Posted on 06/26/2007 5:17:28 PM PDT by Mamzelle
Over the past months of this nightmare of immigration scofflawry, listening to the rhetoric from the aristocratic Republican elites--I’ve been carried back to the Magnolia Melodramas I enjoyed reading as a teenager. Gwen Bristow’s “Plantation Trilogy”; Frank Yerby’s “The Foxes of Harrow” and the magnificent mother of them all--Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With The Wind.”
George Bush once said, “I’m not a southerner, I’m a southwesterner.” He was trying to distance himself from the south and the taint of racism, a “compassionate” insult to every southerner who voted for him. But he has every resemblence to the linen-suited julep-drinking Massa of the Old South.
And the dynamic of the Elites verses Middle-class Conservatives is exactly like the plantation owner and his nearest inelegant neighbors...White Trash. Scots-Irish subsistence farmers couldn’t afford to the leisured fineries of the Planter Class because they were trying to eke out an existence in competition with the institution of slavery.
Remember the characters of the Slatterys and the Macintoshes, Gerald and Scarlett O’Hara’s WT neighbors? Not only did the O’Haras hold them in contempt for being so hardscrabble, tacky and rough-textured, but the slaves themselves of the plantations held themselves in higher esteem than “po’ whites.”
And the Massa with the Big Heart dearly loved his servants, loved condescending to them--What treasures! Just like members of the family! Not that he set them free, or ate at the same table. There are limits to paternalism and noblesse oblige. But Massa and Missus were unfailingly thankful that Mammy and Pork picked up Scotty’s poop off the Big House lawn.
The irony--it’s the Southern middle class that makes up a lot of the soldiers who trusted him enough to serve in Iraq.
George Bush thinks he can afford to openly display the contempt he has always felt for Joe Redneck...er...Sixpack. His chief overseer, Tony Snow, let us in on the secret in the wee hours after election day. He can now concentrate on indulging his oozing childhood sentimentality by handing his house servants a deed to America.
I’m reminded of another scene from Gone With The Wind--Scarlett was being lectured by an elderly matriarch about Trash. “And when you’re done with them--kick them away and do it thoroughly, because Trash clinging to your coattails can ruin you.”
I have entered into many discussions about illegal immigration with a comment--housework and yardwork are political. This is a class issue between overlord elites who can’t conceive of a life spent actually cleaning up after themselves. They break the laws, then have to justify the transgression by accusing the law of being bad. That’s why they become insulting and defensive when requested to obey the law.
I’m done with Bush. I don’t trust him--or any member of his Indolent family.
Like a lotta folks here, I'm from those folks in the Carolina and Georgia hills who didn't have anything.
Some of the family were even Bushwhackers...which used to have a different meaning in Eastern Tennessee of the 1860's.
But they were like that because they didn't want to fight for the Plantation owner's war. The didn't have anything except the dirt they farmed. And the children that the Home Guards came to conscript.
Lot of them fought for the South, though. Saw the Northern invasion as just that. Honorable men. Bunch of them dead now.
But the guys like the Bush's in the South....they thought nothing of them. Just dupes and rubes, fighting to keep Scarlett in glad rags in the manse, whether they knew it or not.
Bush thinks its all a big joke. He conned a whole party full of people into going along with his game, but he's been planning to backstab them from the beginning. "Little People", ya know? Not the "Natural Aristocracy", like himself and his kin.
Well he's been a good boy today. Looks like George P. is on his way to maybe being the first Brown President.
Which of course, aristocrats would demand, right?
Neither is Kennebunkport Maine.
Bush is from Connecticut and is as Yankee as the rest us up here except that he’s a liberal one. In fact he’s as typical a Northeastern liberal as they get.
Why does Bush take the heat? Because the job of enforcing the law lies 100% with the executive branch. Bush has had 6 years to enforce the current immigration laws, and even in the face of a global terrorist threat, has refused to do so. Bush had the best opportunity of any President ever to get control of our borders in the immediate aftermath of 911. He could have closed the border, stepped up internal enforcement and deported illegals en masse and no one, not Kennedy, not McCain, not Big Business, not the international community would have said a word against him.
If Bush really took the terrorist threat seriously he would have done that. Instead, we have a half*ssed war on terror OVER THERE while our southern flank lies completely open and vulnerable OVER HERE. This President has other, more insidious priorities than our national security.
Kennedy and McCain can pass bills. That’s all they can do. The President and only the President can sign those bills into laws and enforce them. This travesty lies squarely on Bush, and if it passes, perfidy of the highest order will be his legacy.
I’m in awe of how those “day in the life of” threads are so sacred and protected. Why? I once posted a slightly negative, but not offensive question on it once, and was threatened by one of the bot users, and then a mod who then removed my post.
What if I started up a “Day In The Life of Bill Richardson” thread (I’ve seriously thought about it). Bill Richardson is no less liberal than Bush is. Would my thread be so protected?
Sad to say, you are right. Carter only gave away the Panama Canal. Bush is trying to give away the whole country.
On the pray for Pres Bush thread I posted that I prayed he’d come to his senses. That didn’t last long either. I guess I can understand removing my comment....sorta like cussing in church...still...it would be nice if he came to his senses.
Well said!
Thank you!
Thanks to Mayor Duhhhhh-stefano it’s also a sanctuary city for illegals.
BTW, I always wondered why the dimocrats never came out with “I’m Bushed” bumper stickers when W ran the first time...
I’m ashamed to say I voted for Bush.........
He betrayed my trust......... That will never happen again..
As I have been saying since last September, Bush will do everything in his power to see that Hillary Clinton will be our next Presidente.
Gads I hate always being right
Good post....and exactly why his ratings are so low!
It is not just republican elites. Democrat Party elites are just as guilty.
This is about inside the beltway vs outside the beltway. Ted Kennedy’s let them eat cake mentality merging with the country club snobber of the republicans who BOTH want a “do as you are told” form of government.
Washington DC elites don’t like it when voters have power over them. Next the elites will outlaw voting. If the thought voting mattered they would never have allowed it.
I followed the attempt on SS reform and it was a hard a push by the President as his immigration reform. The problem is that the Dims did not want to SS reform and key Republicans turned their backs on it when it started getting hot.
Isn't that really what this is all about?
Alan Keyes, from another recently posted thread..."a strategy of demographic subversion that will dethrone the American people as presently constituted and replace them with a majority more easily dominated and controlled by wealthy or bureaucratically powerful elites."
There are still a dozen or so of the die hard k00laid drinkers here on FR.....the other 99% of the B-bots seems to have finally come to their senses.
Where was this support for SS reform that we see now for opposition to immigration reform? I also disagree with the President on Immigration but let’s be honest. How many of us sat back and let him carry our water?
He’s no southwesterner.
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