Regressive blog Hub Politics offers a revealing post today titled "English Perversion." The piece, which blames the legislature for the poor English of some schoolchildren, begins: "We can thank the overwhelmingly liberal legislature for the poor fluency amongst the non-native English speaking students, after all, it was the Democrats on Beacon Hill who gave the axe to the voter approve English immersion program." (Screen shot here). A grammatically correct sentence, of course, would use the past tense of the word "approve." One might also question the author's use of the preposition "amongst" in this context, and the awkward use of the clause "after all," but let's start with spelling and grammar. With friends like these, do Massachusetts Republicans need enemies?
