Reidblog [The Reid Report blog]

enator Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked the Bible yesterday to criticize a stringent border security measure that, among other things, would make it a federal crime to offer aid to illegal immigrants.

"It is hard to believe that a Republican leadership that is constantly talking about values and about faith would put forth such a mean-spirited piece of legislation," she said of the measure, which was passed by the House of Representatives in December and mirrored a companion Senate bill introduced last week by Senator Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican and the majority leader.

"It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scripture because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself," she said. "We need to sound the alarm about what is being done in the Congress."

Mrs. Clinton, who is running for re-election this year and is leading in polls for the Democratic presidential nomination, spoke at a news conference in Manhattan with more than 30 immigrant leaders after meeting with them privately.

The meeting took place in an atmosphere of mounting urgency, as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on its flock to oppose the measure, and tens of thousands of immigrants around the country stepped up a series of protest rallies in anticipation of a Senate vote on competing immigration bills next week.

Mr. Frist's bill, like the House measure, would make it a crime to be in the United States without proper papers and would add guards and fencing along the Mexican border, and speed deportation.

Some versions, including one proposed by Senator Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, would expand the definition of alien smuggling to include help to illegal immigrants already here.

God do we love this woman. Let’s just skip the whole “election” thing and make her president right now

Anyway, this is just ridiculous. We learned just last week tha Hillary and McCain were skipping around holding hands with illegals, now she's comparing them to Jesus? I'm surprised that Michelle Malkin only noted the story's headline as the "headline of the day", which reads: "Clinton vows to block bill criminalizing illegal immigrants", when the outrage is really her ridiculous comparison. Congress = Plantation? Illegal Immigrants = Jesus? What's next, "The White House is like those American Pie movies!"? Oh wait, wrong President.. Scratch that.

Now if you'll excuse me I have to be heading to my local (insert any restaurant in Nashville, or most cities in the country now), walk back to the dish room and worship my Lord and Savior(s) Juan, Jose, Javier and the gang...