Posted on 09/07/2005 12:50:56 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Democrats shift strategy on Roberts
Plan to use Katrina to highlight racial and economic divide
By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | September 7, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats said yesterday that they will invoke the vast disparities in income and living conditions laid bare by the Hurricane Katrina disaster to sharpen their questioning of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. at his confirmation hearings next week.
The scenes of devastation featuring primarily poor African-American residents in New Orleans have highlighted the widening gap between rich and poor, said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts.
With Roberts having urged a narrow interpretation of civil rights laws in the past, Senate Democrats will link the scenes of economic hardship with the constitutional and legal issues that surround efforts to address racial and economic inequalities, he said.
''We have made very important progress over the period of the last 50 years in knocking down walls of discrimination so that people can participate and be a part of a changed America," said Kennedy, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. ''And he's going to be asked to explain some of his advice that would have, I think, undermined that progress in important ways."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Katrina Victims -- the new Bonus Army.
Bush asked Americans to open their hearts and pocketbooks and homes to flood victims...and that's exactly what's happening...private donations and private efforts are helping hundreds of thousands. All this will be used as a stick to beat Bush: 'The feds and Bush didn't care so the average American had to pick up the ball...' You can imagine the pictures they'll dig up. No white faces. Just some poor black man holding the limp body of a child and wading through flood waters....
C-Span reading the Times Picayune editorial this am, slamming FEMA. No matter what the laws are, Blanco can't be blamed for worrying about putting the state under FEMA's power. It's all about Bush 'shifting blame'. I hit the remote.
With that in mind, I'll laugh every time tubby Teddy asks a question.
The dems didn't care how many poor people drowned in NO, and they don't care how many die in race riots, nor do they care for the country. They are despicable.
Scrappleface?
The Onion?
Man, the Democrats are really desperate. This is going to be fun to watch. I can't wait until Teddy and Chuck ask Roberts about people's constitutional right to free health care and free automobiles.
"Man, the Democrats are really desperate. This is going to be fun to watch. I can't wait until Teddy and Chuck ask Roberts about people's constitutional right to free health care and free automobiles."
And free plasma TV's.
Widening gap between rich and poor , what makes them "rich" and "poor" ? W.O.R.K.!!!
Sonehow working for a living has become the evil thing to do. Not EXPECTING everything to be handed to one by govt is bad.
These guys trying this stuff against John Roberts is going to be like a gang bringing knives to a gunfight.
Can you say, "Desperation."
And we will allow them to cut their own throats and look like the fools they are.
What a bunch of desperate, race baiting bigots the democrats are.
Major boomerang building here.
Many, many black people, who are being helped by private charities, have been quoted recently as saying they never trusted white people before but this Katrina experience has completely changed their thinking.
As usual, dim/lib perceptions have no basis in reality.
Stupid is as stupid does. The American public isn't going to buy into questioning a Supreme Court nominee about Katrina or what happened in New Orleans.
(shrug) Bring it on. I'll be interested to see how Reid handles it.
A fillibuster is pre-ordained. The democrats will find some fragile excuse to proclaim Roberts as being an "extraordinary circumstance." (For example, Mr. Roberts, isn't it true you wipe your arse after deficating?) The MSM will back up the dems. (For example, isn't it racist to wipe your arse?)
The question will then be, what does McCain do after he has been made to look like a fool? Will he admit that the "deal" is worth shit and vote for the Constitutional Option or will he engage in the same pretzel twisting exercise as the dems to find Roberts to be an extraordinary circumstance? I say he pretzels.
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