Beth Reinhard The Miami Herald

February 6, 2010

Beth Reinhard
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693

RE: “Unlike Rubio, Most Politicians Want All to Count” – The census and why you do [or don’t] want statistical sampling in lieu of a green card – Some comments on your column on the census, politicians, and the inherent hypocrisy of same.

Ms. Reinhard,

I was a bit confused with your headline. Do you want everybody to be counted or do you want everybody to count? I had an uncle who lived in Jersey City, New Jersey. He voted until 1971. He was stopped when a Federal Judge, a judge appointed by a Republican President, discovered he died in 1956.Ah, but I miss the moral clarity of the pre-ACORN days!

“A decade ago, Rubio’s conservative muse, Jeb Bush…”
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My favorite Muse is Clio. Who’s yours?

Would you say that former Congresswoman Carrie Meek is her son’s favorite Muse? If my memory serves me correctly she avoided probate by bequeathing her seat [Congressional] to her son Kendrick Meek-lite without dying. Since the Muses were daughters of Zeus surely some divine intervention was present for that transfer.

You mention how those mean spirited Republicans “drew themselves friendly Congressional districts…”

I suggest it is not right to mention the quid without mentioning the quo.

For every Congressional district “created” [“Created”? If government can “create” jobs it can create “friendly Congressional districts”, can’t it?] for red necked, snake handling, gun totin’ Republican there was one created for a privileged minority. – Read colored, Negro, African-American, and Black.

How else could a convicted felon be elected to Congress?

Vide Alcee Hastings.

I think it would be safe to say that O.J. Simpson or Michael Jackson would win by 40 points should they be presented to the voters in those districts.

Would I be branded with the Scarlet letter, the dreaded “R” brand – Racist, not Retarded – if I were to suggest that even Affirmative Action will not get some of these elected officials into Mensa?

Would I be guilty of “slash and burn” tactics if I were to suggest that some of these elected officials are as dumb and as mendacious as the White members?

I mentioned that Clio was my favorite Muse

“Census purposes” is part of a quote from Senate candidate Rubio. To be precise, Conservative Senate candidate Rubio. How Kendrick Meek-lite, the Democratic nominee presumptive, will be classified is still unknown.

Your assignment is to find out how a Democratic President and a Republican Governor were able to round up 200,000 Japanese in one weekend. Here’s a hint. The 1940 Census with its racial check off box was nice to have around. It took considerably longer to snatch up the 40,000 Eyeties and Krauts.

It is a bit ironic that those “detainees” – due process? Habeas corpus? Right to counsel? Don’t be silly! – not one of whom was ever charged with trying to blow up an airplane bound for this country, would have loved to have been sent to Gitmo. But that’s a different story.

“He’ll say anything to get elected” is a quote from a Republican legislator who is a Crist supporter in the upcoming primary election. Marco Rubio is the target.

Do you think it rises to the level of “I will have C-SPAN televise the health care negotiations”? How about “There will be no lobbyists in my administration”?

Perhaps the President, Osama Bahama as the late Senator Lard Kennedy used to call him, could send out a flying squad of Marines, jarheaded Corpsemen through and through, to see if they can find the last copy of the Austrian-English dictionary that he knows he saw. [Think of Captain Queeg and the missing strawberries] That they may have to go to all 57 or 58 states should be no problem.

Thank God for Thalia!




Kevin Smith