Markos Moulitsas writes today:
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Pat Buchanan pines for the America of the '50s, but the country has changed, and for the better.
And while we Latinos celebrate Associate Justice Sotomayor's accomplishments, we have also take note of who tried to stand in her way.
Nine Republicans voted to confirm: Lamar Alexander (TN), Kit Bond (MO), Susan Collins (ME), Lindsey Graham (SC), Judd Gregg (NH), Richard Lugar (IN), Mel Martinez (FL), Olympia Snowe (ME) and George Voinovich (OH).
Four of those -- Bond, Gregg, Martinez, and Voinovich -- are retiring. They don't care what the Rabid Right says anymore. The Maine twins are already apostates. That leaves Alexander, Graham, and Lugar as the only other Republicans unwilling to alienate the nation's fastest growing ethnic demographic by casting a symbolic and doomed vote against the Supreme Court nominee with the most judicial experience in our nation's history.
Props to them, but it didn't work. Latinos know the score.
And for those Latinos still on the fence (about 11 percent), they'll know soon enough: the immigration reform battle hasn't even been engaged.
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/20...ay-for-Latinos