Molly's in Great Form, as Usual
If you haven't read Molly Ivins lately, take a moment to do so today. I'll start you out.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Last week, Bush visited Yuma, Ariz., to tour a portion of the U.S.-Mexico Border by Border Patrol buggy. Maybe Jorge was doing a little measuring for the $3.2-million-a-mile fence the Senate recently approved, which I guarantee will be really helpful.
Are they insane? As Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano observes, "Show me a 50-foot wall, and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder."
Meanwhile, Republicans in the Senate have constructively declared English the national language. That'll fix everything. Every foreigner at our borders will stop and say: "Gosh, ma foi! English is the national language here. Good thing to know. I'll begin speaking it immediately."
Yes sir, you want a solution, call a Republican.
Of course, I am enchanted to discover that the entire project will be turned over to Raytheon, General Dynamics and other military contractors -- think Halliburton with noncompetitive bids, anyone? Because this outsourcing stuff is just working like a charm. Another Republican solution.
Then continue on yourself, here.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Last week, Bush visited Yuma, Ariz., to tour a portion of the U.S.-Mexico Border by Border Patrol buggy. Maybe Jorge was doing a little measuring for the $3.2-million-a-mile fence the Senate recently approved, which I guarantee will be really helpful.
Are they insane? As Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano observes, "Show me a 50-foot wall, and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder."
Meanwhile, Republicans in the Senate have constructively declared English the national language. That'll fix everything. Every foreigner at our borders will stop and say: "Gosh, ma foi! English is the national language here. Good thing to know. I'll begin speaking it immediately."
Yes sir, you want a solution, call a Republican.
Of course, I am enchanted to discover that the entire project will be turned over to Raytheon, General Dynamics and other military contractors -- think Halliburton with noncompetitive bids, anyone? Because this outsourcing stuff is just working like a charm. Another Republican solution.
Then continue on yourself, here.
posted by Anonymous at 7:44 PM
1 Comments:
Let's see...
Build a fence...
The 9/11 commission suggested that we needed to inspect more than the 2% of cargo containers that come into our ports. To date, only 2% are still inspected. In fact, other than trying to turn over port operations to a foreign government whose leaders recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan and entertained Osama bin Laden as a guest at their hunting camp there six months after the African embassy bombings, the Bush administration has done nothing about ports.
Most Chinese here illegally don't cross the Mexican border but quite a lot arrive in shipping containers.
Millions more shipping containers come in from Latin America.
Voila. Make it as hard as you please to cross the border into Arizona, and they will come in a different way.
Start putting employers in prison for hiring illegals, then the jobs would dry up, and if you dry up the water source, the weeds will quit springing up there.
But no, they would prefer to build a wall and tell us it will do something. Call it the 'Maginot Lie.'
Gee, that would make a good title for a blog post. Maybe I'll go write one.
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