The fight over bilingual ballots is blowing up in Republicans' faces as they continue to dig their own graves. As Bush has been trying to recruit Latinos to the Republican party his own party has been undermining him by freaking out over the idea of a bilingual ballot.

Who would have thought that telling the much-desired Latino constituency that speaking any language other than English makes you un-American might piss off that constituency?

I also love it because this group in congress reminds me of the old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn. Why are they so threatened by the Spanish language? Would it be the end of the world if we became like most other countries and our kids learned to speak more than one language? After all, lots of people in other countries learn many languages to get by easier as they travel through their continent. It's not uncommon to meet Europeans who speak English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. What would be so terrible if we generally knew the two major languages spoken in this hemisphere? It really pisses off the 'get off my lawn' contingent though.