Bush on Immigration and the Tooth Fairy

How come Bush can never do anything right? In the sense of correct of course, in politics he’s always waaaay right. Here’s a little snippet from the New York Times: Bush Says Deportation ‘Ain’t Gonna Work’

Now he’s absolutely correct. It is plainly absurd to think that the US can somehow round up 12 million illegal immigrants and ship them home. We don’t have the money or the manpower to do that. Nor do we have the time. Sending everyone back is another example of the stupidity and shallowness of the right wingers who are trying to use the very real issue of immigration as their latest “red meat” scare tactic. Bush is even right to say there has to be a middle ground. Although I wouldn’t necessarily trust him to be able to identify middle ground even if it hit him in the face! I think what he means is that the arguments and solutions being put forward by pretty much anyone but his loyal base of extremists are the ones from which a sensible and lasting piece of legislation can be crafted.

So far so good in his speech.

Then he went off track: why, oh why, does he have to keep push his religious nonsense in our faces. He says: ”This morning we come together to give our thanks for all our blessings, and recognize our nation’s continuing dependence on divine providence…” What? We continue to rely, no we depend, on divine providence? What utter claptrap!! I thought America was built on the sweat and ingenuity of generations of immigrants. Now he’s telling me that the country depends on “divine providence”. I wonder what that is. I wonder where it comes from. I wonder what would happen if it went away. I wonder if Bush really and honestly believes that hocus pocus. This “divine providence” isn’t doing too good a job in Iraq. But then again I guess there must be an even more inscrutable “diviner providence” with motives in Iraq that the simple “divine providence” cannot trump.

Oh well.

Frankly I think the Tooth Fairy has it in for American foreign policy and has cast a wicked spell on us all. It has to be that not enough American children believe in the powers of the Tooth Fairy so she’s pissed off at us all. Such is the ire of a divinity whose image is eroded by the evil attacks of the secular among us!

Whoops I’d better not say anything about the Tooth Fairy: her true believers might be offended and we wust always respect the well meaning good intentions of the faithful. After all they have such good values.