Normally, the naming of obscure military vessels attracts virtually no attention. However, Chavez's history of labor organizing offends conservatives. The right-wing has never reconciled its ideology with the dreadful exploitation of farm workers. Nowhere was this struggle more pronounced, and the fight more protracted, than in the Golden State.
Consequently, naming a ship after Chavez quickly touched a nerve. Conservatives such as southern California congressional representative Duncan Hunter and liberals such as California senator Barbara Boxer have already provided plenty of rhetorical bravado about the issue. (Ironically, no Hispanic members of Congress were quoted in either the Fox News version of the story nor in The Washington Post's article on the issue.)
Meanwhile, if this is how Congress spends its days, is there any wonder why real national problems are seemingly intractable?
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