Does Michelle Bachmann even know what PLANET she's on?

[Archae]

Besides Planet Stupid, that is...

Bachmann Opposes Reform Because Immigrants Aren't Republicans

I can add no commentary to this other than to facepalm before slamming my head on the desk.

Bachmann: "[Immigration reform] would change the dynamic of the United States forever. Let's face it. If these were conservative Republicans that were coming illegally into the United States, the last thing President Obama would do is seek to give amnesty and citizenship and legal voting status to the people who were coming into the country."

So Bachmann is opposing it because immigrants aren't conservative Republicans, right? That "dynamic" she's so afraid of is the one where the nativists lose.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/02/bachmann-opposes-reform-because-immigrants

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. NO!

this concludes todays episode of "Simple Answers to Simple Questions" we now return you to your regularly broadcast show....

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. because its cover for her racism.....

she's whistling past the graveyard here....her racist constituents understand that word garbage this way...

"why of course they couldn't be Republicans...most of them aren't even White!"

[lpbk2713]

3. Heranus

[rustydog]

7. Dang, I thought I'd be the first to write that!

[Cleita]

4. She's living on the planet that she believes is in the "end times".

Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental. Oh, and she and her ilk are racists.

[3catwoman3]

5. Does B@t$h!t even...

know what a planet IS?

[bluesbassman]

6. So Batshit, can I call you Batshit? Good. So Batshit, those 3 million immigrants in 1986...

You know, the ones that gained citizenship when Saint Ronnie signed the The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, they were all conservative Republicans then were they? I guess IOIYAR.

Good lord, what a freaking waste of oxygen.


Note: This was an open post to Michelle Bachmann, and was in no way directed at the OP. (Just in case somebody who hasn't had their coffee tomorrow misinterprets the post )

[idendoit]

8. FEMA is almost done with the 6th district re-education camps.

Bat Shit Shelly will be one of the first customers, along with her unlicensed spouse.

[pampango]

13. But they were 'good, white' immigrants, not the 'bad Hispanic or Asian' kind.

And while Native Americans are not immigrants they are still 'bad' for obvious reasons.

[pampango]

18. Historical immigrants are often portrayed as heroic figures who created our diverse society. No

attention is paid, in that portrayal, to the role that 'good white immigrants' played in the genocide of a huge part of that 'diversity'. (I meant "good white" immigrants from a republican point of view; not a liberal point of view. Sorry for the confusion.)

What happened to "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."?

Of course, "current" (whether 'current' is today or 100 or 200 or 300 years ago) immigrants are almost always perceived negatively. Current immigrants often considered as a threat to jobs, wages, culture, religion, etc. Whether you were a German, Irish or Italian immigrant long ago or a Hispanic or Asian immigrant today, the welcome mat was almost never really out for you.

170 years ago the Know-Nothings based their whole political movement on eliminating immigration. republicans did the same with the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924. Democrats repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943 and liberalized immigration with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, but large parts of our party are still leery of the economic impact of immigrants.

For better or worse, relatively few Americans have ever really endorsed the whole ""Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free ..." as much more than idealistic rhetoric.

[pampango]

20. I chuckled when I read the title of your post. It was a great, great movie.

One that would teach tea party types (and many others) a valuable lesson today.

[randome]

10. Caesar is not amused.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

[Rex]

11. I hear tell she and Bat Boy are related!

[Aerows]

12. She's nuttier

than a pecan pie in a fruitcake factory.

[HughBeaumont]

14. I think any question that starts with "Does Michelle Bachmann even know . . ."

. . . yeah, that answer would range from "No" to "HAAAAAYLS NO".

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

16. I think it's the planet Jeeeeeeeeeezus

[MineralMan]

17. Planet Wackadoo.