To: kjfpolitical; Dane
Florida Sen. Mel Martinez, the first Cuban-American elected to the U.S. Senate, on Wednesday apparently marked another first: delivering the first Spanish speech on the Senate floor.
Spanish on the Senate floor?? This is sure to drive the Tancretoids nuts.
2 posted on
02/03/2005 9:28:35 AM PST by
ClintonBeGone
(In politics, sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
To: ClintonBeGone; All
It's a tough call but ultimately a bad sign.
I couldn't prove it, but I'd read once or twice before that German almost became the official language of the USA.
There is also the history of the American Southwest, Spanish-American War Islands and Florida with the history of Spanish but assimilation took care of most of it.
7 posted on
02/03/2005 9:34:40 AM PST by
olde north church
(Powerful is the hand that holds the keys to Heaven.)
To: ClintonBeGone
Spanish on the Senate floor?? This is sure to drive the Tancretoids nuts.
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10 posted on
02/03/2005 9:37:16 AM PST by
sully777
(It's like my momma always said, "Two wrongs don't make a right but two Wrights make an airplane.")
To: ClintonBeGone
Spanish on the Senate floor?? This is sure to drive the Tancretoids nuts. Yeah, there are a lot of xenophobes on FR.
To: ClintonBeGone
For the benefit of our hyphenated Americans it looks like we need to state in law that our official language is English.
13 posted on
02/03/2005 9:39:27 AM PST by
NetValue
(Be a democrat; oppose, subvert, obstruct and sabotage progress in America)
To: ClintonBeGone
Spanish on the Senate floor?? This is sure to drive the Tancretoids nuts. Tancredo no doubt is blast faxing his condemnation of Sen. Martinez who escaped Castro's gulag, to his flying monkeys right now.
21 posted on
02/03/2005 9:48:36 AM PST by
Dane
( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
To: ClintonBeGone
Ok so Mel martinez spoke Spanish to make a point. He didn't introduce a bill to make Spanish an officail language of the Senate. Actually I'd prefer them all to use American sign language so we don't have to listen to all their blather.
To: ClintonBeGone
Noone should be allowed to speak in a foreign language on the floor of Congress. Shameful act by Martinez.
To: ClintonBeGone
That's just what I was thinking.
Anyhow, I love Senator Martinez. Hope to see more of him.
I find it...typical, that the media has been drooling all over Barack Obama, whom I admit is a interesting man and is well spoken, but has ignored Martinez, who is the first Cuban-American Senator.
To: ClintonBeGone
126 posted on
02/03/2005 12:44:17 PM PST by
Howlin
(It's a great day to be an American -- and a Bush Republican!!!!)
To: ClintonBeGone
I'm sure you are looking forward to the day when a rep from the Detroit area delivers the first speech in Arabic, right?
141 posted on
02/03/2005 1:18:26 PM PST by
spodefly
(Yo, homey ... Is that my briefcase?)
To: ClintonBeGone
This is sure to drive the Tancretoids nuts. Anyone who is not tremendously troubled by this is an unadulterated nut.
If Uber Politico Rove doesn't take this guy to the woodshed, and this kind of nonsense continues ... well it may be interesting in 2006-08.
190 posted on
02/03/2005 2:23:04 PM PST by
iconoclast
(Conservative, not partisan.)
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