American Grandstand [Update – 27 creeps & counting]
By https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASBWw8cg2Nw
Per comments to an earlier post, a number of governors are saying they will not accept Syrian refugees because there’s no way to guarantee none of the refugees will blow up a family planning clinic or gun down black church goers.
Just kidding. The governors – 23 27 at last count – are afraid that one of the refugees might be a terrorist (as defined by the right wing) and it is their duty to protect America by making absolutely sure no bad people are allowed in.
Or at least poor bad people. Perhaps Syrian refugees could pool their funds and start a business that exploits workers and poisons rivers. Then they’d have governors fighting over which state would get the Syrian Job Creators.
As it is, no one should be surprised to learn that governors can’t legally refuse refugees:
“The one thing I feel very comfortable saying is there is absolutely no constitutional power for a state to exclude anyone from its territories,” said Stephen Legomsky, a Washington University of St. Louis law professor and former chief counsel of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Obama administration.
In Florida, Gov. Rick Scott acknowledged that only Congress can deny federal funding to help Syrian refugees relocate to the U.S. He urged lawmakers to do that.
I’m sure I speak for all of us when I say I’d like to add Gov. Rick ‘Snakehead’ Scott to my professional network on LinkedIn, because Christ, what an asshole.
But we know what this is all about, right? Right.
This is yet another opportunity to Stand up to Obama.
Obama wants to force terrorists down our throats, but the brave governors of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin, will protect us!
Or, the refugees will be located in states where the governors aren’t massive clown shoes, and allowed to get on with restoring their lives to something approaching normal.
Is it time to pull out this picture yet?
