Republicans Defend Slavery to Attack Kagan

[underpants]

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/republicans-defend-slavery-to-attack-kagan

One month after Republican Governors Bob McDonnell and Haley Barbour celebrated a slavery-free version of the Confederacy, the GOP is defending slavery in order to attack President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan. In an RNC memo released today, Republicans blast the former clerk to Thurgood Marshall for concurring with her boss' assessment that the Constitution as originally conceived and drafted was "defective." Of course, that's just the latest rotted carcass of the Confederacy to be exhumed as a Republican talking point.

Unable to prevent three-fifths of the Senate from voting on Kagan's nomination, Republicans instead are suggesting the Founders' three-fifths of a person standard for counting slaves was no defect. As the Hill reported, the RNC, including Michael Steele, objects to Kagan's citation of a 1987 Marshall speech in a 1993 tribute to her late mentor. Among the offending if self-evident passages from the 1987 address by Marshall:


Even more alarming to the Republican mind than Marshall's spotlight on the early Constitution ("We the People" included, in the words of the Framers, "the whole Number of free Persons.") was Kagan's approving citation of his belief that the mission of the Supreme Court was to "was to “show a special solicitude for the despised and the disadvantaged." Inquiring conservative minds, the Hill reported, now want to know:

“Does Kagan Still View Constitution ‘As Originally Drafted And Conceived’ As ‘Defective’?” the RNC asked in its research document. “And Does Kagan Still Believe That The Supreme Court's Primary Mission Is To ‘Show A Special Solicitude For The Despised And Disadvantaged’?

[tekisui]

1. Let it all out there, repukes.

[beyurslf]

2. Isn't it defective to think that "we the people" referred only to white, property owning men

and the rights contained in the Constitution only applied to them as well?

[Rex]

3. Repukes are disgusting people.

[gmoney]

4. well, those "lucky ducky" slaves didn't have to pay taxes!

Sounds pretty sweet to some of those Republicans... just forget about the other ways in which they paid.

So, if you pay no taxes, you only count for 3/5 of a person and don't get the vote. That's almost the talking point some right wingers are making now... Boortz actually comes out and says it, if you receive more in benefits from the gummint than you pay in taxes, then you shouldn't get to vote. And if you can't speak English, you shouldn't get to vote. And if you're this or that... they'd take it back to white landowning males in a heartbeat if they could manage it.

[underpants]

8. Free travel! Free housing! Free food! Guranteed job!

I mean-what's not to love?!?!?


:sarcasm: of course

[gmoney]

10. "You just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day... it's great to be an American"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chaP4MCXp4w

[underpants]

14. Great song

I had never heard that before

[RufusTFirefly]

12. That's right! Full employment! n/t

[midnight]

5. Wow. Showing concern for the less advantaged has always been a thorn to the greedy Republicans.

"the Supreme Court was to "was to “show a special solicitude for the despised and the disadvantaged."

Main Entry: so·lic·i·tude
Pronunciation: \sə-ˈli-sə-ˌtüd, -ˌtyüd\
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 a : the state of being concerned and anxious b : attentive care and protectiveness; also : an attitude of earnest concern or attention <expressed solicitude for his health>
2 : a cause of care or concern —usually used in plural

[opihimoimoi]

6. What is it about the GOP that they continue the OBSTRUCTIONIST MODE??

No wonder many Pubs refuse to afix an "R" next to their name in the election campaigns....

They have sullied their brand name no end...but WHY?

Why are they this way??? Unable to see Reason, Logic, Common Good....instead clinging to Bait and Switch, Denigration, and Blaming....traits of BULLYISM...

[underpants]

9. Because that is all they have

are they going to talk about their economic "beleifs"?
are they going to talk about their warrior abilities?
are they going to talk about their national security achievements? (oddly they actually do)
environmental?
enclusiveness?
Any achievements?

[opihimoimoi]

13. Their Collective Effort is DISMAL AND COUNTER PRODUCTIVE

Their record speaks for itself

Everytime they fool enough people to reach public office...they blow it...

Its ongoing

Why people still believe their crap is mystifying

[NJmaverick]

7. Typical

[Forkboy]

11. At least they're consistent.

:crazy:

[ehrnst]

15. Thomas Jefferson thought the Constitution would need to be changed....

"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did beyond amendment.... Let us follow no such examples, nor weakly believe that one generation is not as capable of taking care of itself, and of ordering its own affairs... Each generation is as independent of the one preceding, as that was of all which had gone before." ~ Thomas Jefferson, in a letter 1816

[underpants]

16. Great quote

thanks

[Mojeoux]

17. Thomas Jefferson was a smart man. The Texas book people dissed his honor,

but in this context, I can see why they wish he would get out of history.

Even his infamous slave ownership, won't keep him from being kicked to the RW curb.
With lefty views like this great quote, Jefferson is no friend to the modern teabagger.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

18. Inquiring conservative minds?

Sorry, but you lost me there. Ain't no such thing.

[JI7]

19. this is also why they don't consider Obama to be a citizen

and qualified to become president. no minority is qualified.