Burnt Orange Report

Morrison Endorses a Vote for Courage

By Karl-Thomas Musselman

Richard Morrison just posted over at DailyKos his endorsement of John Courage in the DFA-List second round voting that is going on. If you have a kos account, please reccommend his entry.

(UPDATE- also recommend it over at MyDD if you have an account there as well.)

Morrison also points out something that I will flesh out more here on BOR soon, which is a an intercepted faxed memo in which Smith make some rather interesting comments.

"Immigration needs to be considered in the context of: (1). Media Bias, (2). Animosity toward the president and (3) the feelings of the Republican base," Smith's memo states.

Smith is a member of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims as well as the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity. No issues regarding the legislative jurisdiction of these committees are mentioned.

Smith goes on to suggest that "Liberals can easily and accurately be painted as opposing enforcement." His office did not return a call seeking comment.

Smith will be one of those 'leaders' on the immigration wedge issue that we all know is coming in 2006. Just as Rep. Musgrave has become well known for her Federal Marriange Amendment sponsorship, Rep. Smith will be there for all your Immigrant Bashing legislative needs. In fact, the Supreme Court has alrady overturned parts of the 1996 Immigration Laws which he authored. I'll try to get a cite up soon, but this goes to show, here in Texas, we need Courage to take our Lamar Smith. Please vote for him in the DFA Second Round.