Monroe, where art thou?

Here is yet another very good reason to secure our southern frontier. Demagogues unite! I am all for fighting terrorism on someone else's soil, and if we cannot control what comes across into our southwest we will face it here. Nothing Chavez and Ahmadinejad collaborate on are going to be very good for any free people in the Americas. Hopefully their cancerous politics can be beat back by more U.S. influence and assistance to Central and South America. If we do nothing these type of goons will spread their influence. We can most certainly make it without Citgo gas, but if future developments threaten the Panama canal we will be back down there in a big way, and none too diplomatically. In today's mobile world the Monroe Doctrine is no longer entirely practical, but taking care of our own backyard couldn't hurt.

I think a declaration of war with Venezuela is about all that we need so that the next time we see Cindy Sheehan hugging on Chavez we can shoot her for treason. While we're at it, why is David Duke still breathing? More power to them to exercise their fundamental right to self-expression; I just figure if you want to be a treasonous bitch you can turn in your passport on the way out and never grace our shores again. Jane Fonda, you getting this? You're next Clooney!

These events happening to our south will make drug trafficking across our southern border look quaint when we look back in several years. Anyone in this country who is in power and does nothing to secure our southern border is abetting this growing enemy. Border control is not about our country being racist, it is about obtaining essential security for our nation. Bush, McCain, and many others purport to be patriots but are undermining our security by pushing for immigration reform that does not lock our border down. John McCain, for painting yourself as a patriot and war hero while actively working to leave our nation vunerable, you are the devil.

Update: I'm bored so I present(with apologies to Frank J.)

At last, a meaningful immigration bill!

No, not really. Actually it is more like your favorite bootlegger's son/whisky swiller/all-around good driver, Ted Kennedy, teaming up with John (excuse me while I wrap this flag around myself) McCain to draft a bipartisan amnes... er.. immigration bill.


So what is wrong with this whole amnesty thing? It is admission that we have lost control of our borders so we will just re-set the clock of legality and keep on letting folks pour in. Further, it is racist vote pandering. The bipartisan number crunchers know that it takes just a few million swing voters to decide their political future so they invariably show up in a black church for the first and last time ever, gingerly kiss an asian baby or two, and promise not to do anything meaningful to anger the “latino” voters. I can just see a bunch of these presidential (or theoretical) candidates sitting down playing race card poker:

Jesse/Al: Hmmm, I possess with finesse, a hand of great largesse. Gaze now upon my inner-city straight flush.

Pat Buchanan: I got a full house of South Florida Jews.

Jesse/Al: Damn, Hymietown strikes again!

Rudy: Everyone loves me so they gave me all these cards. Anyone want these conservative credibility cards?

Hillary: I’m the mom, I have six queens!

Kucinich: Hey you cheater, there are only four queens in the deck!
(dark suited men enter, Kucinich disappears)

Jeb Bush: I got some Cuban jacks, top that!

McKennedy twins: Hah, we got a full meat packing pla… I mean a perfectly straight record of helping the brown man overcome!

Vilsack: I got white cards, anybody need the ones with smelly hair and sandals?

Dean: YeEEEeAArrrGHHh! I’ll take those!

Obama: I got a get out of jail free card and a “Pass go and collect anything you want from the adoring masses” card. I’d like to play those but I’m late, I must attend a campaign stop, something about making wine and breaking fish in half.


Hey, I have an idea, how about courting American votes. Not brown, white, rich, poor, black, yellow votes, American votes. That would sound like some platitude out of an Obama book, but to do it correctly would require a candidate to say what he/she believed in, what they would work for and leave it at that. I am sure many groups would be offended. Too bad.

So McCain wants to court voters of one demographic. Fine, everyone is doing it right? Yes, except that unchecked immigration destabilizes our economy, fractures our society, and opens us up to a fair number of tan-skinned folks who can’t hit a lick of Spanish but are probably fluent in Arabic or some derivative.
Okay you may say, so McCain is not the brightest for pushing something that will hurt the country. Is he really the devil or just misguided?
Nope, he is the devil incarnate because he will pander to the “latino vote” while his campaign not so subtly shoves down our throats what a great American war hero he is. I find it patently dishonest to push an obviously anti-american policy while wrapping one’s self so tightly in the flag.

The is a lot more wrong with immigration and with McCain(campaign finance reform). I hope to address more of both in the future.