Atrios Nails It 2
I mentioned a little while ago that I believe that bigotry is at the heart of the Republican furor over immigration.
I am convinced that, if hordes of English-speaking Canadians were pouring over the the northern border to take jobs in the call centers of Sioux Falls, the hullabaloo over illegal immigration would merely be a baloo.
Atrios nails it. It’s the “Southern Strategy” all over again once more redundantly.
Immigration isn’t the issue. Hating immigrants is the issue.
December 12, 2007 at 8:58 pm
What a bunch of bull$hit.
December 13, 2007 at 2:00 pm
I continue to be stunned at the openness with which Democrats/liberals hate while decrying it in everyone else they see. Where does one get this Certified Liberal card that authorizes one to hate with impunity? I need to ask one of the many union members I know in this town who have never voted for a Republican in their lives and yet spew the most vile racist and misogynist comments I’ve ever heard so long as their victims are out of earshot.
I remember one job I was one where we were building a medical facility. At one point, a group of nurses toured the building to view the progress. The graffiti workers had scribbled in various places was so violent and filthy the nurses refused to go back in until it was cleaned up.
Oh, and ironically, it was the Carol Jo Vecchie Memorial Women and Children’s Center – built entirely with union labor.