Ugh on a stick, the state GOP.
Bailey was a guest last week on conservative talk radio KVI, where Republican State Chairman Kirby Wilbur is a frequent fill-in host. The two debunked the Dream Act as a way of damaging the Republican franchise rather than helping immigrants’ kids get an education. Democrats had just failed in a bid to force a Senate floor vote.
“It should be obvious, at least to anyone with an IQ above their waist size, that these (bills) have been picked for their political impact, has nothing to do with caring and compassion, to continue this mantra that Republicans are racists,” said Wilbur. “I mean, it seems to me it’s pretty obvious.”
Sen. Bailey agreed.
“It is pretty obvious that it is political. This bill has been brought forward at least twice before by (Sen.) Ed Murray, whgo is the sponsor of the Senate bill, at a time when both the Senate, the House and the Governor’s mansion were controlled by the Democrats and it begs the question: If this is such an important, absolutely needed bill, why didn’t it pass during those times?”
First off THAT’S NOT WHAT BEGS THE QUESTION MEANS! You mean it raises the question. Question begging is making a circular argument. When you use it wrong you sound like a dummy, and I hate you.* Second, if it’s just a trick, why not vote for it like a significant portion of the House GOP Caucus? Or at least let it come to a vote in committee? Or just let the people who want to testify testify? I mean honestly. Anyway, keep talking.
“Here’s another fact: If these (undocumented) students were added to the pool that already exists, underserved (sic) citizens, then the only way those students would ever get financial aid is if they are considered and given preferential treatment above citizens.”
Fact! Just look it up.
Anyway, after finding out about that, Rodney Tom knew just who to get mad at.
Tom has taken to blaming State Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, for its failure. The “Senate Majority Coalition” offered Kohl-Welles chairmanship of the Higher Education Committee. She refused to take it, on grounds that the governing coalition was under Republican control and would leave her with no authority.
Tom sent out a legislative “session update” last week that sharply attacked Kohl-Welles. He was called to account by Murray for violating Senate rules by using the e-mail newsletter to deliver a partisan attack on a colleague. The update, too, was edited.
I guess she forced him to vote against allowing the vote on the floor of the Senate.
* In fairness, in tomorrow’s Open Thread, I’m linking positively to a piece that uses Occam’s razor wrong, and that bugs me just as much.
Hey Carl,
“Begs the question” is in that flammable-inflammable territory. (I think it started out as flammable and enflammable, and people confused the en- and in- prefixes) Yes, people misuse ‘beg the question’ which is cognate with ‘beggar the question’ not ‘ask the question’.
And Republicans are bags of douche.
April showers bring the Party of No into full bloom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EytotH8BENI
Here’s the dog whistle:
In other words, those smart Latinos would take away any chance your own kids – those with “Gentleman’s ‘C”s” from getting a free ride to college at taxpayer expense. Who can compete for state colleges against the child of an undocumented immigrant who went on to overcome adversity, get solid “A”s, participate in the school band, etc.? And why should Republicans expect to pay for college from their grandparent’s stock holdings when all those “furiners” are getting financial aid?
Why should we pay for a quality education for some illegal’s kid, when he or she is just going take their brains and education and make some other state rich?
@4 Maybe we could get some sort of indentured servant contract. They can leave once they have paid taxes equaling 7x the money spent on their eduction.
@5 Hate to break it to ya, but the student loan shysters got there first.
Sitting in the safety of a studio and blathering hatred against the illegals, the poors, and the wimmins is like crack to jowly, dumbass bullies, isn’t it? But this is no longer the pre-Internet glory days of pasty hate radio, when KVI was just one of many radio sewers spewing lies. Now, even the GOP’s leading lights understand that tired old dog can’t hunt:
Frank Luntz, the media-friendly Republican consultant and word wiz, told a group of college students this week that Rush Limbaugh and right-wing talk radio are “problematic” for the GOP and partly responsible for the stark polarization within the nation’s political discourse. He only dared to speak so candidly about Limbaugh and other conservative hosts off the record. A secretly recorded video, though, captured Luntz’s remark.
Later, losers.