9:33 am
Omigod that’s awesome, holy shit. 10/10
April 29, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Truly and indeed. I was going along with the guy’s rationale if not agreeing with it until he mentioned the part about souls.
But then I realized how honest and consistent he was being with the Republican raison d’etre: everything has a price, everything can be commodified, and many invisible hands (usually browner than theirs) make a free market work, right?
“We simply cannot afford what we’re doing right now. We just cannot afford it anymore… It’s in our souls.”
For if, as the right wing so often tells us, freedom isn’t free, imagine how much it costs a Republican to acquire a soul? And pay the mortgage? (Or at least keep up with the interest? That’s all I would do. I mean, you can’t take it with you, right? Right?)
April 29, 2010 at 9:57 am
Hey, but the Constitution says you can’t do that. I thought these guys lurved the Constitution.
April 29, 2010 at 10:14 am
They love the second clause of the 2nd Amendment, and a tendentious reading of the 10th. Meanwhile, far-right Republican congresscritters (and their liberty-loving ally, Ron Paul) have been trying for years to pass legislation eliminating birthright citizenship. So yeah, no grasp of Article V either.
April 29, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Heh. You said “tendentious”. You’re one of ‘them’.
April 29, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Oh, crap. I meant “heuristic” again, didn’t I?
April 29, 2010 at 10:07 am
This is my favorite episode in this series: http://angrydrunkbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2010/04/bureaucrats-aside-re-immigration-and.html
April 29, 2010 at 11:49 am
well played
April 29, 2010 at 11:02 am
Souls? I’m not sure he’s even got one.
I am quite certain that he does not, nor any comprehension of the plain English of the Constitution.
April 29, 2010 at 11:18 am
We’re just saying it takes more than walking across the border to become an American citizen. It’s within our souls.
Sounds to me like Rep. Hunter is talking about establishing … SOUL PANELS. Rep. Hunter wants people to have to go before a Soul Panel and have their America levels judged.
Teabaggers will see this as (a) a tyrannical invasion of privacy by the government or (b) necessary to preserve the integrity of our country, or possibly both, without recognizing a contradiction.
April 29, 2010 at 11:47 am
heh
April 29, 2010 at 11:53 am
But it’s also the opening gambit to the IslamoAfricanonativistofascism we all desire!
Ladies and Gentleman, get on down in front of the SOUUUUUL PANELLLL!
April 29, 2010 at 11:58 am
They don’t have ‘you can’t be funky unless you got soul’ on the youtubes, but they do have:
April 29, 2010 at 12:13 pm
He meant to say “walking across the water” but that sounded too much like Jesus, which is, you know, a typical beaner name.
April 29, 2010 at 12:15 pm
“(a) a tyrannical invasion of privacy by the government or (b) necessary to preserve the integrity of our country”
This really wants to be run through a Burroughsian cutup ‘bot to see if we can discern the soul at its core.
April 29, 2010 at 12:12 pm
The great thing about this Arizona law is how easy it will be for brown-skinned people to entrap law enforcement officers to harass them and the sue like Billie jeans illegitimate son.
April 29, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Is Michelle Malking packing her bags yet?
April 29, 2010 at 2:44 pm
IlLEGAL not ilLEGITIMATE or ilLEGIBLE.
April 29, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Malkin is just plain ill.
April 29, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Thing about MM is you get the impression she believes her crap. She and Jonah oughta get a room, I’m thinking.
April 30, 2010 at 7:19 am
eeew.
April 29, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Thing is – US-citizen children are deported with their parents all the time. This is standard practice, and has been for years.
Technically, the children don’t have to leave the US. But their parents do, so the policy is that it’s too bad.
Wingnuts like to imagine that immigrants have “anchor-babies”. Which goes to show that even wingnuts don’t think US citizens get deported. But they do. Every day.
April 29, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Airwolf might appreciate this:
April 29, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Gingers unite!
April 29, 2010 at 10:53 pm
It seems odd that those Very Devout Christians who ordinarily quote Leviticus non-stop seem unaware of this;
Leviticus 19:
33And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
34But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
But I guess if it’s not anti-gay , it doesn’t count, right?
Hunter: “I read my Bible consistently. There are scriptures that I quote daily.”
Hunter: “I honor the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.”
April 30, 2010 at 6:59 pm
April 30, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Ol’ Bill was born to be avant-garde. Most avant-garde (or whatever) leaves me bored and brooding, but Bill does it like kindergarteners finger-painting.
April 30, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Well put, sir. I wish I had not been so late in discovering him — I’m talking less than a year ago. Thus was my almost 20-year jazz gap. Damn that rock and roll!
April 30, 2010 at 8:22 pm
On another string altogether, I saw an image of Lindsey graham this AM and it brought back these memories of these pop-eyed Truman Buckleys and William F. Capote little shits like him that the Deep South breeds like Aussie rabbits.
Nasty little Pillsbury weasel boys. How do you deal with them in traffic?
April 30, 2010 at 8:28 pm
It ain’t easy. lol.
April 30, 2010 at 8:39 pm
He is the quintessence:
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&q=Lindsey+graham&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g1g-m2&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
But what an awesome doggie chewtoy he’d make!
April 30, 2010 at 7:14 pm
O quizás, más apropiadamente…
April 30, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Alright. ON youtube at last:
Way over the top and oh so melodramatic, downright moral angst supremacist, but he did it so well.
April 30, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Must have been hereditary…
May 1, 2010 at 8:01 am
Awes but you can understand the words his dad sang. Remember words in lyrics?
May 1, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Square.
May 1, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Wait till you hear 30-somethings on the bus talk about good old school roots screamo, where you could tell the human screamers from the ‘bot-shrieks. If we’re still alive, that is.
May 1, 2010 at 4:41 pm
lol.
I’m around college kids on a regular basis. They may as well be space aliens, for the most part.
May 1, 2010 at 9:07 pm
They ARE space aliens?
May 3, 2010 at 9:11 am
The v-neck t-shirt really needs to back.
May 3, 2010 at 9:12 am
… come back. duh.
May 1, 2010 at 5:04 am
It’s worse than you thought. First those bastards in Arizona came for the brown-skinned people; then they came for the <A HREF = "http://3weirdsisters.wordpress.comhuman-animal hybrids…
May 1, 2010 at 5:06 am
WTF? One more try: human-animal hybrids…
May 1, 2010 at 9:24 am
Hell yes it’s time to put our collective feet down upon the neck of those damn furries!
May 1, 2010 at 11:42 am
And don’t get me started about those partisan switchovers. What kind of creatures are Specter and Jomentum, anyhow?
May 3, 2010 at 6:28 am
In other news today:
TURIN, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI all but gave an outright endorsement of the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin on Sunday, calling the cloth that some believe is Christ’s burial shroud an icon “written with the blood” of a crucified man….
Of course too bad about that science stuff, unless of course you mean a man crucified in the 14th century. Then maybe. Possible the Sufi mystic din al Hajj who was reportedly crucified by the Turks.
May 3, 2010 at 6:33 am
Mansur al-Hallaj that would be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansur_Al-Hallaj
But he’s way too early for the Man in the Shroud.
May 3, 2010 at 8:06 am
Hey, it’s only off by 1400 years. That’s close enough in the Religion Topology.
May 3, 2010 at 8:48 am
You can’t have it both ways!
Either the universe is 6000 years old, and the Shroud is totally legit, because science is wrong, or the universe is billions of years old, and 1400 years off is a rounding error.
May 3, 2010 at 9:27 am
And I feel, may I state at this time, that British Petroleum owes the United States of America $1,000,000,000,000 in reparations; and since it is at least partially owned by the UK government, they should be able to easily pay it back by raising taxes on luxury goods and/or postage stamps, etc.
Payback, bitchez.
May 3, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Exxon lawyer: Er, can we pay that back in leaked offshore oil? It all spends the same, right?
May 7, 2010 at 6:03 pm
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