The right wing running the country decided last fall that this year's pet group to hate would be immigrants.
The right wing fear-mongers by stirring up hate against some group each election cycle --- gays, Muslims, academics/Ward Churchill, judges, this time immigrants --- to roust their base in hopes of hanging on to power...
Colorado's Owens is reverting to his silly partisan self in calling a special session to try to force some anti-immigrant hate legislation.
The only effect of undocumented immigrants in Colorado these last few years has been to keep meatpacking alive as an industry in the state... and to build Tom 'Nuke Mecca!' Tancredo's basement.
What could Owens seek to address before he slides into sports broadcast obscurity? Off the top of my head...
--Colorado still leads the country in foreclosures
--Ca. 40% of the state's citizens are uninsured
--No state-level oil and gas tax revenues -- unlike our rich Wyoming cousins...
As NPR wisely observed a few days ago, the wingnuts controlling the country don't really want immigration reform (notice that they don't want to actually govern any issue effectively) ... because then they couldn't run by arguing that they have to be reelected to finally do something about immigration...
Substitute gay-bashing; flag-burning; activist judges; or any other wedge-issue-du-jour for immigrants in the above paragraph, and you have the pattern ... foment discord and foster hate but never ever do anything about the supposed problem, because then you couldn't run on fear and keep your cold dead grip on power...
But whom do they want you to hate in re their massive federal deficits in support of endless war?
Hang 9/11 widows, John Murtha, and the editor of the New York Times!
