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Ethics Trials Highlight Racial Tensions in Congress (Obama, Pelosi Incite Democrat Race War?)
The Los Angeles Times ^
| Sunday, August 1, 2010
| James Oliphant and Richard Simon
Posted on 08/01/2010 12:33:33 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: Personal Responsibility
Whether or not they are guilty doesn’t matter. We are all racists.
To: avacado
Just to take your point one step further,what happens in the primaries when the panthers and other concerned parties stop dems from voting? I don’t think it will explode after hes dumped but rather the second there’s a serious challenge.
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posted on
08/01/2010 1:59:32 PM PDT
by
wiggen
(Government owned slave.)
To: FrankR
No, that would be me.
Christian, white, former military, gun owner, registered Republican.
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posted on
08/01/2010 2:02:16 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
((FUBO) Ya unAmerican p.o.s.)
To: kristinn
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posted on
08/01/2010 2:03:01 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: kristinn
The OJ effect: They cain’t be guilty, they’re BLACK!
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posted on
08/01/2010 2:05:05 PM PDT
by
Feckless
(Don't care where he was born. The oath I took said "...against all enemies, foreign and domestic".)
To: kristinn
Congressional Black Caucus = Racists.
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posted on
08/01/2010 2:05:16 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Will must be the harder, courage the bolder, spirit must be the more, as our might lessens.)
To: kristinn
I don't care what color the Rat is that we go after.
If it's easier to go after the white Democrooks first and weaken the Dim Party, I say that's what should be done.
After the Dims are weakened, then go after the black Democrooks.
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posted on
08/01/2010 2:21:52 PM PDT
by
TheThinker
(Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
To: Republican Wildcat
Yes Republicans do need to be careful on this as it is a set up...IMO. It just stinks in the timing and the manner of how this came about...both these people are beyond retirement and I would not be surprised if for the past years it was get while the getting is good because your going under the bus for the good of the party. Never waste a retirement, or a funneral. Sounds very communistic doesn't it?
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posted on
08/01/2010 2:33:50 PM PDT
by
caww
To: kristinn
Isn’t the very existence of a Black Caucus in the Congress a racist construct? Its divisive in its very nature.
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posted on
08/01/2010 2:55:26 PM PDT
by
Elsiejay
(.)
To: kristinn
Neither Rangel nor Waters are ultimately expected to be forced to resign even if they are found guilty of breaking ethics rules. Could this be a gift?
Runaway Slave
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posted on
08/01/2010 3:08:43 PM PDT
by
rdb3
(The mouth is the exhaust pipe of the heart.)
To: Personal Responsibility
All they ever do -ever- is complain that they are being targeted disproportionally. Police in the neighborhood, hiring, bank loans, now House members...all targeted disproportionally. Sometimes I wonder, when I read about a kid getting expelled for drawing a (picture of a) gun, (it's always a white kid), or when a Canadian mother gets her son put in Oregon foster care because he was riding his bike without a helmet, I wonder if these aren't just drummed up to keep the number of white suspensions/arrests/foster care cases proportional to the other races.
To: kristinn
About 98% of members of Congress should be defending themselves before ethics committees. There are not enough honest members of Congress to form an ethics committee.
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posted on
08/01/2010 3:34:24 PM PDT
by
Rocky
(REPEAL IT!)
To: kristinn
I have great reservations about the Black Caucus using government property and spending public dollars on a racist group - whites are barred from the Black Caucus. If that is racism using federal money I don’t know what is. Can you imagine the uproar a White Caucus would create?
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posted on
08/01/2010 3:45:03 PM PDT
by
monocle
To: kristinn
A reprimand should be given to Emanual Cleaver for lying about being spit on at the kill the bill rally in March!
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posted on
08/01/2010 4:17:48 PM PDT
by
orinoco
To: Oldpuppymax
so, white demonrats are going after black demonrats, and the strategy in playing the race card is to whip the blacks up into a frenzy to...vote for more demonrats?
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posted on
08/01/2010 4:50:25 PM PDT
by
Newtoidaho
(Liberals are drooling buffoons backed by satanic goons.)
To: kristinn
Juan Williams brought up the "Race thing" today on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace. If the Dems try pulling this crap, it will blow up in their face. They have the Black vote already; this will just piss off more White and Hispanic voters and hurt the Dems, even more, on November 2.
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posted on
08/01/2010 5:03:58 PM PDT
by
no dems
(Palin/Jindal in 2012 or Jindal/Christie in 2012. Either is fine with me.)
To: monocle
The CBC gets away with things no other caucus can, has influence beyond what its numbers would indicate and that has to cause resentment. Believe the New York Times fired the first salvo with this article last Feb:
In Black Caucus, a Fund-Raising Powerhouse
To: kristinn
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posted on
08/01/2010 5:32:35 PM PDT
by
Stultis
(Democrats. Still devoted to the three S's: Slavery, Segregation and Socialism.)
To: kristinn
The CBC - Criminal Black Caucus
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posted on
08/01/2010 5:40:59 PM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: SkyPilot
"I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps."
~~~(African American) Representative J. C. Watts, speaking of The Black Congressional Congress
"Mr. Cohen asked for admission, and he got his answer. He's white and the Caucus is black. It's time to move on. We have racial policies to pursue and we are pursuing them, as Mr. Cohen has learned. It's an unwritten rule. It's understood."
"Quite simply, Rep. Cohen will have to accept what the rest of the country will have to accept there has been an unofficial Congressional White Caucus for over 200 years, and now it's our turn to say who can join 'the club.' He does not, and cannot, meet the membership criteria, unless he can change his skin color. Primarily, we are concerned with the needs and concerns of the black population, and we will not allow white America to infringe on those objectives."
~~~Rep. William Lacy Clay, Jr. (CBC member, and son of a founding member) in response to (white) freshman Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen's unsuccessful 2007 attempt to join the CBC, in the interest of better serving his majority black constituents.
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posted on
08/01/2010 7:19:37 PM PDT
by
Stultis
(Democrats. Still devoted to the three S's: Slavery, Segregation and Socialism.)
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