Tea Bagging Xenophobes

PRI's "The World" had a nice story on language this afternoon (link here), where they discussed at length the widely held misconception in the United States that Hispanic immigrants are trying to establish a "Spanish Speaking Beach Head" in America.  I tried to find a transcript to cut and paste the awesome statement, but I can't find anything expect the mp3 download, so I will paraphrase:
"The first generation immigrant speaks English poorly, or not at all.  The second generation here is bilingual, and by the third generation, they are speaking English Only."
PRI mentioned how Texas will become the umpteenth red state to pass an "English Only" state law, even though more than 40% of the Texas electorate is of Hispanic origin.  They referenced Ben Franklin's tendency to think speaking German would be a bulwark against imperial England's dominant influence, and how wrong Franklin was in that belief. 

All these xenophobic Tea Baggers who are driving the Republican agenda and dominating extremist primaries across the nation are really pissing off the fastest growing voter constituency - Spanish Speaking citizens. 

As a 2nd generation (on my dad's side) and 4th generation (on my mom's side) immigrant who cannot speak my family's traditional Eastern European mother tongue, but who can speak French fluently, and enough German, Italian and Spanish to get by, and enough Mandarin, Korean, Tamil, and Hindi, to say please, thank you, excuse me, and 'I'm hungry' when talking to friends and colleagues... more than I can say in my family's mother tongue, I can attest that this holds true. 

Are Tea Baggers just too dumb (or too lazy? or too scared?) to expand their language capabilities and learn a second language?