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h/t: ms. r_ia

In a statement that looked like something out of The Onion, Mexico’s President Calderone called the defeat of the immigration bill in the Senate a “grave error” and a “problem that’s not being confronted, and…the US Senate makes it worse.” Calderone further states that “closing the door to legal immigration opens the door to illegal immigration.”

Hey Filipe! The USA has had ILLEGAL immigration ever since the ‘86 amnesty bill. Why not take some responsibility for your own citizens, legal or illegal, and not throw the burden of your poor people on the USA? Mexico’s poor people are your “grave error” and not ours.

Deal with it.

and it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving crone, except maybe McCain-Feingold. Yes, the immigraton bill went down in flames in the Senate 46-53.

This bill was totally and completely uninforcible. We have an immigration problem in this country, but the abomination that spewed forth from the US Senate wasn’t gonna fix it.

At 1,000 pages Obama didn’t read it—he is no longer concerned about representing llinois, he is concerned about being POTUS. And does anyone really think Dick Durbin slogged through 1000 pages in order to inform his vote? Uh, no.

We’ll need a lot more turnover in the House and Senate before we will get an immigration bill that the people will accept.

Exhibit A: The approval rating for Congress is in the tank, they know we hate them, so how do they atone? By voting themselves a juicy pay raise of $4,400, which brings their salaries to $170,000.00. These people work for us. Would you retain an employee who only did the right thing 14% of the time? Would you give that employee a pay raise? Too bad we can’t tie their salary to performance—-Congress would be making minimum wage!

Exhibit B: GOP POTUS candidate Ron Paul was not invited to the Iowegian forum this weekend sponsored by Iowa Christian Alliance and Iowans for Tax Relief. So rather than accept the fact that his support is only  1% and be a good sport about it, he has decided he’ll just crash the forum.

Exhibit C: Michael Bloomberg says that neither political party stands for anything. While I nominally agree with his statement, I have to say that Bloomberg doesn’t stand for anything either since he was originally a Democrat who became a Republican to make it easier for him to be elected NYC mayor who has now become an independent, possibly to make it easier for him to run for POTUS. Hey Mike, it takes one to know one!

I intend to keep adding to this as I come across more examples of our political class behaving badly. Add your own examples in comments, give me a link, and I add ‘em on the main page.

comes this breaking news story from The New York Times:Young Americans Are Leaning Left, New Poll Finds

The Times needed to consult a poll to find out this piece of “is it news if everyone knows it”? Sheesh!

As far back as the 1700s there was a quote “not to be a liberal at 20 is proof of lack of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of lack of head”.

Heck, even I was a liberal in my 20s, and that was a few decades ago. Why is the NYTimes just now making this shocking discovery?

Which is why I hope no tax dollars were spent on Robert Putnam’s study of diversity called Bowling With Our Own.

According to Putnam’s five year study of diversity, in places ranging from LA to rural South Dakota, immigration and ethnic diversity have a devastating effect on social capital, fabrics of associations, trust and neighborliness that create and sustain communities. In other words, the more diverse the neighborhood, the less residents trust neighbors.

Well, duh! You don’t need to be a Harvard political scientist to know that all kinds of people prefer being with their own kind. Any rational observer would know this from personal experience.

Go to the link and read the whole thing, it’s really interesting and is counter to all we have been lead to believe by the left about the supposed benefits of diversity.

But aside from the “don’t tell us what we already know” aspect of this study, the most interesting thing is Putnam’s hysteria about the effect this might have on the immigration debate.  What to think about an academic who is afraid to release information because it might help your enemies? Um, not much.

 But I’m thinking Putnam is more fearful of being kicked out of the Church of Liberalism as a heretic for publishing something that counters one of it’s most sacred pillars—-diversity.

Senator Robert Byrd (D-KKK) released this statement concerning the Immigration Reform bill: “…no matter how much lipstick they put on this bill, it is still amnesty, and I will oppose it.”

The CIA recently released 702 heavily redacted pages of documents from the l950-l970 era, which they call “the family jewels.”

The New York Times had an article about these “jewels” and if all you knew about the CIA was what you read in the Times, you would think Richard Nixon was the only POTUS that ever used the CIA to his benefit.

No Democrats are mentioned until the 21st paragraph, and that  LBJ used the CIA to spy on the anti-war movement.

While the Times admits that our government has been spying on the public for decades and didn’t start with George Bush, they leave out the juicy stuff about the Kennedys.

Among other things, Jack and Bobby Kennedy spied on Martin Luther King, Jr., they authorized various assassination attempts on Castro, they had serious mob ties, yet the Times never considers that this might be important or even interesting information worth sharing.

When liberals like Dick Durbin, Dianne Finestein and Dennis Kuchinich claim they want to bring back The Fairness Doctrine (sic) because they want Americans to hear both sides of the story, they aren’t thinking about The New York Times.

Q: What do you do when someone makes snarky remarks about you?

A:Send your wife out to beg them to stop.

UPDATE: When you’re a POTUS candidate and the deadline for the second quarter is drawing to a close and you need a serious infusion cash, who you gonna call—-ANN COULTER!

that McCain-Feingold a/k/a The Incumbent Protection Act, gets a punch in the face from SCOTUS.