A Reagan Legacy: Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants : NPR

The next time you are talking to a racist Tea Bagger foaming about illegals taking jobs away from stockbrokers or something and how basically brown people are “taking their country from them” or something, remind said traitor that their boy Ronnie gave three million illegal Mexican migrants amnesty back when he was trying to bankrupt our nation.

Just saying.

Punishing the Unemployed

Paul Krugman points out the sick thought pattern that conservatives consider rational: that the unemployed want to sit at home collecting 60% of their former pay.

Bob Cesca tackles the issue as well, including this quote by Atrios:

Our elites are populated with significant numbers of people who truly believe that the biggest problem this country faces is that poor people have it a bit too good.

It’s all very depressing.

Republicans, until proven otherwise, are vile, evil elitist bastards who care nothing about their fellow Americans in need.

Are Libraries Necessary, or a Waste of Tax Money?

Everything you need to know about the celebration of ignorance that is conservative thought is in this odious commentary.

Sure, Republicans have never seen a war they didn’t like (well, except for any forms of genocide on non-whites) and they love giving $35 billion or so to oil companies, etc. but “wasting money” on libraries? That’s horrible!

For what it’s worth, here’s the rebuttal from the Chicago Public Library Commissioner.

Think Again: Ronald Reagan – By Peter Beinart | Foreign Policy

So Reagan didn’t have the bloodlust conservatives now try to give him. I mean, face it, you’ve got to have stones to bankrupt our nation in a game of “let’s buy the most nukes” with the Soviets.

You’ve apparently also got to be bright enough to not actually use all the bombers and tanks just for the hell of it. Something lost on our last Republican president.

In short, if the article is true, Reagan was less of a mouth breather than I give him credit for, and neocons are full of it. As they usually are.