Is Allard Confused?

Yes but in this case, the Torturer (one of less than ten Senators who believe the Constitution of the United States, the newly-reaffirmed Geneva Conventions and the values of our country allow torture as indicated by their votes on the McCain anti-torture bill) is more confused than normally indicated by his lock-step approach to the Shrub's anti-American agenda. He wants hearings on immigration held here in Colorado because of our proximity to the border.

Last I looked, we had about seven hundred miles of New Mexico between us and the border.

Allard's motives are simply political. Immigration is a red-meat issue to Conservative Republicans (read Christian Taliban, the populace of Colorado Springs). We're having an election for Governor this year and with the last polling, Democrat Bill Ritter was leading Republican Bob Beauprez by ten points in this so-called red state. They want to bring the National issue here to whip the base into a feeding frenzy and get out the vote against the Democratic usuprers (we took back both State houses last election and now seem in good position to take the Governor's mansion as well). Ken Salazar, one of the few Democratic bright spots in 2004's election, calls it a delaying tactic to keep from having to vote in the Congress. I call it a blessing in disguise.

I love reframing the Republicans' untenable positions. Here they want to keep a rational bill designed both to shore up our borders and to offer a way to citizenship for those already here at our invitation to pick our crops and clean our toilets from a vote in favor of a bill that will criminalize twelve million people. Which I also enjoy because it will alienate the Latino vote, one that was beginning to drift to the Right. Maybe unlike many of us Americans, the Latino vote will continue to vote their own self-interest, read Democratic.

How much longer before we can get rid of Allard the Torturer, too?