I know that it’s a holiday so many of the regular pundits are not at work, but much of the mainstream media is clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel in order to put out “news” every day. Here is one of the worst pieces of garbage that tried to impersonate the news.
Writing in the Washington Post, Edward Schumacher-Matos explained why the increased population for red states in the just completed 2010 census is really bad news for Republicans. According to Ed, the increase is all immigrants and that’s bad for the GOP. His specific reasoning:
“And as we know from polls and the last election, immigrants and their recent descendants aren't looking very kindly on the Republicans these days. The party, in its fierce intent to force out unauthorized immigrants, has demonized all nonwhite immigrant groups, creating deep resentments.”
Maybe someone should tell Ed that he is repeating a Democrat talking point and not reality. There is no question that the Republicans have pushed the issue of sealing the border better in order to deal with illegal immigration. They have also been the force behind the Arizona statute that tried to give the state police some but far from all of the same powers that the feds already have to enforce the immigration laws. The over-the-top response by the Democrats to these efforts has been the usual: accuse the GOP of racism and xenophobia. It won’t work.
The new governor of New Mexico is a Hispanic Republican. Many of the new GOP congressmen elected in November were minorities. Indeed, the Democrats’ tired old meme of labeling the GOP as the party of old angry white males is getting to the point where it makes about as much sense as pointing out that the principal opposition to the landmark civil rights laws of the 1960’s came from Democrats. Both points are really irrelevant.
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