Wednesday, March 24, 2010
no cooperation
“There will be no cooperation for the rest of the year.”
Sen. John McCain
Sen. John McCain
How do you like that, America? There's the war hero who wanted to be President & has boasted (over the dead body of Ted Kennedy) about his capacity for bipartisanship. Now, as Congress deals with a range of short & long term economic matters, job creation, aid to states, finance reform, all of which invite participation from at least some Republican legislators, Sen. McCain says, "no cooperation." He's done.
If the Repugs want to please the Tea Party fanatics, then they should push Democrats to put a serious slap down on banking abuses. But the Repugs (like McCain) are even more in thrall to Big Banks than Democrats, if that be possible considering who advises the Prez at the White House & writes the legislation at the Capitol.
As for the Tea Party, how much more "nigger" & "faggot" can we take from those people?
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Thanks for putting something up about McCain's new policy of "I ain't gonna play with you no more." I couldn't stomach the time to even put up a decent post about this yet, not to mention all the tea baggers and their rhetoric and violent outbursts. As a veteran of the 1960's civil rights movement, both you and I know all to well the violence that was perpetrated on black people by white establishment (hoses, dogs, billy clubs) when simply attempting to integrate a lunchroom cafe, or walk across a bridge in a march for peaceful integration. Hell, the image of George Wallace standing in a doorway of a school refusing entrance by a black little girl is permanently etched in my mind.
Racism in this country never went away. It simply went underground. Until Americans elected a black president. And a Democrat, to boot.
Racism in this country never went away. It simply went underground. Until Americans elected a black president. And a Democrat, to boot.
I'm no "veteran" of the civil rights movement. But it showed me that there were white people in America willing to kill black people to keep them from eating grilled cheese sandwiches at Woolworth's. My northern suburban racism, which required nothing, could not get a handle on the "principles" those white folks were trying to preserve.
I don't recall my fellow anti-war activists threatening bodily harm against President GWH Bush and Congress in 1991 as the US gleefully "liberated Kuwait."
But it's getting ugly.
I experienced my share of right-wing crackpots over the years while working for local pols. Any hint of a death threat was forwarded to law enforcement and taken very, very seriously.
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But it's getting ugly.
I experienced my share of right-wing crackpots over the years while working for local pols. Any hint of a death threat was forwarded to law enforcement and taken very, very seriously.
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