GOP Backlash?
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My position on this notwithstanding, I wonder if this is the end of the great Republican experiment to get the Hispanic vote into their camp?
“This bill is scaring people in a way they haven’t been scared for a long time and the increasingly sophisticated Latino and immigrant community leadership has been able to effectively channel this into protests,” he said.
The demonstrations have spread way beyond the traditionally Hispanic immigrant communities of Western cities such as Los Angeles to hubs as far away as the northwestern cities of Detroit, Milwaukee and the southern city of Atlanta where tens of thousands of people have been marching since last week.
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Nice way to cherry-pick photos. I guess you missed the ones from LA reading: “AZTLAN”, “THIS IS STOLEN LAND”, “CHICANO POWER”, “IF YOU THINK I’M ILLEGAL BECAUSE I’M MEXICAN…I’M IN MY HOMELAND”.
All of the protests staged by ANSWR and La RAZA were for naught anyway. The political class would never do anything to endanger the steady flow cheap labor and votes.
Here’s a twofer – Villaraigosa and no American flags. Yeah, I’m full of crap.
http://www.cbsnews.com/images/2006/03/28/imageLA12903280157.jpg
Randy’s ascared of the brown people.
and as someone (like me) who has been skeptical of hispanic voting power in the recent past, explain that to Mayor Villaraigosa.
I said it elsewhere, and i’ll say it here.
Does anybody else see the bigger ramifications with this past weekend s march? 500,000 in LA, 20,000 in Denver, 30,000 in washington, etc. That ain t a protest, my friends, that s an army. An army of (well, some of them) registered voters not too happy with Republican leadership. The GOP is gonna have to do some pretty serious sucking up over the next few months to get back the Latino/Hispanic vote that they spent the last 8 years trying to get.
Boo-yaa!
Who let Michelle Malkin out of her straightjacket?
OH MY GOD THE MEXICANS ARE COMING TO GET US!!!! THEY’RE TRYING TO OUTBREED US!!!! THE MEXICANS!!!!! AGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Gawd what an idiot.
“Stand by for the backlash as those folks in the fly-over states really get worried and vote hugely republican.”
Spoken like a true conservative: Don’t worry racism and fear will win the day!
So I guess Puerto Rico day in NYC is all about the upcoming Puerto Rican war? Or something.
LA doesn’t count for anything outside of LA. White people are a minority in LA county. A salvation army study claimed 50% of Los Angelenos were functionally illiterate (couldn’t read a bus schedule, etc).
Mexico is successfully taking over Alto California….and you know what? Good, as long as it is LEGAL immigrants. So hispanic voting power in LA is obvious. However, most illegals don’t vote…so millions of non-voters marching in the streets doesn’t mean quite as much.
Stand by for the backlash as those folks in the “fly-over states” really get worried and vote hugely republican.
So hispanic voting power in LA is obvious.
Actually, until this last election, they couldn’t get their act together. Villarigosa got kicked by Hahn because Hahn had the black vote (I know, because I lived there and voted for him). Villarigosa and other latino leaders figured out how to build up a coalition with blacks, white moderates, Jewish moderates, etc. and won.
They’ll do as well getting Hispanic votes post-Tancredo as they will getting African-American votes post-Katrina.
The question, sadly, is how will the DC Dems manage to screw up the advantage?
For the answer to your question, Joe, Check out the post above at 5:53 PM. Apparently the Dems want to run on healthcare, but Oliver is advising them to run on Iraq and terrorism.
Maybe they should run against privatizing Social Security — yeah, that’s the ticket!
Talk about being out of touch…
There ain’t enough help in the world for you, cellulose!
Waving Mexican flags?
Someone call the la policia!
Oh no! I’m infected!
Ayudame!
Duros wrote:
Yeah, I see bigger ramifications: get a couple hundred thousand people waving Mexican flags and the people who are registered voters (translation: citizens) are going to be casting their votes for the candidates who are most vocally against whatever the group waving the Mexican flags want.
The Democrats were sort of getting on board with that: look at Governors Richardson and Nepolitano. Then the Democrats passed the immigration reform bill in the Senate committee, taking the completely opposite tack.
Flyover country? In Chicago, site of the first of this wave of protests, a hundred thousand marched in the streets and only waved American flags. The idea was borne by a few Hispanic DJs who told their listeners, “No Mexican Flags. Only American flags.” The effect was breathtaking. Maybe some people in LA didn’t get the message and started waving Mexican flags. But in Chicago, 100,000 Latinos waved American flags and it totally pulled the rug out of the Minuteman movement here.
“Then the Democrats passed the immigration reform bill in the Senate committee, taking the completely opposite tack.”
Wow, I didn’t realize that the Democrats were in control of Senate committees. When did this happen?
Damn- a lot of hot air in here but what was that solution you mentioned a while back Oliver? Something about when you were talking about your immigrant parents?
It’s kinda fun watching you straddle the fence on this.
Anti-illegal immigration, yet Republicans are racist and anti-Latino for being on the same page as you.
Nice talking point.
You wonder why you’re so popular with Conservatives? It’s the COMEDY Oliver. COMEDY!
Seeing as many of my relatives are legal immigrants and my brother is having trouble getting a visa to come visit me, perhaps I can be anti-illegal immigration without being called names.
…registered voters (translation: citizens) are going to be casting their votes for the candidates who are most vocally against whatever the group waving the Mexican flags want
In true xenophobic fashion.
Again, rent “A Day Without A Mexican”
I saw some of that pointless Senate Judiciary Committee discussion on a “common-sense” immigration reform bill. The chairman doesn’t want the Majority Panderer Frist’s bill to criminalize brown people to pass. When you have a bunch of wingnuts, you know the ones that brought us impeachment on the committee, it makes reasoning difficult, if not damn near impossible.
Anyway, I am absolutely cheering daily for the Latino community on this one. I was disillusioned by the defeat of Ciro Rodriguez. I am now energized again by these spontaneous protests and hope they continue and the Latino community will stay radicalized long enough to vote out the winguts and restore real progressive, fair-minded leadership to our nation.