Via Think Progress, we learn that an unrepentant Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) has dug himself deeper into his hole in this morning's USA Today.

You'll perhaps remember that Goode's bleating last month -- apparently designed to wrap his immigration stance in the more obvious garb of racism  -- intentionally conflated the fact that Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN) is a Muslim with the impression that he must, therefore, also be an immigrant.

Goode's objection to Ellison, purportedly, was his intent to use a Koran in his own private swearing-in ceremony, as opposed to the official one on the House floor, in which no holy texts are used by anyone. But with a wink and a nudge, Goode, in a letter to his constituents, warned ominously that, "If American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Quran." A neat little bait-and-switch: Muslims! Fear! Adopt the Virgil Goode position on something else!

Outrage ensued, but Goode, unsurprisingly, remains both willfully stupid and in full-blown sales mode. Today, in the wake of the deafening silence of his fellow Republicans, called upon to rebuke him, he doubles down:

Let us remember that we were not attacked by a nation on 9/11; we were attacked by extremists who acted in the name of the Islamic religion. I believe that if we do not stop illegal immigration totally, reduce legal immigration and end diversity visas, we are leaving ourselves vulnerable to infiltration by those who want to mold the United States into the image of their religion, rather than working within the Judeo-Christian principles that have made us a beacon for freedom-loving persons around the world.

So the question has been posed. What are we to do now that we are obviously vulnerable to infiltration by those who want to mold the United States into the image of their religion, rather than working within the Constitutional principles that have made us a beacon for freedom-loving persons around the world?