The putrid soul of the Jeff Davis GOP has spoken.
It said, “I’m as brave a lynch-lovin’, Helms-cock-suckin’ no-race-mixin’ badass as you’ll ever find...as long as I can snipe from the shadows like my hero, John Wilkes Booth. Unfortunately I forgot my hood, so how about making this one a voice-vote, Fristy old pal?”
Then they voted, and these craven little men (according to the latest, updatedest info I could find) …
Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Michael Crapo (R-ID)
Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Chuck Grassley (R-IO)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Trent Lott (R-MS)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
John Sununu (R-NH)
Craig Thomas (R-WY)
George Voinovich (R-OH)
…proudly put a bullet through the head of the Party of Lincoln, and boldly leaped into the shadows.
And while their Party died behind them at the hands of their own leaders, the Moderates kept their eyes locked in terror on what was going on up on stage.
And as the assassins strutted leisurely past them, dappling their collars and hair with fresh blood, the Moderates desperately tried to distract themselves with inane small-talk about how witty "Our American Cousin" was.
And as the killers left the building, laughing and calling them pussies, the Moderates refused to look at the carnage right behind them, because although they are a different make and model of coward than the ones who daily butcher what little is left of the Party of Lincoln, they are, in the end, the same wretched species.
11 comments:
The vote was unanimous; it's been passed. The Senate has apologized for the actions and filibusters of southern Democrats. It's time to move on.
Commentator=KKK Apologist
commentator--
Only if by "unanimous" you mean 6-0 by a voice vote late at night scheduled that way by Frist to avoid the roll call vote preferred by the sponsors to put individual senators on the record as backing the apology,
And by "southern Democrats" you mean the ones who have morphed into southern Republicans (sometimes in the same body!) who use hatred telegraphed in winks and nods to shore up their racist base,
And by "moving on" you mean standing right here until we get an adequate explanation from same Republicans.
move on... you mean: "get over it" don't you?
No, while the same people who cry "our heritage!" over the Confederate Flag complain that this is all "the past" and not chargeable to us as inheiritors of the benefits of that past I'll never get over it.
I'll never get over any of this and if you had a soul neither would you.
God, you really have to admire the way these Repug apologists can make forty years of tenderly cultivating the cracker vote magically disappear?
Here's a hint, Jocko: Why don't you come down here and do an informal survey of everyone sporting the Stars and Bars as fashion accessory cum political statement? Somehow, I doubt you'll find many Democrats...
I'm sorry, but if the Republican Party really wants to apologize for the indignities of African-Americans over the past four centuries, they can get behind supporting renewal of the Voting Rights Act in 2007. As Howard Dean said, the GOP has no right to call themselves a "party of inclusion" so long as the inclusion is "token" representation of African-Americans, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans. The GOP has no right to step to African-Americans until they openly support this resolution on Lynching and the Voting Rights Act extension.
Their failure to do neither tells me they aren't the party of Lincoln and quit being the party of Lincoln the day Lincoln got assassinated. They haven't resumed being the party of Lincoln, either, and Democrats who were bigots flocked to this current GOP the day Barry Goldwater lost in a landslide to LBJ and Nixon came along with his "Southern Strategy".
The fact that Ronald Reagan kicked off his campaign in 1980 in Philadelphia, Mississippi, crime scene of the murders of Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, spoke loud volumes that were blissfully ignored by everyone except those of us who are forced continually to relive those atrocities when Congress acts in such a manner.
Commentator=KKK Apologist
And he's also a GOP propagandist, as well.
The segregationists were "southern Democrats," but they turned into southern Republicans when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Bill.
Commentator's argument is a classic example of the "three D's" that the GOP uses: Distort, Deny and Deflect. "Oh, no, it wasn't us conservatives that promoted lynching and violent suppression of blacks, it was those DEMOCRATS, i.e. LIBERALS."
It's pretty frightening, what we're seeing today: the descendents of the Confederate South using Stalinist-style propaganda techniques.
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