Sharpton ain’t gonna know what hit him. I have seen Donna Brazile on several cable programs, and came away damn impressed despite the fact that we see eye to eye on NOTHING. Her performance on election night 2002 this year was excellent, despite how awful she must have felt. Let’s not forget that she, too, is prone to the occassional racial gaffe.
Craven Political Opportunism Showing that
Showing that they are still the opportunistic hacks under Terry O’Neill that they were under Patricia Ireland, the National Organization for Women has issued about the Lott affair. If you thought it was about racism, you would, um, well, be wrong. Check out this bunch of ridiculousness:
“Lott not only insulted millions of African Americans last week, but he also offended women,” said Gandy. Former presidential candidate Bob Dole offered to introduce Thurmond to singer Britney Spears, with whom he appeared in a commercial for Pepsi, to which Lott added, “Instead of saying, ‘Down boy,’ you just say, ‘Down Strom.’ ”
“The Thurmond birthday celebration sounds like a toast to the ‘good old white boys,'” Gandy said. “Lott clearly yearns for a time before women and people of color crashed the party.”
“The people of the U.S. deserve far better than Trent Lott,” Gandy concluded. “We call on President Bush to repudiate Lott’s remarks insulting African Americans and women and to encourage the selection of a more fitting Senate majority leader.”
I am not making that up. They are actually trying to advance their agenda on the Lott affair. Just file this one under “Why John Cole Does Not Vote For Democrats,” and watch for more nonsense like this in the near future. The Democrats think they have a winner here, and they are going to go after everything with this, regardless of how stupid it looks. This is going to be the Democrats impeachment-like over-reach, and it is going to be funny watching smugness and political opportunism reach new heights.
In other news, the Latino Coalition and La Raza are also calling for Lott’s resignation, stating that Lott was heard to have said at Thurmond’s party that “I can’t eat spicy food, like Mexican, because it gives me heartburn.” Also, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement for Lott’s removal, noting that Lott’s hair looks like ‘a caricature of an over-sized yarmulke.’ As of yet, no comment from BiGLM groups, Asian advocacy groups, or Greenpeace.
This Will Piss the Anti-war
Too Good For His Age
I am embarassed to admit this, because I usually am very against treating young athletes like spectacles, but I watched LeBron James play last night. He IS all that. It is not hype. He is that good. I just hope some scumbag agent doesn’t ruin his life. Maybe someone like Magic Johnson or the other M.J. can step in and provide guidance. He deserves it, and he is goin to need it.
Bye Bye, Cardinal Law Not
Not too often these days that I wake up and check the NY Times and find good news, but today is a rare exception. Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the Catholich church’s Richard Nixon, has resigned in disgrace. Now, maybe he will free to cooperate with authorities and make things right for the hundreds? of lives he and his compatriots have ruined.
I just hope this does not take any heat off of Lott, that unreconstructed redneck needs to have his ass handed to him as well. You hear me, hillbilly boy? I am not gonna stop carping on you until your pillow-case wearing, cross-burning, cofederate flag waving ass is thrown out of office. Because of your unrepentant racism, we now have opportunistic jackals like Krugman trying to paint the entire party as the inbred, backwards-ass haters that you and your Council of Concerned Citizens have shown themselves to be.
If Lott does not step down, that is it for me and the Republican party. I am only a registered Republican so I can vote in the primaries, and that doesn’t really matter here in WV. Time to just go Independent, which is how I have been voting for 8 years or so anyway. I just refuse to be associated with a party that accepts overt racism (let alone latent) from the leader of the Senate. And the Democrats are no better- they manage to bridge the gap of racism in a manner only Democrats can- they somehow accept white racists like Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton while still keeping Robert K.K.K. Byrd and Fritz Hollings mollified. Explain that to me…
Lott Must Go, Part 2
He should be fired for no other reason than the fact that he now has me aligned with Hesiod, Josh Marshall, the bankrupt black leadership (including Jesse ‘Hymie’ Jackson and Al ‘Tawana’ Sharpton), and EVERY online left-leaning blog, magazine, and journal. I am afraid to check Common Dreams, because if I agree with them I might have to end it all. But check out this gem in the NY Times. He has said it before:
Trent Lott, the Republican Senate leader who faces mounting criticism for his comment last week that the nation would have been better off had Strom Thurmond been elected president in 1948, expressed a nearly identical sentiment two decades ago.
After a fiery speech by Mr. Thurmond at a campaign rally in Mississippi for Ronald Reagan in November 1980, Mr. Lott, then a congressman, told a crowd in Jackson, “You know, if we had elected this man 30 years ago, we wouldn’t be in the mess we are today.”
That is officially a pattern of disgusting behavior. Goodbye, Mr. Lott. I don’t even give a shit if you have to resign and the Democrat governor of your state appoints a Democrat and it goes back to 50/50 in the Senate. You have done more to damage race relations than 50 Jesse Jacksons. Good Riddance- and hey, don’t worry- David Duke found a job when his political career ended.
Also, speaking of the bankrupt black leadership, check out this little bit of internecine racism directed at Harold Ford from members of the Congressional Black Caucus as reported in Time (link via Sullivan):
“Democrats have to come up with some answers. Voters are tired of hearing us just say no, no, no, no all the time,” Ford declares. “Even when we’re right, they don’t want to hear it.”
The quotation also describes the hostility Ford’s bid to lead House Democrats provoked from backward-looking members of the older generation of black activists and politicians, including some of his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus. The sheer meanness
The Daily Kos’s Political State
The Daily Kos’s Political State Report:
I will just quote Kos for what he is looking for:
The concept is simple: to have ground-level correspondents covering political events in their neck of the woods. As such, I’m looking for politically astute individuals that can provide the occassional report on political ongoings in their states.
I am looking for writers from across the political spectrum — people who can steer clear of empty rhetoric and focus on the “Inside Baseball” aspect of politics. Ideological diversity is meant to provide diverse interpretations of certain events, not to spur pissing matches between ideological foes. This site is intended to be cerebral, not emotional.
Translation- He is looking for volunteers who will be able to report locally, and he is looking for a diverse group of writers. If you have not visited the Daily Kos yet, you do not understand how convinced I am that this will turn out to be a historic and wildly successful endeavor.