New Mexico’s Republican and first Latina governor, Susana Martinez, has built a reputation as something of a hard-ass on illegal immigration. So what conclusion could we immediately draw if we follow the metrics of the rigorous self-loathing required to pass the GOP’s personality entrance exam? Yeah: she recently confirmed that she is also the granddaughter of an illegal immigrant. But that was, whatever, a million years ago when the U.S.-Mexico “Border Patrol” was a roving herd of wild donkeys nibbling burlap off a passing alien’s knapsack. Times Have Changed, the Ancestor Gods are dead, etc.Â
And so what this revelation Martinez herself gave during an interview with a local Univision affiliate boils down to is that it seems the weensiest bit hypocritical that she is crusading to repeal a state law granting illegal immigrants the ability to get a valid driver’s license without proof of citizenship.
From the AP:
Martinez argues New Mexico’s law jeopardizes public safety and attracts illegal immigrants who fraudulently claim to live in the state only to get ID cards that make it easier to stay in the country. Immigrant advocates, however, say the law allows more drivers to be insured in the state and helps law enforcement obtain needed safety data. They say the fraud cases Martinez often cites for reasons to change the law are isolated.
AWK-WARD. [AP]
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I'm sure the number of people committing residence fraud is about the same percentage as the number of people committing voter fraud. Any bets that it's the same vanishingly small number? Any bets that it will be used for the same repressive Rethuglican tactics?
I'm not betting against you on this because I don't like losing money.
OK, Birth Certificate, please….
Republicans saying the rules don't apply to me. Yeah so what else is new.
they actually don't apply to you, legally, if you're Cuban (provided you're a white Cuban). So Mexicans and Central Americans, get your melanin removed, move to Cuba, and get some rich jerk in Miami to give you citizenship no questions asked.
She's my Governor and she's a big bitch. I think this is hilarious. The only thing that would be funnier is if Jan Brewer's grandparents are discovered to be headless zombies.
They're not??????
She looks like the miscegenated sprawn of a chuckie doll and a cabbage patch doll to me.
Needz more Jennifer Tilly.
I loved that movie for the sheer fact that the doll played by Jennifer Tilly kidnapped and tried to murder the real Jennifer Tilly all so she could inhabit the body of Jennifer Tilly.
That's some meta shit right there.
mean while, in the neighboring Texas, the gay-hating Governor is gay, obviously
Corndog libel!!!11!
Oh, jesus, is he ever. You see all those corndog shots of him? The man KNOWS his way around a corndog.
And the state over from that the governor chose an American name for himself from the fuckin' Brady Bunch and converted to Christianity. Really, you can just keep heading east and racking up points on this string of thought.
Is Mike Beebe really the only one left, down there? Wow. Arkansas is finally starting to turn, too, though.
"Gay-hating" is an exact synonym for "closeted gay," always and forever.
So that's how Piyush became "Bobby". Sort of like when Barack became "Barry". I am sure there will come a point when I will no longer be able to cope with Repuke hypocrisy and my head will just explode.
He had to come to build the dang fence. Now let him finish it and keep the rest out!
finish the dang spaceport!
Damned anchor governors. Now her whole state will want to be Americans.
Fuck no. Most of the people here didn't cross the border, the border crossed them.
As our last great Mexican gov said, "Poor New Mexico, so far from heaven, so close to Texas"… from whence cometh Susana la Tejana.
When Mexico's economy becomes stronger than that of the U.S. and everyone gets tired of working in maquiladoras on the U.S. side, these people are going to be crying "Tear down the dang fence!"
Because, of course, it's a slippery slope. Let illegals drive, and they might up and leave the state and then you have to get more to pick your lettuce.
And these people pay thousands to a coyote or bribes to someone to come here to work for what is either less than the minimum wage or just above it, in which case that work is hard and dangerous.
Susana Martinez, Allen West, Jonah Goldberg, and all the other minority Judas types seem to think that they will be able to join the country club if they treat the caddies badly enough.
They're between a rock and a hard place. As a person of Brownness, I totally understand their problem. In order to get anywhere in the White Folks' world, they have to be just like the white folks, i.e., hate on the blacks, browns, gays, etc. Any indication on their part that they fail to sufficiently hate on those people is interpreted by the nearby honkies as a full-out negroid Running Of The Barbarianz which will result in the rape of every white woman in the nation and also the death of every blond-haired suckling babe and feeble white-headed grandparent. Also torture. The only problem is, those tools haven't yet figured out that at the end of it, they're still not welcome to sit at Massa's table, no matter how much oppressin' of their own they done did.
It's a shitty position to be in, but their choices aren't great. I don't blame them as much as I blame those who taught them to whore themselves.
Exactamundo, sistren! The Establishment has proven time and again that they have some serious problems loving themselves; how the hell they gonna love your black/brown/yellowish-brown ass? Money and (the illusion of) power change things, but not in any fundamental or significant way. To quote Kanye, "Even if you in a Benz, you still a nigga, in a coupe."
Yep. The only way they let her in to the country club is if she is working in the kitchen. Too bad she is blinded to that reality.
Wasn't Rush Limbaugh offering to send SC Justice Sonia Sotomayor a vacuum cleaner so she could clean up after the other justices? No matter how hard you work or how far you get in their world, they will never let go of the notion that you are beneath them.
Just because they let us in the front door these days doesn't mean they've stopped assuming we're The Help.
I don't know if I agree with that. The self haters are wrong by their own fault.
If someone can prove to me that MLK spent even one day of his life playing that game, I'll buy it. But if you pay attention, the strong ones don't.
To quote Stokley Carmichael, "Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom."
It's not for me to judge who is strong enough or not strong enough to get through without playing that game. I find it hard to deal with people like Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain who willingly carry water for these people. I'm willing to work to deny people like them a position where they can influence the policy that affects my life. But I would rather direct my energy to tearing down the whoremongers who pimp these compradores and running dogs out, than the running dogs themselves. The dogs can bark, and at most, they can bite. It's their owners who can plan to deploy them for maximum effect.
Snoopy says "woof".
"She recently confirmed that she is also the granddaughter of an illegal immigrant."
Yeah, but she didn't say that he's from Roswell.
This should surprise NO ONE. Shutting the door behind you is a hallowed GOP tradition. After all, the GOP is the party that devised the strategy of killing Social Security by promising just enough olds that they'd still get their checks, even if they voted to kill the program for everyone else.
"I've got mine" is a registered trademark of the Grand Ole Party.
The full phrase is "I've got mine – fuck everyone else."
The only thing that will discourage the illegalz are more executions. Clearly last night's debased showed that 'Murica loves her executions. BTW, these should be executions of the rich bosses who hire the illegals.
Repubicans are paradoxically fond of the death penalty. They argue for limited government (except where lady parts are involved) but are happy — cheering — for the government power to legally kill its own citizens.
Great Googly Moogly, that was disgusting. Pity the nation.
The GOP is an absolute hypocrisy juggernaut. They've refined it to a fine art. Reminds me a bit of how Nevada's hispanic governor made it a point to tell the public that he doesn't believe his children are hispanic. Assholes, the whole lot of them.
In other words, she's an anchor grandbaby.
Just like Michelle Malkin. And look at how Malkin made her money! Internment for Japanese-Americans GOOD!
Governor Martinez could just institute a zero-tolerance policy toward jumper cables and low-rider hydraulic systems.
And the song "Low Rider," which is way overplayed in this nation's baseball parks.
By the way, that sign is maybe the most amazing highway sign ever made, and whoever thought to place it at the very end of the Oakland Museum's fantastic history of California exhibit should get a Nobel Prize.
To make things worse, this pinche Gringa-wannabe looks like a Messican Nancy Grace.
OT:
No Prezzy liveblog? So it's DeMint, Walsh and Wonket marching in lockstep, huh?
We can do it now. They just showed a clip of Patty Murray bitch slapping Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint.
They're still at the clapping, handshaking, elite reacharound portion of this evenings routine, so maybe we still have time.
Barry just arrived.
BTW², are we live blogging Barry mooning Agent Orange and Eric Canker?
Thanks, Gov. You qualify. There are probably a dozen candidates in the running for the Hyper Hypocrisy Award for the decade and you are one of them. Proud? I'm sure you are, bitch! Smile, 'cause you're on Faux Nooze. And then they'll discard you like a rotting melon.
A rotten melon that her grandfather got paid 1/2 of one cent to pick.
I hope she's not ashamed to be descended from a family that's probably lived in North America for 15,000 years.
true… that's why Hispanics look so "Asian", because most of them descended from Native American which in turn was Asian migrating from Siberia some 15k years ago
Mojado Martinez maligns migrating Mongolian matriarchs; desperate descendants deported via DMV.
Wait, so the GOP Best in Show to judge for the prized bitch thingy yesterday gets a liveblog and the president's speech is what? Chopped liver?
Surely, this proves that Wonkette is morally weak.
I spoke too soon.
At this point, why don't we all just all admit that whatever the Repigs most adamantly say they're against is something that they've either done, been and/or personally profited from?
this was the only reason to pay Glenn Beck any mind. Projection: The Show.
So when are the teabaggers going to scream for her impeachment?
Now I have this song stuck in my head:
Mexican Americans love education, so they go to night school and they take spanish and get a B.
and how many Arab Americans in Dearborn can speak Arabic?
Most of them, Katie.
… Marry gabachas named Debbie… ♪
Angry Marmot got it! Sweet!
Cop: Hey, do you mind if I have a, bite of your
hotcorn dog?Pedro: Huh? No man, here, take the whole thing.
Repubs being inconsistent? Surely you jest!
They don't care if you're gay, so long as you hate gays.
They don't care if you're black, so long as you hate blacks.
They don't care if you're illegal, so long as you hate illegals.
They're the very soul of consistency.
See you next martes!
If New Mexico was really American it wouldn't be named after a foreign country.
New Mexico isn't American. New Mexico is it's own place and America just kinda showed up one day and never left.
If New York was really American it wouldn't be named after a foreign city.
New Hampshire, also.
And Georgia.
Nevada.
Montana.
Louisiana.
Illinois.
Arkansas.
Virginia.
And, really, do we need a new Mexico? I mean, what's so wrong with the old one?
She could avoid all signs of hypocrisy by making the proposed law retroactive only for her family. Good luck! Adios!
New Mexico's fraudulent driver's license problem sounds like Florida's rampant problem with drug addicts getting state assistance.
It's called pulling up the ladder behind you.
Sí, se puede my ass. I got mine, fuck you.
Let me guess, she's also a closet lesbian.
I just got back from a three-day tour of southeastern NM, having watched last night's GOP goatfuck from a $100/night Artesia hotel room where even the air freshener can't stop the room from smelling like the methane/sulpher aroma of Saturn's moon Titan. That said, my girlfriend just reminded me that I better not say anything bad about Gov. Martinez 'cause the Gov. bought a $150 scarf from her just the week before last on San Francisco St. in Santa Fe.
Condolences on the long weekend in Artesia. I tried to convince my Evil Aunt it was a lovely resort area in the hopes she would disappear into the desert.
Why go all the way to New Mexico for an ID! You can get your green-card in three hours at the corner of Ontario and Columbia rd here in Washington DC!
http://dccabbie.blogspot.com/2007/12/green-card-i...
"Pulling up the ladder behind you", "Crabs in a pot" "Tea Baggers" "Republicans" : all in the same bag, all the same, all the time. I'll say one thing for them, they are consistent.
Wasn't Mitten's dad born in Mexico? Why wasn't he considered an illegal immigrant?
As a New Mexican I would like to apologize for Susana Martinez. She is hurting our state. She cut SNAP benefits, she ended tax incentives for the film industry (an industry that generating 600 million in revenue for the state), and now she wants to attack our Hispanic population. We'll do all we can to vote her out as soon as we can.
All of them, Katie!
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