Discussion: Dems Want To Censure King, McConnell Says GOPer's Comments Were 'Unwelcome'

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Unwelcome (but damn accurate Mitch said sotto voce)

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“Rep. King’s statements are unwelcome and unworthy of his elected position. If he doesn’t understand why ‘white supremacy’ is offensive, he should find another line of work.”

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Clyburn, on the other hand, said he was hesitant to censure King.
“I don’t think we in the House should be censuring somebody for what he said to a reporter,” he said Monday, as quoted by Politico. “If it was something he said on the House floor, yeah maybe.”

Not understanding this position at all.

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“I don’t think we in the House should be censuring somebody for what he said to a reporter,” he said Monday, as quoted by Politico. “If it was something he said on the House floor, yeah maybe.”

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I can only guess…maybe he doesn’t want King to become the victim in this, a martyr to the base? And a “censure” really doesn’t mean anything, but allows Republicans to pretend they actually did something? Perhaps Clyburn feels it sends a more powerful message about racism in America by letting it stand on its own? Again, just guesses on my part.

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I sure hope not.

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I mean without an official censure. Certainly Reps will speak out against it as individuals.

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Dems do something. Repugs fingers stuck up their _________.

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I never quite understood the difference. Why exactly are racist sentiments to be tolerated when said on the public square, but not on the House floor? There’s less “free speech” on the House floor than the rest of America?

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I think the argument would be that censure should be reserved for conduct when the Representative is discharging the powers of his office. I would counter that in the modern era, a Representative is on the job from the moment of his election until he leaves office, regardless of whether he’s on the House floor.

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Understood. I believe the trigger for censure is something that brings shame onto the whole body, I think it’s written that way. This qualifies. Who he said it to is not relevant, since it’s public.

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“We want him to be a genteel racist.”

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Clyburn has to explain this, but my thought is that it’s a versus thing.

It’s different when it’s King and a stenographer (until further notice) versus King saying all of this on the House floor.

Now Clyburn’s position is naive (for obvious reasons), but I get it.

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Kings racism is “unwelcome” because it has become too out in the open. The Grand OLD Party prefers its racism to be cloaked with enough deniability that they can claim that they are being attacked for Political correctness.

McConnell prefers his racism to be the type that the KKK and American Natzi’s can root for, but Sean Hannity can claim criticism of is “liberal political correctness”

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Where did Bill Clinton get that blowjob again?

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‘France’

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that line is done and gone, its now “lock her up! Lock her up! e-mails! e-mails!”

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I’ll defer to Rube Goldberg: “No matter how thin you slice it, it’s still baloney.”

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GOoPs will Ilightly reprimand King and, if he is to be replaced, do it via the Republican primary when he refuses to step aside. Dems need to let McCarthy and Co. own the narrative for now—it won’t go well for them. Iowa Dems have the energy to defeat whomever is the 2020 GOP candidate after their terrific job of flipping two of three Trump districts in 2018. National Dems shouldn’t mess up this opportunity by trying to nationalize what will be a potent local issue.

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