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“It was bad enough when Perry unleashed his La Raza punchline - “just because their last names sound different” crap - TWICE - in the last debate.”

For those, who missed it:

Full Transcript of CNN-Tea Party Republican Debate, 20:00- 22:00
Aired September 12, 2011

BLITZER: Governor Perry, I’m going to move on to Governor Huntsman in a second, but you did sign legislation giving some illegal immigrants in Texas the opportunity to have in-state tuition at universities in Texas, explain what that...

PERRY: In the state of Texas, if you’ve been in the state of Texas for three years, if you’re working towards your college degree, and if you are working and pursuing citizenship in the state of Texas, you pay in-state tuition there.

And the bottom line is it doesn’t make any difference what the sound of your last name is. That is the American way. No matter how you got into that state, from the standpoint of your parents brought you there or what have you. And that’s what we’ve done in the state of Texas. And I’m proud that we are having those individuals be contributing members of our society rather than telling them, you go be on the government dole.

BLITZER: You heard some boos there. But go ahead, Congresswoman Bachmann, is that basically the DREAM Act that President Obama wants as well?

BACHMANN: Yes, it’s very similar. And I think that the American way is not to give taxpayer subsidized benefits to people who have broken our laws or who are here in the United States illegally. That is not the American way. Because the immigration system in the United States worked very, very well up until the mid-1960s when liberal members of Congress changed the immigration laws.

What works is to have people come into the United States with a little bit of money in their pocket legally with sponsors so that if anything happens to them, they don’t fall back on the taxpayers to take care of them. And then they also have to agree to learn the speak the English language, learn American history and our constitution. That’s the American way.”

excerpt http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/12/se.06.html

IOW a fifteen year-old runner who made good living sneaking across the border with loads of drugs, and who decided he liked the welfare and other bennies Texas offered, and decided to stay, only has to hang out for three years in order to get a huge tuition tax break at some Texas University.

A DAR pillar of the community from just across the state border in Arkansas who wants to go the same University, is SOL.

Yeah, that makes sense.

If you're Jorge Arbusto maybe.