(I'm doing some work with America's Voice-- they've got a thorough run-down at their website.)
As our economy continues to stagger and gasp along with record market failures-- and the failure of our paralytic government to do a single thing about it-- a lot of people are searching for explanations.
Take, for example, Michelle Malkin and Mark Krikorian. Yes, they're searching-- one might even say they are grasping at straws.
Malkin's subtle theory is that the whole thing is a natural consequence of letting too many Mexicans across the border:
The Mother of All Bailouts has many fathers...But there's one giant paternal elephant in the room that has slipped notice: how illegal immigration, crime-enabling banks, and open-borders Bush policies fueled the mortgage crisis.
Yes, I wish I was satirizing poor Michelle-- but her feeble little brain actually did come up with that statement in all apparent seriousness.
Well, what about a real pioneering mind, like Mark Krikorian?
Krikorian's genius is that he's capable of posting entire press releases, spitting out the affirmation that he thought those press releases were jokes but they weren't, and titling it "Cause and Effect"-- but with a question mark! It's ambiguous, see? That's scholarship, folks!
Wow, it must be some press release, right?
Hispanic Business magazine recently ranked WaMu sixth in its annual Diversity Elite list, which names the top 60 companies for Hispanics.
That's right-- Washington Mutual, indeed our ENTIRE ECONOMY, would be A-OK except for one glaring weakness: apparently, that bank actually accomodated itself to enterprising minorities in search of employment.
The treachery!
Somehow David Abromowitz at the Center for American Progress fails to register appreciation for this impeccable research!
At a time when serious economic remedies are needed, the right wing fringe wants to blame the immigrant workers for our market meltdown. This is a clever tactic if it gets some portion of the public to forget about the titans of industry who created the entire financial house of cards falling down around us. But you could deport every illegal immigrant with a defaulted mortgage and we would still have a national housing market crisis.
Say, them are some big words.
Let's get some conservative input, huh? Give us the straight dope, Stephen Bainbridge!
[Malkin and Krikorian] make you embarrassed to be a Conservative... the freezing up of the credit markets doesn't have anything to do with either affirmative action or illegal immigration, and people who believe it does are on a par with the conspiracy theorists who think flouridation is a Chicom plot.
Ouch. It's like some folks expect us all to think for ourselves, or something.