Here's A Quarter

I was going to check the weather for the remainder of the day - which, by the by, is pretty much abysmal with all the rain and storms flowing out of the gulf - and something on my iGoogle homepage caught my eye:

Obama calls for immigration reform

I don't know about y'all (though I'd wager a guess), but I am sick to bloody death of that man calling for things. And it's exactly what he's doing. He's basically phoning it in to Congress that he wants something, and his (albeit dwindling) overwhelming majority in both Houses will deliver in $30 Trillion or less or your money back.

Being the glutton for punishment that I am, the cranial pressure-test continued, leading me here:

President Obama today chided states like Arizona for taking the "ill-conceived" step of taking immigration reform into their own hands. While he insisted immigration reform must be addressed at the federal level, he blasted Republicans for not getting on board.

Mr. President? Hear me loud, and hear me crystal clear. Take your federal laws and shove them straight up your ass. States taking initiative to solve a problem that needs solving is not ill-conceived, you mouth-breathing retard. States waiting around for Uncle Sugar to come to the rescue while their resources are getting sucked up by folks who didn't come about it honest is ill-conceived. The Fed crying foul when a state draws a line in the sand that happens to lie on an international border is simply and blatantly pretentious. You can't come running in to "help" once a state decides to handle their business without your help.

(Of course, I am of the opinion that you aren't upset that AZ didn't ask for your help. Your underoos are in a not because AZ didn't ask for your permission.)

You're using a hot-button issue as another opportunity to tie your political adversaries to the whipping post, and you don't give a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut what state gets shat upon in the process. Well, get used to it, bub, because We The People are reaching critical shit-mass, and we're not taking any more.

Arizona's pissed about illegal immigration, and, for better or worse, they're doing something about it. Texas has a major-league clusterfuck in nearly every border town between well-armed and highly aggressive drug cartels and a nearly-ineffective military, and it regularly sucks Texas citizens and law enforcement into the fray. How long do you thing we're going to put up with that? Try and stop Texas. I dare you.



tweaker



Edit: Apparently I wasn't done.

"I believe we can put politics aside and finally have an immigration system that's accountable..."

No, sir, we cannot put politics aside. No more than you can. I hope they give you Hell on Capitol Hill on this one, and I hope it makes you crazy.