You Can’t Make This Stuff Up Part 257,305

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.

Ding!Dong!The Witch Is Dead

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.

Politicians Behaving Badly

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.