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This is not a bad attack on the Republicans. “You’re racists!” “Nah, we do the same thing to white Presidents… oh wait…”
Personally I’m convinced it’s hardball politics much more than racism. But if/when he Republicans are accused of doing this because they’re racists, they certainly have no way to prove otherwise.
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When has racism ever NOT undermined the country?
Many are still fighting the Civil War. The so-called “red” states are essentially the Confederacy.
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Let’s hope the Democrats take back the Senate and approve a liberal judge nominated by Obama between the time the Dems take control and before the end of President Obama’s term. My one concern is that based on his track record of continually trying to appease Republicans he will not nominate a real liberal but will pick another swing voter hoping (I don’t know why he still hopes) the Republican senate will approve his choice. Fat chance.
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“the ugliest impulses of the paranoid fringe.”
aka, the modern Republican Party.
The President has more class, more intelligence, more tolerance, more humanity than the entire GOP altogether. I am very, very proud of what he has done. And I will not support any Democrat who runs away from his accomplishments.
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Even if the Dems control the senate, the GOP can still filibuster, and will. You are right about Obama; he has too often appeased the GOP.
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Darren Davis, a political science professor at Notre Dame,
said he was reticent to categorize the Senate’s opposition to Obama as racist.
“Because I think race is already so polarizing,” Davis said,
“I think we have to exhaust those other possible explanations before we go racial.”
Speaking as a melanin-deficient citizen Dr Davis?
We are well past the point of exhausting those ‘other’ possibilities.
I was a bit excited about the nakedness of the writing in this Lauren Fox article.
Even hopped right over the word ‘freaking’-- in graph two.
Till I got to the requisite statement of equivalency from the quote above.
jw1
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He could also pick someone like Srinivasan, who was voted in unanimously to the DC district court. If Obama follows through with his part and Srinivasan can’t get hearings or even a committee meeting, Obama withdraws his name and nominates someone more liberal. If the same thing happens, nominate someone even more liberal. The usual 2-3 month timeline for nomination to confirmation supports at least 3 rounds of this, and republicans would have a hard time continuing to defend their non-action to swing voters.
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As with people like Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King, Jr., President Obama’s dignity and resolve in the face of such behavior have only served to strengthen his position, and the support of people who believe in him.
And in the end, the GOP will lose this battle. It might be before November, or not. But they will lose.
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While the establishment GOP attempts to delegitimize the twice-elected president, the GOP base is busy delegitimizing the GOP establishment. LOL
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I like the strategic mindset of nominating ever-more-liberal candidates.
It’s been posited that BHO will go elsewhere than Srinivasan-- as the Circuit Court of DC seat he occupies-- as one-of-two liberal jurists on a three-member panel-- is the court that hears all cases regarding regulatory aspects. That ®s would never allow another liberal appointment to that seat being the supposed roadblock.
(H/T to @bluestatedon (and his BIL))
jw1
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Darren Davis, a political science professor at Notre Dame, said he was reticent to categorize the Senate’s opposition to Obama as racist. “Because I think race is already so polarizing,” Davis said, “I think we have to exhaust those other possible explanations before we go racial.”
I majored in political science. I took it seriously. I didn’t go into that major because I thought it was a good pre law course. Truth to tell, I kind of sneered at those people (yeah, Ms. Karma I. Fate has a sense of humor) because I truly thought that I was going to get a Ph.D in political science. At least until I finally confronted the likelihood of being an unemployed Ph.D with a lot of debt, no matter how good I was and then had that little spiritual crisis after seeing the nature show about lungfish. But that’s another story.
My point is is, I got taught that the “science” part in poli sci was important. That it was the thing that put us into the social science building rather than the"loudmouth on a bar stool" building. That included the part where you don’t just refuse to reject the null hypothesis, no matter what the data shows you, just because you didn’t want to upset people. Jesus, it’s like the drunk looking for the keys under the street light rather than where he lost them because the light’s better there.
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When the Republicans in Congress obstruct President Hillary Clinton, left-leaning journalists will say it’s because they’re sexist. The problem is not that Congressional Republicans are racist or sexist; they’re just scattershot assholes, period.
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To be fair, the Republicans threw out the rule book during the Clinton Administration. The difference now is that they can rely on the racism of their base to sustain and extend their attacks. Racism is just something to be cynically exploited.
I don’t think they’ll be any more fair to a woman or a Jew.
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It hides the ugly racism of their true nature.
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There must be some way that the agencies that are under the Executive Branch can fuck with Republican states and districts. Money that was supposed to go here or there gets put on hold because, you know, auditing or some such thing. It’s a shame that sort of thing happens.
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They will or we will. The Republicans truly want to Make Americans Lose.
Also @turdburgler:
I don’t think they’ll be any more fair to a woman or a Jew.
No, but the racism of the base is what has given them cover for the Obama hating.
Edited to add last comment
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I’m appreciative of the ‘surface irony’ the link expresses tb.
Still. IMO it serves to make the honesty of the article that much more stark–
making Dr Davis’ quote seem lacking in context;
something found, cut, and pasted
to meet a style-guide requirement.
jw1
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Supreme Court Snub Is Ultimate Public Delegitimization Of First Black President
fixed headline for you
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