Cornyn demands Harry Reid step down as ML

[cali]

Cornyn calls for Reid to step down as Senate leader

Texas Sen. John Cornyn today became the first member of the Republican congressional leadership to call for Nevada Sen. Harry Reid to step down as Senate Majority Leader.


Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said that Reid's 2008 description of Barack Obama as a "light skinned" candidate "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one," quoted in a newly released book, disqualify the embattled Nevadan from serving as the Senate's leader.

The Texas Republican -- along with other GOP officials -- accused top Democrats of having a double-standard: demanding the resignation of then-Majority Leader Trent Lott for lauding then-Sen. Strom Thurmond's segregationist past and accepting an apology from Reid.

"In 2002, Democrats expressed outrage at Sen. Lott and called on him to step down as leader," Cornyn, the GOP's top Senate political strategist, declared in a statement released by the party's campaign committee. "That same standard should be applied to Senator Reid and his embarrassing and racially insensitive statements; statements, I would add, that Sen. Reid still has yet to clarify. As we await his explanation, Sen. Reid should do the right thing, follow the example that he himself set in 2002, and step down as Majority Leader."

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http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/2010/01/cornyn_calls_for_reid_to_step.html

[leveymg]

1. What a canard! They like Harry just where he is.

This is their way of trying to have it both ways. By calling for his resignation the Dems rally around him. If he does leave, as many progressive Democrats have been pushing for, the GOP takes credit for his removal. What trash.

[malaise]

2. Barack the magic negro

Where was he on that one?
Where was he on the watermelons on the lawn?

Poor ReTHUGS it must be hard pretending to have not said worse things about Obama.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Oh yes, because the situations are so comparable.

:eyes:

What a total asshole.

"Back in December 2002, Cornyn, a freshly minted senator, never called on Lott to resign, though as pressure mounted, Lott did step down as leader.

"Trent Lott has stated that his comments were not an endorsement of a segregationist policy, and I take him at his word," Cornyn said at the time."

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Who is setting the "double standard?"

[w8liftinglady]

4. Way to go,John...what a dick

Cornyn's civil rights voting record
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=15375&type=category&category=13&go.x=12&go.y=21

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

5. So here's what you do, there, Johnny....

Change parties and become a Democrat. And then you, too, can vote on who gets to be the Majority Leader.

Elsewise, just go pound sand, OK?