Posted on 04/03/2010 4:07:07 PM PDT by raptor22
Congressman Steve Cohen of Memphis teed off on the Tea Party movement in a Thursday night radio interview attracting national attention.
The two-term Democratic congressman said the Tea Party — "without hoods and robes" — has shown an angry, hardcore side of America that's against any type of diversity.
“We saw opposition to African-Americans, hostility toward gays, hostility to anybody who wasn’t just, you know, a clone of George Wallace’s fan club,” he said on The Young Turks, an Internet and satellite radio talk show.
(Excerpt) Read more at commercialappeal.com ...
I think the Dems’ decision to portray the Tea Party movement as racist is going to backfire. At a minimum, it is a very risky move. What do they think this is going to do to help them? Do they think that the white Dems who have migrated to the Tea Party or are considering doing so are going to come back to the Dem Party because they don’t want to be branded a racist? Puleez. Destroying the Tea Party wouldn’t help the Dems anyway since the Tea Party will just move over to the GOP anyway. All their hate-filled venom is doing is creating a further turn off for conservatives and moderates who are fed up with the Dem Party. The mere fact that the Tea Party is largely white does not mean it’s racist. If the Dems want to go with the line that white and racist mean the same thing, then they are just destroying their own credibility.
I’d love to see someone do an Alamo-Girl tour-de-force type effort like she did on Klintoons.
NOT her, of course! She’s paid her dues for eternity on such scores! LOL.
But someone who’d document how RAW BONE MARROW DESTRUCTIVELY RACIST
THE DIMRATS HAVE BEEN FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. AND PARTICULARLY UNDER OTHUGA.
Then to distill about a dozen examples into very powerful talking points that we could rub in their faces every time they opened their yaps.
I guess Cohen and others mistook the American flags for pitchforks.
“He’s too stupid to be hired in business.”
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He’ll be a consultant, a lobbyist or a professor at one of our liberal institutions of higher learning.
This Cohen guy seems to say a lot of nice things about John McCain, I bet they would be really close buddies.
Prior to his election to the House in November 2006, Cohen was a Tennessee State Senator for 24 years. He is Tennessee’s first Jewish congressman. Cohen is one of only two non-blacks representing majority black districts in Congress
Cohen told reporters that he would seek to become the first white member of the Congressional Black Caucus, but later decided against attempting to join after members of the CBC (influenced by co-founder Bill Clay) indicated that they would not allow a non-black to join
On February 27, 2007, Cohen introduced a resolution in the House that apologizes for African-American slavery and the system of Jim Crow laws that persisted for 100 years after the abolition of slavery.
In March 2005, Cohen was one of three Tennessee Senators to vote against the Tennessee Marriage Protection Amendment, which Tennessee voters approved via a referendum in November 2006
Cohen is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He is the most liberal member of the Tennessee congressional delegation, as well as one of the most liberal members ever to represent the state in Congress.
He is known for his staunch support for environmental protection, opposition to George W. Bush and John McCain over the War in Iraq, and support for a woman’s right to an abortion. To expand funds available for research and development of alternative energy sources, Cohen supports the imposition of an excess profits tax on oil companies.
Cohen has said that he believes that adequate health care is a “fundamental right” of all citizens. Cohen supports gender equality, progressive taxation, medicinal use of marijuana, gun rights and capital punishment. Cohen was the headline speaker at the Marijuana Policy Project’s January 2010 annual gala in Washington.
Keep talking Dems! You are rapidly driving every moderate dem from your party because most of them know someone,or is related to someone who participates or believes in the tea party or they themselves have been to one. I guess the dems are depending on their hard left which nunbers about 17% to get them all reelected?
Obama: Say hello, Steve.
Steve: Hello Steve.
Obama: Now folks, Stevie here will sing my praises while I drink a glass of water
“The two-term Democratic congressman said”
Wouldn’t that be “democrat” congressman.
Nothing ticks off the libs more than being called ‘democrats’ rather than ‘democratic.’
They should be called out every time.
Heh heh...
Rep. Steve Cohen:
Sarah Palin Made John McCain Look Like “A Captured Soldier in North Vietnam”
Rep. Steve Cohen was on The Young Turks last night and he brought it. He said the Republicans in Congress seemed to be encouraging the Tea Party protests to the point of nearly inciting a riot. He said it was like “mob rule.” In Tennessee people were throwing rocks through windows. Talking about the local and national protests, the Congressman said, “It was the verge of Kristallnacht.”
Rep. Cohen commented about the former presidential nominee for the Republican Party, “When I saw John McCain stand behind Sarah Palin, he looked more like a captured soldier in North Vietnam than he did a United States Senator.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/rep-steve-cohen-sarah-pal_b_523647.html
“This Cohen and Waxman are simply Democrat party apparatchiks.”
Well, they say that dogs start looking like their owners...
I don’t believe this particular Cohen is a Jew at all. He’s going to have to prove it.
The word has lost all meaning. Give a crap if they call me one.
“Libtard-to-English” dictionary might be one of the funniest phrases I’ve seen. Thank you for the huge laugh!
Memphis officials worry about financial impact of dismal response to census
While 54 percent of households across the United States have returned their census forms, as have 52 percent of those in Tennessee, the participation rate in Memphis is a mere 40 percent.
At a morning rally marking Census Day on Thursday, local and federal officials urged residents to return their forms to help ensure an accurate count, noting that about $400 billion in federal appropriations will be divvied up according to population.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, called census participation a “patriotic duty” that benefits the area.
“I want as much federal money for Memphis and Shelby County as possible, and the only way we’ll get it is if everybody fills out their census forms,” Cohen said.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/apr/01/40-percent-memphis-earns-f-census-performance/
The "hoods and robes" those were worn by democrats to hide their faces when they hung both white and black Republicans. This short history lesson of who the democratic party really is is quite informing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bEOiDjdhF4
And the way the democratic congressmans fellow democrats talk when they write to our friend and fellow freeper Alfonzo Rachel, Zo to his friends, is sickening.
“peas in a pod?”
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