Republican Barnyard Politics

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http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001846.htm

From Perrspectives :

While Arizona Governor Jan Brewer suggested Friday that her state's illegal immigrants were terrorists, other Republicans have deemed them another kind of animal altogether. Make that animal or insect. As it turns out, the same GOP that likens same-sex marriage to the union of one man and one dog, box turtle or horse also equates illegals with just about every one of God's creatures great and small. All, that is, except human beings.
As the debate over comprehensive immigration reform ramped up in 2007, Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (seriously, you can't make this up) suggested border control was akin to herding goats:

"If the answer is 'build a fence' I've got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain't no fence big enough, high enough, strong enough, that you can keep those goats in that fence."
"Now people are at least as smart as goats," Lott continued. "Maybe not as agile. Build a fence. We should have a virtual fence. Now one of the ways I keep those goats in the fence is I electrified them. Once they got popped a couple of times they quit trying to jump it."

"I'm not proposing an electrified goat fence," Lott added quickly, "I'm just trying, there's an analogy there."

For his part, Iowa Republican Congressional candidate Pat Bertroche gave undocumented immigrants more credit, putting them instead on a par with dogs. And the same cutting edge technology that allows pet owners to find their lost canines, he insisted, could be deployed to monitor and track people:

"I think we should catch 'em, we should document 'em, make sure we know where they are and where they are going," said Pat Bertroche, an Urbandale physician. "I actually support micro-chipping them. I can micro-chip my dog so I can find it. Why can't I micro-chip an illegal?
"That's not a popular thing to say, but it's a lot cheaper than building a fence they can tunnel under," Bertroche said.

Meanwhile, Texas GOP Rep. Ted Poe stopped just short of comparing the influx of Mexicans to a biblical plague of locusts. Make that grasshoppers:

"Now it seems to me that if we are so advanced with technology and manpower and competence that we can capture illegal grasshoppers from Brazil, in the holds of ships that are in a little small place in Port Arthur, Texas on the Sabine River. Sabine River, madam speaker, is the river that separates Texas from Louisiana. If we're able to do that as a country, how come we can't capture the thousands of people that cross the border everyday on the southern border of the United States? You know they're a little bigger than grasshoppers and they should be able to be captured easier."...

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1. Micro-chipping people is akin to the NAZI's tattooing concentration camp people.

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