Last week members of the House State Affairs Committee voted to give illegal aliens state issued drivers IDs. The move is another in a long string of moves signaling that Republicans in the Texas are in desperate need of some leadership.
How bad has it gotten? Many Republicans are pushing a water slush fund that nobody asked for, believing the lobby’s story that there will be a water crisis in 50 years if we don’t rush this monstrosity through the lege. Of course, they are conveniently ignoring the fact that the lobby wouldn’t tolerate the attachment of a single anti-slush fund amendment.
Meanwhile, on illegal immigration, an issue insiders perpetually try to downplay the huge popularity of, they are working against their constituents with Robert Alonzo’s (D) HB 3206, designed to give illegal aliens state-issued driver’s licenses.
Don’t be confused when insiders try to lie about this issue. This is a step towards amnesty, a rewarding of law breaking, disdain for immigrants using legal channels, and another heaping spoonful of abuse to people who follow the rules.
Why is this being done? Simple.
Texas politics has two gangs who try to steal from average citizens. One gang, we’ll call them the Donkeys, organize non-rich people. The other gang, we’ll call them the The Elephants, organizes rich people. Both crews are about stealing from law-abiders. The two crews are in competition for who gets to steal the most from hard-working, law-abiding Texans, but when the law-abiders rise up, the gangs cooperate to keep them down.
Right now the Elephants are scared because the Donkeys have gotten the upper hand in the federal government. This hasn’t happened in Texas, but the Texas Elephants scare easily, so they are panicking anyway. Since the only thing the Elephants know how to do is give other people’s money away, they’ve decided they need to start giving stuff to non-rich thieves. That is what this driver’s license bill is about.
Citizenship is a bundle of rights. These rights, because of the success of the Donkeys over the last 80 years, come with a huge amount of money and benefits attached.
Immigration is a license to participate in the party that the two gangs have created, funded by booty from law-abiders.
The Donkeys have always tried to make it easier for illegal immigrants to vote. Now, the Elephants in Texas, long attracted to the making their labor force legal, are being convinced this is the right time to cooperate with the Donkeys. This is more dangerous for the Elephants than the Donkeys, because the Elephants make a show of representing the law-abiders. If the law abiders left them they’d never win another election, but the Elephants are betting they won’t.