Jim Morin for March 16, 2015

Republicans are for anything that is Good For Business, no matter the human costs. Wars are exceedingly Good For Business.

So is illegal immigration, btw.

Diplomacy is for wimps, right? (and not nearly as profitable)

Republicans have never seen a war they didn’t love.After all it’s not their kids going off to fight and get PTSD.

Republican Senators that have sent the letter Tom Cotton, the junior senator for ArkansasMarco Rubio, senior senator from FloridaRand Paul, senior senator from KentuckyTed Cruz, senior senator from TexasDavid Perdue, the junior senator for Georgia, Joni Ernst, the junior senator from Iowa, James Inhofe, senior senator from Oklahoma, John Cornyn, senior senator from Texas, Mitch McConnell, senior senator from Kentucky and the Majority Leader of the Senate since January, Roger Wicker, junior member of the senate representing Mississippi, John Hoeven, senior senator from North Dakota, Richard Shelby, senior senator from Alabama, Thom Tillis, junior senator from North Carolina, Richard Burr, the senior senator from North Carolina, Steve Daines, junior senator from Montana, Jeff Sessions, junior senator from Alabama, John Boozman, senior senator for Arkansas, Cory Gardner, the junior senator of Colorado, Shelley Moore Capito, junior senator from West Virginia, Ron Johnson, senior senator for Wisconsin, Mark Kirk, junior senator from Illinois, James Lankford, junior senator for Oklahoma, Chuck Grassley, the senior senator from Iowa, Roy Blunt, junior senator from Missouri, John Thune, senior senator from South Dakota, Mike Enzi, senior senator from Wyoming, Pat Toomey, junior senator for Pennsylvania, Bill Cassidy, the junior senator from Louisiana, John Barrasso, junior senator from Wyoming, Jim Risch, the junior senator from Ohio, Mike Crapo, senior senator from Idaho, Deb Fischer, senior senator from Nebraska, Ben Sasse, the junior senator from Nebraska, Orrin Hatch, the senior senator for Utah and the President pro tempore of the United States Senate, Dean Heller, the junior senator of Nevada, Pat Roberts, the senior senator from Kansas, John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona and the 2008 Republican candidate for president, Rob Portman, the junior senator from Ohio, Lindsey Graham, the senior senator from South Carolina, and Mike Rounds, the junior senator from South Dakota were the other signatories.They should be our “boots on the ground”. But their flags should be Saudi Arabian’s or Tel Aviv’s. Under no circumstances should they carry the flag of the United States of America.

So Repubs are playing “Catch Up”?

Both parties mirror the American people, who, in their heart of hearts are convinced that violence solves problems. The republicans have staked out a certain level of “brand awareness” that being republican means being in favor of being “tough.” Then various factions of warmongers ratchet up tension and anxiety and “dare” the democrats to speak for peace and negotiations. If they do, the the republicans excoriate them for being Neville Chamberlain, as though every situation was like what the world faced then. When you layer the reflexive negativity the repubbies have for President Obama, (very, very, likely to be racist at its core), well you get 47 idiot senators who see nothing wrong with siding with the mullahs in Tehran. What’s really amazing about the gang of 47, is that not only do the mullahs understand the US constitution better than the senators, but they have is missed the stunt entirely, understanding that the senators are a bit nuts, and their “propaganda” is not to be taken seriously. But make no mistake, we Americans believe we have the right to invade, torture, bomb, kill, drone, attack, and generally commit mayhem whenever we feel like it. After all, nobody matters except American exceptionalism. We can do whatever we darned well please because we are somehow “better” than other humans on this planet. To be clear, I am in favor of brutal, violent retaliation if we are attacked. Retaliation should be swift and unmerciful. It should also be appropriate, measured, and cool headed, relying on fact, not anxiety, ethnocentrism, or the conviction that we need to correct the world’s ills.

The Democrats have “learnt their lesson” have they?Tell that to the Sudanese whose only pharmaceutical plant Bill Clinton bombed on a lie. Tell that to the Serbs Bill Clinton bombed on a lie. Tell that to the half a million Iraqi kids Bill Clinton starved to death on a lie. Tell that to the Libyans Barack Obama murdered in a lie, to the Afghans, Yemenis, Pakistanis, Somalis, Syrians, Iraqis, Ukrainians etc etc he continues to murder daily either directly or through his Nazi and jihadist proxies. Go ahead.

I’ll tell you something, we Asians would much rather have a Republican in power. At least they’re honestly evil and when they murder you they don’t pretend they’re doing it for your own good.

Bush didn’t pretend the Iraq War was to bring democracy to Iraq?Yes he did, Mr Honest did.

Sadly, too many Americans tout John Wayne as the epitome of “tough, hard-fighting, soldiers”- not realizing Wayne never served in the military and was during WW II, a draft dodger. Even that monkey’s uncle Ronald Reagan at least served in Special Services narrating training films for the Army. Hmm Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Lee Marvin, better actors who actually saw combat duty would serve as better role models.

Would our chickenhawks please advise me how blowing the head off an eight-year-old little girl in her kitchen, in Bagdhad, to get even with a man her whole family hated, serves America’s peace-loving and kindly, purpose? let alone advances our standing in nations around the world who actually seek peace?

“So is illegal immigration, btw.”HOW do you figure that???-There are several industries that would be crippled without illegal laborers. Agriculture and meatpacking to name two. You can probably come up with more on your own.

There are also tons of restaurants and other small businesses who hire illegals.

If you wanted fewer illegals, you’d want those employers prosecuted.