Mexican Standoffish

You know, considering it's weapons sold in the US that Mexican drug cartels are using to turn places like Ciudad Juarez into the Murder Capital Of The Multiverse, I think Mexican President Felipe Calderon has a point here.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon's appearance Thursday before a joint session of Congress dramatically illustrated — and possibly reinforced — the partisan divide that's stymied progress on immigration legislation.


In his 40-minute address, Calderon sharply criticized Arizona's tough new immigration law and the United States' refusal to ban assault weapons, which are being used in the violent drug-gang shootouts in Mexico.

The GOP response boiled down to "Cry more, n00b."

Afterward, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Calderon "crossed a line" by urging changes in gun policy, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who's become a hard-liner on curbing illegal immigration, declared, "I've never heard of another country's president coming here and criticizing the United States like that." 

The guy has seen a lot worse crap than you have, gentlemen.  I don't particularly think he's impressed by Gringo Mystique here.  Also, the reason why Johnny Volcano here hasn't heard that before is because it's the unvarnished truth, and his Washington Serious Insider brain is no longer capable of processing raw info like that without it being processed and horked back out like a owl pellet first.

I recall when our soldiers were being killed in Iraq (and still are) by weapons from Syria or Afghanistan or Pakistan or wherever, we have no problem telling other countries exactly what the hell they need to be doing with their weapons control laws, or we'll Predator drone bomb the piss out of them.

Mexico mentions the same to us, the GOP goes all "Tell that pendejo to go screw a chubacabra."  Funny how that works.  GOP Latino outreach for the win!