Two Party Opera by Brian Carroll for August 14, 2019

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries sheWith silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

I think it’s best Lady Liberty does not speak; nobody ever appreciates a scolding, no matter how well-deserved.

Trying to impose an alt-reality reality nightmare instead of an American dream. Odd how even the obligation found in religions, which the US is honor-bound to tolerate by our Constitution, somehow is not incorporated in this administrations’ policies … what one might expect to find in an inhumane/godless society.

One in five Americans are “public charges”… are there plans to rescind their citizenship and send them “back where they came from?”

Would the Resident* have been able to “stand on his own two feet” had his father not been conned into “lending” him a fortune?

SMH

“Cuccinelli” does not sound like a native name to me.

Well history IS written by the victors…

“The New Colossus” is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal’s lower level.

Meanwhile, Republicans are trying to put out the light of America.

Why is it that conservatives always come up with some ‘alternative truth’ for every freedom and liberty that has been known as fact for years?

Their are not enough Norwegians in the world to maintain a healthy population growth.

Silly poet! Social services are for deserving white folk only.

Just wondering, and don’t feel like checking myself:

Does the GOP still try and claim to be the “Christian” “moral” party?

Ken Cuccinelli really shouldn’t be trying to “rewrite” history.

Someone should do a deep dive into the Cuccinelli family tree – just to make sure HIS family weren’t self-described “deadbeats” at the time of their arrival on our shores – his ‘admitted’ last name doesn’t have a “native” ring to it, to my ears.

Of course, he “admits” in one of his screeds, that the Statue and the creed inscribed on her tablet was only meant for “Europeans”.

His entire diatribe is blatantly bigoted racism, but at least he’s open and “up-front” about it, which is about as “honest” as anyone in this administration is going to get, I suspect.

“One of the characteristics most puzzling to a foreign observer is the strong and imperishable dream the American carries. On inspection, it is found that the dream has little to do with reality in American life.” — John Steinbeck, America and Americans

Trump toady Cuccinelli thinks it’s only meant to include Europeans.

The attempt at rewriting the poem was announced by Ken Cuccinelli, clearly a man of Italian descent. He’s a little younger than me, also a man of Italian descent. My relatives came to the US in the early 1900’s. Only a few of them were sponsored and had jobs (like janitorial and or dishwashing) waiting for them. The rest of my relatives came here to find jobs and needed some financial support initially. So when I see someone who’s relatives were very likely to have shared the same circumstances as my own decide that these new immigrants are somehow less deserving, it makes me angry at the ignorance and arrogance on display. Mr. Cuccinelli should be ashamed.

When did the US begin offering welfare, SS and other benefits?

When that poem was written and immortalized, we actually did expect LEGAL immigrants to stand on their own two feet. When immigrants came to America it was root, hog or die. There was no safety net. There was no “public charge”. We didn’t have to worry about them going on the dole because there was no dole.

I keep reading all of these screeds about how we have lost our way, that American values require that we welcome the world into our country just as we did in days past. America was built by immigrants!

Yes, it was. It was built by people who came in through the front door, legally, with the understanding that they were free to pursue their dreams, free to create a life far better than what they left behind. With the sweat of their brows and the toil of their own two hands.

With the understanding that they must survive on their own and that failure would result in starvation and homelessness. That there was no safety net.

This nation cannot afford to feed, clothe and house the endless waves of “immigrants” who come here with no skills and no prospects.

We can see nearer because we stand on the shoulders of moral midgets who keep on digging…

Touché!

Cuccinelli is a Christian in the mold summed up by the Rev. William Barber,—those who have much to say about what is barely mentioned by Jesus (or not mentioned at all), and so little to say about the matters that clearly were of the greatest importance to him.