NYT Guest Columnist Egan: When the GOP Blows Hard on Immigration, Democrats Gain Seats

[BurtWorm]

Nice to hear this kind of voice on the Op-Ed page. :thumbsup:

I just want to say, though, that I thoroughly agree with Russ Feingold, who in his speech at Take Back America the other day, shook his head in disgust at the SOP of Dems in DC when the GOP starts cracking up, which is to sit back and let them crack up. That may seem energy efficient, but it would be a pleasure to see Dems taking a sledge hammer and helping the GOP crackup along.

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/opinion/21egan.html?hp


Republicans Losing the West


By TIMOTHY EGAN
Published: June 21, 2007

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.
He was loud, he was blustery and he was clear: our country is being overrun by Mexicans. To back his bark, he wrote, “Whatever It Takes,” as subtle as a cactus poke. He had money, and he had the power of office, a 12-year incumbency.

In the end, J. D. Hayworth, a Republican, was kicked out of his Congressional seat here last year. In the glossy white suburbs of Phoenix, immigrant-bashing backfired.

Farther south, in a district that is ground zero in the border wars — the seared-over patch of Arizona desert where the Minutemen patrol, more Mayberry than Concord — another Republican took an even harsher stance. The anti-immigration extremist, Randy Graf, was crushed.

For Republicans in Arizona, the result was a net loss of two Congressional seats.

Americans are genuinely conflicted and troubled about porous borders and the 12 million or more illegal immigrants in our midst. But to hear politicians who have been scorched by the blowhard fringe tell it, they’re facing a tidal wave of opposition to a consensus change in the status quo....

[fasttense]

1. Well, I think most US citizens realize

that it isn't the immigrant we should be punishing, it is the corporation that lures them here and makes billions off their hard labor. The repukes are representatives of those corporations.

[BlackHawk706867]

2. Once again the biggest issue is a lack of secure borders... by this..

pitiful Administration...

ww