" I rise with a sense of righteous indignation to support this resolution. I know racism when I see it. I know racism when I feel it. And at the highest level of government, there’s no room for racism. It sows the seeds of violence and destroys the hopes and dreams of people.
The world is watching. They are shocked and dismayed because it seems we have lost our way. As a nation, as a proud and great people. We are one Congress. And we are here to serve one House. The American House. The American people.
Some of us have been victims of the pain and hurt of racism. In the 1950’s and 1960’s, segregationists told us to go back when we protested for or rights. They told ministers, priests, rabbis, and nuns to go back. They told the innocent little children seeking just an equal education, to go back.
As a nation and as a people we need to go forward and not backwards. With this vote, we stand with our sisters, three were born in America, one came here looking for a better life. With this vote, we meet our moral obligation to condemn hate, racism, and bigotry in every form."
Spot on. I am shocked to see the b.s. now being spewed on TPM on a daily basis by the centrist snowflakes trying to tell us to stop making them uncomfortable ‘cos their heroes want to tiptoe around Trump and his followers’ feelings.
Pelosi is really terrible. The sternly worded reprimand will accomplish absolutely nothing. And she softened the Dixie cup of weak sauce further! Great leadership!
Are we any closer to seeing his taxes? To the unredacted mueller report? Because mueller will testify—after another delay—and just say exactly what he’s already said.
Can anyone explain why Pelosi is regarded as some sort of political genius?
At the risk being the target of the intense ire of her loyal supporters, I must say that her self described herculean efforts to bend over backwards to be nice to the incorrigibles suggest very strongly that she is either a Republican lite or aspires to be one.
Now I will get rid of any residual expectations that she will do the right thing and perform her constitutional duty to hold Trump accountable for his crimes.
With an opposition so determined not to offend the tender sensibilities of Trump and his lickspittle supporters in the GOP and the base in the KKK, Trump will surely sail through to the second term.
His story about the welfare queen was based on a real person.
Paul Harvey isn’t around to do the rest of the story… so the NYT stepped up just last May:
But there’s a wrinkle to the story: Reagan’s “woman in Chicago” was a real person, a mother named Linda Taylor, who had indeed been in the headlines for welfare-related “irregularities,” let’s call them. Taylor’s story has long been forgotten, if it was ever widely known, and many have long assumed that the “welfare queen” was an urban myth. With “The Queen,” Levin, the national editor at Slate, attempts to excavate the gritty, smudgy truth beneath the political rhetoric.
Yeah, really. The Democrats should be trying to destroy the racist Republican Party.
Pelosi clearly is promoting Ronald Reagan (R-Racist) as a proponent of diversity. Read the resolution and read what she said today. You don’t think that there wasn’t at least one African-American or Hispanic or woman that she could have quoted instead of Reagan?
Why do you think she is treating the racist Republicans “in the most gentle way?”
I think I understand what she is trying to do here – in part, it is of the “even this was too much for nearly every Republican,” but it has a double edged sword quality that overlaps with something Josh Marshall wrote in comments partially blocked by a paywall.
At some point, Democrats don’t want “gentle” efforts alone and saying that is going to piss people off. The rejoinder will be how such responses are confused about the complexity of the situation. But, at some point, they are also reflective of reality.
Trump is a threat to the country, a racist, a criminal and so on. After a resolution against hate that in part was seen (not out of the blue; there is a valid reason it was seen this way) as partially a dig at Rep. Omar, now a resolution is passed “in the most gentle way” about Trump’s remarks. Pelosi said it wasn’t about Trump himself being racist.
I’m not sure how useful all of this is, but people are spinning it as yet another case of Pelosi being a wiz at political chess. Again, it has a bad side too.
Why even say such a thing? Any value from the resolution is now negated by Pelosi announcing that she feels the need to be “gentle” with Trump. It seems like she cannot help but exude the appearance of being intimidated.
If that’s not what she intended, she should know that it’s how it will be interpreted. Trump doesn’t respect women and, in particular, doesn’t respect Pelosi.
And what’s the point of this nonsense?
“It condemned the words of the President. Not the President, but the words of the President,”
Nobody is going to buy into this distinction. God forbid Pelosi allow herself be accused of condemning the President as opposed to just condemning his words! Does she think she’s a high school principal and Trump is some kind of recalcitrant student whose parents need to be assured of her impartiality? We’re dealing with adults here, and hostile ones at that.
Could she please try to stop projecting weakness?!
