Posted on 11/14/2014 6:37:05 AM PST by BradtotheBone
During a media gathering on President Obama's plan to grant executive amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, Rep. Hank Johnson, the Georgia Democrat who once wondered if Guam would tip over from overpopulation, compared the plan to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Daily Caller reported Thursday. According to Bloomberg's Dave Weigel, Johnson also "speculated about which of its defenders would star in a movie adaptation of the struggle."
But the comparison is hardly fitting, since the Emancipation Proclamation -- signed nearly 152 years ago by the nation's first Republican president -- did not free all the slaves, but only those in the Confederacy. Moreover, Johnson's claim falsely assumes that illegal immigrants are bought and sold the same way slaves were in the years prior to the Civil War.
Johnson was not the only Democrat to make an over-the-top statement at the meeting, Alex Griswold said. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, the Texas Democrat once dubbed the 'Congressional boss from Hell," said, “We will circle the president on fire. We will be on fire for rightness and justice.”
Democrats, Weigel said, did all they could to encourage Obama to "go big" on amnesty. Republicans, meanwhile, had nothing new to add.
"We'll not be shutting the government down, threatening to default on the national debt," said incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., despite some talk Republicans would use every means available -- including a partial shutdown -- to stop Obama's executive action. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, refused to rule out a shutdown on Thursday and said House Republicans would “fight the president tooth and nail.” Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., suggested using impeachment as a way to stop executive amnesty.
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This a@@ is so entrenched in an area of black dumbocrats, there was not even a challenger. Stupid is as stupid does.
Ah yes... Hank Johnson of “Too many Marines on Guam will cause it to tip over” fame.
Given the fraud inherent in the Emancipation Proclamation (only freed slaves in areas that the Union didn’t control) this might actually be a good comparison.
However Obama is just creating or adding to a class of second-class citizens already ensconced on the Democrat plantation.
Good ole Hank. He’s the idiot that actually said once that if they move more troops or whatever to one side of Guam it would tip the island over. No Sh!t. The man is just a plain moron.
His aides were so embarrassed about the comment they were in a flying tizzy to ‘explain’ the metaphor of what ole Hank was trying to convey. It was much fun and popcorn watching them trying to extricate this idiot.
Out of fairness, it'd be only right that his district absorbs at least a half-million of these newly "emancipated" illegals.
of course, one difference is the small matter of the civil war, and the EP only applying to those states in rebellion.
other than that, it’s exactly the same.
Hank really does need to check into rehab. This crack addiction has gone too far.
Hank ( I am worried that Guam will flip over) is a useful idiot. He is one of the dumbest people alive
Please for the sake of the rest of us rational Georgians send them all to the hamptons
Stupider? Wait 5 minutes. Guaranteed!
The EP was not law. 0b0z0’s EO is law.
Well it is an apt comparison in that we will get a new wave of the "white man's burden."
I expect Congress to nullify any such edict, and take back their Constitutional responsibilities. Article 1 Section 8, fourth paragraph.
One of the "stupid" people who enacted 0bamacare that Gruber was referring to. He was absolutely correct about [at least a portion] of the American people being stupid. In fact, we're daily bobarded with the rantings of pure imbeciles, like this one.
Noooooo—that’s me, too! I’m Soooo sad to be in this district that was redrawn a few years ago. Until then, it was great.
I would have compared it to the Visigoths at Rome?
Whenever the 56,000,000 abortions in America since the Roe v Wade decision are referred to as a Holocaust, leftists freak out. You can’t use that term for something so “trivial” as the slaughter of millions upon millions of innocent pre-born babies. It is an inappropriate comparison they tell us.
But somehow comparing the giving of immediate citizenship to millions of people from other countries who have disdained our country’s sovereignty and laws and are here illegally is on par with freeing Black slaves who were forced to come here against their will and forced to labor for their masters without compensation.
It freed exactly zero slaves.
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