My reply to an op-ed by New Mexico Legislator Marianna Anaya which appeared in the June 27th Albuquerque Journal:
It was most entertaining to read New Mexico Democrat Representative Marianna Anaya’s column over New Mexico Republicans not sending out words of condolence over the murder of two Minnesota legislators their silence, of which, would have shocked her Republican grandmother. While some might view this article as a disguised tirade against the Republican Party, I am thrilled at the glimpse we’ve been given into the mind of a New Mexico Democrat lawmaker.
While it may have been heartless and inconsiderate of Republicans, I didn’t see a great outpouring of sympathy from Democrats and Progressives in New Mexico when Steve Scalise was shot and wounded by a left-wing extremist during a Republican Congressional Baseball Game practice session. Nor have I seen the flowers sent by Ms. Anaya and her Democrat friends to the funerals of Kayla Hamilton, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin, or Laken Riley - all killed by the illegal aliens the autopen regime allowed into this country.
But I don’t understand why anyone would expect words of sympathy from the nearly-extinct New Mexico Republican Party. Nearly-extinct because New Mexicans are literally bathed in Democrat propaganda from the media here. Nearly-extinct because most jobs here are Democrat-controlled sinecures. Nearly-extinct because who is listened to when half the population walks around with nose rings fashioned from Welfare dollars.
I know Trump has a few billionaire friends like Elon Musk, a man who worked for free doing Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan’s job trying to weed out wasteful spending and reaped nothing but opprobrium and burned Tesla dealerships for his trouble. But Democrats also have billionaire friends like Mark Zuckerberg who pumped Zuckerbucks into our elections to try and buy votes, New York’s Michael Bloomberg who tried to tax sugary sodas, or anti-American George Soros whose Leftist spending would turn us into the envy of Venezuela. They did a lot of pocket padding themselves.
What a nonsensical statement she makes that ‘people’ are dying from being unable to access abortion care. Aren’t these ‘people’ actually women? And what about the dead unborn child? We had over a million abortions in this country last year according to the Guttmacher Institute yet Anaya writes as though unborn children are no more than day-old hamburger placed in the cooler clearance section of the grocery store. I don’t think her grandmother would have admired unfettered infanticide. Not if she was a real Republican.
Ms. Anaya easily makes the statement that the cruel Republicans are gutting Medicaid without providing proof. What I’ve read and heard of the Republican plan is that they want to limit it to American citizens. Maybe I missed the memo but which foreign countries are currently giving us Americans free medical care? Or free housing? Or free anything?
Of course, when she blames Republicans for not wanting to work together, that only means one thing - they are not doing what she wants them to do. Given how Democrats have full control of the Legislature, bipartisanship is a meaningless word there although if you can add a few yes votes from Republicans, you can share the blame if anything goes wrong.
But what I despise most from any politician is them using my culture, our culture, to try to sell bad ideas. Ms. Anaya tries to make her views palatable by railing against Republican values but I think she should spend some time examining her own. Her grandmother would like that.
© Clyde James Aragon
