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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
For the first time ever the minority response to a State of the Union address will be delivered in both English and Spanish. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has been selected to give the Republican response. From Maimi Herald:
Marco Rubio won’t just give the Republican rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night.
The Florida Senator will give two.
One in English. Otro en Español.
It’s the first time such a high-profile speech will be given in two languages by the same person, and it’s a sign of how crucial the Rubio has become in the GOP efforts to draw more Hispanic support and rebrand the party.
The move is gimmicky, but it is a powerful example of how quickly the political calculations within the Republican Party have changed. Just a few months ago the party was led by a Presidential nominee who supported so called “self-deportation.” This year the person selected as the public face of the party is a Hispanic senator who will probably use his bilingual response to the State of the Union to advocate for the bipartisan immigration reform law he is writing.
The GOP has finally gotten that unless the party does better with Hispanics they are politically doomed for a generation. The next few months will tell us if the Republicans think a few symbolic gestures is all they need or if they can actually deliver some real policy improvements.
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BIG DEAL!
hmmmm… interesting. yesterday I was positing elsewhere that the “Republicans” had given up the idea of
panderingattempting to appeal to Hispanics. Mayhap I was wrong. Let’s see where it goes from here.When down-home types say to me “they should learn English if they want to live in this country,” my response is, yes, everyone in the U.S. should learn English and Spanish, just like everyone in Canada should learn English and French.
Spanish has become an important U.S. language, and it’s about time politicians recognized the fact. Kudos to the Republicans for this if for nothing else.
I don’t think spewing bullshit in Spanish will help it be any less mierda de toro.
My Republican inlaws are gonna be pissed.
Does Daniel D. Portado have a cansado about this turn of events?
Is this another one of Reince Preibus’s brilliant ideas?
“Hey, let’s git a Cuban teabagger to talk at ‘em in Mexican, that should do the trick.”
Some might say that there are currently 312+- million people in the USA. Obama wants to give 10+- million illegals amnesty–plus allow all of the 10+- million illegals all of their family members to come in and join them–us–as well. To me, that looks like another 100 million illegals to be made, or allowed to steal home in the USA. That makes illegals 1/4th, or 25% of the entire population of America. 100 million who did nothing to build this infrastructure or to put $$ into the coffers that will give them medical insurance or pay for police, food stamps, or gov’t housing if needed. Wow, illegals to increase our nation’s population by 25%. No matter what happens, there are or will be so many–100M–that did an illegal act or benefited from a relative’s illegal act to get here and increase the population of America by 25%. If anything puts the nails in Americas’ coffin, this will. Possibly lots of kids, ‘marriages’, and long lost relatives to come out of the illegals’ country of origin woodwork. If they want family from the home country, they can stay in home country.
Sounds like Reince.
Hey, I, for one, am looking forward to it.
I thnk this will go down really well at the local Taqueria Michoacan./s
Talk about transparent. I guess the ‘English Firsters’ are being thrown under the bus.
Gotta love the Rethug meltdown.
Couldn’t happen to a nastier bunch of people.