GOP Senate Keeps Focus: English Now Official Language
As I walked to work in Manhattan this morning and stopped in my local bagel store and then to Starbucks to grab a cup of coffee, I got cheery "Good Morning" greetings and small talk about the rain we continue to have in New York. As I basked in the fact that it was all spoken in English, I couldn’t help but think "Thank the Good Lord we have Republicans in the Senate, or the Starbucks baristas might easily be speaking Latvian next time I come in."
Of course, I'm being a sarcastic liberal, but the fact remains that the United States Senate passed a billed yesterday that makes English the "national language" in America and amends title four of the United States Code, "…to declare English as the national language of the United States and to promote the patriotic integration of prospective US citizens."
The measure passed 63-34 with the GOP actually finding eleven Democrats -- Baucus (D-MT), Byrd (D-WV), Carper (D-DE), Conrad (D-ND), Dorgan (D-ND), Johnson (D-SD), Landrieu (D-LA), Lincoln (D-AR), Nelson (D-FL), Nelson (D-NE) and Pryor (D-AR) -- worried enough about the more cracker-like constituents in their states that they also voted in favor of the dumbest amendment to pass the Senate in some time.
The wording of the bill will make it more difficult for immigrants to see descriptions of governmental services in a bilingual format and Senate Democrats argued that the measure would totally negate executive orders issued by President Bill Clinton that mandated multilingual services and communications in a variety of federal agencies.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) called the amendment "racist," adding that "Everybody who speaks with an accent [already] knows that they need to learn English just as fast as they can."
Ken Salazar (D-CO) called the bill divisive and anti-American saying "We are taking a step backward from the progress America has made."
With almost 70 percent of Americans polled recently saying that they believe the country is going in the wrong direction, this bill clarifies still further why voters need to really consider who they want in Congress after November's midterm elections.
We know with certainty that we can't expect Republicans in the House and the Senate to address the biggest budget deficit in U.S. history, seven million more Americans without health insurance since 2000, a minimum wage that has not been raised in a decade and a war that's killing more each day and that has ruined our global reputation.
But they're real legislative dynamos when it comes to mandating English where it's already spoken, banning gay marriage and making sure nobody burns a flag.
Is it November yet?
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Submarine USS Wahoo ss238
Hell, GW Bush cant even speak english, so why all of the
huff now, its just like the 'French/Freedom toast'
French/Freedom Fries debacles, that wasted our Government
officials time and money..............
Maybe the Republicans will vote next week on the much
needed legislation to make sure the only name of this country
is the United States and not anything else........
Now now gentlemen(Bob and Wahoo)...
lets look on the passage of this bill as a challenge. English is now our mandated language. The mere fact that most of us speak one brand or another of American(a distinctly different language from English/UK)is gonna make our lives pure hell over the next year when we must speak English or suffer being deported.
For those of us who live in states/areas where pure Americanese is spoken, it shouldn't be much of a problem. For those of us who live in more primitive areas like much of the south--including Texas--this will be a tremendous chore. Let's not let the mighty midwest off either...anyone from Minnesota or Wisconsin also has some problems ahead. Why, once the lands once occupied by dialect-speaking folk become empty, think of the great opportunity for Left Coasters to pick up loads of land very cheaply.
I suppose that we could always call our dialect-speaking fellow-citizens, ummm...Dialectical-Americans ...just, you understand,until they all fall in line speaking in the plumish tones of glorious Eton or Oxford.
Seems obvious that most teachers will have to be deported...they neither speak nor understand English.
The barristas(not an English word by the way)in Manhattan speak American, they presently do so in the dulcet tones of New Yorkers--none of whom have been understood by the rest of the country since the Dutch left.
For those New York cabbies, a wonderful experience awaits. Finally, transportation within the Big Apple will make sense to outsiders--especially our visitors from the UK.
This is really progress folks. Be proud as we finally all will be speaking the language of Washington, Jefferson, and Franklyn...just exactly as they spoke it and as they still, more or less, speak it in Boston.
What a relief.
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest degrangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Louis Pasteur
I think they should all give
I think they should all give themselves
a big pat on the back for this most
grand piece of legislation. I'm so glad
to see my tax dollars being so
productive. Now, do you think these jokers can get on with something of real value for the American people,
or will next week be a continuation of the same old games? Can you say backpedaling?
Another successful game of Lets' spin the Morons"
This new 'patriotic' whine about English as our, DUH, new, DUH official language by the likes of Inhofe of OKLAHOMA! and now GARY BAUER and Co.is really desperate b.s. But now they gang up and are leading a charge against Reid, for saying the ammendment is racist, because OF WHAT THE POLLS SAY!?
oh really!?
... the 2 RECENT polls were commissioned by a Virginia group called PRO-ENGLISH.
(heres' who they are: "ProEnglish sues administration over multilingual mandate")
... the polls were conducted ONLY in ALABAMA AND ARIZONA----
( more of that fair and balanced action!)
... the key question asked was on whether: "..... English should be the official language of government operations,"...
(the focus was on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS only).
... those same two states also had legislatures that voted for that same ammendment,
BUT, 'proenglish' is suing Alabama because even ALABAMA won't enforce it!
AND GOV. NAPOLITANO OF ARIZONA VETOED IT!
... those two slanted polls were then combined with old Zogby polls of 2002 AND 2003, right after 9/11, to equal this twisted lying statement
RIGHT OFF THE PRO-ENGLISH WEBSITE:
" Vast Majority of Americans Support Official English"
'National polling data indicates that the overwhelming majority of Americans, including Hispanics, support making English the official language.'
And THAT's the "Poll", the final piece of propaganda that ended up as the SOLE SOURCE of information on which the United States Senate Republicans and some pliable and gullible Democrats voted for an historic piece of legislation.
(AND WHY WE HAVE TO VOTE GORE OR FEINGOLD 08')
But to top that off the Supreme Moron Scalia joins in with his 2cents worth of scrolls on the TV screen yesterday with this DESPERATE REPUBLICAN whine:
"NO FOREIGN LAW IN OUR JUDICIARY"
(Breyers' is probably laughing his ass off!)
I bet these creeps play 'I get to be the sheriff this time' in their bedrooms too.
How much law is left once the ...
Latin is removed? Scalia is a real doozer.
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest degrangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Louis Pasteur
Goals
"...the measure would totally negate executive orders issued by President Bill Clinton..."
guys, it's simple.
"Undo every single damn good thing they ever did - oh yeah, and run up the biggest deficit ever..."
It's revenge at base. I think they'll keep going till they've identified every single American that VOTED for him and have them exterminated.
It's like a disease of the mind. A twisted hunger that never gets satisfied. Reeks of child abuse.
Even Saddam had respect for
Even Saddam had respect for visitors in his country . . .
I guess if you ask those dittoheads in Washington, they would say Saddam was inviting us to invade Iraq.
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security
like it's some kind of federal program."
- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000