Oh, look: Gestural Politics
believe it?
President Barack Obama [raaaaacist teabagger] will send 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Tuesday, pre-empting Republican plans to try to force votes on such a deployment.
Obama will also request $500 million for border protection and law enforcement activities, according to lawmakers and administration officials. The moves come as chances for action on comprehensive immigration reform, Obama’s long-stated goal, look increasingly small in this election year.
or…
...some Hispanic lawmakers in his own party are blaming combative White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for the slow pace of progress.
“I don’t think Rahm Emanuel is a positive influence on the immigration debate,” Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill, told the Chicago Fox affiliate. Gutierrez hails from the same state as Emanuel, a former congressional leader. “I don’t think he sees it as a core value of the Democratic Party, or a necessity that the American people need to be acted upon.”
Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., told the Los Angeles Times that he wants immigration to be stripped from Emanuel’s portfolio.
...Frank Sharry, founder and executive director of America’s Voice, a pro-immigration group, told FoxNews.com that Emanuel was a “real problem” during the Bush years when “he was encouraging Democrats to run away from immigration.”
..."When I talk to people in the White House, I don’t get the sense he’s the guy laying down in front of the bulldozer saying don’t move immigration,” he said. “I think they’ve set other issues at higher priority. It’s all health care all the time. All financial reform all the time."
nice metaphor…
"The politics of this is clear,” he said. “If you want to show independents you’re about solving tough problems and not playing politics as usual, immigration is a winner."
IF “solving” = “surrendering”, sure.
“President Barack Obama [raaaaacist teabagger] will send 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border,...”
Doesn’t he think it’s just a teeny bit “racist” to send troops to the AZ/Mexican border and nobody to the Canadian border? Where all those hosers are white guys?
How long is the “U.S.-Mexico border”? According to the Intertubes, it’s just under 2000 miles. That means one Guardsman every 1.64 miles (using the actual length). Convert to feet: one trooper covers 8663 feet. Assume that about half doesn’t really need guarding (because the terrain is impassible, &c). That’s still 4330 feet for one guy to look after.
Day and night.
Posted by ZZMike on 05/25/10 at 11:51 PM
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