The Little Children

Sometimes they are so infuriating I almost want to resort to violence.

The modern Republican Party, the Party of NO, the Tea Party "Patriots" have so dishonored themselves lately, it makes me sick.

There is a huge need for immigration reform in this country.  The latest manifestation of it is in the thousands of Central American children who are being warehoused in border care facilities.

The Republicans have, predictably pounced on this issue as the President's Fault.

You know, like the health care crisis is the President's Fault.  The weather is the...President's Fault...the deficit (rang up by President Bush who unlike any President in history tried to fight two wars while handing out a tax cut)...is....The President's Fault.

The Fault Lines go deep and are never ending to the current Republican Party.

Of course, there is not an ounce of truth to any of it.

Truth long ago left the Republican lexicon.  Richard Nixon took care of that with his "promise to the end war with honor" and once in office, INCREASED the bombing of North Vietnam and sent more soldiers into harm's way.  Oh sure, he delivered on his promise all right he lied to us.  Gee, a Republican who lies....

And whose fault was it...why Jimmie Carter's of course?  Huh?

And whose fault is the "loss of Iraq"...why it can't be the blundering, stumbling mess Bush made of it, it has to be.....The President's fault.

The Republican Party has, for the past forty some years, denied responsibility for one public policy disaster after another and takes credit for every success: even if they opposed the policy in the first place.

The works with the "base", those beyond middle aged seniors who wake up with Fox News, go to bed with Limbaugh and fill in the rest with "'Free Fire Radio"; a local right wing fascist radio station right here in good old Redding.  Republicans over 65 are mostly hateful bitter old people who hate from the minute they wake up until the minute they go to sleep.   They are an embarrassment to basic humanity. 

And what about the Little Children, some less than five years old, who are really refugees of a Central America whose political systems have been overwhelmed by the foreign policy of the United States and the "War on Drugs" (another Reagan disaster)?  What has really happened is the idiotic policies of Republican administrations has created a gangster infested culture that parents are willing to send their youngest children away from.

Can you imagine sending your five year old to America, in desperation to try to save them from gangsters who will kill them or rape them otherwise?  Imagine giving up your child to save them?

That is what is going on with "The Little Children".  They are not immigrants, they are REFUGEES!

And what do the Republicans do?  Why they scream to "close the border"; build a fence; send in the National Guard. 

I am reminded of the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" which depicts a North America ravaged by the effects of global warming, who in desperation advises United States citizens to go south, into Mexico to save their lives.  And the Mexicans, after years of being humiliated when THEY were refugees do what?   They open their borders and let the Americans (who previously denied them access) into their country.  The Mexicans act like human beings SHOULD act. 

Why?  Because most countries are not dominated by a bunch of right wing zealots, who ALWAYS are wrong; who ALWAYS blame the African-American President....and always get away with it.

Had enough yet?  The next time a right wing groups tries to block a bus full of refugee children from gaining access to sanctuary, I advise the federal authorities to arrest every one of them, and assign them to duty helping the children. 

That is the only thing that can break this cycle of stupidity and hate...care for the little children.

I doubt it Republicans have the heart or the guts to do so...