Via Tapped, I see that Colorado state rep. Doug Bruce landed in some hot water for saying, during a debate on an immigration bill

"I would like to have the opportunity to state at the microphone why I don't think we need 5,000 more illiterate peasants in Colorado."

He then went on to say, by way of explanation:

"These people, most of them, don't speak English. Most of them haven't had any formal education, that's why they're coming over here. I don't blame them for trying..."

Doug Bruce, for those who don't know, is the guy who invented TABOR, the Colorado spending cap that we blogged a lot about in 2006 (Ah, good times). When a local Colorado government opts out of TABOR it's called "de-brucification." Perhaps Bruce thought it was a good idea because it made it much harder for Colorado government to provide services to "these people." Under TABOR, pediatricians dropped out of the state Medicaid program because they weren't getting paid adequately or in a timely fashion, and Colorado's ranking for on time vaccination plummetted. And those are just two of the ways the state "saved" money at the expense of "these people."    

Bruce could be censured, sanctioned or expelled. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Crooks and Liars has more, including something about how Mr. Keeping Government Within Its Means might have been billing the state for per diem for days he didn't work.