White Man's Franchise

Is there anything the Republicans won't blame on Native Americans?

"Republicans downplayed Diedrich's 2,981-vote loss, their second consecutive special-election defeat this year, and said they looked forward to watching Herseth defend her six-month voting record before the November rematch.

"'If you take out the Indian reservation, we would have won,' said Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), former chairman of the NRCC."

Yes, Tom, had you disenfranchised American citizens, you would have won.

You tried that shit two years ago, Tom, but it didn't fly.

And it's not going to happen this year either.

Especially not in November.

Oh, and if your boy hadn't killed a man whilst joyriding, you'd still have the seat too.

Update: I see that Nicholas Confessore at TAPped covered the same ground a few hours ago, and even links to an entry in the same week from the TPM archives. A coincidence, but nevertheless sort of embarassing for yours truly.

(Via Buzzflash.)