Leahy: Wall At U.S.-Canada Border ‘One Of The Craziest’ Ideas This Cycle

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) on Monday blasted Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) Sunday comment that a wall between the U.S. and Canada is a “legitimate issue” that should be considered.

“As someone who was born and raised not too far from the Canadian Border, I could not believe Governor Walker’s statement. Election season always brings out crazy ideas, but this is one of the craziest,” Leahy said in a Monday statement.

Although he called Walker’s remark “crazy,” Leahy said he wasn’t surprised that Walker made the suggestion.

“Governor Walker simply must be unaware of the economic prosperity that commerce across the northern border brings to the United States. Those of us who represent states that share a border with Canada know better,” he said. “It is disappointing but not surprising that yet another Republican presidential candidate is using the border to score cheap political points.”

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) also criticized Walker’s suggestion during a Monday interview on Boston Herald Radio, calling it a “pretty dumb idea.”

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  1. I’m pretty sure a lot of peaceful folks in Canada would sleep better at night knowing the crazies were locked out on the other side…

  2. …and don’t they remember who said, “Tear down this wall!”?

    That’s what puzzles me about these wall yearning freaks.

  3. Walker and the GOP are trying to make out that their anti-Mexican nativist xenophobic shit isn’t about race. Of course this batshit crazy idea isn’t going to fool anyone, but let’s not pretend that this sad-sack move by the moronic Walker is not about having something to point to as a countercharge to the valid criticism that this nativist crap is not anything other than fear of brown folks coming across the border.

    ‘See, we want to stop those white hoards from the North too’

    Sad. Truly sad.

  4. “Election season always brings out crazy ideas, but this is one of the craziest,” Leahy said in a Monday statement.

    You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

    (H/T to that dangerous immigrant Randy Bachman!)

  5. “Tear down this wall” a famous Reagan quote…but the current crop must think him a …liberal for saying something that reasonable.
    The current crop hate any immigrant forgetting we are all immigrants of one sort or another. My own family got to N. America before there was a United States to be part of. But that is mostly irrelevant. Repubs have an ingrown fear. Fear of what is new, fear of the unknown, fear of the “other”. The GOP politicians know this and capitalize on it not realizing that in the long run it will destroy their party. Fear and hatred are not sustainable in the long term because they do untold damage. We can’t shut the world out even if we wanted to. Americans are from everywhere. Republicans hate that idea They want the US population to be lily white, English speaking, and subservient. The antithesis of free.

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