“Do you hear the grasshopper which is at your feet,” Master Po asked Shaolin monk Caine in the early 70s’ “Kung Fu?”
Who knows. But another man named Poe (silent “e”) apparently hears grasshoppers everywhere.
U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, and to my sadness is my congressional representatives, called illegal immigrants “grasshoppers” during a speech on the House floor. Illegal immigrants are a big thing with Master Poe. For one thing, it gets him on the Fox Republican Propaganda Network. It used to mean appearances on CNN when big anti-illegal alien Lou Dobbs still had a TV show. He has often been shown on right-wing news shows at border stations such as in El Paso, about 800 miles from his congressional district.
Poe, congressman not the blind master played by Keye Luke, is a former state district judge who loved getting his name in the paper or his mug on TV for handing out outlandish sentences in criminal cases. Never get in between Ted Poe and a reporter or news camers. Poe is in love with the idea of himself on television or in the news. That is why I won’t spend much of my time on him.
Congressman (Judge) Poe thinks the man that catches illegal aliens here, near the Sabine-Neches rivers in the local ports should be in charge of Homeland Security. They, those federal officers in my area who keep people from getting themselves killed in holds of cargo ships, do a good job. They do what they are supposed to do. I’m sure they wouldn’t want a job continually kissing backsides of pompous politicians like Ted Poe.
Snatch the pebble Congressman Poe and it will be time to leave. On second thought. Why not leave now? Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out!
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