Remember the cry from Republicans that “character counts” during the Clinton impeachment battle? Now, nary a word of condemnation from them about Trump’s present public and past private (and not so private) behavior. Don’t worry, the Dems are a mountain of hypocrisies too. Remember Barbara Jordan (D, Tx.) and her U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform of 1994-1996? Her restrictionist views on immigration once found a home in the Democratic Party. If alive today, not only would she never make the stage in either of the recent Dem debates, she would be wiping spittle off her face after a visit to a local DC restaurant.
Don’t expect either party to offer a duplicity-free environment. Maybe it has to do with life constantly throwing monkey wrenches into our preconceived notions. What we once condemned – or loved – turns around and bites us in our posterior.
Jordan said the following about immigration policy: “… it is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.” Further, she wrote, “For immigration to continue to serve our national interest, it must be lawful. There are people who argue that some illegal aliens contribute to our community because they may work, pay taxes, send their children to our schools, and in all respects except one, obey the law. Let me be clear: that is not enough.” From there on, she continues to sound more and more like Trump.
The hood ornament for open borders is our giddy sophomore class president, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY). Lately, she strode into the land of Nazi-shaming about our immigrant holding centers, calling them “concentration camps”. It’s true that when a person resorts to making anything a clone of the Nazis, you’re close to admitting the sterility of your point. Game over, Alexandria.
What does she do when confronted with her banality? She dodges. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, she was questioned, “… there were also ‘concentration camps’ under Obama and under Bill Clinton…. did you call them concentration camps at the time when Obama was president?”
Her awkward response was, “Well, at the time, I was working in a restaurant.” She tried to recover by additionally saying, “… I absolutely was outspoken against Obama’s immigration policies and the detention of families then.” He didn’t ask her about her past opposition. He queried her about equating our detention centers under Obama to what is colloquially understood to mean Auschwitz. She rhetorically zigzags like an Allied troop ship in a u-boat killing zone.
Quibbling is another favorite tactic when caught tasting your feet. She attempts to bring up a more benign and arcane definition of “concentration camp”. The over-caffeinated Ocasio-Cortez exhibits all the signs of a zealot caught being a zealot.
Baffoonishness is now a qualification for the political limelight.
Read the story of the Tapper/Cortez interview here.
RogerG