You know, it's like the 1950's redux.
I need to see who the "33" House members were the voted against this.
Posted by Christopher at July 13, 2006 03:04 PMThe ghost of Martin Luther King is smiling tonight.
Posted by herbal tee at July 13, 2006 03:34 PMWe better find out what woke up the Democrats - we're going to need more of it!
Posted by pessimist at July 13, 2006 04:37 PMBTW: One of Bush's more worrisome missives was this one last year:
Quote: I don’t know anything about the 1965 Voting Rights Act... when the legislation comes before me, I’ll take a look at it, but I don’t know about it to comment any more than that, but we will look at it when it comes to us
Ahh, yes. The good old Voting Rights Act of 1965. Always good for the Democrats to dust that one off when they need to rile up the black community with a lot of scarecrow bullshit.
Kerry even dredged that stuff up back in 2004.
Never really works like they think it will, though.
[Congratulations], free-thinkers and dwellers in the reality-based community. If y'all hadn't struck a blow against The Man, who knows what terrible Jim Crow laws would have been passed this Congress!
Posted by Toby Petzold at July 13, 2006 09:00 PMLOL Toby. Seems like Kerry was right. The GOP did try to strip people of their right to vote. They constantly trying to do it down here in GA and they have repeated lost.
What a racist comment you made. I'm not suprised though. Klansmen make these kind of comments. Your hatred of minorities is very sad. Find someone else to scapegoat for your unhappiness in life. Of course, I don't expect you to. Scapegoating is the conservative mantra. Hey, it's always somebody else's fault isn't it?
Posted by Ga6thDem at July 13, 2006 09:15 PMJust wait until Bush adds his "signing statement".
Posted by ascap_scab at July 13, 2006 10:06 PMAhh, yes. The good old Voting Rights Act of 1965. Always good for the Democrats to dust that one off when they need to rile up the black community with a lot of scarecrow bullshit.
Toby,
The renewal could have been passed as nothing more than a procedural vote and it never would have even made the press. But the republicans couldn't stomach it. They made the stink. Not the Dems.
Posted by snark at July 14, 2006 05:36 AMIt happened to come up for renewal this year--Dems didn't "dust it off" as some strategy.
But I suspect that Toby (like the Reactionary Southern Repubs making the stink) does not think the Voting Rights Act should be renewed, not simply that it was renewed in such a public, controversial manner.
But he can speak for himself.
And "it never really works like they think it will, though", meaning.....that continued concern for assuring equal voting rights for black people actually "riles up" certain white people? Please explain.
Posted by euzoius at July 14, 2006 06:36 AMhaving the right to vote is one thing, getting the votes counted is another.
Posted by T2 at July 14, 2006 06:43 AMToby:
The good old Voting Rights Act of 1965. Always good for the Democrats to dust that one off when they need to rile up the black community with a lot of scarecrow bullshit.
Ah the good ol' chickenhawk support for the invasion they wouldn't personally take part in but think it's a good idea for others to.
When ya gonna enlist, Toby?
Posted by Repack Rider at July 14, 2006 07:38 AMI was going to chide you for use of the "c" word to describe the amendments. But then I saw that the racist trolls are here, who would be eager to accept Randy Newman's mantle of "Rednecks." (Except of course they wouldn't get the irony.)
Posted by baked potato at July 14, 2006 09:57 AMIf y'all hadn't struck a blow against The Man, who knows what terrible Jim Crow laws would have been passed this Congress!
The Ritz Cracker of white crackers weighs-in. Which Jim Crow laws you like? Which ones are acceptable to that shit-ball state Tejas? I can't really believe anyone would be against people voting...unless it's republi-cons...and we see where republi-cons got us. Of course, they will tell you nothing has changed, and they would be correct. Wages aren't up for the middle class, taxes aren't down for the middle class, jobs aren't being created for the middle class, health care isn't better for the middle class, and freedoms and civil rights aren't better for the middle class. In fact, they are all worse. So nothing has changed, at least for the better.
And as these jack-offs drive on public roads, send their kids to public schools, use publicly funded utilities, give away a trillion dollars in corporate welfare, and then use publicly funded health care, they'll look at us and yell "Socialist!"
Posted by phidipides at July 15, 2006 08:58 AM