Posted on 02/09/2015 4:54:42 PM PST by Libloather
President Obama will meet Tuesday at the White House with members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), including freshman GOP Rep. Mia Love (Utah).
The meeting comes as top black leaders — including CBC Chairman G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) and Reps. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) and John Lewis (D-Ga.) — are vowing to skip a March 3 speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to protest an invitation they see as a slight to the president in the midst of high-stakes nuclear talks with Iran.
Love is currently the only Republican member of the CBC. Her office said Monday that she plans to attend Tuesday's White House meeting.
CBC members have been among the most ardent supporters of Obama, the nation's first black president, but there have also been tense periods, when the group felt the White House wasn't fighting hard enough for safety net programs, anti-poverty measures, and other initiatives beneficial to black and other minority communities.
Previewing Tuesday's meeting, Butterfield recently acknowledged that the relationship between Obama and the CBC is "complicated." But he was also quick to note Obama inherited a terrible economy, and he blamed Republicans for playing an obstructionist role, rather than working with the president to promote a recovery.
"There have been isolated disappointments with the White House," Butterfield said last month in an interview with The Hill. "But generally speaking I think — and I think that the vast, the overwhelming, majority of CBC members feel — that this president has been unfairly isolated by the Republicans. And his legacy is going to be a good legacy."
CBC leaders have hailed Obama's recent executive actions on immigration and Cuba, and they're hoping the president continues to act unilaterally on issues like criminal justice reform. The lawmakers have long promoted legislation to overhaul the justice system, but the push grew more pronounced in the wake of several incidents last year, when unarmed black men were killed at the hands of white police officers.
"I encourage him to use more of his executive authority, and I believe he will," Butterfield said.
Still, he said the CBC would not adopt the strategy of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), which went to the White House promoting a list of immigration reforms the group wanted Obama to install unilaterally — many of which the president adopted in November.
"We're not quite at the point where we want to present a manifesto to the president. That's not our mode of operation," Butterfield said. "The CHC has their personality, and we have ours."
Listening to Obama and the CBC, I somehow jumped to the conclusion that black people don't like Jews.
I know that can't be right, because black people can't be racists, that's my job.
So when I hear folks talking about the diamonds merchants in Hymietown, I need to remember that's not hate speech, because some folks can say that and other folks can't.
When is Bam-Bam going to meet with Geological-Americans???
I'm being repressed!!!
It’s awesome she’s there! She can report on what they are talking about, and expose them for what they are, hopefully.
Somebody help me out here!
You help ME out!
LOL! Fake yawn.
...NEW NATIONAL VOTER ID CARD REQUIRED TO VOTE.”
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Not for me. National ID cards is the beginning of the end. Hell, SSN are bad enough!!!
the miserable racist IslamoNazi basturd POS!
This is all making me more and more curious about what Bibi has to say. It must be something Obama really doesn’t want us to hear.
Throw a pair of Nikes into the huddle, and watch them attack each other.
barack - methinks thou doth protest to much.
dems scared crapless about a plain spoken jew with balls of steel.
Then it's going to be a longgggggggggggggggggggg presentation.
Another BAM - he’s the PRESIDENT of the country -
talk about ‘protocol”
'This is Brian Williams reporting for NBC News.'
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LOL - good one libloather...
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