Full Immersion Baptism in the English Language Creek:

The State Lege has watered down certain provisions of the statewide english-only ballot initiative.
Governor Romney has called this, "arrogance".
Takes one to know one Willard.
Like all Passive Aggressives, the Governor remained curiously silent when the Lege did his dirty for him and gutted the Clean Elections Law, a measure he expressed his contempt for in so many lavish well funded ways.
Calling the Governor a hypocrite and opportunist at this point seems repetitive and trite.
So lemme try for some irony here.
On the macro level, the English only ballot initiative is about the management of outsiders.
Language is a huge signifier in this world along with race and gender...speak-a-da-wrong palaver and you got problems keed.
So it seems ironic to me that a matched pair of demagogic outsiders themselves, Ron Unz and Mitt Romney are this initiative's biggest apologists.
Unz is of course the tyrannical California millionaire who has made his mission to impose his own views on education and language on every other state in the Union.
Governor Romney of course is a Michigan born, Utah educated, political dilettante and viceroy from the planet Kolob-six months into his term and he still doesn't know Bedford from New Beford.
Where these two strangers get off deciding education policy for the 352 cities and towns of Massachusetts is a mystery?
But they know best, them and the best political machine endless stacks of money can buy...it's getting so your local school committee is turning into a quaint moldy anachronism like the Convent or the U.S. Senate.
I think in some ways mainstream conservatism, even in it's death throes, is taking on the appearance of a classic transnational non-governmental institution. I t can raise endless amounts of money elsewhere and draft thousands of volunteers in order to effect all kinds of irritating and appalling changes in your locality.
Hence these endless regulations decreed by ballot initiative governing what language teachers will say "stop", "quiet", and "thank you" in.....
Small effin' Gummint' indeed.