“As an American, I am sickened that the political leadership of America could continue to go on vacation and do nothing,” he said. “Why are the August vacations for the president and the Congress more precious than the lives of young Americans who are being killed because of government incompetence and inaction?”
Biting words from Newt Gingrich. Unfortunately, he’s not talking about the war in Iraq, but of the Scourge of Swarthies from the South, the “criminal illegal aliens.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday he is “sickened” that President Bush and Congress went on vacation “while young Americans in our cities are massacred” by illegal immigrants.
Gingrich, who is considering a run for the White House, was referring to the recent execution-style murders of three college students on a school playground in Newark, N.J.
One man whom police believe was involved in the murders — Jose Lachira Carranza — is an illegal immigrant from Peru who had been released on bail on charges of raping a child when the murders occurred.
Gingrich said that the “war here at home” against illegal immigrants is “even more deadly than the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
If Newt Gingrich is still toying with the idea of running for the GOP nomination, he ought to take note that Tom Tancredo’s xenophobic nativism isn’t actually doing much for him in the race.
(via Les)
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