Posted on 05/19/2006 7:26:42 AM PDT by teddyballgame
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called a proposal to make English the official language "racist" on the Senate floor yesterday. "This amendment is racist. I think it's directed basically to people who speak Spanish," the Democrat said during the already tense debate over immigration reform. Moments later, the Senate approved the measure on a 63-34 vote. Virtually all Republicans were joined by 11 Democrats to approve the largely symbolic amendment. Immediately following that vote, the Senate approved a second amendment, declaring on a 58-39 vote that English is the "common and unifying language." Such proposals enjoy overwhelming support among American voters. A poll by Zogby International earlier this year found that 84 percent of Americans say English should be the official language of government operations. The same poll found that 77 percent of Hispanics agree. And it's a bipartisan issue, according to the poll, which found that 92 percent of Republicans and 82 percent of Democrats approve making English the country's official language. Mr. Reid's charge of racism caused a stir of whispers in the Senate chamber and gallery, and Sen. James M. Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who offered the amendment, was clearly offended.
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So do like I do, flood this dolt's email with accurate but sharp retorts, by just quoting this idiot's own statements and then show how ridiculous they are. Reid has to be exposed just like Murtha, Kennedy, Pelosi as people who the voters just cannot trust. Unless the Gop pins the truth on these donkey's tails, Nov. will be a bloodbath because they, we did not fire back.
'When did it become illegal to discriminate against someone because of their language?'
You languagist b@st@ard! :D
You cannot call a man's work racist without calling him a racist too.
A man is his work. His actions. By this, I swear.
By default, dungy Harry is calling English speaking people racist.
You are not wrong, Englist will be the "national" language, whatever that means and not the "offical" language since we all know what offical means.
And my default reply is "Yes. So what?" It normally throws them off balance.
Almost every country on the earth except us has an official language. It is not racist to have an official language. Is China racist to impose Mandarin Chinese as its official language, even thought there are many minority languages?
Don't let the PTB hear that. They just might make it a hate crime.
Our gubbmint is all smoke and mirrors. The official language of our gubbmint is "Bullshitspeak" and I for one stopped listening a long time ago......
I know!....Let's "vote" the bastidges out!....Yeah, right.
FMCDH(BITS)
Cruel man, they already ARE off balance. :)
So, it throws them still further off balance, and with greater force. Sort of mental ju-jitsu.
LOL
By the way, Senator Reid, in which language is the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights written? To me, that's as official as it gets and to claim otherwise causes one to question your senility.
"Better make English offical, or soon it will be: press 2 for english...."
Maybe Dingy was pushing for Ebonics to be the national language.
Harry Reid está muy loco.
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