celebrating Taco Tuesday

Did a little internet research on your guv, hard to determine if he is a tea partier or not.  Apparently he made a big deal out of being a political outsider and espoused family values and guns and opposed gay marriage, and was elected in that tea party wave, but he also spoke of bipartisanship which is a word no partier would ever utter.  If I google Rick Snyder tea party i see a lot of people think he is one.  I think we can say that he may not carry the card but he is a fellow traveler.

Just as it's hard to distinguish who is a tea party guy and who is not, it's a little difficult to distinguish who we mean when we talk about Hispanics, because that includes Mexicans and Cubans and Puerto Ricans and most of South America, but sometimes it is used to speak of Mexicans only, and among Mexicans we have the ones who are US citizens, and the illegal immigrants who come from Mexico, and the people who live in Mexico and have never come here except maybe for a vacation.  And not all illegal immigrants are Mexicans, some of them come from South America, Poland, Ireland, Asia. 

But by far most of them come from Mexico and Central and South America, and I think these are primarily the people of which we speak.

I go through all this to lead up to the question of if there are any let's see, Spanish Speaking Illegal Immigrants (SSII) in Cheboygan.  Well of course they are not going to announce that they are illegal, but I think we can be safe in the assumption that if you have a sizable Mexican community some of them are probably illegal.  So is there a Mexican community in Cheboygan?  If you want to celebrate Taco Tuesday do you have a good place to go, or do you end up at the Taco Bell?

What I am trying to figure out is what is your beef with these people?  You left Chicago and now there are a lot of Mexicans (and SSIIs) living in Chicago, but what do you care?  You are far from there.  In general we get along pretty well here.  Why are you sticking your nose in our business?

So is it just the fact that laws are being not enforced that bothers you?  If we repealed the immigration law and welcomed everybody would that be fine with you?  Actually you know that during the depths of our downturn a lot of SSIIs went back home because there weren't any jobs for them here.  So maybe the free market would solve all that.  Libertarians are huge fans of the free market, but you are a delicatessen libertarian and I don't think I have ever heard your thoughts on laissez faire capitalism.

The reason Cruz isn't taking this issue to the courts is that it would take forever.  There would have to be some test case and it would have to work its way up to the supremes, and then there would be appeals, and all this time it would be in the news, and it would never be settled in time for the election.

You know what congress should do is just take that natural born thing out of the requirements for the presidency so that this pesky issue wouldn't be coming up every now and then.  If the American people choose to elect somebody who wasn't born on American soil, shouldn't that be their right?

Right now the Republican race is between Trump, Cruz, and the 'moderates.'  The moderates are Kasich, the winner of new Hampshire, Bush, coming back from the dead, and Rubio, dusting himself off.  Neither of those three had more than 16 percentage points, but together they have about 35 and it's widely assumed that whichever one emerges will get the votes of those dropping out. 

On to South Carolina and another debate this Saturday.  I may even watch the democratic one tonight, now that I am feeling the Bern.