(I hadn’t used this pic for a little while – I was beginning to miss it.)Today in the Philadelphia Daily News, our intrepid freeper pundit is telling us here that (wink, wink) Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could (wink, wink) reach white, blue-collar male voters (wink, wink) if they both visit Geno’s in South Philadelphia, the establishment owned by Joey Vento (which I sounded off about here), and also visit Hazleton, Pa. (wink, wink), all for the purposes of talking about illegal immigration (wink, wink).
And gee, Smerky must be right, because Dem pollster Neil Oxman basically told him that… I just repeated it.
Of all the issues facing this country, illegal immigration is way down the list as far as I’m concerned (granted, I don’t live in the Southwest region of this country, but there you are). This is partly because in my line of work, my employer has no trouble going offshore to find people to do the jobs they want, and I don’t hear enough people crying about that (and Smerky certainly isn’t one of them, anyway) as opposed to individuals risking their lives to cross our border in an effort to better themselves.
Besides, as Smerky himself noted, the whole matter is currently under adjudication by a U.S. Court of Appeals. Why on earth should anyone say anything and turn out to be wrong, to say nothing of possibly prejudicing a case?
Illegal immigration is the number one issue in the minds of Smerky’s right-wing following that would never even bother to get past their Clinton hatred or obsession over whatever new faux Barack Obama controversy was cooked up this week long enough to listen to either one of them (and besides, the Repugs had a chance to sponsor legislation that provided a common-sense path to citizenship for those who did the right thing, but their knuckle-dragging followers hooted it down; they have only themselves to blame for the current stalemate here).
And one more thing: as long as Smerky has brought up this issue, I’d like for him or anyone else to explain to me their opposition to providing driver’s licenses for illegals. Is the thinking that, somehow, these people are worse than the other clueless meat sacks out there who are primping themselves, eating fast food take out, texting, watching TV, or doing just about anything besides PAYING ATTENTION TO THE DAMN ROAD WHILE THEY’RE DRIVING??!!
(Sorry, had to vent…).
This tells us that the law in Michigan related to denying driver’s licenses to illegals is being challenged by the ACLU. This is a good thing, because providing licenses for these people has two benefits; 1) Depending on the laws by state, they will have to pay auto insurance – I don’t know if that’s uniform across the country, but it should be, and 2) In the event that we ever figure out how to implement REAL ID fairly, their licenses could serve as the basis for their ID cards.
Besides, if we don't allow them a means to get to their jobs by granting a license, all we'll end up doing is hastening their entry into the underground economy of this country, which doesn't do anyone any good.
Until someone (Smerky or anyone else) can provide quantifiable numbers across this country proving conclusively that illegal immigrants are involved in more vehicular accidents than legal citizens, this is where I will stand on this issue (and hopefully, both Clinton and Obama will join me there, and stay put).
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