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| "Gee I hope that the party made up of unapologetic racists is not opposing the first black President due to racism." |
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told KNPR radio Friday that he hopes Republicans' ongoing opposition to President Obama is driven by "substance" and not race.
"My counterpart, Mitch McConnell, said at the the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama that he had one goal -- and that is to defeat Obama and make sure he wasn't re-elected. And that's how they legislate in the Senate," he said. "It was really bad. And we're now seven months into this second term of the president's and they haven't changed much."
"It's been obvious that they're doing everything they can to make him fail," Reid said. "And I hope, I hope -- and I say this seriously -- I hope that's based on substance and not the fact that he's African-American."
This angered the Republicans who fired up their token black person, Senator Tim Scott, to respond:
I am sincerely disappointed by continued attempts to divide the American people by playing to the lowest common denominator. Instead of engaging in serious debate about the failed policies of this administration – from the ever-increasing burdens created by the national health care reform plan to the tax and spend approach to economic recovery, along with countless others – Democrats are once again trying to hide behind a smokescreen.
Our country deserves more from those in Washington. I hope Senator Reid will realize the offensive nature of his remarks and apologize to those who disagree with the President’s policies because of one thing – they are hurting hardworking American families.
Okay well Tim Scott is the PERFECT person to defend the Republicans against charges of racism from the Senate Majority leader as he is the ONLY black Republican Senator in GOP history.
However he may be one of the least pro-African American black politician since former Rep. Allen West. Scott has received an F rating from the NAACP, and has voted right along with the undeniably racist Teabaggers at every opportunity.
The idea that the opposition toward Obama is based on his policy decisions is refuted completely by the fact that Mitch McConnell and other GOP operatives decided to block EVERYTHING he tried to do on the night he was inaugurated.
That was before he had actually done anything for them to oppose. But it was NOT before he was unfortunate enough to be born black.
Of COURSE the opposition is based on racism, and it only takes a visit to the town halls taking place right now in the South to have that confirmed beyond any reasonable doubt.
P.S. Since we are talking about Harry Reid I thought you all might like to know that Reid just came out and said that Obamacare is the first step toward eventual single payer.
Now you know why the Republicans are freaking out so hard about the law. And why MOST of us should love it!
It all started with a 6-year-old girl who wanted to take a stand against the Westboro Baptist Church and promote peace. Now, it is a national event.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/10/westboro-baptist-church-lemonade_n_3733086.html
The Republican party, is in fact racist! They were the ones that started the KKK! And, look at the likes of Sarah Palin - she started the racist attack on President Obama when running w/McCain and thank God, they failed big time!!!!
ReplyDeleteVote Republicans out of office next chance you get. Obstructionist and racist party!
You are so wrong, the KKK was founded by Democrats after the Civil War. the following quote is off the Wikipedia page about the Klan
DeleteHistorian Eric Foner observed:
In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of white supremacy. Its purposes were political, but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South during Reconstruction: to destroy the Republican party's infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.[44]
Come on, now. Let's have a little historical context.
DeleteThe democrats who created the KKK then are the republicans of today.
Those would be "Southern Democrats", which is another name for today's Republican Party. Well, Teabaggers actually.
DeleteKentucky Board Of Education Swats Deniers, Backs Evolution, Climate Change In New Science Standards
ReplyDeleteIn a rejection of complaints by creationists and climate change deniers, the Kentucky Board of Education approved new science standards on Thursday, moving forward on a plan that reinforces the teaching of evolution and climate science.
The move came after a lengthy period of public discussion that featured colorful backlash against the proposal. Opponents reportedly branded the standards as “fascist” and “atheistic” and said they promoted "socialistic" thinking that leads to “genocide” and “murder.”
The board apparently disagreed, arguing that the standards reflect a scientific consensus and are needed to ensure that Kentucky students are competitive as they prepare for college and careers.
WFPL reported that the board met Thursday, declaring the supposed controversy over evolution moot because it is already included in the current set of science standards. They also went beyond that, clarifying that evolution is the "fundamental, unifying theory that underlies all the life sciences," and that there is no "significant ongoing debate within the scientific community" about its legitimacy. Officials also rejected calls to include creationism as a competing item in the curriculum.
Members also voiced their support for keeping climate research and studies in the new standards.
The Next Generation Science Standards were developed with input from officials in 26 states, including Kentucky, and are part of an effort to make science curricula more uniform across the country.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/09/kentucky-science-standards_n_3732650.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Tea party racism not even subtle anymore
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry but Harry Reid has been worthless as a Senate Majority Leader, kowtowing to Turtle Face all the time. My hope for 2015 he is replaced by Amy Klobuchar who can actually reach across the aisle and is a progressive.
ReplyDeleteIt is impossible for a progressive to reach across the aisle. Their very platform is built on assimilation either if not by persuasion then by coercion.
DeleteOne of the means of coercion that progressives use is by attempting to cast all efforts to oppose progressive as being morally nefarious. If you don't agree with progressive ideology then it can only be because you must be...(insert moral pejorative here). So then those who are weak minded will assimilate simply because they don't want to wear your label.
So this President presents the perfect opportunity because he can carry with him the race card. If you don't cow tow to his policy and join the school children singing his praises to the tune of a sunday school song, well it can only be because you're racist. It can't at all be because you understand that the progressive/socialist agenda peddles dependence, that dependence buys influence and that influence is the greatest threat to personal liberty. Don't believe me ask those business owners who are now faced with the threat; Use your money to personally fund that which you find morally reprehensive or lose your business. That my friends is coercion, and that is why I'm happy to wear the label bigot if that is what it takes to oppose progressive socialism.
Cal you wear your Badge of Bigot, and stay with the Tea Party Mantra. You deserve them.
DeleteI'm done with reaching across the aisle.
DeleteI'd like to see Progressives take some pages out of the RNC playbook and play hardball.
Get a supermajority, then ignore them. That is the only way anything is going to get done at this point.
The fact that so many of his proposals are identical to some of the GOP's is telling. If they won't support their own ideas that must mean they don't support the person promoting them. Now that is either because he is a Democrat or because he is black or both. My guess is both considering how the GOP torpedoed a ton of Clinton's ideas, including health care reforms.
ReplyDeleteOne hundred sixty years ago Tim Scott would have been a slave catcher.
ReplyDeleteHe can say what he wants---but he knows his party is full of are klan wagon morons. I guess he was out of the country this past week when the baggers in Arizona did their racist floor show.
And, Phoenix is where President Obama was recently (purpose was to meet w/their gov and he also gave a speech) and met by a gang of racists that were singing 'Bye, Bye Black Bird" to him! Friggin' assholes!
DeleteThey were singing Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.
Delete"Okay well Tim Scott is the PERFECT person to defend the Republicans against charges of racism from the Senate Majority leader as he is the ONLY black Republican Senator in GOP history. "
ReplyDeleteWRONG. Get your facts straight. Sen. Edward Brooke was a Republican Senator from Massachusetts and an African-American.
Scott is not the only or first African-American Senator for the GOP
ReplyDeleteWhat about Edward Brooke from Massachussetts
Served for 12 years in the 60's and 70's
More misinformation in your blog
Oops I stand corrected. Though to be fair Brooke was elected in 1967, before the GOP "Southern Strategy really started to take hold.
DeleteOnce the Republicans started to fan the flames of racism to turn out votes THAT is when the African American voter turned against them en masse.
Get serious.
Delete(And note Gryphen's graciousness, something you might want to consider emulating.)
"Edward William Brooke III (born October 26, 1919) is an American politician and was elected to the United States Senate[1] as a Republican from Massachusetts in 1966, defeating his Democratic opponent, former Massachusetts governor, Endicott Peabody in a landslide. He served for two terms, and was defeated by Paul Tsongas in the 1978 senate election.
Brooke was the first African American popularly elected to the Senate and would remain the only person of African heritage sent to the Senate in the 20th century until Democrat Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1993, and the only African-American Senator to serve multiple terms. Brooke was the last Republican Senator elected from Massachusetts until Scott Brown was elected in 2010, and is the most recent Republican of African-American heritage to be elected to the Senate in his own right and the only one to win re-election. (Tim Scott, appointed to serve in the 113th Congress, was appointed to continue a term to which Jim DeMint was elected.) Brooke is also the oldest living former Senator."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Brooke
Brooke was elected in November, 1966. I remember it well, because it was the night my father was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
DeleteYes, Brooke was a Republican, but a Republican from New England, and a Republican when there still were moderate, reasonable members of that party. The South was still heavily Democratic (read mostly racist) until Nixon and his gang invented the Southern Strategy, harping on "the moral majority" business in 1968, and, within a generation, turned the racist South into Republicans, full of Confederate bravado.
Edward Brooke would be a Democrat now.
O/T but related.
ReplyDelete"It does well to step back once in awhile and remember that the leaders in the conservative movement see their followers not as fellow travelers working towards a common political goal so much as marks. Which isn’t to say that the leaders don’t actually buy into the bigoted worldview. In fact, I’d say that the contempt for humanity that causes them to want to ban abortion, slash the social safety net, support people who murder unarmed kids in the streets, and start wars for the hell of it allows conservative leaders to view their followers as just one more group of people who don’t deserve your sympathy if they can’t see through your bullshit. Conning your followers is seen as just one more strike against those who are perceived as weak."
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/09/right-wing-snake-oil-salesmen/
It's wonderful that Harry Reid can even utter the words 'single payer' in 2013.
ReplyDeleteIt will happen, America.
There's a lovely profile of Harry Reid in the fabulous new book "This Town" by Mark Leibovich.
Gryphen, I think you should rethink your comment "unfortunate enough to be born black." I don't think a lot of African-Americans think it's unfortunate; they are proud of their heritage.
ReplyDeleteI also know you're not a racist. It's just a poor choice of words.
Peace.
The "unfortunate" is from the point of view of the racists on the other side of the aisle.
DeleteSo I guess I can assert that John Kennedy would be a Republican because today's Democrats have gone so far to the left that he would reject their socialist/antimilitary agenda.
ReplyDeleteJFK was president in 1963.
DeleteIt's now 2013.
You can assert whatever you guess you want to, but any speculation on what John Kennedy would be today is nothing but mental masturbation.
It's okay for one to say that Edward Brooke would be a Democrat, but not that JFK would be a Republican?
DeleteI guess that is the Liberal/Progressive way, one call call it, but not be called it.
Where was all of this race talk when Robert Byrd was a leading Dem Senator? He was a leader in the KKK and no one on the left called for his ouster because of it. The Dems were the founders of the KKK, PERIOD. You hypocrites are unbelievable!
ReplyDeleteYour generalization that the TEA Party is racist is as valid as calling Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Obama racists.