In this video clip, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz displays the remarkable intelligence that earned her the job of DNC Chair. Or maybe the intelligence of a chair. We’re not sure which.
Here’s what she said late last week about illegal aliens:
“I think the president was clearly articulating that his position, the Democrats’ position, is that we need comprehensive immigration reform. We have 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country that are part of the backbone of our economy. And that is not only a reality but a necessity. And that it would be harmful if — the Republican solution that I’ve seen in the last three years is that we should just pack them all up and ship them back to their own countries, and that, in fact, it should be a crime and we should arrest them all. I mean that was the legislation that Jim Sensenbrenner advanced a couple of years ago.”
Shocking. Those damn Republicans want to treat criminals as if they’ve committed crimes.
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my drug dealer is an undocumented pharmacist
He probably votes Democrat.
Clearly she meant, "12 million undocumented voters in this country are part of the backbone of the DNC base. And that is not only a reality but a necessity."
maybe you're right.. I'm losing patience for the apologists, especially when for every person finding a job in this economy, there are 4 more Americans looking.. I have a measure of compassion for kids that get dragged over the border, but enough is enough. Perhaps in the past a number of Americans were unwilling to take certain jobs, but that has to be shifting now, as we continue to tear down whole industries in favor of offshoring.
I am heartened by SCOTUS recently upholding my state's E-Verify law.. It is a fine experiment. The counter experiment may, in fact, be trading Amnesty for future constituencies & votes
The screwy part of the compassion bit is that the kids are being used to forcibly extract sympathy.
If I threw my kids in the car and took them along while I committed armed robbery or some other extremely dangerous felony, they would be taken away from me, and I'd have a hell of a time seeing them, let alone ever get them back. Illegals bring children into the country, and we somehow are supposed to feel sorry for them. I do. I feel sorry for the kids. So I think that CPS ought to do their job and take them away from the people putting them in danger.
Endangering children in order to generate sympathy is just plain ugly. While the people who slip across alone to work, sending the money home for their family irritate me, they aren't monsters. They're sacrificing for their family, and they ought to be treated with a degree of respect -- possibly just sending them back when they get caught, rather than jail time. The other ones? Their children should be taken out of that situation.
I've never felt that giving illegal immigrants' children in-state tuition was all that bad -- if their parents were put in jail for felony child endangerment.
Wasserman-Schultz: la stupida y muy pelligroso!
LOL you are right on your assessment, however just wanted to point out that it's peligrosa and in spanish an e always comes before an s at the beginning of the word.
Never trust a woman who is so ashamed of her husband that she has to hyphenate her last name.
a strange heuristic for meting out trust.. I don't care what they do with their names. Father's first, husband's first or only... dashes, slashes. I worked with a couple who had changed their surname to Draven when they got married.. Yes, they forsook their parentage so they could honor a movie (The Crow).. Let me be the first to say they were fcckng annoying.. But I wouldn't condone making them miserable over it because a baby was in the picture, and why torture him over stupidity of parents
So far as unfortunate naming of infants go, there's people in NZ that tried to name their kid '5', and there's a new androgyne named 'Storm' out there.
I always used to think that the worst of the childhood cruelties were inflicted on the playground -- but I'd have to say that some parents are topping the list with some very juvenile stunts.
Parents can be cruel and unthinking. Many years ago, back when gas stations were still full service, a kid who worked at my local station was named Brook Trout. I said, "Based on your name can I assume your parents were hippies?" He said, "Yeah, but I got off easy. They named my sister Rainbow."
And I had a college class - I swear to God - with a guy named Richard Succor. What were his parents thinking?
Yeah, some of those names unleash my inner 3rd grader -- work with a person with the surname of "Boob", and another with a more unbelievable surname referring to that same part of female anatomy.
The hard part (for me) is that's her married name. I'm serious, she got the stripper name *after* she married. [scratches head]
I had a kid working for me at Renaissance Faires, his name was Fred Barney. No, really.
What did he yabba dabba do for you?
Yeah, the problem with people that are tiresome ideologues isn't that they need signs saying that they are tiresome ideologues.
They don't need secret handshakes, either.
I am going to be buttinski...
This is how I feel about the name thing:
In latin america it is expected and not uncommon for a woman to have two last names (her father's* and her husband's). So I personally do not see anything wrong with the two last name situation.
However with that said, I don't understand the hyphen it is peculiar perhaps because culturally it seems unnecessary. I don't recall it been widely used in latinamerica although of course things can change. I have a vision of a woman wanting to seem independent, but is happy that someone married her, yet if it gets too hard the hyphen is there to remind her that she can cut the ties off him at any time.
With that said the two last name thing is culturally to me not a big deal it is the hyphen that is awkward.
* or her Mother's grandfather if the Father is not known
I don't understand the thumbs down. Either the people didn't read what I commented or disagree with my cultural background. If you read what I commented I agree in premise with the post that prompted it, just made a cultural note that not everyone is the same on the planet. If you disagree with my cultural background, then that says a lot about you and your prejudices.
KQ, what am I missing? Is the use of a hyphen in her name important because she hails from a district with a large Latino population? If so, then I get it.
Yes... you don't. You have no idea what I posted. You read into it something based on your own prejudices on feminists like perlcat. I don't care about your prejudices on feminists, I don't particularly care for the feminists of this country either, however you read something that wasn't there. I will suggest that you read what I actually posted again.
I believe that Wassermann-Schultz hails from the dumbass-shithead side of the town of "Gotta-Use-Superfluous-Hyphens-In-A-Sorry-Assed-Attempt-At-Looking-Sophisticated-That-Fails-Every-Time-Debbie-Opens-Her-Mouth".
I think there's a time and a place for it. I'm a traditionalist for the most part -- but if a person was from an important family, and needed to retain the name for her work or for her culture, what the hay. It's not like it is a problem for me. When my wife and I married, she couldn't wait to ditch her surname, it being that of her ex.
But which of those loser names was so important that she wanted to keep it? Wassermann? Schultz? WTF?
Well I don't understand the thumbs down then... Not everyone in the world is the same and women in MANY OTHER cultures keep their father's name when they get married. That is all I said.
In addition I stated that they hyphenation was strange to me, perhaps it is cultural, and that is normal here, but that is not something that was popular and cultural in this country (unless I am wrong) at least 30-40 years ago.
The problem is that it has been used as one of those "wymyn's issues" things -- as an intended insult to the patriarchal system, as it were, and somebody is having a hard time with it.
Don't take the thumbs down personally -- it is a long-standing thing from well before you were born -- I remember the shows in the late sixties using it as a gag -- Sonny & Cher used that, as well as Sonny playing the beleaguered house-husband in various skits as well (a later failed attempt at casting himself for a role in "George of the Jungle on Skis" put the kibosh on all that...)
Yeah, I know. Call me MISTER Insensitive.
It doesn't stand as much of an insult to me -- any man being affected is the one married to her -- he and his family would be only ones actually insulted, and the remedy is simple -- don't marry her if it's a deal breaker for you.
However, it is also a longstanding Brit thing to hyphenate surnames. Again, to preserve family associations. A woman gains a lot of privacy when she takes on her new husband's surname -- and I'd have a hard time understanding why she wouldn't want to take advantage of that.
It's all pretty silly in a pseudo-reactionary way. Any true feminazi would not even be getting married to her 'life-partner', and the lessers of them would simply retain their 'maiden' name or even come up with some new BS surname as a 'matronymic', as opposed to retaining even the slightest vestige of the culture that fathered, erm, 'mothered' her... Just another sign that the feminazis are not strong on logic. Overemotional, melodramatic bunch as a whole, this particular bit makes Gracie Allen's illogic seem like adding 2 and 2 to get 4.
Like I said, silly on the face of it. Until they can manage self-fertilization, they're just going to have to live with being contaminated with males in order to reproduce.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I read that and I have to ask myself, what does all of that have to do with me or anything that I ACTUALLY posted? Are you telling me that you DIDN'T READ what I actually posted? You read INTO it what YOU thought, not what was actually there. I am sorry but I cannot respect this. I do take it personally because you are accusing me of something that I never said.
IN OTHER COUNTRIES a woman with two names is not a bad thing, it is not a feminist thing and it is not an indication of anything improper on her part. In fact it is very patriarchal. A woman never has a name of her own, other than her first name and her initial name. An hispanic woman will always have the male last names of her father's family and her husband. It is tradition and cultural. I was speaking of another culture. I HAVE TWO NAMES my Mother's (her Father's) and my Father's. If I were to marry in latin america I would drop my Mother's maiden name keep my Father's name and add my husband's name. HENCE it is not unusual and it doesn't bother me for a woman to have two last names.
The only thing that I had to say on the matter that did bother me is the hyphen it seems awkward. It promotes detachment like she can get rid of the name (and her husband) at any moment. I emphasized I didn't like that.
I get thumbs down because you hate feminists? Really? How does that make sense? I get thumbs down because in ANOTHER culture a woman with two last names is NORMAL?
i don't see how you are so sure anyone you are addressing here gave you thumbs down.. you really shouldn't worry over them. Perlcat enjoys expounding on a thing, that's all
Yeah, I expound by the pound.
No, you got me all wrong.
I never gave you any thumbs down.
What I was doing was explaining *why* some people have problems with the hyphenated last name. Me -- I don't care. As long as people can change their names legally, what they change them to is no concern of mine. It may seem odd or funny to me, but it isn't my name.
Sorry I misunderstood. However I still don't understand how someone mistook me as a defender of the hyphen ???
I could have used fewer words: "Some people are crazy/angry."
You're far too modest. What woman wouldn't want to be known as Mrs. Perlcat?
Well, you see, it's a valuable trademark...
Actually, I suppose I should have said that the woman that married me wanted to ditch the surname of the useless POS that she had been married to, he being unfit to tie her shoes.
We had a women at work named Debbie Thompson. She always swore that when and if she got married , she was going to keep her maiden name . Fair enough .
She DID get married and now goes by the name of Debbie Thompson-Thompson . After she got married , she would get fired up if anyone called her only Debbie Thompson instead of Debbie Thompson-Thompson .
As I have said on many occasions , Nonsense is Nonsense , even to GOD.
So.... you gave me a thumbs down because I agree with you on the hyphen being awkward and unnecessary (like in the example that you posted)? OR is it because my culture is different than yours?
However you at least had the gumption to post something.
The other moron that thumbed down and ran what is YOUR reason?
This is one dumb ugly WTF person. OBAMAGATE NOW!
1 of my favorite radio guys, Andrew Wilkow, who hosts the The Wilkow Maority of Sirius/XM 125 at Noon EST, & someone who also graduated from the same University of Florida that Wasserman-Schultz went to, calls her "Bad Hair Day". Hard to argue that moniker.
Wasserman Schultz never had a thought in her head.Schultz repeats the Democratic party taking points over and over and over and over.She tells a thousand lies every time shes on M.S.N.B.C.Schultz makes an idiot look smart.
8 U.S.C. § 1325 : US Code - Section 1325: Improper entry by alien
[NOTE: This article of the US code of justice has two section; (a) deals with the criminal penalties for illegal entry into the US and (b) deals with civil penalties that may also be imposed.]
Section(a): Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection;
misrepresentation and concealment of facts
Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States
at any time or place other than as designated by immigration
officers, or (2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration
officers, or (3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United
States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the
willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first
commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or
imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent
commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or
imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.
[NOTE: Title 18 mentioned above is the part of the US code that defines criminal penalties of various sorts.]
[NOTE: Section (b) of the Statute goes into the civil penalties for illegal border crossing. This is not germain to the current discussion and I won't bother to reproduce.]
[NOTE: Now given the above rather explicit statute, what in tar-nation did Napolitano have in mind when she said that Illegal immigrants were not criminals? The only way I can make any sense of her remark is if she was trying to say that although it is a crime to enter the US illegally, it is NOT a crime to BE in the US once one has entered illegally. If I am correct in this then it is almost Clintonian in its diabolical perfidious insanity! Talk about one hell of a slick Weasely bit of legal double talk! Its clear she attended Harvard (or at least Yale). I hope and prey that any good old fashioned american jury will have enough common sense in their right little pinky to reject this stupidity.]
I'm not certain where to look it up, but from the above information, it looks like the act of coming here illegally is a felony. That must be why the Dems don't want the illegals to be arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced. Felons lose their voting rights.
You figured it out, it's about voting rights. Felons are viewed as just another potential voting block, just like everyone else. Mexicans are being lumped with illegals by the Dems, since they want to use illegals as a hameer in the fight for crap like the "Dream Act".
My car got the once over on my way back into the country at the Portal, ND border checkpoint. They also took me aside, questioned me for about 10 minutes, & I had to sign in & declare whatever I purchased. I would like to point out to the idiot from Florida that when I cross the border, I DO IT LEGALLY, you know, WITH MY PASSPORT.
BTW, Schultz is a Gator. University of Florida for those who care, no Ivy Leaguer here.
If you outlaw outlaws, then only outlaws will be outlaws
She exhibits the same quality of intellectual diversity as Olivia.
Factually challenged , morally challenged , intellectually challenged , all in the name of diversity . This is what most defines her kind.
As Orwell would but it -- " In a time of universal deceit , telling the truth is a revolutionary act. "
Illegal immigrant = undocumented Democrat.
You know the Demmies know how incredibly stupid their supporters are so they just talk in circles and their voters go, "Yep, must be da truut."
They lie, the media swears to it, and the nitwits buy it. It explains a lot.