I am not proud of what I am about to write and before you continue reading there is something you should know: I am fairly certain that events today mark the beginning of Armageddon…keep an eye out for locusts.

This morning…crikey, this is difficult…I applauded Democrats and jeered Republicans.

I’m sorry! Well, not really.

Despite my express instructions, the nomination of Julie Myers to head ICE passed the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs by a 7-2 party-line vote.

Fortunately, the nomination now heads to the Senate floor, where it should face some pretty tough opposition.

Source: US Senate

The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a business meeting at 10 a.m. on Friday, October 7, 2005, in SD-342.

1. Nomination of Julie L. Myers to be Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Results: Ordered reported favorably by a roll call vote of 7 Yeas and 2 Nays. In addition, there were 2 Yeas by proxy and 4 Nays by proxy.

Yeas

Collins
Voinovich
Coleman
Coburn
Chafee
Bennett
Warner

Nays

Lieberman
Akaka

Yeas by Proxy

Stevens
Domenici

Nays by Proxy

Levin
Carper
Lautenberg
Pryor

llinois Sens. Barack Obama and Richard Durbin, like most politicians, remind me of that classic line heard in nearly every Hollywood Western movie of the ’40s and ’50s:

“White man speak with forked tongue.”

Well, OK, Obama isn’t white, but you get the idea. The ability to talk out of both sides of one’s mouth is not predicated on skin color or ethnic background. With that out of the way:

Both senators support an immigration policy that is especially harmful to black Americans, but guess what? Obama and Durbin will be among the first to stand up to denounce the harmful effects of (gasp!) displaying the Confederate flag at a public ceremony, just as they did when word got out that there was to be a memorial service honoring those from the South who died at a Union training camp in Illinois during the Civil War.

In other words - please pay close attention here - a flag that flew in one part of the country for less than five years is far more “hateful and oppressive” to today’s black Americans than the loss of their jobs to illegal aliens whose presence depresses wages and turns back the clock on working conditions.

Oh, and did I mention that Durbin and Obama were in Springfield, Ill., in the spring to dedicate the new Abraham Lincoln Museum? I mean, honoring the “Great Emancipator” has to count for something, right? Silly me. Of course, it does!

It was during this dedication that Durbin rehashed that corny old joke that Lincoln must’ve been Jewish because “his name was Abraham and he was shot in the temple.” [VDare.com note: This is a very old joke. "How old is it?" You can hear Dean Martin tell it to Sammy Davis Jr. on The Rat Pack At The Sands, Live, that's how old it is.] (Actually, the ball from John Wilkes Booth’s Derringer pistol entered behind Lincoln’s left ear and pushed skull fragments behind his right eye.)