Where is your race card now?

A while back Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT) was quick to pull the race card on Democrats threatening to vote against Sam Alito:

[They] think they own the Italian-American vote all up and down the East Coast. They don’t, but they think they do. If they become offensive against somebody with the qualifications of Sam Alito, Judge Alito, then I think it’s going to be held against them. They’re going to have to be very careful how they handle this, and frankly what bothers me if 22 — in other words, half of the Democrats in the Senate — could vote against John Roberts, can you imagine what this nomination is going to be like? There’s no reason they should have voted against Roberts. And I think Alito’s going to be just fine but we’re all going to have to work really hard to make sure that’s so.

Now we find out that Sen. Orin Hatch did in fact vote against the Immigration reform bill that just passed the Judiciary Committee that he sits on. This bill basically does the opposite of the Tancredo House bill, it lets people stay in this country rather than make them folons.

I wonder who will remind Sen. Orin Hatch that he and his Republican friends like Tom Tancredo think they own the Latin-American vote all up and down Red State America. They don’t, but they think they do. If they become offensive against a bill with the qualifications of McCain-Kennedy then I think it’s going to be held against them. They’re going to have to be very careful how they handle this, and frankly what bothers me if 6 — in other words, more than half of the Republicans in the Senate Judiciary Committee— could vote against McCain-Kennedy, can you imagine what this bill is going to be like? There’s no reason they should have voted against McCain-Kennedy. And I think McCain-Kennedy's going to be just fine but the Democrats are all going to have to work really hard to make sure that’s so.