Prometheus 6

I have to thank you for recommending "White Flight." I could decode these things before, but it's a lot easier to understand what their intent is after understanding the scaffolding a bit more.

If I'm translating correctly, it sounds like he's proposing that Republicans ?temporarily replace blacks as the boogeymen with immigrants; take on state healthcare which would presumably deny immigrants coverage; all to keep the middle-class suburban secessionist voter.

If you have to boil it down to a paragraph, that's about right.

I started reading this yesterday and stopped. I'll try to finish it. Did you see that Charles Gibson gets the first Palin interview per NEWSWEEK?

Frum's piece is full of so many contradictions and arguments not supported by the facts or logic that it is difficult to decide where to begin a rebuttal. Let's start, for example, with Frum's review of Prince William County and the sense of resentment he describes many of its white residents feel as a result of the cost burdens that illegal immigration is imposing on the their local and county governments. Frum provides not one scintilla of factual evidence to support this claim and apparently the editors at the New York Times, the alleged paper of record, did not see it as necessary to demand that he provide any data to support this claim either.

There is, however, a more damning aspect of Frum's allegation that deserves at least some explanation from him and the Times. How exactly did these illegal immigrants come to be residents of a county where the costs of most of the housing is probably beyond their means? Did many of them cross the storied Rio Grande with the downpayment funds needed to purchase an abode in Prince William County stuffed into a backpack? Or, perhaps they arrived in Prince William County and their wives or cousins wired them the money they needed to take up residence there?

The other possibility is that the county and local governments used tax credits, bonds and other funding instruments provided by the State of Virginia and the federal government to build housing that these newly arrived residents would find affordable. In addition, local and county governments would have had to approve these developments and agree to various zoning changes and infrastructure improvements to make these developments financially feasible and livable. In short, the residents of Prince William County and their elected and appointed representatives consciously made macro-economic decisions that spurred and accelerated just the kind of population influx and development that they are now railing against.

Did you see that Charles Gibson gets the first Palin interview per NEWSWEEK?

Well, of course, Charlie will show the proper amount of deference and respect.

Did you see that Charles Gibson gets the first Palin interview per NEWSWEEK?

Okay. I can still crack on her a couple more days.