Haley Barbour said on Fox News Sunday that there was nothing wrong with his lobbyist past. “I am perfectly glad to look at the clients that I worked with when I was there,” he said. But there’s a but:
Barbour may be eager to showcase his record, but one of Barbour’s foreign lobbying clients could cause him some troubles in the 2012 Republican primary, if he decides to run. According to a State Department filing by Barbour’s former lobbying firm, The Embassy of Mexico decided to retain Barbour’s services on August 15, 2001, to work on, among other things, legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for foreigners living illegally in the United States—what opponents of immigration reform call “amnesty.”
Whoops! He’s not allowed to do that if he wants to win the Republican nomination for president. He may get away with saying offensive stuff about white supremacy groups, but he definitely can’t get away with not being racist against Mexicans. [Time]
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Mexico decided to retain Barbour’s services on August 15, 2001, to work on, among other things, legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for foreigners living illegally in the United States.
Well, that sure was money well spent.
I'm sure that, hailing from Mississippi, Mr. Barbour has to save his racism for the home front, i.e. those darker-than-Mexican folks.
Oro o plato, nombre de chica?
He needs a one on one with Frank Luntz, STAT.
Who will now recharacterize illegal immigrants as "job-seeking aspirants," admitted conditionally to the US for the useful social purpose of driving down the price of low-skill labor.
That is to say, braceros, as in the good old days.
Well, I'm no Frank Luntz, but I would suggest that an initiative to provide a pathway to citizenship be named the "Ending Our Dependence on Foreign Burritos Bill."
“I am perfectly glad to
look at thespend the money I received from clients that I worked with when I was there…”//fixed
Stick a fork in that cracker.
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I'd love to. But unless it's a manure fork with extra-sharp tines, I doubt it'll make much of an impression at all.
Maybe the excuse of "I was just doing it for the money; believe me I would never do the right thing unless there profit in it" will fly with GOP voters.
He just wanted to be sure that we would have plenty of cheap labor to build a border fence.
"Que??? El pinche gordo viejo no es racista??? Mentiroso! "
He thought it was Nuevo Mexico.
"Tengo una cabeza de vaca, pendejo, pero tengo la dinero. Chumpa me."
It means I love you, man!
Ah, yeah, about your translation, there? Never mind. You're right. Although that's some hot, hard love you're talking about there.
I know, right? He's talking about all kinds of love, right there.
"But there’s a but:"
Since it's relevant to Haley Barbour, I'll say what we used to say and giggle about in fifth grade: "and this is a BIIIIIIIG BUT(T)."
Haley's got back.
My anaconda don't want none unless you got an irrational hatred of Mexicans, hun.
Arroz con frijoles no le evita…
Yet another excuse to link to this sublime silliness
Ha, ha!
Thanks for sharing.
(Bonus: I finally understand all the lyrics!)
Somewhere, some moran is trying to come up with a bumper sticker about this.
Give Barbour a Quartet!
"Haley Barbour wants to import Mexican Barbers! Refudiate!"
Is that too long?
Romney being Pro-Choice when he was Governor of Massachusetts, killed him in the Iowa Caucuses.
Barbour being Pro-Mexican has doomed any aspirations he may have had.
Don't forget though…Haley did it for money, probably lots of it. Wealth covers a multitude of sins with the GOP.
IOKIYAR = just doin' for the $s. Like the oldest profession.
What a whore. Do anyone think that excuse is going to work?
The second most humorous aspect of this post is the idea of Haley reaching his mouth with one of his feet. This morbidly obese turd has not seen his feet in forty years and I'm pretty sure he has to have help getting shoes and socks on and off. Well, shoes anyway; I forgot: Mississippi.
Every time Haley opens his pie hole I think of Pappy O'Daniel form O' Brother where art thou . A man of constant sorrow indeed.
God bless you, government of Mexico. And a fond adios to Barbour. (Now see DNC … this is how we exploit weakness for long term gain. You just got skooled by a foreign government.)
Hiring a southern Republican to lobby in favor of Mexican immigration is like hiring John Bolton as UN Ambassador. He must have been hired by the Mexican branch of the Bush family.
La ironía, se quema.
The Embassy of Mexico decided to retain Barbour’s services on August 15, 2001, to work on, among other things, legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for foreigners living illegally in the United States
In related news the Embassy forwarded with a suggest to hire Mark Foley's application to be director of the Guadalajara Home for Boys to the Mexican Department of Human Services.
Excellent!
Republicans proposed a 43 percent cut in border security fencing in their budget so maybe they see a need for cheap, easily-frightened workers.
Did FOX News jump on him about this? No, of course not. Barbour was being a good Republican. He wants to make sure we keep ourselves supplied with people for the White Supremacist to hate. So we have to outsource our brown people? That is what the free market demands, and that is what Republicans are going to do.
hmm, so two weeks before 9/11, and all Haley cared about is helpin' Messicans – not saving American lives…
This, too, is good news for Juan McCain!
He stuck his foot in his mouth? Apparently mistook it for a bacon-wrapped corndog.
There's a but, alright, but you spelled it wrong. It's Haley's. Big. Fat. Broad. Flabby. White. BuTT. I don't even understand why Barbour's throwing his porkpie into the ring. He's got to know he hasn't a prayer.
Messicans? Hell, Barbour may as well have lobbied for Al Kaiduh.
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