Via The Corner:
From the Senate, during debate about an English-only amendment :
{16:21:50} (MR. REID) { NOT AN OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT } DISTINGUISHED FRIEND, THE SENATOR FROM OKLAHOMA, KNOWS THAT. HE'S FLOWN AROUND THE WORLD HIMSELF AS A PILOT. I HAVE AFFECTION FOR MY FRIEND FROM OKLAHOMA, BUT I HAVE THE GREATEST DISAGREEMENT WITH HIM ON THIS AMENDMENT. WHILE THE INTENT MAY NOT BE THERE, I REALLY BELIEVE THIS AMENDMENT IS RACIST.
So either Harry Reid is mentally incompetent and thinks English is a race, or he's a dishonest, race-baiting demagogue, reflexively playing the race card like so many of his fellow Democrats tend to do. In Reid's case, we'd say it's a toss-up.
Update: The Senate rejected Reid's race-baiting and passed the amendment, 63 to 34.
Others:
Patterico
Outside the Beltway
Memorandum
I hear the amendment passed. (And I liked the old masthead better.)
Comment by Michael Hampton — May 18, 2006 @ 3:48 pm May 18, 2006
I would like to understand why Mr. Reid made that comment. English has alwways
been our language here in the United States of America, and that is the way it should
stay. What about all of the immagrants that came from Europe and had to learn English
I am so tired of going to the grocery store and having to look for the English
on the item that I am buying. It is sad to think what our world will be like in the next
20 years. I just hope that I am dead with all what is happening in this world.
Comment by Royella Roessler — May 22, 2006 @ 1:20 pm May 22, 2006