It’s been an hour already

Obama gave his speech at 3:00PM my time, about an hour ago. I have yet to see any mobs of brown people coming to ethnically cleanse me, Mom, or Abby.

The Republican party has offered and a whole lot of people have elected a bunch of raving lunatics. Kris Kobach happens to be the guy who wrote the “Papers Please” law in Arizona a few years ago, and he’s influenced other states to write some of the restrictive Voter-ID laws around the country. I didn’t know he was bonkers, but how else can you explain this from a radio talk show he hosts:

Koback [sic] also responded to a caller who was concerned about ethnic cleansing, which the caller claimed was a threat from immigrant and Hispanic rights groups.

“What happens, if you know your history, when one culture or one race or one religion overwhelms another culture or race?” the caller asked. “When one race or culture overwhelms another culture, they run them out or they kill them.”

Kobach then responded with his take.

“What protects us in America from any kind of ethnic cleansing is the rule of law, of course,” Kobach said. “And the rule of law used to be unassailable, used to be taken for granted in America. And now, of course, we have a President who disregards the law when it suits his interests. And, so, you know, while I normally would answer that by saying, ‘Steve, of course we have the rule of law, that could never happen in America,’ I wonder what could happen. I still don’t think it’s going to happen in America, but I have to admit, that things are, things are strange and they’re happening.”

I wouldn’t exactly call that incitement, but it’s not very responsible of a public official to say things like that. And how is that the Secretary of State of Kansas has time to host a radio talk show anyway?