It must be tough being a Republican politician these days, constantly trying to put lipstick on a pig.

The latest example is Pete Ricketts and Jim Pillen touting the immigration detention center in McCook. They even gave it a cute name… The Cornhusker Clink.

Wasn’t Clink the name of the Commandant of Stalag 13 in Hogan’s Heroes? (An obscure ref-erence for the Boomer readers. Although I doubt this detention center will be as pleasant or as comical as Stalag 13, but I digress.)

After it was announced that the prison in McCook was being repurposed to hold three hundred immigrants before sending them off to who knows where, Senator Ricketts stated that this detention center would be a boom for the McCook economy.

Nice lipstick sir, but how is rounding up hundreds of farm workers, or having

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