Republican Bad Acting Can’t Hide The Racism Behind Their Obama Outrage

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/03/28/republican-bad-acting-hide-racism-obama-outrage.html

Republican Bad Acting Can’t Hide The Racism Behind Their Obama Outrage
By: Rmuse
Friday, March, 28th, 2014, 11:29 am



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It is the second time Republicans and their conservative punditry feigned seething outrage over the Affordable Care Act’s online sign-ups they did not demonstrate when Bush’s Medicare prescription plan rollout did not work as well as advertised. Last November when the ACA rollout was plagued with glitches and long wait times, Republicans went berserk and convened a hearing in the House Energy and Commerce Committee to investigate the crimes in the Affordable Care Act’s implementation. When the Medicare prescription plan’s rollout experienced difficulties, Republicans lined up to beseech Americans to be patient and not pre-judge the prescription plan based on a few technical problems. A bevy of Republicans made excuses for the technical issues such as “This is a huge undertaking and there are going to be glitches. Any time something is new, there is going to be some glitches; it is going to take a little adjustment.”

There is a recurring theme in Republican outrage over President Obama’s executive actions that centers on an African American President doing the same thing a white president (George W. Bush) did less than six years ago with no cries of presidential overreach, dictatorial tyranny, or overstepping his constitutional authority. For example, in late December the President signed an executive order titled “Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay” that mirrored Bush’s order five years earlier titled “Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay.” Last May President Obama signed an executive order titled “Providing an Order of Succession within the Department of Agriculture” that George W. Bush called “Amending the Order of Succession Within the Department of Agriculture” and signed in January 2009 just days before leaving office. President Obama signed an order titled “Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees” on September 20, 2013, and Bush signed his “Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees” on September 28, 2007. The list goes on and on and the overriding theme is that regardless the executive orders are nearly identical, Republicans react completely the opposite when a Black President takes executive action as when a white president who did the exact same thing while most Republicans feigning outrage were in Congress.

Republicans have assailed President Obama throughout his tenure for doing the same thing Bush did without criticism and in fact with great support. For example, over the past year Republicans and their punditry have attacked the education model called “common core” as a plot to control young Americans’ minds, but they heaped praise on Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” that was a deliberate attempt to close public schools, destroy teacher unions, and usher in an era of for-profit Charter schools using a voucher privatization scam. When President Obama asked Congress to pass a stimulus package to save the economy after Bush Republicans and the financial sector crashed the economy in 2008, the GOP was beside themselves with outrage even though they made impassioned pleas for Bush’s stimulus well before they crashed the economy as necessary to keep the economy running smoothly despite they squandered a budget surplus on tax cuts for the rich. Republicans nearly caused a credit default over raising the nation’s debt limit in 2011 because the President is Black, and yet they raised it without condition several times for white guy Bush. In every case of this President doing the exact same thing Bush did is the Republican’s phony outrage and reaction driven solely by President Obama’s race.

There is no doubt that, as Jason Easley pointed out here yesterday, Boehner was not amused that the President’s executive action giving prospective enrollees a little extra time to sign up for coverage in the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges “outsmarted Boehner again, and killed his next line of Obamacare attacks before they could get started.” However, when Boehner asked “what the hell is this” he knew exactly what it was and that white president George W. Bush did precisely the same thing with his Medicare prescription plan with full Republican support and praise. What this President did was not, as Boehner asserted, “a long-term pattern of this administration manipulating the laws for its own convenience,” presidential overreach, dictatorial tyranny, or abusing the powers granted him by the Constitution. It was the same thing Republicans have criticized and complained about for five straight years without respite and the same today as it was in January 2009 when Republicans first complained that Barack Obama is President while being Black. They cannot possibly claim otherwise with a straight face or phony outrage because in every sense of the words Republicans are consummate bad actors and rank racists.

[JohnRogan]

1. the GOP should love his ass for all he has done from them.

I feel fortunate to have been around when Nixon was driven from office, I don't think it will ever happen again.

[Cha]

7. Yeah, what has Pres Obama done for republicons?

[DrDan]

11. decided against criminal charges for several criminals

[JustAnotherGen]

2. I posted this on another thread yesterday

Here's a snip:

I believe that 90% of Republicans are raging bigots who hate us (I'm black - so I'm talking about myself).

5% aren't - they just haven't been around black folks and hold a lot of stereotypes - they can be saved/helped by exposure.

5% really are not bigots - my friend Kathy is an example of that.

So if a Republican makes a statement like that - I believe it is a racist/bigoted thing they are slinging at Obama.

Every single one of my financial interests lie with the Republican party - yet time and again I vote against my own bottom line. It's because they are rank and file bigots.

I'm so set in my belief on that inherent racial prejudice - that I even hold a modest level of distrust former Republicans.

[The Wizard]

10. Not all Republicans are bigots

but all bigots are Republican.

[DrDan]

12. 90% "raging bigots"? that might be a tad overstated

not denying there are some . . . on both sides. But 90%?

[JustAnotherGen]

20. Yep

Black American here! I call 'Em as I've experienced THEM.

When I was three - their hero Reagan went to Mississippi and told them a lie about me driving a Cadillac and being a welfare cheat. In 1994 they convinced those bigots that I took something from them just by being intelligent, getting good grades, and knocking the other guy out of the way to get into University. Don't forget - they also said I was the root of all evil in America and was still on welfare and "cheating America". Pat Buchanan ( read his book State of Emergency for reference ) and Newt Gingrich both have admitted the 1994 Congressional strategy was based on the "other" of black women.

And their supporters fell for it hook line and sinker - because they already believed that. The narrative fit their world view.

So yeah - if you voted for Reagan or a Republican since 1976 - you're a bigot.

I stand by my 90%. If that hurts some Republican's feelings - well maybe they ought to get in touch with some of those deeply held beliefs that are absolute lies.

You do realize that if someone tells lies about you for 40 years - you can see everything else they are lying to you about - cant you?

Don't believe any Republican who tells you they had a black friend once. It's probably some guy they said hi to every morning at McDonalds.

[napkinz]

3. Republicans Racist?

[whathehell]

4. Excellent...Thanks. n/t

[malaise]

8. Freaking perfect

[Jefferson23]

18. A good precent of them fit your encapsulated post..terrific post. n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

21. Thank you

If someone voted for Romney after 4/5 years of this bullshit then except for a few people - they are a bigot.

[napkinz]

5. out of the mouths of ...

[Cha]

6. That first quote from Ron Paul sounds too disgusting to be true.. :(

And Kucinich wanted him as his VP?

[napkinz]

13. just one of many vile quotes ...

“Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressman. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”

—February 1990.

full list of Ron Paul quotes on MLK at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/15/ron-paul-on-mlk-and-his-newsletters.html

[Cha]

14. He's a ol racist asshole and his son doesn't fall far from the poisoned tree.

[Jamaal510]

16. Holy ish!

I can't believe Ron Paul would say something like that. He really is a sicko! And yet, that was the same guy who people were going nuts over on YouTube in 2012...

[JustAnotherGen]

23. Amen

That's who these people really are. This is what they hold in their hearts. The leadership - and the people that vote for them.

This is just the blatant stuff - we both know what they mean when they use the words 'urban' or welfare queen or 'thug'. We see them. If it hurts their feelings to read/hear that - then so be it.

It's the truth.

[napkinz]

24. and now it's his son Rand who they are "going nuts over"

[butterfly77]

9. K&R..

[Rex]

15. The GOP hates the POTUS over the color of his skin. Always been that way.

They can make excuses until the cows come home. They HATE; minorities, women, white men not exactly like them, the planet. Obama reminds them how WRONG their entire existence is in politics. So they hate him some more! Irrational people doing and saying irrational things.

And they always get caught, it amazes me they actually have more than a million voters.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Huzzah!

This is why the GOP has completely disintegrated. Priebus tried to do an autopsy on a zombie party. They attack every policy decision the POTUS proffers - whether it is a Democratic one or one they came up with and signed off on before January 2009. Zombies only have one purpose and "thinking first before bashing" isn't it.

[seveneyes]

19. Partisan for sure but where is the racist evidence?

I read it twice to see what pertains to race and did not see it. After seeing how they treated Clinton, why would anyone expect it to be different with Obama? A Republican is going to hound any Democrat regardless of race. Especially the top guy.

[Rex]

22. Here are some examples

The KKK, White Identity Movement, Arian Nation don't have liberals as members. They also don't like minorities...know which political group agrees with them? Yes, I bet you do.

[napkinz]

25. Teapublican Racism ...