February 09, 2007
According to a congressman's wife who attended a Republican women's luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president's amnesty/open-borders proposal this way: "I don't want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas."
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There should be no need to explain why this is an obscene statement coming from a leader in the party that promotes the virtues of hard work, thrift, and sobriety, a party whose demi-god actually split fence rails as a young man, a party where "respectable Republican cloth coat" once actually meant something. But it does seem to be necessary to explain.For those who haven't noticed, he's been way off his game of late.Rove's comment illustrates how the Bush-McCain-Giuliani-Hagel-Martinez-Brownback-Huckabee approach to immigration strikes at the very heart of self-government. It is precisely Rove's son (and my own, and those of the rest of us in the educated elite) who should work picking tomatoes or making beds, or washing restaurant dishes, or mowing lawns, especially when they're young, to help them develop some of the personal and civic virtues needed for self-government. It's not that I want my kids to make careers of picking tomatoes; Mexican farmworkers don't want that either. But we must inculcate in our children, especially those likely to go on to high-paying occupations, that there is no such thing as work that is beneath them.
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Posted by: Randman at February 09, 2007 12:27 PM (Sal3J)
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at February 09, 2007 01:15 PM (8e/V4)
Encouraging unskilled people to enter your country and do all the shit work is abusive and exploitative. It flys in the face of honest American tradition and it's unconstitutional. (I don't want to hear any crap about Chinese coolies, because the practice was an aberration.) It's also backfired every time I know of. It doesn't matter if the imported peons are treated like second class citizens as the Blacks were in South Africa, or simply encouraged to undercut native workers and enter a second class niche, as the Mexicans are here in America. If you let enough of them in, they'll eventually take over.
Unlike the Bantu speaking Blacks who moved to South Africa, Mexicans are encouraged to maintain their Mexican culture and allegience. They are also feted by lending institutions, social service programs, both political parties, the courts, local governments, and the Marxist left.
If a convicted terrorist like Nelson Mandela can gain control of a government that practiced racism against Blacks openly, does anybody really think that deeply racist Mexicans cant take over a government that bends over backwards to accomodate them and encourages them to live as a seperate nation within our own?
If Mexican immigrants and invaders were required to assimilate into society as previous immigrant groups were, the problem could be solved. They aren't, and it won't be. I hope Americans like Spanish more than English, crime more than order and barrios more than suburbs, because that's what's coming.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at February 09, 2007 01:24 PM (Dt3sl)
Posted by: w3 at February 09, 2007 01:47 PM (9TtwK)
Posted by: tbone at February 09, 2007 01:57 PM (HGqHt)
I'm not following what that insult is supposed to mean. Bend panties? The phrase is usually "don't get your panties in a bunch" or "sand in your vagina," referring to someone complaining like a little bitch.
Is this some bizarre Canadian expression (as they wear bendable foil panties up north)? So where are you from tbone?
Posted by: wooga at February 09, 2007 02:21 PM (t9sT5)
The National Enquirer is more reliable than the Establishment Media.
Since when does hearsay pass as reporting? Ask NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Reuters, et al.
The story did not attribute Rove's alleged remarks to first hand knowledge. It clearly identified the source.
Very little of the news that reaches us is first hand. In fact, none of it is.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at February 09, 2007 02:26 PM (Dt3sl)
Yes, Rove is off his game. As "Savage" says, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Posted by: Credit Man at February 09, 2007 03:08 PM (+DJYZ)
It is much, much older.
There is also a corollary to this saying, and that is that the corrupt seek power. (See Romney, Mitt)
Posted by: QC at February 09, 2007 04:43 PM (PX+vn)
I personally see this agenda as nothing more than a new form of slavery. Unlimited illegal aliens means that business, especially agribusiness corporations who haven't modernized and still operate on labor intensive practices, will always have extremely low wage workers and huge profits. Even if Bush's amnesty plan comes about new illegal aliens will continue to stream across the border or be bussed up by the corporations themselves. The path to citizenship is no more than a contract that illegals will work in poor conditions and low wages for 18 months before they can move upwards and gain human rights. Meanwhile our US corporations ship material overseas to third world countries where workers manufacture our goods in conditions that are not allowed within our borders.
This shoddy economic policy also erases our nations laws and borders it robs our culture of the work ethic that made America great. It is not any type of conservative ideal.
Posted by: Buzzy at February 09, 2007 05:32 PM (CXz7T)
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at February 09, 2007 05:58 PM (6zYAC)
According to a congressman's wife ?
According to a congressman's wife???
Anonymous sources anyone?
uh...do we have a name on the end of that accusation, context of the conversation in which it was said etc????
Or are we carte blanche to believe every word whispered by a "congressman's wife"?
Posted by: mrclark at February 09, 2007 06:03 PM (tY7kt)
Posted by: Jake at February 09, 2007 10:33 PM (AeRA2)
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at February 10, 2007 11:51 AM (Dt3sl)
Posted by: Good Lt at February 10, 2007 10:37 PM (D0TMh)
Posted by: Hucbald at February 11, 2007 02:05 AM (bNmUl)
Even the Establishment Media have their token conservatives. Besides, Stossel has a disability (dyslexia, I think,) so they wouldn't dare fire him.
Considering that more than 90% of the population is supposed to be firmly against Illegal immigration, a few were bound to slip in.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at February 12, 2007 05:14 PM (Dt3sl)
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