Baaaad Marky Brown here. None of the cool, calm, collected columnist he usually demonstrates — more like his 2008 primary campaign against racist Dems who did not vote for Obama.
Mitt Romney on Tuesday reclaimed welfare as a central issue for Republicans this campaign season based on a specious and cynical claim that President Barack Obama has “dismantled” Clinton-era welfare reform.
Specious and cynical: the issue is joined, gloves off, aiming at jugular.
It’s been 16 years since former President Bill Clinton led a bipartisan effort to fix the nation’s welfare laws, most notably by requiring recipients to work or go to school.
And ever since, Republicans have rued the loss of one of their favorite red-meat issues on the campaign trail. It’s tough to rail against “welfare mothers”— long a favored target of political panderers of all stripes — when you’ve already taken credit for fixing the welfare system
Oh gosh, those old welfare mothers and political panderers. Go Mark! (At this point the careful reader went to the next thing, unable to deal for the moment with the baaaaad Marky B.
Blithe Spirit 
Liberal columnists like Mark Brown exist for the most part to act as a voice of the “oppressed,” be they real or imagined. But I wonder why he and other journalists of the same stripe continue to remain silent about an immigration policy that is creating a great deal of pain for another genuninely oppressed segment of our society, i.e., the 20 million Americans who can’t find full-time employment. If you want to see a truly Baaaaaad “Marky Brown,” just raise the question of why our federal government is allowing 7 million illegal aliens to keep their non-farming jobs when millions of our own citizens go to bed at night wondering why their search for a better of life has been deliberately derailed in order that foreigners who shouldn’t be here in the first place can pursue theirs. Also ask Marky if, given the horrendous job market that many economists say will not improve any time soon, it makes sense that every month the feds issue 75,000 permanent work permits to new immigrants, most of whom bring with them few skills and little education.
Here’s something else: We’ve been seeing stories recently about how awful the job market is for our native-born youth who are16-30 years of age. So what does Brown think about Obama’s June 15 amnesty for as many as 1.8 million “Dreamers” that includes work permits?
Liberals used to stand up for American workers, but not any more. They also stood by blacks. Remember when black Americans boarded buses and demanded only their rights under the Constitution? Today, illegal aliens board buses and call themselves “Freedom Riders,” and the gutless media helps them get away with their lie that this is the “civil rights issue” of the 21st century.
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Hey, my enraged readers say that same-sex marriage is the civil rights issue of the 21st Century. Can there be more than one?
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Look, enraged readers are notoriously incommunicative with each other. Having been one, I know.
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The media can’t be bothered with the “plight” of the middle class because they are not nearly as exciting as the gay community or foreigners here looking for a better life. Why? Because both have adopted an “in your face” attitude too hard to resist by journalists who respond to such stimuli like Pavlov’s dogs. Which raises the question: Why aren’t those citizens most affected by mass immigration, especially our own working poor, more vocal about being pushed back to the back of the political, economic and social bus? Why aren’t they marching through U.S. streets demanding relief?
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Fine, Dave, but please: It’s prompt, not beg, the question you want. Beg the Q has its own web site — http://begthequestion.info/ — so dangerous is its misuse to civilization. Would you like me to change it?
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Sure. Forgive my ignorance of how this stuff works. Dave
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Done. One more blow for western civ.
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