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NEW. INSIDE Senate GOP lunch today, @TomCottonAR stood up & said:Young black men have a very different experience with law enforcement in this nation than white people and thats their impression and experience and we need to be sensitive to that and do all we can to change it.
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Here's another from Politicio's Sherman showcasing the famous sensitivity and commitment to racial equality of Mitch McConnell:
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lark
(23,147 posts)Sure doesn't sound like the same person that was calling on the military to stop these marches just last week.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Oof...the internal polling must be absolutely eye-popping.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)another and struck me as, ..... hm. I see it as a ploy. We will be hearing little comments until they feel to convince enough to always be at this stand, and just for this moment. Because, they are what they are.
But I too think they said, squeal breaks, republicans are standing up, owners, football. Gotta get on board. Oh and the polls
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)ass reamed from his protester "crackdown" quotes from only a few days ago. His constituents must have given him the thumbs-down on his asshattery. And whoa, did that change his tune.
C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)Not one actual suggested action.
onetexan
(13,056 posts)LakeArenal
(28,837 posts)highplainsdem
(49,028 posts)Hypocritical bastard.
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)of how his idiotic message about handling the protesters went over (not very good)...perhaps it might help a little maybe if he thought more about what he says before he actually says it, and sticks his foot in it?
Patterson
(1,531 posts)tblue37
(65,483 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I shut my eyes, but it's not enough.
I stopped my ears, but it's not enough.
Maybe try doing both, Tom? You bobble-throated slapdick.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)Send in the Troops redux?
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Freethinker65
(10,036 posts)More like we in the GOP need to pander and pretend to understand their impression, but not necessarily change anything.