Great Idea, Mo! And You Can Bring Larry and Curly With You.
Republican Representative Mo Brooks of Aladamnbama would like to show you a list of things he doesn’t know.
Brooks said there is a federal statute (“I don’t have the citation for it at the tip of my tongue”) making it a felony to aid, abet, or entice a foreigner to illegally enter the U.S.
“At some point, you have to evaluate whether the president’s conduct aids or abets, encourages, or entices foreigners to unlawfully cross into the United States of America,” he continued. “That has a five-year in-jail penalty associated with it.”
Brooks isn’t sure on what grounds impeachment proceedings might be justified because he hasn’t seen the outlines of the president’s actions yet.
I’m willing to bet there’s a whole mess of other things that Mo Brooks doesn’t know.
And he wants to send President Obama to jail for five years. He thinks it’s five. It may be seven or three.
By Mo’s reasoning all of Wall Street should be imprisoned for enticing people to come to the USA to try their hand at the world’s biggest crap shoot.
Or, we could try a Bush or two for the Latin American policies that made it untenable for Latin Americans to live in their own countries.
Better yet, Mo, why don’t you ask Boehner to call a vote on the Senate bill, if you you don’t want President Obama to do your jobs for you. Six years of “not now,” so just when do you and your GOP colleagues think ‘now’ should happen, Mo?
1Mo needs to spend mo time listening instead of running his mo mouth. I’m pretty sure what the President did was tell future immigrants coming illegally (and a lot who just got here) that their time is up.
Mo needs to go.
2What do they think, Obama is standing there waving a bag of Snickers bars at folks across the river or something? Sheesh. I’d say put a banker in jail for every undocumented worker. Or President. Maybe five bankers oughta go to jail if Boehner actually sues the president. What do you think?
3Hey–I thought you were supposed to be on vacation???!!!
Not that I don’t appreciate the update on the silliness extant among (R)epulsive Politicians.
4Even the village idiot, in this case ole Mo, can easily figure why we should NOT do sumpthin, even if the doing is the right thing. It takes a whole bunch more mental horsepower to figure out why we should do something. Then figure out how to do it. Especially when the disloyal opposing party has saturated the road with political IEDs.
5I am ashamed to say that I have to live in the same state as this idiot.
6Remember, Mo is not racist, in fact, none of those stupid old white, itching-to-imprison-all-black-men crackers in Alabambalambla are, right?
7As a senior I am somewhat selfishly counting on young immigrants to work and help pay for my SS. We are an aging country and immigration is healthy, by and large, for both the country and the immigrants.
As for people who abet illegal immigration, wouldn’t the agricultural business be at the top of that list? Of course most of them are corporations, so they are above the law.
8Wow. You know, with the right screaming that the guy just cut up the Constitution and the left celebrating, it’s hard to believe that all he really said was, “We’re going to prioritize who we deport.”
Which is really pretty much what they’ve always done.
9I wonder how many of Mr. Brooks contributors hire undocumented workers. I also wonder if they consider that his ‘enticement’ language could draw attention to their businesses. For some time, I have said that if we want the problem with undocumented immigrants cleared up, we should put a few of the CEO’s of the companies that hire them behind bars.
10I’d just suggest to “Mo”…. that the next time Barack Obama runs for President…. he just not vote for him.
That’ll show him.
11Typical, typical MO! No brain under that white fluff. Recently read something he sent out to constituents on immigrants. According to him, there was at that very moment a highly educated Mexican swimming the Rio Grande on his way to yank a computer job away from a natural born American. There are actually people in his District who did NOT vote for him. His District includes Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, a spot in the south that he and a few others are trying to sell to the country as the Pentagon of the South. If I catch his draft the Right way, he wants his Pentagon to compete with the other one outside of D.C. His idea of compete may be quite different from the one we see in baseball games. When the South secedes again, they may have on hand a central command post capable of lobbing missiles at the Pentagon of the North. In yer dreams, MO baby!
12Lynn, those Spanish speaking farm workers are vetted through state Departments of Labor. You would be surprised at how many of them have papers. Why do American farms – and ranches – have so many of them? Well, the total number of American farms is shrinking. There are now just over 46,000 farms in existence in this country, the kind of farm you and I knew years ago. The average of of farm owners has hit a point where the rest of us would retire. Family owned farms no longer have a platoon of family members like they used to, say, in the 19th century. For the majority of Americans who need farms so they can eat (and drink beer), the romantic luster of old fashioned farming is long gone. Farmers who advertise for local native born help find that it is really not out there. The few natives who do respond just don’t last. They really don’t have the background of working 24/7 in all kinds of weather. Hence farmers use the Spanish speakers who do have the experience gained in their home countries. And because they are so hard to get, these farm laborers are afforded decent pay, housing, etc.
13Start throwing korporations in jail. They want,they need,they demand cheap foreign labor to pad their bottpm lines. Jail wingnuts for aiding and abetting korporate ‘murrica from payong their fair share of taxes-or even any taxes.
14First, anyone know what is Mo short for?
I wonder what Mo had to say to this farmer or any other Alabama farmers?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/14/alabama-immigration-law-workers
15Fred, honey, His full name is Morris Jackson Brooks. Mo doesn’t talk to farmers. He mostly talks to himself. Damn sad, really, but when he talks to himself he is really never alone. He has all those toys in his head to play with.
16At some point, you have evaluate whether there is a Republican representative who ISN’T an idiot.
17Well said, Monty. And yet the American voters just put more of them in Congress to “get something done”. The obstructionists are rewarded, the people who worshipped deregulation and gave us a near Depression are howling about how bad the economy is and it’s like the American public has had their collective memory wiped clean. What does it take to wake them up!!!!!
18Well, since the President’s action only aids people who’ve been here for 5 or more years, seems like the entire underpinning of Mo’s argument that he’s bringing people across the border is worthless.
19Fred,imagine how sober Alabama could be if police were allowed to detain anyone looking like a moonshiner?
20It’s a paradox the the number of Monkey Islands at zoos across the country has declined steadily over the years, yet the Republican Caucus in the U.S. House persists. Apparently there’s still a sizable number of voters who still flock to see these lesser primates wander around Capitol Hill, sniffing each others’ butts and idly fingering their own genitals.
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