The Straw That Turns The Camel's Stomach?

I'm finding it easier to believe fiction than the current news these days. It looks to me like our fearless leaders in Washington have lost their political minds as they try to appease address all of their various competing constituencies.
This particular example, and maybe I should call it schizophrenia instead of saying they've lost their minds but I don't think it really matters all that much since I'm not a shrink so I'm not really making a diagnosis, just an observation of how it looks to me these days, is that the White House is backpedaling on the idea of giving away 300K work permits to undocumented workers illegal aliens in their back-alley amnesty program of only deporting the illegals who might vote Republican (or whatever their criterion is).
 
Somehow, someone has suddenly figured out that with over 9% unemployment, the laid-off union guys who would normally vote for the Democrats might be upset to see a bunch of work permits go to Mexicans or Canadians or whoever is sneaking across the border these days so they can undercut the unions' wage levels and keep those guys out of work.
This could have turned out to be the straw that turns the camel's stomach and actually loses the Dems some votes from the dependent class, but since 9% unemployment is a whole bunch more votes than 300K supposedly non-voting non-citizens, even these bozos seem like they figured out they'd be cutting off their votes to spike the punch, or however that old saw goes.

I guess I'm glad they seem to be dropping this idea, but it's pretty scary to think that these guys were dumb enough to think it was a good idea in the first place. Maybe they're the inmates who are running the asylum? Maybe we really are all bozos on this bus.

Posted by Lewis Cannon

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The other day I was reading that former UN Ambassador John Bolton was saying that the Obama administration had ATF agents being complicit in letting Mexican drug cartels smuggle guns across the border into Mexico so they could cause as much gun-related violence as possible so that Americans would be frightened into letting the government take everyone's guns away in order to keep us all safe from all the Mexicans that the ATF had armed with American guns that shouldn't have been allowed to go across the border into Mexico in the first place anyway.

While that might seem too hard to believe of any group of people that doesn't seem able to be smart enough to not wreck the economy and that thinks that using the emergency gas pumps would be a good idea when there's not an emergency except in their poll numbers and not in the actual supply of gasoline and petroleum instead of drilling to get more, it's really not that hard to believe when you think about how sneaky they've all been in getting Commies and such and other assorted Socialists and pinkos and Com-Symps into positions of power with no need for hearings and approvals and such.

In short, they're a sneaky bunch, and crafty in a not very pleasant kind of way, and so it's pretty clear that these guys mean business, and their business is taking away your guns and my guns and everybody's guns except their own and the Mexican criminals who are selling drugs to idiots on both sides of the border and are smuggling more guns back down there so they can continue to take the war to their own government and police and such because that will make the people that much easier to control.

After all, when we don't even know that the Constitution is the final law of the land and that the Supreme Court is supposed to decide if other laws are OK by the constitution, not by what they think or by what polls say or by what the French or Belgians or other Eurotrash might think or say, then it's easy for them to tell us that we need to turn in our guns or not be able to buy ammunition or have to be on a list of potential terrorists if we want to have a gun or some bullets and that it's all for our own good and for our own safety.

Well, I say it all a bunch of hooey, and that if they want my guns taken away from me so much, then there must be a pretty good reason that I really should have one, and not just for defending my home against criminals from Mexico or Omaha or [insert your own city here] or wherever, but it's important to keep our government from forgetting that they work for us and that our stuff is ours, not theirs that they let us keep as long as it's not too much trouble to them, and that they only have the limited powers that are listed in the Constitution and not just whatever they think they can get away with and not get voted out or put in jail for doing it.

Remember this Independence Day that it was a bunch of regular guys who had guns that were the reason the British had to stop oppressing us and admit that we were a real country now too, even if they did try again with the War of 1812 to impress us and burn us out of our homes and all that jazz, but we won that one too because we're Americans and we have rights that no one can take away from us as long as we're not stupid and a bunch of cowards.

Stand Up, America!
Posted by Lewis Cannon