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Mark Marshall's avatar

I was a fan of Henry Cuellar . . . until he issued that statement.

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Matt Benacci's avatar

People make mistakes all the time, but that one's spectacular.

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Alan Wellikoff's avatar

You don't have to press one for English in order to get a snootful of Congressman Cuellar's deliberate slant. "Shovelheads," indeed.

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Matt Benacci's avatar

I like Henry, I'd like to think this was a simple mistake of some kind. There's even a part of me that almost hopes this might all be some kind of sad miscommunication between whoever was in command down at Shelby Park and their opposite numbers at Border Patrol. But if I gotta give someone the benefit of the doubt, it ain't the spokes-folk at DHS HQ. Sorry, no. That's a pack of shovelheads right there, so busy shoveling you-know-what, you can't take anything at face value anymore.

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Alan Wellikoff's avatar

Sometimes trouble is earned by leaving things to the purple-haired, recent Seven-Sisters graduate on staff.

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Matt Benacci's avatar

What's funny is, the last one of those he had on staff, wound up running against him the last two times and almost winning. Well, she may not've had purple hair, but yeah.

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Alan Wellikoff's avatar

Stick with me. I clearly sense these things through the ozone.

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John Wooddell's avatar

Well, at least we know it happened recently and wasn't an incident from several months ago being used for politicking.

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Matt Benacci's avatar

It could be that the Texas Military Dept. is totally wrong here or has the sequence of events all screwed up. That's entirely possible. But if folks are asking me to pick between their version of events and the corrupt individuals running things out of the DHS Central office.... well.... obviously, I am biased. So there's that. But at the end of the day-- lots of folks have drowned in that river. That's what happens when you have a humanitarian crisis like this. And the ultimate blame lies where it lies.

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