People should know their place

And Doug Bruce’s is not in the Legislature. Not that anyone is suggesting that the voters of Colorado Springs got it wrong. They haven’t weighed in on his appointment. Yet. Bruce, though, should know better. He’s accomplished more as an outsider than as a member of an organization that actually would lower its standards enough to welcome him. Sorry Groucho. Here’s what happened. Americans can’t quite get their bearings on illegal immigration, but there seems to be a consensus that immigration in general is good. Legal immigration, it follows, is as good as it gets. So along come Douglas Bruce to blast it. Calling the target market “illiterate peasants,” Douglas parses his way to a point— if they were neither illiterate nor peasants, they’d likely not apply. Most Americans can point to a background of illiterate peasants who somehow reached the United States to prosper in ways they could do nowhere else. Rep. Kathleen Curry clearly was dazed. She knew she was insulted, but she didn’t know exactly why. So she opted for the reliable “How dare you?” Geez, honey, he’s Douglas Bruce. You were expecting clearheaded analysis? Bruce operates from emotion. By that standard, he’s in the wrong party, but that’s another issue. In the business of legislation, everyone shares everyone else’s bed at some point or another. Bruce is the only member who always sleeps alone and it wasn’t as though that was an unforeseeable outcome. Really, he needs to remember his place.