Democrat Steals Republicans’ Thunder

Apparently, Senator Joe Biden (D, Delaware) got the message from the Democrats’ victory on November 7. Republican voters are tired of Republican politicians who don’t listen to the concerns of their base.

Here’s what the AP reported about Senator Biden’s visit yesterday to a Rotary Club meeting in South Carolina:

Sen. Joe Biden, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's incoming chairman, wants to get tough with Mexico, calling it an "erstwhile democracy" with a "corrupt system" responsible for illegal immigration and drug problems in the U.S.

…During a question-and-answer session before more than 230 Columbia Rotary Club members, Biden was asked about immigration problems.

Biden, who favors tightening the U.S.-Mexico border with fences, said immigration is driven by money in low-wage Mexico.

"Mexico is a country that is an erstwhile democracy where they have the greatest disparity of wealth," Biden said. "It is one of the wealthiest countries in the hemisphere and because of a corrupt system that exists in Mexico, there is the 1 percent of the population at the top, a very small middle class and the rest is abject poverty."

Unless the political dynamics change in Mexico and U.S. employers who hire illegal immigrants are punished, illegal immigration won't stop. "All the rest is window dressing," he said.

An even bigger problem are illegal drugs "coming up through corrupt Mexico," he said. "People are driving across that border with tons, tons — hear me — tons of everything from byproducts for methamphetamines, to cocaine, to heroine."

Why can’t our guy say the truth about Mexico like Senator Biden just did? Instead, the President cozied up to corrupt politicians like Vicente Fox, pushed an amnesty program for illegal aliens, and gave us a half-baked plan for a border fence.

Sheesh.