By Carolyn Shore Aresu as Libby Shaw
Only cowards would scapegoat children.
It seems to me that many, if not most members of Congress more than deserve to get fired in November. This would include some so-called "Centrist" Democrats. (I am talking to you, former W. kissed surrogate, Henry Cuellar.)
It should be obvious to most of us by now that a peanut gallery of middle school children are rebelling against or outright sabotaging the people's business in the U.S. House of Representatives. Despite the fact that the vast majority of the American people are in favor of immigration reform that supports a path to citizenship Ted Cruz's tea party army of teenagers will have none of it.
Recent polling shows that the majority of Americans have little respect for and quite frankly and understandably loathe the current U.S. Congress. Its current approval rating stands at a breathtaking low of 7%.
Actually 7% seems pretty generous to me. This leaves me to believe the 7% are comprised of the usual right wing Obama bashing bigots, sore losers, xenophobes, misogynists as well as those who benefit from a do nothing government: the Koch boys, oil and gas lobbyists, Wall St. insiders, anti-Social Security and Medicare lobbyists, the NRA, ALEC and other greedy players who would love nothing more than to empty the U.S. Treasury into their pockets.
Such happened during the W/Cheney years in 2007 and 2008 and so the greed masters remain ever hopeful. After all, this current Congress has worked very hard to diminish the American people's faith in our government. Ted Cruz and his sorry ilk smash the place to smithereens and then they turn around and blame the President and the evil doing federal gubmint for the mess they made.
Canadian born immigrant Ted Cruz is only too happy to accommodate the fat cats and his far right ideologues. At the expense of the plight of children who are fleeing the violence in their Central American countries.
Yes indeed. Ted Cruz has helped to create the worst Congress ever. In fact, Ted Cruz is now the de facto Speaker of the House.
Meanwhile, over 50,000 children are seeking refuge in our country. How are we going to take care of them?
What is the chief government saboteur Ted Cruz's solution for these children other than deportation and a certain death or kidnapping into human trafficking ?
It takes a coward to scapegoat children.
Background: Under current law, refugee children fleeing Central American violence can stay with family or sponsors while their immigration case is processed instead of being forced to remain in temporary shelters overcrowded kennels. In practice, that's what happens in a majority of cases.
I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a decent human being who thinks there's anything wrong with that law or policy. Unless, of course, you're a House Republican. Then you start having fantasies about how all these illegal refugee kids are invading America, aided and abetted by their illegal sponsors, and so now we need to start making people show their proof of citizenship or at least legal status, otherwise this country will be overrun and our freedom destroyed and we'll all get thrown into FEMA camps. Or something.
The notion of decent humanity does not enter into the realm of a right wing master of shameful deception.
Weaving, Conflating and Deceiving
Only cowards would scapegoat children.
Cross posted on Texas Kaos.
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