I appreciate more intellectual exchanges of ideas. I think we can beat them hands down in any thoughtful exchange or debate, but this style of journalism is just pandering to the far left.
I no longer subscribe to The Nation - for the same reason I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh. I find both the far left and far right to be intellectual midgets who constantly seek new lows in the debate.
On Tancredo - the disregard of our laws has created him and his constituency. Immigration enforcement is a huge issue - and the defacto alliance between big business seeking exploitable labor and the far left seeking amnesty leaves us where we are today: a massive exploitable class of labor that, because of their ability to be exploited, puts downward pressures on American wages and taxes our social infrastructure.
Unlike Tancredo, I think the resolution to this problem is enforcing labor laws and sending employers to jail, as opposed to immigrants. Tancredo correctly identifies the problem but his solution - which focuses too much on mass deportation and protecting the border - simply won't work.
We must first go after employers who break the law and then after that change the conditions that causes mass migration - which I believe to be largely the fault of NAFTA and insane trade agreements. What causes Mexico to be such a $@%$-hole that millions of people flee? What of those reasons do we have any control over?
2. Also, the video did a satiric job of highlighting the extremism and hypocrisy of some key figures in the Republican right. We're not talking insignificant loonies - we're talking important people in their movement like Romney, Coulter, Malkin, Horowitz, Tancredo, DeSouza, and Norquist.