Martin O’Malley, the tax-and-spend governor of Maryland, has decided to remove the welcome mat that was being extended to illegal aliens and comply with the Real ID Act of 2005.
Maryland was one of eight states that issued driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, because it was the enlightened thing to do and because Hispanics are willing to do the jobs that slovenly Americans no longer are capable of doing, such as wiping their runny noses.
Hard-working Hispanics are ever eager to wipe the noses of Americans, so long as they are reasonably compensated, whereupon they send a good portion of their earnings back to the idyllic paradises south of the Rio Grande.
Mr. O’Malley has taken the pulse of the masses. He heard the hue and cry directed toward Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer and his driver’s license plan in New York last fall and is removing the “sanctuary state” signs along Maryland’s borders. The free lunch is over if you are an illegal alien residing in Maryland. Strike that. Free lunches are still available to illegal aliens, along with free medical care, free schooling and free social services.
All kinds of privacy concerns have been raised about the Real ID Act, mostly by lawyers looking to fill their ample bellies and bank accounts. Lawmakers in various states have expressed similar concerns, especially if they represent areas with a significant Hispanic population.
It is the rare politician who acts on principle at the risk of alienating a large voting bloc.
The Real ID Act ensures that Big Brother will know everything there is to know about you, right down to the time of day you hire an illegal alien to wipe your runny nose, plus bathe and feed you.
These are a few of the jobs that President Bush said Americans are no longer inclined to perform, because most of us spend our harried days downloading music to our IPods, writing and answering e-mails and holding long conversations by cell phone in the vicinity of strangers.
You learn the serial gabber is in the midst of a breakup, he was a jerk or she was a total nag, recently attended the funeral of a relative and was just treated for a sexually transmitted disease.
At least one state senator in Maryland is hopeful that either a Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama presidency will result in the repeal of the Real ID Act.
“A new administration in Washington would bring some sanity to this process,” says Sen. Jennie M. Forehand, a Montgomery County Democrat.
So here is a lawmaker pleading for bureaucratic sanity in a state with an estimated 250,000 illegal aliens. It must depend on the definition of sane.
At what point would the good state senator be motivated to respond to the illegal alien crush in Maryland — 500,000 illegal aliens, 1 million illegal aliens, 2 million illegal aliens? And what is her alternative to the Real ID Act, implemented because of the terrorist threat? No alternative apparently is necessary, for the terrorist threat has been exaggerated because of Al Gore’s addiction to flying by private jet, so he can warn the world that the polar ice caps are melting and one day soon Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. will be the senior voice of a state that is 3,000 feet under the ocean.
Anyway, the illegal aliens just want to work. Or so goes the convenient stereotype. Illegal aliens never commit crimes and their young do not join gangs. They just want to assimilate, which is why you now can press 2 for Spanish and warning labels and whatnot are written in both English and Spanish.
It would be a darn shame if there was no warning label affixed to a lawn mower attesting to the danger of sticking your hand where the blade is while the machine is in operation.
Nobody likes a one-handed landscaper.
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