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?

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

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.

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.

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?”

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.

That said who knows how the current SCOTUS would come down on the 14th.

But hey, why should today be different, eh?