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Quote of the day

I don’t know why I’m commenting on this now, since I’m not much in the mood for my friends to pull a Linda Chavez on me again. But, the show must go on.

Dubya may say “Don’t call it ‘amnesty’”, but Charlie Rangel says “Sure it is!” From the Washington Times:

On other weekend talk shows, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, New York Democrat and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he and others who want to legalize illegal aliens should be up front about calling it amnesty.

“I don’t know why this word ‘amnesty’ is such a terrible word,” he said on CNN. “I think these people would make good citizens. We ought to give them amnesty.”

At least give Rangel credit for being honest about the amnesty. He’s saying that…what was the expression again? Oh, right…”if it walks like a duck, and it talks like a duck…“

May 31, 2007 Posted by | illegal immigration, quote of the day | Leave a Comment

Linda Chavez: Why do Republicans hate Mexicans?

Linda Chavez, conservative in nearly all ways, penned a nice little race-baiting screed against people with principled objections to the amnesty plan in Congress. From Junkyard Blog:

Ragnar’s Really Mad At Linda Chavez
And I can’t say I blame him, because she’s really making a scene, dragging out the ad hominems against anybody who disagrees with her:

Some people just don’t like Mexicans — or anyone else from south of the border. They think Latinos are freeloaders and welfare cheats who are too lazy to learn English. They think Latinos have too many babies, and that Latino kids will dumb down our schools. They think Latinos are dirty, diseased, indolent and more prone to criminal behavior. They think Latinos are just too different from us ever to become real Americans.

No amount of hard, empirical evidence to the contrary, and no amount of reasoned argument or appeals to decency and fairness, will convince this small group of Americans — fewer than 10 percent of the general population, at most — otherwise. Unfortunately, among this group is a fair number of Republican members of Congress, almost all influential conservative talk radio hosts, some cable news anchors — most prominently, Lou Dobbs — and a handful of public policy “experts” at organizations such as the Center for Immigration Studies, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, NumbersUSA, in addition to fringe groups like the Minuteman Project.

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What a divisive hack Chavez is. I’m beyond sick of being called a racist by these open-borders zealots because I have a good-faith bee in my bonnet–and whether or not it’s a concern you share, please accept this isn’t some proxy issue for my secret phobia of Peruvian janitors–about the idea of terrorists, gangs, drugs, and weapons sneaking over the border. I spent some time and political capital defending Chavez’s self-scuttled appointment to my friends, back in the day. Now, I’m very glad someone with that much ill-disguised contempt for her party’s base isn’t Secretary of Labor.

Speaking of which, that 2001 nomination of Chavez as Sec. of Labor gives a clear indication as to why she’s all gung-ho about granting amnesty to criminal aliens. If you recall, she withdrew her nomination upon revelations that she once housed and employed…yup, you guessed it…a criminal alien. Hey, if nothing else, at least she’s consistent!

This is truly pathetic. When it comes to issues like gerrymandered districts, affirmative action, quotas, or hate crimes, we’ve come to expect the left to abandon all pretense of honest political dialogue and go straight to the intellectually lazy and dishonest tactic of race-baiting, portraying all opponents of those things as being closet Klansmen. Now we’re beginning to see the same lazy and dishonest (and shameful) approach from parts of the right. Well, screw them. Just as I won’t cower in fear from some leftard breaking out the “bigot” label to describe my genuine opposition to race-based laws and policies, I certainly won’t back down from a purported conservative trying the same crappy tactic.

May 31, 2007 Posted by | bigotry, illegal immigration | Leave a Comment

Liberals and tolerance…

…should rarely go in the same sentence, since it is a bigger myth than unicorns. From Texas Rainmaker:

How do you think the MSM would cover a story involving a conservative refusing to shake hands with Hillary Clinton simply because she was a woman or Joe Lieberman because he’s Jewish? I can almost guarantee there’d be a lot more coverage and certainly more specials on diversity or tolerance than there is when a liberal refuses to shake hands with a conservative candidate because he’s a Mormon.
Mitt Romney’s visit to New Hampshire started on a sour note Tuesday when a restaurant patron declared he would not vote for the Republican presidential contender because of his faith.

“I’m one person who will not vote for a Mormon,” Al Michaud of Dover shouted at Romney when the former Massachusetts governor approached him inside Harvey’s Bakery. Romney was kicking off the second of two day’s worth of campaign visits in the lead primary state.

Romney kept smiling as he asked, “Can I shake your hand anyway?”

Michaud replied, “No.”

Michaud later told reporters he was not “a right-winger,” alluding to some evangelical Christians who have compared Romney’s faith to a cult. Instead, Michaud stated he was “a liberal.”

Cultural diversity is a one way street for liberals. When they preach “tolerance” it’s tolerance of them, not tolerance from them…

As one of TR’s commenters point out, there was indeed MSM coverage of the incident. However, I think TR’s point wasn’t that the story wasn’t covered, but how it was covered. In other words, had a Republican done the same thing, the spin would have clearly been more pronounced.

But to me, the MSM bias or lack thereof isn’t the point. The point is that the myth of liberal “tolerance” is being exposed more and more each day.

May 31, 2007 Posted by | hypocrisy, tolerance | 1 Comment

   

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