Anchor Babies

Immigration is a nice distraction from Iraq. Almost every place in the country you can look around and see people not speaking English. It's almost un-American...as long as you don't count the whole "give us your tired, your poor, etc., etc." nonsense.

From the SacBee we learn that Wally is backing a bill that would deny citizenship to babies born in the US if their parents are not here legally. Apparently the fact that this would violate the 14th Amendment is not lost on our duly elected representatives in Washington.

"We do have an ongoing problem with these 'anchor' babies," (Devin) Nunes said, "but we also have a tough time with changing the law."

It's not just "the law," it's the Constitution. I'm sure the irony that this country was founded by immigrants is, in fact, lost on our representatives in Washington. Maybe they should just propose a bill that would place all financial burden of the illegal parents on the "anchor baby." It could work just like the national debt.

To be honest I'm a bit surprised that Wally is backing this bill since he is a "friend" of the farmer here in the north state. Cheap manual labor around here is traditionally done by immigrant workers. I'm not saying that the immigrant worker population is here illegally, I'm just saying I doubt many people are keeping up with the checking of paperwork. You gotta keep those prices down you know.

Update: The LA Times picks up on the story as well. No mention of Wally though.

Paradise Lost

A horrible pun, I apologize. But it seems Jamie O'Neil from Paradise is none too happy with Wally's latest mailer to us, his constituents. Well, you can't make everyone happy.

Welfare Reform

No...not for corporations, for poor people! Or, as the Wall Street Journal likes to call them, "Lucky Duckies."

Too bad that while welfare is on the chopping block (and yes, making sure fewer people can be on welfare is chopping it) that wages are going down.

Oh well, the stock market is back to around where it was when Bush started his term. Yay for fiscal responsibility!

Wally Strikes Back at Bee

Wally, along with Doolittle and Pombo, take issue with a SacBee editorial (which I failed to link to previously).

Other Sites

Definately check out Take Back Red California.

While I'm Out

You should not miss out on NorCal Progressive.

Action Alert: Rebuild

Move On is running a campaign to get some sanity in the rebuilding process.

Here is the extra text that I added:

I understand that in the theoretical world of supply side economics tax cuts and the free market will solve all problems. We do not live in a theoretical world though and it would be irresponsible for us to ignore the impact that the ballooning deficit will have on the economy if we simply leave the tax cuts in place and impose this massive debt on the next 10 generations.

Taxes are not punishment. a progressive tax system does require that people who can pay more do so. But the taxes we pay are our dues for citizenship.

We cannot afford this continued phase of 'Reaganomics' on steroids.