Anyone knowledgeable about American history knows that SOUTHERN Democrats, out of step with their party, opposed Civil Rights during the 1950’s and the first half of the 1960’s.
Rush knows this fact very well. He is counting on being able to fool folks without any contradiction. With no fairness doctrine, he can say anything he wants. No one is allowed on his radio stations after his shows to set the record straight. Rush is not only a hired gun liar but he is a coward. He won't allow stations to broadcast any criticism or corrections of his lies (Randy Rhodes radio personality from Florida revealed that fact in 2005).
Further more, after LBJ signed the Civil Rights bill that finally passed in 1964, he lamented that he had lost the South for the Democrats for generations.
Those Democrats either retired, repented (as Byrd, who repeatedly acknowledged his error and apologized) or, like most, including Strom Thurmond, changed parties to REPUBLICAN.
Democrats say GOOD RIDDANCE to the RACISTS that were embraced with open arms by Republicans.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Why doesn't CSPAN televise filibusters? Is it because they do not like Republicans?
The filisbuster has changed.
It used to be that, to filibuster, one or more senators would actually have to hold the floor.
Today, they merely invoke filibuster but do not actually give lengthy speeches.
I would support a return to the old protocol in which, if ya wanna filibuster, hold the floor, give speeches, read from the phone book, whatever, and see if we can outlast ya.
Democrats should demand that Republicans actually do this.
If Republican senators (the former Sourthern racists) actually had to do this, we would see far fewer filibusters carried through to completion
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The failure of Democrats to demand this is a legitimate instance in which Democrats are rightly criticized for being “spineless.”
It used to be that, to filibuster, one or more senators would actually have to hold the floor.
Today, they merely invoke filibuster but do not actually give lengthy speeches.
I would support a return to the old protocol in which, if ya wanna filibuster, hold the floor, give speeches, read from the phone book, whatever, and see if we can outlast ya.
Democrats should demand that Republicans actually do this.
If Republican senators (the former Sourthern racists) actually had to do this, we would see far fewer filibusters carried through to completion
.
The failure of Democrats to demand this is a legitimate instance in which Democrats are rightly criticized for being “spineless.”
Segregations were all democrats, that is where the racism is
It's no secret that the New Deal depended upon segregationist Democrats. Eleanor tried to push Franklin toward working on civil rights issues. Franklin had to explain to her that he could not achieve his economic policies without the help of segregationist democrats who opposed civil rights.
I think Democrats have been much more honest about unsavory aspects of their past than the republicans. democrats don't deny distasteful aspects of their past--Hugo Black, Harry Truman, and Robert Byrd all admitted to their brief fling with the KKK, and expressed their profound regret and sadness for having been affiliated with it.
I don't read many republicans indicating much embarrassment over Nixon's southern strategy, which openly played upon the anger of white democrats who opposed the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. and it succeeded.
Just look at former Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott: a few years ago, right at the beginning of the 21st century, he remarked at Strom Shurmond's 100th birthday party that the country would have been better off if it had followed Mississippi's lead and voted for Thurmond for president in 1948. Thurmond's main campaign plank, and the platform for Dixiecrats in general, was segregation.
So as recently as a couple of years ago the Republican Majority Leader of the United States Senate espoused segregation.
I'm happy that the segregationists have left the democratic party. The republicans are welcome to them.
I think Democrats have been much more honest about unsavory aspects of their past than the republicans. democrats don't deny distasteful aspects of their past--Hugo Black, Harry Truman, and Robert Byrd all admitted to their brief fling with the KKK, and expressed their profound regret and sadness for having been affiliated with it.
I don't read many republicans indicating much embarrassment over Nixon's southern strategy, which openly played upon the anger of white democrats who opposed the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. and it succeeded.
Just look at former Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott: a few years ago, right at the beginning of the 21st century, he remarked at Strom Shurmond's 100th birthday party that the country would have been better off if it had followed Mississippi's lead and voted for Thurmond for president in 1948. Thurmond's main campaign plank, and the platform for Dixiecrats in general, was segregation.
So as recently as a couple of years ago the Republican Majority Leader of the United States Senate espoused segregation.
I'm happy that the segregationists have left the democratic party. The republicans are welcome to them.
Obama and big government caused the Recession
The AM radio con men and FOX not News try to convince the gullible that Obama, the Democrats and their Washington incompetence led to the economic crash and the ill-conceived bank bailout. The bought and paid for con men want to convince the public that it was government regulation that caused the problems. But those with memories understand that they are just pushing propaganda that their corporate CEO masters tell them to.
The truth is just the opposite of what the bank CEOs and their lack lackeys are trying to shovel down our throats.
Deregulation (as in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999) gave us credit default swaps and banks treating your money like a chronic gambler on a Las Vegas bender.
Republican economic policies gave us tax cuts for billionaires, 15 percent unemployment and took us from Clinton's $400 billion surplus to a $1.3 trillion deficit in only eight year.
The bank bailout was fully under way during the Bush administration. It was RepuliCON members of the Bush administration who demanded the bailouts be hurriedly passed overnight or the whole financial infrastructure would come down. When rationals said hey wait, aren't we paying too much for assets now worth pennies on the dollar? But the Bushies said no we have to pay 100% of the phony marked up value for what turned out to be almost worthless assets of Goldman Sachs.
Was that government incompetence or worse? Yes, but Bush controlled the executive branch of the government that planned the bailouts. Con men completely controlled the news cycle in America then as now with 'stories' from fact free FOX not News and the AM radio con men driving each news cycle.
The great national debt came as a result of the Bush tax cuts, the two wars fought on credit, and the huge medicare prescription drug program that was not paid for. Who was in charge of Congress when those decisions were made? Boehner, McConnell, Cantor and the other GOP leaders were in charge at the time. They took us to the brink of the next Great Depression, and you're going to trust them on economic policy again?
Obama plays golf more than Bush did
The Liar Limbaugh has recently used this slight of hand propaganda talking point: President Obama has played more golf than Dubya did while in office.
What Limbaugh didn't mention were Bush's 77 trips to the "ranch" in Crawford — about 30 percent of Bush's time in office — at a cost to the taxpayers of a whopping $226,072 each!
Obama plays golf Sunday afternoons and stays in D.C to work, where he belongs.
How much does a Sunday afternoon round of golf cost?
The goals of the Liar Limbaugh are to (1) imply that Obama is lazy. (Wonderful racism there, you know them blacks they so damn lazy.)(2) indicate that the mentally incompetent and easily distracted W was not so bad after all. (3) Knowing that the public will not buy number (2) try to make the public think that Obama is at least as incompetent, distracted and just plain worthless as Bush was.
What Limbaugh didn't mention were Bush's 77 trips to the "ranch" in Crawford — about 30 percent of Bush's time in office — at a cost to the taxpayers of a whopping $226,072 each!
Obama plays golf Sunday afternoons and stays in D.C to work, where he belongs.
How much does a Sunday afternoon round of golf cost?
The goals of the Liar Limbaugh are to (1) imply that Obama is lazy. (Wonderful racism there, you know them blacks they so damn lazy.)(2) indicate that the mentally incompetent and easily distracted W was not so bad after all. (3) Knowing that the public will not buy number (2) try to make the public think that Obama is at least as incompetent, distracted and just plain worthless as Bush was.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Milton Saier, liberal icon, wants to impose abortion on the poor
If someone has to base their entire premise on a lie, then it shows that even they know their position is groundless.
He accuses Professor Milton Saier of writing a letter that “suggests we impose birth control or abortions” on poor people. Since I read these letters every day, and I have read letters by Milton Saier, and could not remember any suggestion of mandating abortion or birth control, I went back and checked the letter Polito is referring to. The letter suggests PROVIDING birth control and abortion services - making them AVAILABLE to women - not requiring or mandating or forcibly “imposing” these options on anyone.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/letters/article_19a67997-5020-50b2-82eb-a2dbdad2791c.html
Similarly, I would agree with Prof. Saier that such services should be AVAILABLE, but I would never suggest that government impose decisions onto women that should be left to individual, personal choice.
Those who have to lie about their sources, or misrepresent those they purport to be responding to, admit that they are not able to respond to what the person actually said.
In other words, they have conceded the actual point.
He accuses Professor Milton Saier of writing a letter that “suggests we impose birth control or abortions” on poor people. Since I read these letters every day, and I have read letters by Milton Saier, and could not remember any suggestion of mandating abortion or birth control, I went back and checked the letter Polito is referring to. The letter suggests PROVIDING birth control and abortion services - making them AVAILABLE to women - not requiring or mandating or forcibly “imposing” these options on anyone.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/letters/article_19a67997-5020-50b2-82eb-a2dbdad2791c.html
Similarly, I would agree with Prof. Saier that such services should be AVAILABLE, but I would never suggest that government impose decisions onto women that should be left to individual, personal choice.
Those who have to lie about their sources, or misrepresent those they purport to be responding to, admit that they are not able to respond to what the person actually said.
In other words, they have conceded the actual point.
The majority of voters were against healthcare reform
In objective polls, almost 70% of Americans support health care with a strong public option and many other specific reforms.
The reason there was widespread opposition to the Democratic bill is that it was so watered down, no public option, and was larded with many gifts to special interests in the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industries.
Even Democrats like myself who supported it did so holding our noses at the many weaknesses, because we felt it was at least a small step in the right direction and at least better than what we have now, and the imperfections could be addressed little by little down the line.
The reason there was widespread opposition to the Democratic bill is that it was so watered down, no public option, and was larded with many gifts to special interests in the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industries.
Even Democrats like myself who supported it did so holding our noses at the many weaknesses, because we felt it was at least a small step in the right direction and at least better than what we have now, and the imperfections could be addressed little by little down the line.
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