Shellings from the Peanut Gallery

There are times when one can no longer remain confined.
It matters not that one agrees or disagrees.
It matters only that the shell that binds be cracked and thrown off.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Who you calling racist?

Democrats still lying through their teeth

By Bob Parks Saturday, April 26, 2008


June 12, 1929
First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country.

August 17, 1937
Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation

June 24, 1940
Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it

August 8, 1945
Republicans condemn Harry Truman’s surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. The whining and criticism goes on for years. It begins two days after the Hiroshima bombing, when former Republican President Herbert Hoover writes to a friend that “The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”

September 30, 1953
Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education

November 25, 1955
Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel

September 24, 1957
Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools

June 9, 1964
Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who still serves in the Senate

June 10, 1964
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.

August 4, 1965
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose. Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor

February 19, 1976
President Gerald Ford formally rescinds President Franklin Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII

September 15, 1981
President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American participation in federal education programs

June 29, 1982
President Ronald Reagan signs 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act

August 10, 1988
President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR

November 21, 1991
President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation

August 20, 1996
Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans’ Contract With America, becomes law





Nothing left to say on this topic!





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Monday, February 11, 2008

Congressman John Shadegg Opts Not To Seek Re-Election

Congressman John Shadegg Opts Not To Seek Re-Election
http://johnshadegg.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=83667

There has been a rash of Republicans leaving Congress.
28 members of the House have or are leaving at the end of the year.


IL - Dennis Hastert (R) resigned on November 26,
LA - Bobby Jindal resigned to assume the office of Governor of LA
MS - Roger Wicker was appointed to the Senate on 12-07
AL - Terry Everett
AZ - John Shadegg
AZ - Rick Renzi
CA - John Doolittle
CA - Duncan Hunter: Retiring and ran for President
CO - Tom Tancredo: Retiring and ran for President
FL - Dave Weldon
IL - Jerry Weller = RMP
IL - Ray LaHood = RMP
KY - Ron Lewis
LA - Jim McCrery = RMP
LA - Richard Baker: Leaving in Feb. 08
MN - Jim Ramstad = RMP
MO - Kenny Hulshof: Running for Governor
MS - Chip Pickering
NM - Heather Wilson: Running for U.S. Senate = RMP
NM - Steve Pearce: Running for U.S. Senate
NJ - Jim Saxton = RMP
NJ - Mike Ferguson
NY - Jim Walsh = RMP
OH - Dave Hobson = RMP
OH - Deborah Pryce = RMP
OH - Ralph Regula = RMP
PA - John Peterson
VA - Tom Davis = RMP
WY - Barbara Cubin


Senate members leaving:
CO - Alan Wayne Allard on 1/15/07 announced retirement per 2 term agreement.
ID - Larry Craig retiring at end of term
NM - Pete Domenici retiring due to health issues
VA - John Warner won’t seek re-election. [YIPPEE!!!]

It is almost as if the republicans are setting the stage for the demonrats to get veto proof majorities in both chambers.



NOTE: RMP = Republican Mainstreet Partnership

John McCain's RINO organization to thwart conservatives



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