Posturing for La Raza.(Correction, Please!)

ITEM: The Cox News Service reported in the Houston Chronicle for July 19: "Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean predicted Tuesday that the Republican Party will make immigrants scapegoats in the 2006 election. In a speech to an influential Hispanic organization, Dean said that Republican-sponsored immigration legislation and escalating rhetoric on the issue are part of the latest GOP effort to use fear as a political tactic."

Republicans, continued the article, "tried to scare people by talking about 'race quotas' instead of affirmative action in 2002 and putting ballot initiatives to ban gay marriage in several states in 2004, [Dean] said. 'In 2006, it's going to be immigrants, you wait and see,' he told the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights organization, at its annual convention."

CORRECTION: Addressing the immigration invasion is not fear mongering; it is common sense. Moreover, though a few notable Republican politicians have shown some common sense concerning rampant illegal immigration, the policies of the GOP establishment are no less loony than those pushed during the Clinton administration. Last May, for instance, Republican Senator John ...