[Political Junkie Too]

To echo further, it isn't just that Estrada is a minority. It's because the Democrats feel that appointing minorities is exclusively their domain.

They resent that Bush and Republicans have beaten them to appointing minorities to positions of real power in the government. Estrada is just the latest in the string of "firsts" that Republicans can claim.

The Democrats are blocking Estrada partly so that they can later appoint an Hispanic and then claim to be the first.

-PJ

[moneyrunner]

The over-riding issue is race. The Democrats are seeing their plantation slaves escaping. It is literally a question of their long-term survival as a major party. If they lose their stranglehold on racial minorities, they are through. They cannot allow the Republicans become the party of minority empowerment.

[Thebaddog]

There was an Hispanic former Marine that was on Rush's show today in the third hour that made me proud to be an American all over again. The fellow gave it all up and Rush let him roll. He spoke about the American dream and it was for all of us he spoke. I hope that he shows up somewhere else soon.

Anybody else hear him speak?