Immigration Reform and the Bush Family Politics

"A [also 'one'] bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" - High Medieval English Proverb
"To Kill Two Birds with One Stone." - Ancient Chinese saying: "yi shi er niao" which literally translates to "one stone two birds".


Jeb Bush's recent published work on immigration reform, “Immigration Wars” together with his ghost writer . . . uh. . . co-writer, Clint Bolick, has so shaken up the political right not seen since Moses came across the "Burning Bush" on top of Mount Sinai. There God commanded Moses to carry out a similar immigration reform in the ancient lands of Egypt and Palestine. But Bush’s near double belly-flop entrance into immigration debate pool is viewed by some breathless right-wing pundits as a preamble into testing the campaign water for the run for presidency. Others were not so impressed nor pleased.

I hope those pundits are wrong on this, the Bush family already has two birds, one a fish hawk and another, a chicken hawk, in the presidential bush. Two is a company but three is a crowd, and that makes all those tweeting and trilling so much more irritating on the right-wing twitter-sphere and blogosphere. If true to his republican roots and an avid proponent of the failed “Reaganomics”, he would be another bad news a la his president brother, Dubuyah.

I don’t think this “Reaganomics” thing was thought up all by himself by Ronald "Just-Give-Me-a-Script, Oratory Magpie" Reagan, a third rated B-movie actor and an intellectual feather-weight. The Soviet economy was nearing the verge of collapse since Nixon's time, when he forged a new geopolitics alliance with Mao's China. The Soviets were a house long divided and would not stand for long. It finally self-imploded on its own corrupted communist system. Reagan simply took more credit than he was due and the Soviet collapse did not even happen on his watch.

His so-called "Reaganomics" policy also started the deregulation process that resulted in the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association debacle and the resulting savings and loan financial crisis. He squandered the budget surplus accumulated by previous administrations by going full steam on unnecessary arms race that swelled the ranks of generals and colonels, resulting in more chiefs than Indians in the Pentagon even to these days. Now it takes more than one general and two colonels to authorize to change a light bulb in the Pentagon, and a committee of them to change a toilet seat.

The Reagan arms buildup have resulted in more than enough missiles and warplanes to bomb the world three or five times over to "Thy Kingdom Come", and still have enough left to send the surviving generals, hunkered down in the underground cement bunkers deep under the Colorado Rockies, one-way tickets to Mars (I'm not talking about the Roman god of wars here, duh!) and beyond.

Although there is no documented direct evidence linking Ronald Reagan and his Vice President, George H. W. Bush, complicit in the Iran-Contra affairs. Given the then administration's pressing eagerness to resolve the Iran hostages and the Contra's right-wing insurgency in Nicaragua, and the magnitude of this undertaking, several sources in the intelligence grapevine murmured that Ronald must have acquiesced and Bush lent his "cloaks and daggers" connections and crafts he learned as a former head of the super spy agency, the CIA. So they went ahead to kill the two birds with one stone. Often as it so happens in life: Man proposes but God disposes. The Iran-Contra venture went awry, leaving one Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, the lead in this Reagan’s anti-Sandinista cum "weapons for Iran hostages" shenanigan, caught red-handed with one bird in hands while the other escaped into the bush.

Ben Affleck should have included this scene in his movie "Argo." Although he was not nominated for “Best Director”, he would have won the "co-Best Director" together with Ang Lee at the Oscar Award ceremony by universal acclaim. I know this scene would be chronologically incorrect. Hey, it's Hollywood! What do you expect? You would have heard Colonel North gritting his teeth and uttered that Argo-memorable line under his clenched-jaw breath: "Reagan and Bush, Argo #*%& yourself!" amid those thick and thorny Nicaraguan bushes. I can guarantee you those hashtag and other symbols were not bird talks either. No tweeting or trilling in the bushes there, it sounds more like a crow's scold.

Even Reagan and President George H. W. "Read-My-Lips, No-More-Taxes" Bush, when presented with black and white arithmetic, agreed to raise revenues to balance the budget. If we keep cutting back on spending without complimentary increase in revenues (Do you know most big corporations don't pay a penny in tax?), our government food inspectors will be so overwhelmed and we will wind up with the European version of bushmeat or worse, in our grocery markets. We'll find not only horse meat but also Texan armadillo road-kills mixed in with our hamburger, the quintessential American soul food. It adds a whole new meaning and flavor when you order your next "I'm lovin' it!" BigMac!

This Reaganomics flowered or deflowered (depending on your partisan, biological or moral points of view) on the watch of President George "Dubuyah" Bush. His further refinements of those "voodoo economics" (it is his dad’s, H. W.’s words) un-caged the raptor of greed in his contributors from Wall Street and participated the second worst financial and economic crisis the world has ever seen. So let not beat around the bushes here, our country has gotten more than our worth to handle two birds in hands than the remaining one bird in the bush. It stands to reason that we should adopt a constitution amendment to ban all future Bushes to run for president in order to flush all those presidency-aspiring birds still in the Bush with one stone. Sounds logical? I would like to think so. It is called poetic justice.