Apparently, we’re ‘under attack’ from ‘invaders’ who want to ‘colonize’ the U.S.

May 23, 2006

The conservative [tag]Washington Times[/tag] ran a short item today, noting a recent floor speech from Rep. [tag]Ted Poe[/tag], a [tag]Texas[/tag] [tag]Republican[/tag], on the issue of [tag]immigration[/tag]. It’s a doozy.

“Mr. Speaker, the United States is [tag]under attack[/tag],” Mr. Poe declared in recent days. “And like December 7, 1941, we are asleep on a Sunday morning. … We are being [tag]invaded[/tag], we are being [tag]colonized[/tag], and there are [tag]insurgents[/tag] from the nation of [tag]Mexico[/tag] and their allies further south.”

Furthermore, leading the charge of those who “want Mexico to [tag]occupy[/tag] this entire land,” he charged, is Mexican President [tag]Vicente Fox[/tag], a longtime ally of President Bush. “And it is obvious from the actions from Generalissimo Fox in Mexico that this is his intention.” […]

“You know, Vicente Fox, Generalissimo Fox, is really a fox in fox clothing,” he said. “He stays behind the border and sends his people here and expects them to colonize and [tag]invade[/tag] the [tag]United States[/tag].”

Well, at least we know the [tag]Republicans[/tag]’ rhetoric hasn’t gone over the top yet.

a fox in fox clothing? shouldn’t that be sheep’s clothing, to less strain an already strained cliche?

  • So someone has finally caught on 😉

    Yep, it is pretty clear that the Mexicans have been overbreeding for generations for this opportunity to overrun and take over the southwest. A plan in the making probably ever since..

    … WE TOOK IT FROM THEM IN 1836 AND 1848.

    Or does this idiot not know that we fought two wars of aggression and territorial aggrandizement with Mexico (yes, I count the Texas War of Independence).

    So clearly, the only solution is to call a constitutional convention and invite the states of Mexico and the Provinces of Canada. Then we can control the borders of this continent at the Mexican/Guatemalian border and the ports of entry. We can leave the legislative branch in Washington D.C. put the Executive branch in Mexico City and the Judicial branch in Ottawa.

    —– Satire off

    Really, this fear of a Hispanic invasion should be balanced with an understanding that U.S. citizens aren’t having enough kids to maintain our population. Do we need these workers? Only if the rich want to maintain their standards of living. At least this immigration is from Christian countries, which is more than the Europeans can say.

  • Nice to know that members of Congress feel that they can make floor speeches better suited to a KKK rally and they’ll receive only a short item in a crackpot conservative daily. Where is the outrage? I’d say an enterprising young reporter should ask him to clarify his remarks, but that isn’t necessary. It’s all hanging out, and he doesn’t pretend it isn’t. Redneck hillbilly.

    If I lived in this jerk’s district I’d run against him and use footage of that speech in every ad. Oh wait, his constituents would probably lap it up with a spoon.

    I wonder what percentage of the Hispanic vote Mr. Poe expects to receive. Racist asshole.

  • Actually, Representative Poe ought to be flattered that poor, desperate people think the US is still worth immigrating to–legally or illegally.

    Of course, his party is doing its level best to ensure that in the near future Mexico will fare better in comparison vis-a-vis the US. That, in the end, is the best way to stop illegal immigration. Simply make life in the US so miserable that no sane person would want to come here.

  • Dang. Then they shouldn’t have protested when Mexico tried to legalize marijuana and other drugs a couple of weeks ago… That would have not only solved all immigration problems, but would have created a massive reverse migration…

  • Since Mexican presidents, or ‘generalissimos’, only get to have one term, soon we may be facing a calderon in calderon clothing!

    I guess.

    Very scary, boys and girls.

  • Sometimes it just seems so sad that I can’t get a rise with my best work 😉

  • Well, I see we have yet another entrant in the “Who Is The Craziest Rethug” Contest. Sure is getting to be a crowded field… in fact, it seems to be second largest in size, only behind the corrupt/investigated/indicted Rethug group!

    I guess that we should take it easy on them…after all, its unfair and boorish behavior to make fun of the disabled and mentally infirm amongst us. However, when those personal characteristics directly affect their ability to do the job, well then, all bets are off and we just have to call a “nut” a “nut” when the description is so well deserved!

  • No Muslexican heathen will think of putting flouride in that man’s ice cream, let me tell ya!

  • Lance, I think the only decent thing to do to repent for our imperialism in the 1800s and solve this immigration problem is to give Texas back to Mexico. Preferably on a week Dumbya is at Crawford.

  • How come it is that all these bozos who want to defend English as the national language have to spit out the southern-fried bullshit they’re always chawin’ on before you can understand aword of what they’re saying????

  • This is one more example of not knowing our history and being forced to relive it. They were saying the same thing about the “Catholic invasion” with the Southern and Eastern European migration here in the 1870s through the immigration quota acts of 1921 and 1924. On a smaller scale we resisted further “Chinese invasion” on the West Coast (having exploited them to build the western part of the transcontinental railroad) with a series of laws beginning in the 1880s and culminating in the Asian Exclusion Act of 1917 (the only exception: Filipino waiters for the navy’s ships).

  • …”really a fox in fox clothing”

    Nah, I think he’s more like a fox in a sombrero–and you know how big his head’s gotta be to fill that up! Damn stuck up invaderissimo!

    And yes, Zeitgeist (#11), I’d be willing to forgo some or all of Texas but they MUST take all the Bushes, or no deal.

  • If we give them back Texas we will be importing even more foreign oil.

    Or course, we would also end up spending less on hurricane relief.

    And four of my Nascar brothers would have to change their citizenship 😉

  • Mexico obviously has a plan to send us as many of their unwanted citizens as possible. And, for those who are paying attention, that gives them tremendous political power inside the U.S. Whether there’s an explicit plan to retake the southwest isn’t known, but sending us their citizens definitely puts them on the road to that.

    There’s even a historical parallel:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Revolution

    Those who persist in supporting Mexico and illegal immigration might want to take a look at the wider context:

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50334

  • Italy obviously has a plan to send us as many of their unwanted citizens as possible. And, for those who are paying attention, that gives them tremendous political power inside the U.S. [like Justices Scalia and Alito.] Whether there’s an explicit plan to retake the [United States] isn’t known, but sending us their citizens definitely puts them on the road to that.

    There’s even a historical parallel:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussolini

    * * * *

    Now, of course, I could have used Ireland, or Germany (and really, a lot of European countries initially sent their criminals to the colonies to get them out of the way). But the repetition is unnecessary: anyone not covered by a tinfoil hat can see the absurdity and the thinly-veiled racism whereby your post is only alarming because (and only to the audience who is concerned that) the subjects have *gasp!* brown skin as opposed to Europeans.

  • “We are being invaded, we are being colonized”
    – Sitting Bull, 1876

    What’s Spanish for “Manifest Destiny?”

  • “Mexico obviously has a plan to send us as many of their unwanted citizens as possible. And, for those who are paying attention, that gives them tremendous political power inside the U.S.”

    Of course, Mexico could do that much more easily by buying large chunks of the US debt. Like China, Japan, the UAE, or Korea. Or a few Congressmen. In fact, given the corruption in DC, our Congressmen would be depressed by the fact that they have only one country they can sell.

    In other words, this scheme is a bit too elliptical to be taken seriously. Anyway, as we’re already operating as a banana republic under the Republicans, I can hardly see how Mexico taking over the administration is going to make things much different. It’s not like the GOP is using my tax dollars to represent and protect my interests as it is.

  • As the descendent of the Saxon invaders who beat the British into serfdom and drove the Welsh into the hills, than had to withstand invasions from the Danes, Norwegians and Normans, I suppose I can see both sides of the argument.

    But really, understand the basic point, Mexicans don’t leave Mexico just to turn around and have it catch up with them again. They are coming here for freedom and opportunity they don’t have in their old country. As long as our policies make their lives better, why would they give the Mexican government the time of the day?

    Fox’s policy is to get remittances from American, not territory.

  • “…Furthermore, leading the charge of those who “want Mexico to occupy this entire land,” he charged, is Mexican President Vicente Fox, a longtime ally of President Bush. “And it is obvious from the actions from Generalissimo Fox in Mexico that this is his intention.” […]

    “You know, Vicente Fox, Generalissimo Fox, is really a fox in fox clothing,” he said. “He stays behind the border and sends his people here and expects them to colonize and invade the United States.”

    Wow. Teddie Poe used the word “FOX” six times in a derogatory fashion. He must have missed his daily dose of Republikanner Kool Aid to do such a thing. But then again, they’re all mad as hatters….

  • Mr. Flibble: “Anyway, as we’re already operating as a banana republic under the Republicans.”

    I guess that makes them Banana Republicans…? You heard it here first.

  • Banana Republicans…..I love it.

    After all, they call him Chimpy, don’t they? 😉

  • aside from the phony CONservatives, Liberalism” played a major role in the decline of U.S .

  • GREAT LEADERS OF FUTURE WON’T BE FROM AMERICA — Weak, Mediocre Men Lead the USA”
    And our mediocre dissolute leaders will act like all bankrupt aristocrats. They’ll start selling state assets for private gain.

    “A friend of mine once told a college class that nobody ever woke up in 476 A.D. (the date historians define as the fall of the Roman Empire) and said, “Gosh, I’m in the Dark Ages.” His point is plain enough. Transitions happen gradually, and the people who live through them never realize what is happening.
    So it is with Americans. We are living in the ruins of a once-great republic. Now an empire utterly devoid of moral authority, the United States has nothing left but its military power and its capacity to consume on credit.”
    Nor do I agree the people living “through them never realize what is happening.” Oswald Spengler realized what was happening. Adolf Hitler could see “what is happening” in 1919. Plenty of others in all western countries have recognized what is happening all through the 20th Century. It’s the people who don’t realize what is happening who both mock the foresighted and resist changes necessary to stop or alter “what is happening”. They serve as a ready pool of useful idiots for evil minded folks who not only realize what is happening but profit from it, assist it, and speed it along.

  • Frak,
    Good one!

    I swear I’m losing track of all the puns we’ve used to describe the GOP.

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