As this story indicates, the Senate voted yesterday to make English the nation's "national language." Not the official language, mind you. And then it passed another amendment ratifying English as the "common unifying language of the United States." Neither of these bills apparently does anything to actually promote the speaking of English. That didn't stop Harry Reid from calling the first measure "racist." Let's do some math. The other day Tim Johnson voted for a bill that Democratic Whip Dick Durbin called "a victory for the right-wing." Yesterday Tim Johnson voted for a bill that the Democratic Minority Leader calls "racist." I would like to think of these votes as signs of Tim Johnson's level headed moderation. But I guess his leaders think he is a right-wing racist. Either I am wrong and Tim Johnson really is a right-wing racist, or Durbin and Reid are wrong, in which case they are engaging in demagoguery of the cheapest type. We report; you decide.
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