Open Thread – Tancredo’s Little Devil
Here’s a screen capture of former Rep. Tom Tancredo talking on the Daily Show about the fact that Arizona has just gone too far with its immigration reform legislation. Having Tom Tancredo tell you you’ve gone too far with your immigration policies is like having David Duke call you a racist.
Be that as it may, I thought it was interesting to look at the “little devil” that sits on his shoulder. OK, it’s not a little devil… It’s just a copy of Going Rogue sitting on the ledge like an objet d’art. The author of that book, apparently does not share Mr. Tancredo’s sentiments regarding the bill. “More power to her” was the quote from Palin about Arizona’s governor who signed the bill into law this week.
Don’t listen to the voice Mr. Tancredo!
Maybe she’s whispering in his ear?
Her buddy Rick Perry is supposedly treading lightly around this issue because he doesn’t want to lose the election but he has a problem because he has moved so far to the right. Problems, problems when you jump in with the fringe.
noticed that too LOL
Cracks me up! So funny, but from the short time she’s been the public eye, she’s racked-up quite a record of destruction regarding other the careers and reputations of other people.
Palin reminds me of President Reagan in that he was the first Teflon politician of my lifetime. If those of you who are old enough to remember think back – and everyone else grab an ancient history text – if something went wrong, he came out fine but some member of his team or administration would be stuck with the error and resign.As I recall, he went through cabinet members like tissues.
People who get too close to Palin seem to disappear from the public limelight in disgrace or at least with bumps and bruises to their public personas. If only she would fray and fade in the same way.
Love the devil on his shoulder comment because it is so appropriate to the way I think of her.
There was a little book published called “Ronald Reagan’s Reign of Error.” The first edition just published what RR said, and what the truth was (always distant from fact). The second edition told what he said, what the truth was, and what his White House spokespeople, when confronted with the facts, said about it (or what they said he’d meant). Like Palin, the media let Ronnie Raygun get away with lie after lie, without consequences.
Remember George H.W. Bush referring to his grandchildren as “the little brown ones”?
Jeb Bush, whose Mexican-born wife is presumably even “browner” than the children, has joined forces with Tancredo and is objecting to the new law. Good for him!
I have been all over about this complaining about illegal aliens and it seems no one wants to go after those who hire them.Why not.If they are going after the illegals they should also go after those who hire them.Best to start with their own politicians as many have been caught with Illegals and using them like slaves.It takes both the illegals entering and those who hire them to keep them here.Why is no one saying anything about those who bring people into this country and use them to make a profit???I have too many times seen these people doing what the majority will never do even though they claim they would.If these people are working they are paying taxes somehow unless they are working for someone that is not honest.
they buy clothes and food (if taxes are applicable) they do pay.
The sad fact is that most illegal workers do have taxes taken out of their checks. The Social Security and Medicare money go to someone else’s SS account and the withholding never gets collected. This country needs to understand that the millions of illegal workers in the country provide a lot of money for the government, do the jobs most white boys and girls won’t do, and are glad to have the job they have. I totally agree with you about the employers. If there were some serious fines, in the many thousands, and operating licenses revoked, for hiring even one illegal worker this problem would stop quickly. But who will do that, Arizona??
Note to Daddy: “You burned my feelings today, and I’m warning you …”
http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2010/04/26/you-burned-my-feelings/
Chilling.
I’m more inclined to say adorable. She may not have used skillful wording, but she got the idea right – Respect My Feelings, Daddy. By the time our youngest daughter was a year-and-a-half old, she would give me stern lectures whenever I hurt her feelings. I couldn’t understand much of the verbiage, but her body language and tone were unmistakable. I never discouraged her from doing that, and my apology and a hug were of immeasurable value to her in validating her sense of self and what was right – and we were cool again, and she was stronger, and our respect for each other grew. When she was in third grade, her teacher sent us a charming note describing being confronted by our daughter one day, and ended it with, “I don’t know what you’re feeding that little girl, but keep it up!” She’s still confrontational when she deems it appropriate, and still speaking truth to power. I shudder to think that I could have destroyed the confidence behind that by forcing her to be submissive to authority when she knew it was wrong because it felt wrong.
So I hope the little girl who left her daddy the note got a hug and acknowledgment that she was right to be confrontational when she felt disrespected. She’s old enough, too, to benefit from learning appropriate conflict resolution. May she continue to stand up for herself and speak truth to power.
Sounds like she was never allowed to speak her mind or was afraid to verbally do so and used a note to express herself.Some parents still assume a child should be seen but not heard.
Desert Mudpup…..i did the same with my daughter when she was a little one. i will never forget her declaring that the word “hate” was not allowed to be spoken in her presence. you know what? that word is not allowed in my home except when referring to eating spinach. i respected her opinion then and i treasure her opinion now.
I’m with you, Desert (and ‘Amy’, from the site, who said:…”If the girl was such a (spoiled brat), she would have pitched a fit right then and there when Daddy said wait 20 minutes. Instead she wrote a note about her feelings. Sure, the ending sounds kind of ominous from an adult point of view, but how many eight year olds know nuance? How many eight years olds can sit down and write a thoughtful letter detailing how they were disappointed and hurt and don’t want to be treated like that again? Kids have simplistic minds. It seemed she felt Dad was putting TV before time with her.”
Plus, we all know how long ’20 minutes’ takes when people are watching televised sports!
Un-friggin’-believable……..
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Virginia gun lobby pushes for right to drink alcohol while carrying a gun in public.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/27/va-guns-drunk/
Comments:
“Republican wet dream – Drunk and Armed.”
“Drinking and guns… it worked so well for Dick Cheney, just ask Harry Whittington…”
“Booze and guns. What could possibly go wrong?”
“A black man, a gay man, and an armed Virginia redneck walk into a bar…
Unfortunately, not likely to be a joke.”
despicable! “but judge, the alcohol made me do it!”…”oh ok”
How about, drunk, armed and free to roam the National Parks filled with tourists?
That would really be their wet dream.
Yay, my internet explorer is not kicking me out when I come to Mudflats!
I watched the Jon Stewart segment on AZ law and I didn’t see Going Rogue behind Tancredo. How apt. Birds of the feather.
Did Palin really say “More power to her”?? Ha. Not surprised.
According to Palin:
- Big government & white people = TYRANNY!!!
- Big government and people of colour = FREEEEEDOM!!
Hypocrite. As usual.
Another thing about Arizona and palin they don’t want the feds to intervene in states affairs yet are complaining that they are not doing enough.Either you want them there to help or ya don’t can’t have both.and the add on to government if the feds did have to put more focus on Arizona,bigger government and more government jobs.Doesn’t palin object to both those and how to pay for that Taxes (SNARK)
did you see where AZ called upon the Fed govt to help them define what an illegal immigrant looks like?!?! ….the NERVE!
I love the fact that Mrs. Private Citizen came out first in wholehearted support…. well before her “allies” came out against it… and the police chief said it was “stupid”. Show’s just how much of a media whore she really is. Oh, and how idiotic, too, also.
Sorry for the rogue apostrophe there.
Gubnor Goodhair Perry also anointed Glenn Beck as an honorary Texan last weekend at one of those Teabonics get-togethers in Tyler, TX. Rick has other pressing issues to deal with like an addition to the Governor’s Mansion and a $5-8 billion (yup, Billion) deficit that he and the Legislature are trying to wrap their arms around. Rick doesn’t want to raise taxes but since he was a stellar dipshit in 2006 and played Mr. Tax Cut when the economy was strong, that little act of malfeasance is going to cost all of Texans.
Jon Stewart said it best about Tancredo: The Mexican parents use a picture of him to scare their children into eating their vegetables. The fact that he has “Mrs. You Betcha’s” book confirms he’s another whack job, Obama birth certificate challenging pin head.
Palin just came out on fox saying that OBAMA was spreading myth of racial profiling in this bill…I guess Tancredo is pallin’ around with socialists along with McCain and every other sentient human being. At the same time Rove was saying on another show that the bill is probably unconstitutional and allows racial profiling.
Lets see how she walks this one back!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/28/sarah-palin-obama-is-perp_n_555070.html
shhhhhh…palin doesn’t want the rest of us to know she’s a racist…be vewwwy vewwwy quiet.
doesn’t she understand that her husband kind of looks hispanic? And considering she is part jack _ _ _ what does she care?
As I said on HuffPo – anyone who is saying this immigration law won’t involve ethnic profiling is either lying or an imbecile. Or in Palin’s case – both. We don’t have a problem in Arizona with the illegal immigration of Canadians or Europeans. Our illegal immigrants are Hispanic. The entire focus of the law begins and ends with Hispanics. That sounds like a profile to me.
But wait, didn’t you hear? You can tell the illegal ones by their shoes!
“It’s just a copy of Going Rogue sitting on the ledge like an objet d’art.”
What else would you do with it? Read it?
LOL! You guys are good today!
Palin on Fox News refers to something the “lamestream media” did. Turns out it was Fox News.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201004280011
OMG……….frickin’ hilarious.
Could she be any more of an idiot?
No verdict today in hacking trial:
http://www.wate.com/global/story.asp?s=12377953
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/apr/28/jury-back-deliberating-case-against-accused-palin-/
for this headline to read: ‘snooping’, then I hope it’s a sign that it was not hacking or identity theft! …which I believe it was not.
Great find, I watched it and never saw the book. LOL!
The worst part about Tancredo is getting it off your shoes.
Snort! Good one.
This makes me want us to come up with a meaning for the word “tancredo” …
AKM, I was just over on the Netroots scholarship page. If you are serious about getting one this year, it needs to be bannered at the top of your site, with an easy-click button. I only knew about your campaign by stumbling onto the (only?) initial mention the other day, and at that time the linky wasn’t yet functioning.
yes.. AKM… it took several days for me to be able to vote. please make it easy for those of us who haven’t voted already to do so.
That’s a great picture, and so telling. I have to admit that I’m a bit confused by his stand on the issue. It seems out of character – wasn’t he the one complaining that we should have a literacy test to get rid of those who can’t spell “vote”?
I completely disagree with what Arizona has done, but I get it – they share a border with a foreign country and people sneaking in is a problem. Washington state and a number of other states share a border with a foreign country as well, but I don’t think anyone is too worried about Canadians sneaking in. More likely, it’s Americans sneaking over the border to Canada.
But I don’t understand why Utah is considering something like this. They are surrounded by other US states. So who are they worried about? Do illegals really try to go live in Utah?
Mudflats mention: http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/759724
An Alaskan political blog, The Mudflats, had this to say about the discrepancy: “Perhaps the story was simply tweaked to tell people what they want to hear, while utilizing the perennial ‘I’m one of you’ meme — a great way to ‘connect to the audience’ while skirting those pesky things known as facts.”
BTW – love the picture – the devil is in the details or devil in a ‘red’ dress come to mind!!
OT. I have two cats who are almost two years old and I got them at the same time. They are house cats and have recently started pooping in the house. My husband says if it does not stop, I will have to get rid of them. Anyone know why they started pooping outside the litter box out of the blue? Anyone know what I should do? I really do not want to get rid of them!!
try 2 litter boxes or change the litter to a different brand, other than that, I don’t know.
If what Lainey suggested doesn’t work, I’d check with the vet. I understand that sometimes an infection can make cats start doing that.
califpat: take a stool sample to the vet for a parasite check. That’s a possibility. Also, keep the litter immaculately clean. Bleach the box first, then change to a brand with no smell, or if you’re buying one without smell now, change to one with a smell. Two boxes is also a reasonable thing to try.
Also, it’s crucial to bleach the area where they have been “missing” the box. If they smell residue, they’ll think it’s ok. No Pine Sol around cats. Clean with something else and use diluted bleach to rinse. That should help.
Just had a thought about the immigration bill in AZ. How about this? Every time they ask someone for their “papers”, they also ask them who they are working for in this country. Then, the employers who are hiring the immigrants at $2.00 an hour (or less in some cases, I bet) will be rooted out. That is where half the problem lies. Cheap labor. Illlegal labor.
Thanks Lainey, I will try that. Will let you know if it works.
hope it does
good luck!
afterthought…sometimes they rebel if you move their box to a different location…they like privacy (believe it or not)
…also too, if they’re both female or both male, they could use this behavior to establish their hierarchy. I’m not an expert, but I’ve had cats for 14 years in my very distant past…my parents had cats too…don’t have any now b/c I’m so allergic.
love KO and his regular quote referring to palin…”that woman is an idiot!” lol
As a nouveau Arizonan, i.e. not born here but living here, this law has all the aroma of a dead fish. A thoroughly dead, rotting carcass that isn’t dried out yet, simply in the prime of its (dead) existence.
This state, as a whole, has profited from the presence of the illegal aliens for many, many years, as they worked in the fields, on the construction sites, and in businesses all around the state. Many of the millionaires and wealthier folk have had no problem paying rock-bottom wages with no pesky taxes to pay, no need to pay any benefits, and all the resulting ‘illegal’ profits to take home. This has been going for so many decades, it has simply been the way of life here. It isn’t something that happened in the last ten years, it is more like the last 80 to 100 years.
Is it profiling? YES, plain and simple. It will be interesting to see how strict enforcement is, if it does manage to pass the Federal, constitutional smell-test. Already the Pima County Sheriff (Tucson is the county seat) has declared that he will enforce it only if he is forced to. And so the revolt begins…
excellent point.
Thanks Mudpups for the advice. I so appreciate it!
good luck with teh kittehs CALIFPAT. hope they will be fine and can stay.
Thanks Bubbles.