Posted on 03/19/2015 1:48:55 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
The congressional impasse over Loretta Lynch's nomination for attorney general is taking a nasty turn, with the delay fueling a round of racially charged accusations on Capitol Hill.
For weeks, Democrats have accused their Senate Republican colleagues of using the nomination as an excuse for waging proxy battles on sticky issues like immigration and abortion.
But the simmering frustration boiled over Wednesday as a top Democrat accused the GOP of making Lynch -- who would be the nation's first black female attorney general -- "sit in the back of the bus."
"It is a civil rights milestone that her name has been submitted," said Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, who noted 130 days have passed since President Obama tapped Lynch to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder. The Illinois Democrat argued there is "no substantive reason" for the delay, which he likened to being "asked to sit in the back of the bus when it comes to the Senate calendar."
The sharp remark did not go unchallenged.
Responding on Twitter, a Mitch McConnell spokesman posted a photo of U.S. Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown, who is black, along with the caption: "Remember that time Sen. Durbin led filbusters [sic] in an attempt to defeat this judge?" Democrats blocked Brown's nomination for nearly two years after President George W. Bush nominated her in 2003.
Lynch's nomination is stalled over a separate matter.
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These people grow tiresome.
That’s great!
Add on “Who you calling YOU PEOPLE?” even though the poor victim never uttered such a phrase...
Typical Durbin. Typical democrat.
Responding to Durbin’s complaint, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who is black, rejected any racial basis for the delay of the Lynch vote. “It is helpful to have a long memory and to remember that Durbin voted against Condoleezza Rice during the 40th anniversary of the March [on Selma]. So I think, in context, it’s just offensive that we have folks who are willing to race bait on such an important issue as human trafficking. Sometimes people use race as an issue that is hopefully going to motivate folks for their fight. But what it does, is it infuriates people.”
It has been a good run over fifty years, hasn't it?
5.56mm
Good for him; only another black would be allowed to say that.
It isn’t hard to expose the hypocrisy of the left; it is just hard to publicize it.
OMG They’re calling us racists!!
The Lynch vote happens in 3...2...1...
Well, THAT was unexpected! *SNORT*
You might ask racist-in-chief Obama why he keeps filling this position with negroes.
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