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Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., said that as he left the Cannon House Office Building with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a leader of the 1960s civil rights movement, some among the crowd chanted “the N-word, the N-word, 15 times.” Both Carson and Lewis are black. Lewis spokeswoman Brenda Jones also said the incident occurred.
“It was like going into the time machine with John Lewis,” Carson said.
Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told a reporter that as he left the Cannon House Office Building with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a leader of the civil rights era, some among the crowd chanted “the N-word, the N-word, 15 times.” Both Carson and Lewis are black, and Lewis spokeswoman Brenda Jones also said that it occurred.
“It was like going into the time machine with John Lewis,” said Carson, a large former police officer who said he wasn’t frightened but worried about the 70-year-old Lewis, who is twice his age. “He said it reminded him of another time.”
African-American Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), a protege of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who helped organize the March on Washington, went to the House floor today to tell Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) that a Tea Party protester called him a “n—–.”
And while most of the invective was directed at the health care bill itself, several House members said there was an ugly tone to comments made by some demonstrators against three black lawmakers: Representatives André Carson of Indiana, Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri and John Lewis of Georgia, all Democrats.
An aide to Mr. Lewis, a leader of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, said that as he walked to the Capitol, Mr. Lewis was called racial slurs.
Protesters outside the Capitol hurled epithets at Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Andre Carson (D-Ind.) as they left the building after President Obama delivered an 11th-hour speech on behalf of the health care bill. Carson told reporters that protesters yelled “kill the bill,” then used a racial epithet to describe Carson and Lewis, who is a revered figure on both sides of the aisle.
They all tell the same story.
And that’s the thing: it’s just a story. It’s not true.
I’m waiting for the excuses as to why video of the event doesn’t match reports of the event.
Perhaps they suffer the same thing Maureen Dowd suffers. She heard “boy” when it wasn’t said. The Congressional Black Caucus seems to hear even worse things that aren’t said.
I suppose if someone won’t make you a victim, you have to make yourself one.
Update: Sarah In Italy sent word that there are two other videos, neither of which contain evidence of any racial slurs:
During his interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, the president said “I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or the Senate.”
The president isn’t concerned about other branches of government following the Constitution?
It’s not like he’s sworn an oath to preserve, protect, or defend the Constitution or anything.
The Obama administration says flying the flag could give Haiti the wrong idea.
“We are not here as an occupation force, but as an international partner committed to supporting the government of Haiti on the road to recovery,” the U.S. government’s Haiti Joint Information Center said in response to a query about the flag.
But, there’s more to it than that. This video explains why:
One is an Academy Award-winning actor playing a dumbass who has no concept of numbers. The other is a United States president actually being a dumbass who has no concept of numbers, saying that insurance rates would go down 3-thousand percent under his plan.
Comedy writers could imagine the first. No one could imagine the second. Except it’s real. Sadly, sadly real.
But it does help explain why I’ve been saying that everyone who voted for Obama is a dumbass.
“[i]t doesn’t help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown — a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid, professional woman — mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another ‘lifestyle choice.’”
And was derided as an intellectual Lilliputian for the rest of his life by the my-own-fart-sniffing leftist elites.
So, if a member of Obama’s cabinet were to speak directly to a cartoon city, you’d think she’d be tarred, feathered and tossed into a septic tank, right?
Last April, Jackson gathered a small band of managers to watch “The Simpsons Movie,” which in 2007 portrayed the EPA head as its main villain. In the movie, the agency head disastrously builds a dome over the fictional town of Springfield to contain its lake pollution and its residents.
The hurtful portrayal, Jackson said, highlights that citizens are nearing a point where they don’t trust the agency. Under her watch, the agency would never dome off a town. “No, we’re not going to do it to you, Springfield, wherever you might be,” she said.
Personally, I’m still waiting for the FCC to offer its reassurances to the Griffins.
[CAUTION: this show is rated TV-14 for a reason - shoo the kiddies out of the room before viewing]
Presidents have their advisers. The current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue listens to David Axelrod.
I don’t see how he does it. Of course, I don’t see how anyone can listen to Barack Obama, either. And maybe that’s it. The two of them have been listening to the same nonsense for so long, it’s normal for them.
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On ABC’s This Week, George Will used the words of Robert Reich to highlight the liberal mindset on healthcare … and everything else, for that matter (tip: Flopping Aces).
Will: You say they have huge profits. As you know, confiscate all the profits of all the health insurance companies, with those profits you could finance our healthcare for 48 hours. What you do for the next 363 days I don’t know. Second, you say there’s not enough competition? Fine, let them compete in a national market across state lines.
Reich: Yes, let them compete across state lines, fine. But not a race to the bottom. Set minimum federal standards because we’ve seen over and over again that the recipients of health insurance don’t know what they are buying very often. Until there are common standards, minimal standards, then people are going to be taken. And that is what’s happened over and over again.
Will: There you have the premise of this legislation and the core of today’s liberalism: the American people are such dopes they can’t be counted upon to buy their own insurance.
Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY-29) is resigning over charges he sexually harassed a male staff member.
Never one to miss the opportunity to joke about a homosexual sex scandal involving a married politician, Tonight Show host Jay Leno included this in his monologue.
Oops! My bad. Silly me for thinking Leno would make a joke about a Democrat U.S. Congressman in a sex scandal, rather than a Republican state politician.
That is so wrong. Yes, I laughed. Out loud. But it’s still wrong.
I’m sure the people that invented this thing were sitting around, thinking this was a good idea. And that poor cat trusted the person that placed it in the PetSpa.
Only, the cat got a rude surprise. And pretty early on figured out it didn’t like what was happening. But there was nothing it could do about it. The makers of the PetSpa, and the owner of the cat, decided it was best.
They’ll try that again on that cat. Only, I suspect that, unless they’ve de-clawed that cat, they next time they try it, the cat with have its on rude surprise.
I wonder if I could use this as an analogy to anything?
On teh internets … particularly teh Twitteh … the cool kids like to pick on teh MSNBC.
When they do, I have to open a browser tab and hit teh Google to find out what they’re talking about.
You see, I don’t watch MSNBC. ‘Cause it sucks.
I mean, I have seen bits of it. And I’ve seen clips on teh YouTube. And you know what? Them folks on MSNBC are nuts. If they got any denser, they’d pass the Chandrasekhar limit.
You see, I have to deal with enough stupid people that I don’t want to expose myself to any more than is necessary. And watching MSNBC? Ain’t necessary.
But the cool kids watch it. And they’ll hit Twitter talking about what some dumbsh*t on MSNBC said.
Now, MSNBC’s rating are in the toilet. Nobody watches. Except maybe Obama and his crew. But even then, I’m not sure about them watching. They don’t need to. MSNBC has it’s nose so far up Obama’s butt, if he farted, Olbermann’s hair would part.
But, other than Obama and his flock, who watches MSNBC?
The cool kids, that’s who.
Not because they like it. But so they can make fun of it.
But here’s the funny thing: The only people that watch that channel do so to rip on it; if they didn’t watch it, nobody would, abd all the dipsh*ts on the channel would be out of work.
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With more and more Americans opposing the Democrats’ many versions of a health care bill, the Obama administration and the Congressional leadership are finding it difficult selling their plans to their own party members.
The president is traveling to various cities, looking to build support for his agenda.
We contacted a spokesman for the Democratic party, who told us why Americans haven’t embraced the health care bills:
Note: I posted this over at my little blog earlier. I didn’t expect it would get much of a reaction, so I didn’t cross-post it here.
Turns out that some liberals trolls have taken offense, and left some really nasty comments. But they left them on teh YouTube, because I don’t allow anonymous comments on my blog. I removed the comments on teh YouTube due to the language.
It appears I misunderestimated the impact of this post. However, if being on my little 4-visitor-a-day blog generated that much consternation from the left, imagine what it showing up here would do!
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (DNS-CA-8), appearing on ABC’s This Week. told Elizabeth Vargas that Democrats need courage to pass health care over the objections of the American people…
What do you say to your members, when it does come to the House to vote on this, who are in real fear of losing their seats in November if they support you now?
PELOSI: Well first of all our members — every one of them — wants health care. I think everybody wants affordable health care for all Americans. They know that this will take courage. It took courage to pass Social Security. It took courage to pass Medicare. And many of the same forces that were at work decades ago are at work again against this bill.
But the American people need it, why are we here? We’re not here just to self perpetuate our service in Congress. We’re here to do the job for the American people. To get them results that gives them not only health security, but economic security, because the health issue is an economic issue for — for America’s families.
You know who else is told to have “courage” before they go and do something harmful to America?
These people:
I guess that’s something that everyone ready to commit suicide on behalf of others is told … even if it’s political suicide.
One question: If the government came to you and said, “Professor Krugman, you have a car. We’re going to compel you to buy a more expensive car, but it’s not really more expensive because it’s a better car.” Wouldn’t you tell them to get off your land?
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