Ramesh, I’m sure we can at least agree that if Kanjorski had an R after his name instead of a D, his comments would be taken as proof positive of underlying racism. Even as he unfairly distorts the conservative case against the administration’s foreclosure-mitigation program, he implies that the program wouldn’t deserve the public’s support if his incorrect description of the conservative case against it was correct — that is, if the program was designed to help mostly minorities. At the very least, this would appear to deviate from the liberal orthodoxy on race, which holds that it’s necessarily racist to oppose such programs.