SEDER: Don't worry, it's only a seven-ton satellite falling to
Earth. If you see any shooting sparks and smoke, call the local
authorities.
And in "Republican turns out to be monstrous
hypocrite" news, she is the governor. She wants to bar undocumented
immigrants from getting driver's licenses. And she admits that her
grandparents immigrated to this country without papers. Next.
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SEDER: In an era when one burnishes their right-wing nationalist
tea party credentials by calling for moats and circling our borders and
bashing undocumented immigrants, or decrying legislation offering
citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants, even if those
children go to college or fight in our military, New Mexico Governor
Susana Martinez found out what happens when politicians crave tea party
support and fall in line with their warped, vitriolic view of the world.
Bowing at the alter of the right wing, she is using claims of
terror threats to justify her immigrant-bashing calls for proof of
citizenship for the issuance of licenses in her state, and, just this
week, she slammed supporters of the Dream Act, which would allow for the
children of undocumented immigrants, here by no choice of their own, to
become citizens if they go to college or serve our country in the armed
forces. And then, sensing the inevitable reporting of the truth, she
admits --
(Excerpt from video clip) SUSANA MARTINEZ: (Speaking Spanish)
SEDER: Which for those of us who don't speak Spanish translates
to "I know they (my grandparents) arrived without documents, especially
my Father's Father."
That's right. This governor, who is criticizing "people who are here
illegally, who broke the law" would be known by the tea party as an
anchor grandbaby. And, notice, when her family did it, they arrived
without documents. When others do it, they're here illegally, which just
goes to prove that whether you're Michele Bachmann taking Medicare
payments for her family business, Rick Perry taking stimulus money to
balance Texas' budget, or an anti-gay gay Republican spending too much
time in public restrooms, when you fall in line with the right-wing's
extremist vision of America, there's a 99.7 percent chance you will wind
up being revealed as a hypocrite.
