Rep. Virgil Goode rails against ‘anchor babies’
Rep. Virgil Goode rails against ‘anchor babies’
In a debate on Wednesday, Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) repeatedly used the derogatory term “anchor babies” when talking about the issue of undocumented immigration, calling for a “fix” to the situation:
GOODE: There’s not going to be a consensus in Congress to fix the anchor baby situation until you get more persons like me who are willing to say, No to the anchor baby and no to the Nancy Pelosi’s of this Congress, who depends on the Hispanic Caucus. … But you don’t have blanket anchor babies occurring day in and day out in the United States of America and having the taxpayers continue to foot the bill. They come in from Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, and have ‘em in this country.
Watch it:
Deporting these legal citizens would require a constitutional amendment stripping the natural-born citizen clause from the Fourteenth Amendment. No wonder Goode’s opponent, Tom Perriello, said there is “exactly zero chance” Goode’s “fix” could pass.
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He should leave Michelle Malkin alone.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:42 pm.
R E M E M B E R:
THEY(sic) HATE US FOR OUR WAY OF LIFE AND OUR FREEDOMS...
... And so THEY(sic) debate, lobby and attempt to pass legislation designed to undermine our Freedoms and alter our way of life.
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September 5th, 2008 at 5:46 pmNice racist rhetoric there, Virge.
You ought to wave the Bible while you're ranting. I'm *sure* Jebus would approve.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:46 pmEVERYBODY should leave Michelle Maglalang alone.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:46 pmObama and McCain both fail to legally qualify for the Texas ballot.
http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/obama-mccain-fail-to-qualify-for-texas-ballot
They both missed the August 26 deadline.
How will the parties handle this?
September 5th, 2008 at 5:49 pmNow if that "anchor baby" should grow up to be a fine athlete and medal at that colossal jingoism festival of sport, well then all bets are off and they become an example of the "American Dream"
September 5th, 2008 at 5:51 pmGood find Alejandro.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:56 pmHowever we all know that the Dem's and GOP are two wings of the same diseased bird attempting to stay airborne and they will excused and allowed on the ballot because... that's the way it's always been done in America. They have to keep the image of choice out there by keeping only TWO parties in the fore front. If they were relegated to the losers bracket, they would just have to cry, and America can't handle their Republicratic Party as a looser, now can they?
Virginia seems to be the home of many right-wing Republican pigs. Is there something in the water there or is it from too much political inbreeding? What a decline from the days of our founding fathers, with many prominent and courageous Virginians including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, to name only two of the best.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:58 pmdbadass,
September 5th, 2008 at 5:59 pmBetter yet, how about that "anchor baby" growing up and enlisting in the military... Goode doesn't want that?
Perhaps we could have a human sacrifice, and both immigrant mother and child could be immolated to soothe Virgil's savage god.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:02 pmIt is the "invasion" of the invaded. The USA has destroyed the countires where these people came from. They have implemented military dictaorships where these people elected a democratic governments... now the US complains about the flood of migrants escaping from the horros implemented by the US.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:02 pmAnd John McCain was born in PANAMA and brain-washed in a POW camp. Sounds like a Manchurian Candidate. :P
September 5th, 2008 at 6:07 pmThe SCOTUS has already ruled that Goode is wrong. More information here.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:08 pmRepublican TALK about illegal immigrants but they never DO anything to decrease it-----because they lower wages and that's what their business supporters want!
September 5th, 2008 at 6:09 pmKeith,
September 5th, 2008 at 6:09 pmWe all know Panama is not anything like the foreign country of Hawaii.
What a frickin' maroon.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:09 pmMax-1, I hope you were being snarky. :)
September 5th, 2008 at 6:10 pmI'm all for ‘anchor republicans’
-tie an anchor around their necks and throw them overboard.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:12 pmHey Zooey, To make you feel better, I grew up about 60 miles from his district. Yep, it's pretty conservative down there.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:12 pmOur wonderful ex-Attorney-General Alberto "Beano" Gonzales's grandparents were illegal migrants, swimming across the Tex-Mex border in the early 1900's!
September 5th, 2008 at 6:13 pmKlem, Alberto said that was "unclear".
September 5th, 2008 at 6:14 pmHear, hear, Buckie!!
September 5th, 2008 at 6:14 pmBTW, in case y'all hadn't noticed, I'm pissed off at Repukes today. All of them.
But hey, why should today be different, eh?
September 5th, 2008 at 6:14 pmTwo or three sentences have eight or nine things wrong on three or four different levels.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:15 pmKeith,
September 5th, 2008 at 6:16 pmI was being McSnarky. :)
Levi Johnston is about to have an anchor baby to add to the ball-and-chain being wrapped around his neck.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:22 pmTheres no way this gets to the floor.
That said who knows how the current SCOTUS would come down on the 14th.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:25 pmHow about this?
Any child of a parent who is deported for being illegally in this country becomes the financial responsibility of the employer who hired the person. Period. Mandatory adoption.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:35 pmThe right wing bigots are sure coming out in droves this election, aren't they?
September 5th, 2008 at 6:44 pmtony andlido
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Does she really think that the american people are brain dead?
Just the registered Republicans.
And, not to nitpick, but I love typos, especially when they accidentally change the meaning.
This man returned home from a polite training class on tasers with all of his paraphrenalia.
"Excuse me, sir. Would you mind holding still while I hit you with 50,000 volts?"
September 5th, 2008 at 6:58 pmFor the anti-immigration right, there really us no real difference between the two parties.
The Democrats just think they're wrong, and want to find a way to set up legal mechanisms for immigration other than a Prohibition style complete ban and a corrupt reality. They're up front in refusing them.
The Republicans love that cheap illegal labor and profit by it immensely, and so will never ever reform the system.
So they have the choice: between outright but honest hostility and pandering hostility?
Me, I live with large numbers of Mexicans in my town, and they're wonderful neighbors. And they're the solution to the Social Security problem: Moaning about too few workers supporting too many retirees? We've got ample supplies to boost that ratio!
Even if Virgil Goode is sincere, he will do nothing on those beliefs. That's not how the Republican Party works.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:09 pmHe is living proof the dysfunction of inbreeding that occurs in Virginia.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:25 pmImichael
September 5th, 2008 at 7:28 pmVery bigoted remark.
Interesting how Republicans seem to know & spew every racist expression known to people, yet excuse themselves by saying "I had no idea!!" How did they come to learn these hateful expressions? Why are they the only ones to use them? Well-- why?
September 5th, 2008 at 8:22 pmOkay. Another hypocrisy here with the republicans that I'd like to take a moment to point out; first of all, Mr. Goode is pro-life, "I have a consistent pro-life voting record and will continue that record." Okay. Mr. Goode voted against stem-cell research. Okay. So, how is Mr. Goode going to fix the immigration problem when he and other right-wingers declare that life, literally, starts at conception? If he's so pro-life, then how is he and the republican party to determine when and where all these humans are being "conceived"? If a human's life begins at conception, and, by Mr. Goode's opinion, so does that human's rights, then what about American's that conceive abroad and return home? Or Europeans that conceive in the United States and return to their respective homelands? Tell me, Mr. Goode, how pro-life you really are.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:40 pmPicklee:
September 5th, 2008 at 11:16 pmWow.
Never thought of that.
If you apply the pro-life way of thinking, if a couple conceives a child on US soil, it's an American citizen!
Therefore a pregnant woman could not be extradited, because that would be denying the fetus's civil rights!
Even if the mother conceives while she is in custody!
Until last May I had the, uh, pleasure of residing in Goode's 5th District of Virginia. Goode is a serious moron - he's NOT a very intelligent person. However, he's in a gerrymandered district and is as safe as any GOP incumbent in the country. He gets a solid 65%, no matter who runs against him.
The district was drawn so that the extremely blue city of Charlottesville and the purple-to-blue Albemarle County are more than offset by very rural areas very far away - Goode Country. The guy barely speaks English, and the Southsiders consider him "one of them." He's definitely 100% safe unless he gets caught with a dead girl or a live boy. He will never, ever lose until/unless the Democrats take over the VA legislature and redraw the district.
Virginia is two different states. Northern Virginia, Tidewater (the Norfolk/VA Beach region), Richmond, and Charlottesville are urban, and the rest of the state is very rural. The urban areas have been steadily growing over the past few decades, and as they are populated with better-educated and open-minded people they are trending blue - in some cases bright blue. Tidewater has a huge military and ex-military population, but even that is starting to be drawn back.
But the rural areas are George Allen country. Those good ol' boys LOVE them some George Allen! Fortunately, they're now outnumbered and the last two governors have been Democrats and two years ago Webb got into the Senate and this year Warner is going to EASILY get into the Senate. So the times they are a changin' in ol' Virginny.
Oh, and Virgil used to be Democrat. He was and is a huge supporter of the tobacco industry - which supports a lot of farmers in his district. This passage from an article about him in the Washington Post following his fears about Muslims being elected to office in America is vintage Virgil: "Goode's speeches on behalf of tobacco are legendary in Richmond, where lobbyists recall his concern that his elderly mother would be denied 'the one last pleasure' of smoking a cigarette on her hospital deathbed."
You just can't make that stuff up.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:21 amThat is beautiful, MusicLover. I just finished watching some of the debates with Goode and his opponent, Perriello. I cannot believe how incompetent this Goode guy is.
In one debate, after being accused by Perriello as favoring big-oil with sizeable shares in ExxonMobile, the largest oil company in the world, his defense is "I bet he has more."
In another case, Perriello testifies that he is ranked 60th out of 66 members of a committee as being the least productive. WOW.
Seriously, e-mail the Perriello campaign, no matter where you're from, and support him. info@perrielloforcongress.com
September 6th, 2008 at 2:38 amHow is it that so many Republicans are downright hateful and how is it that Americans keep electing them. What does this say about the soul of a lot of Americans. It reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw recently. It said "I like your Christ. I dislike your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ".
September 6th, 2008 at 12:52 pmJust a simple yes or no question: Illegal aliens costs the American taxpayers over $333 billion a year in healtcare services, education and our justice system. Is it the obligation of the American taxpayer to pay these costs for those who break our immigration laws? Yes or no.
September 6th, 2008 at 6:55 pmBeethoven Rules Says:
Just a simple yes or no question:
September 6th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
It's not a simple yes or no question. Undocumented workers also pump billions of dollars into the economy, and most of them do pay some form of taxes. And they prevent jobs and industries from being shipped to China, in an admittedly unsustainable low-wage model. Any policy response to undocumented workers and illegal immigration must be carefully-crafted to prevent economic collapse.
As for the moral question, is it any worse to pay the education, healthcare, and justice costs for criminals? Why is it morally better to pay for healthcare and education and justice for people who rape and murder versus those whose only crime is feeding their family?
September 7th, 2008 at 8:45 amhussein toasterhead: Based on your reply, can you tell me at what number should we stop the invasion of illegals into our country? If the entire 3rd world decides to enter our country, I doubt if our infastructure could handle it. At what point do we say we can no longer educate the entire 3rd world, we cannot provide healtcare for the entire 3rd world, etc. etc. BTW: over one third of the prisoners in Kalifornia are illegal aliens.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:34 pm