Posted on 05/04/2005 5:22:32 PM PDT by sarasotarepublican
Black Democrats complained today that their party demands loyalty from them without giving any back when it counts.
It was the second spat this week underscoring the frayed nerves, weariness and pent-up resentments that often beset lawmakers in the final week of a 60-day legislative session.
This time, the spark was a floor vote - which broke down on racial lines - confirming the ouster of former Broward County Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant. On Monday, it was women objecting to abortion legislation. Both times, a proposal to take a "caucus position" on pending issues caused the rift.
"I find it very offensive," Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, said at a breakfast meeting of Senate Democrats. "You want to take a caucus position on certain issues but when you've got something important to black Democrats, you all voted with Republicans. You can't have it both ways; this is important to us, and y'all do it all the time."
For more on this story, read tomorrow's Tallahassee Democrat.
I hear ya. GWB certainly has done his share. He and the GOP need to keep it up. Voters have a short memory...That statement excludes all of us.
AMEN!
You are the brave one. Keep up the good words, thoughts and deeds.
I am optimistic that slowly the tide is turning. As Condi Rice becomes more visible, Black American women will see that if the Republican party is good enough for her, it can be good enough for them...
Funny that SLAVES should be asking to be recipricated!~}
What makes you think a black politican that is not bought and paid for has any chance in their party? The democrat party has zero interest in self-sufficient blacks.
Oliphant's behavior should be making all her supporters cringe.
Gee! Where have conservatives seen something like that before?
American Blacks are about as dumb as one can get when it comes to politics. But, there are a much dumber group of American voters than Black folk, and that be the American Jewish voter. Never have seen a people so duped they vote for a political party that insures them a death wish at the hands of Bin Laden and company. Frightening! Go figure!
Very true. Our dear friend, wonderful in so many ways, is a social and fiscal conservative (but shhh, he doesn't kow it). But he votes democratic because "jews are Deomocrats".
What I think these days gives the honest black politician a chance in their communities is that they have been so screwed by their current historic crop of crooks, that reasonable people might take hold these days.
Oliphant's story is typical. She is crooked and incompetent, and not subtle about either. All well documented in multiple sources.
But with these people, race trumps everything. Period. Very sad.
Not just as President, either. As Governor of Texas, GWB went from something like 13% of the Black vote for his first term to more than 30% (or some such number) of the Texas Black vote for his second.
That's making substantial progress in the face of an all-out media assault against him.
The more that people see GWB do, the more people like him IN SPITE OF what the Corrupt Old News Media has to say about him.
Actions count... for a lot of people. Not everyone is kept down by the corrupt leftist news media. Thus, there is still hope for us all.
Ouch.
...but right on the mark.
Where they gonna go? Shoot, the Dems really don't even NEED the black vote anymore. They can manufacture it at the polling places.
As far as the Soul Patrol and the paleo-negroes, I don't care where they go. I do have a one-way ticket to hell for them, though.
That's very true. I'm just your average white guy. I work with and live around a whole bunch of different people. Everybody's alike to me. But when you go to Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills, or Hidden Hills, you find a bunch of isolated white Democrats who only know each other. Heck, MY tan would rub off on them! I think it's racism with an amount of selfishness and belly-button lint.
Basically spoiled rotten people. I don't like them and if I were black, I would like them less.
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