"There is very little of honor, dignity, or justice in this country today. You are inconsequential, you act without thinking, and you think without acting," said Israel Zangwill, a British playwright and author during a monologue at Town Hall in New York City in November of 1923 - though his sad sentiments could be used to describe the cliched horseplay, reckless backslapping and all the tittering awash in the aisles of the US Senate today during the great illegal immigrant debate.
The whole tip toeing around the obvious lawlessness of the millions of illegal aliens running loose in the country like so many stray skunks, coy dogs, wallabies, pole cats and what have you has laid bare the supposedly learned debate in the US Senate about what to do for what it really is - nothing more than the hiccupping of stultified fading topliners, acting in direct opposition to those they claim to serve while putting the lives of their constituents at risk.
The bandying about of the 11 million or so illegal's on the lam is just a numbers' racket put forward by the same dithering hacks to insure that we understand that the whopping number involved in the whole counting spectacle precludes any sort of enforcement activity whatsoever by that searingly august body of the most learned cerebs and wigs accumulated since the Roman Senate, where Cassius and Crassus walked the halls. But the Romans, unlike their current stunted spalpeen of today, kept a damn close eye on the barbarians assaulting their northern border for far longer than we have existed, and enjoyed some success and longevity.
as the greatest of all plans in the history of this Republic — the current offer of the buying and selling of citizenship for a few thousand dollars combined with the dreaded background checks of people without backgrounds so we'll know that it's not outright amnesty — has been put forth by the lions and bandicoots of this, our greatest deliberative body. The freshly minted are slated to pay for this honor under the aegis of a Republican controlled Senate, out of fear of the dreaded liberal backlash, with a sacred aCLU approved prayer to be whispered at its signing to insure that they'll tap their ruby slippers and all show up and offer the correct amount of approved government fiat money for their instant transmogrification.
Sadly, there's been no thought given to whether the terrorists, the drug runners, the coyotes and the other dealers in mayhem will avail themselves of this instant citizenship process and appear, but they'd be fools of the same caliber as the senators not to. Because a freshly minted al-Qaeda terror pidgin-English speaking instant citizen waving his cancelled $2,000 check is an aCLU approved card carrying Bush tarring Guantanamo Bay skirting Yale attending liberal Democrat's vote casting dream come true.
a lot has been said lately about manliness — who has it, who doesn't and why. Just as there was a surplus of talk a few years ago about the cowboy way and the simple values the rodeo riders espouse.
Well, there's growing disquietude about the absolute dearth of manliness in the US Senate of late, just as there's a growing recognition of the need for a bit of the cowboy way among the effete porcine lummoxes who flounder around there spewing nonsense about this and that while they lay our lives on the line.
I read with some level of surprise about a quiet reserved man, Mr Jim Sherman, a blind Texas man from a Houston suburb, a man with a considerable handicap, who threw his personal safety to the wind and entered a neighbor's burning home last Monday night to rescue a similarly blind elderly woman and escort her to safety through the cloying smoke and flames.
With this bit of unheralded heroism and raw courage in mind, we're forced to turn our weary smoke reddened eyes to the buffoons, charlatans, poltroons, ne'er-do-wells, ketchup shy, and automobile tarnished who inhabit the Senate of the United States of america and who are currently digging in their bespoke heels and steadfastly refusing to enforce the current laws of the United States and who are busily caving in to the myriad illegal aliens high stepping it though La and the truants who are busily skipping grade school in their support — and who have stolen the TV cameras from the usual La police chases for the few days heard 'round the chamber. Nope, these jokers will let our houses burn for the sake of the border raiders.
No, rather than dare to exert themselves and risk a bit of opprobrium from the foreign criminal aliens invading us, and the third world country where they begin their journey, these bloated blackguards, these dangerously reluctant caitiffs, these craven bandy legged curs, these slavishly recreant doormats, these hollow-eyed empty headed yellow bellies, these pompous nebulous jellyfish, these no good lily-livered rotters, these mendacious recreant fraidy cats would rather proffer a pinky finger extended from a soft callous free mitt wrapped around a 10 oz. fluted glass of Chateau Mouton Rothschild during the foreshortened course of selling the family farm down the drain, than use a tenth of the gumption shown by Mr Sherman and leverage it to rescuing our failing Republic.
In a Senate where the members have a retirement system far more lucrative than Social Security to cushion their rather weighty passage into obscurity and where they can buy and sell stocks freely with non-public information — both cases far beyond the shabby threadbare orbits we find ourselves meanly stumbling through and finally dying in, and where it seems they can pass laws designed to line their pockets — there's certainly no need for courage, just the occasional attendance during trading hours.
No, there's no reason for US Senators to enforce United States law - not when it comes to illegal aliens. They've used the scales of justice and found our laws, Constitution and citizens on the losing end. and these scofflaws are just the latest batch of crooks they've waived a wand over and made whole after shaking them down for overhead and an insurance stipend.
What a country. Thomas Jefferson would be so proud of his system of checks and balances. First, pack the house with criminals, do nothing about them for twenty years, and end up with so many we can't count them — despite the wretched cries for help from the sorely afflicted border residents. Then the Senate officially notices that we've got a problem. Presto, make the Flying Dutchmen from the South give us checks for a couple of grand. Change-o, they're instantly wholesome productive citizens, distinguished members of the community and, on balance, everything's just peachy keen and we stop counting them. and, in twenty years we'll begin worrying. What a marvelous far-sighted system of enlightened government. What strong determined men of vision leading us. What a frabjous day. Callooh. Callay.
Carnival barkers in striped shirts with sleeve garters, wearing bowler hats - that's who we have today in the US Senate, hawking american citizenship for a cut rate price. Caligula's horse would be a welcome addition to this eminent body.
Where is Incitatus, by the way? Is he available this fall? Maybe there's a seat for him representing the Empire State.
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