On Sunday I had the TV on CNN's Late Edition. I wasn't paying a lot of attention but my ears perked up during an exchange between moderator Wolf Blitzer and Democrat Charlie Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. They were discussing a fence on the Mexican border. I thought I heard Rangel say something preposterous. And so he did:
BLITZER: Well, let me ask Congressman Rangel, he's the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Is this American taxpayer money well-spent to go ahead and spend hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more, on a new fence, a border fence, between the United States and Mexico?RANGEL: The problem that Duncan Hunter has when he's president is whether or not he's going to use illegal immigrants to build the fence because there is a shortage of labor. No, they say that the American Ladder, since he's built the fence, has really had 100 percent in profits. They got these 50-foot fences and 55-foot ladders.
It's absolutely ridiculous in a great democracy like the United States of America should be known like Germany was when the Russians put up a fence to keep people out.
I have no idea what he was trying to say in that first paragraph. In the second, the portly gasbag apparently believes the Soviet claim that the Berlin Wall was built to stop greedy Westerners from streaming into the workers paradise of East Germany. I guess that explains all those people shot in the back in the attempt.
Even the East Germans weren't that gullible.