X is for Xenophobia

By Baxter

The Republican Party sure has hopped on the let's-be-ugly bandwagon lately. First, Arizona's GOP governor signed that awful anti-immigration bill into law. Now, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Alabama is stoking fires against non-anglophone residents of his state.

We cats will pass on the issue of whether, as Tim James claims, English is actually spoken in Alabama. We just think it's interesting that he so publicly joined the GOP immigrant-bashing mob right after the approval of a law that was drafted by a hate-group attorney.

Yep, that's right. Arizona's wonderful new law was written by Kris Kobach (pictured). He's a lawyer from the "Federation of American Immigration Reform," an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center identified as a hate group back in 2007. (Gee — can Mr. Kobach find himself a middle name that starts with "K," too? It would be appropriate.)

You know, if we cats were on the other side of the aisle, we'd be concerned about this stuff. One is known by the company one keeps, and Mssrs. James and Kobach would not be our beer buddies of choice. No wonder Charlie Crist is leaving the Republican Party.