Posted on 01/11/2006 7:11:37 AM PST by Tarkin
I guess we all know that the Democrats, and especially the Democrats from the Judiciary Committee are a bunch of %#&*@!, I mean really, the Democrats that sit there are the essence of crazy lunacy. But that's not the point of this post. Recently I was doing a little research on the history of judicial nominations and I found a little information about senator James O. Eastland from Mississippi (of course a Democrat). Of course you could easily suspect that a Southern Democratic senator in the 50s, 60s and 70s would be a racist, but HE was really something:
(from various sources)
During the 1950s, Eastland earned a reputation as an open and unashamed racist and a vociferous opponent of the civil rights movement. When the United States Supreme Court decision in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education was delivered Eastland denounced it, saying:
"On May 17, 1954, the Constitution of the United States was destroyed because of the Supreme Court's decision. You are not obliged to obey the decisions of any court which are plainly fraudulent [and based on] sociological considerations."
That statement was of course not surprising, as all southern Democrats opposed desegration, but unlike the others he only got worse. In 1956 Eastland while addressing a rally of the White Citizens' Council said:
"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to abolish the Negro race, proper methods should be used. Among these are guns, bows and arrows, slingshots and knives.... All whites are created equal with certain rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of dead niggers."
Try to imagine ANY Republican saying something like that.. And guess what the Democrats did with this guy? Ehhh, in the same year in which he delivered this nice speech, they appointed him as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he served until his retirement in 1978. You would think that this new, very important position changed him? Wrong! Many years later Eastland would stare coldly down a committee table at Sen. Jacob Javits of New York, who was Jewish (and, of course, Republican) and say, "I don't like you-or your kind." Nice guy, wasn't he? So what did the Democrats do? They made him President pro-tempore of the Senate in 1972! Hey this guy was 3rd in line of presidential succession (and even 2nd in the short periods after Agnew's and Nixon's resignations, when there was no Vice-President). Imagine this nice fellow becoming POTUS! Oh and another small thing, don't forget that he also served as a director of the Pioneer Fund, which described itself as a "foundation dedicated to improving the race". Oh, and also when three civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman went missing in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, he told President Lyndon Johnson that the incident was a hoax, there was no Ku Klux Klan in the state, and that the three had gone to Chicago.
So overall, he was a nice guy and a fine Democrat, wasn't he? Now you can see why the Democrats made him Chairman of the Judiciary Committee right? After all they place their best people over there. Kennedy, Leahy, Feinstein, Feingold, Biden, Durbin, Schumer et al. (am I forgeting anybody?). James O. Eastland was a worthy predecessor...
the dems place jerks on committees because that' sall they have.
Maybe they don't place jerks on the committee. Perhaps, the senior Democrats are jerks. The evidence seems to indicate that it is so.
Because all Democrats are jerks?
The Peter Principle.
I thought of it before I read any replies, but being late to the thread I'll have to join the chorus,...
"Because that's all they have."
You beat me to it. LOL
Because the Democrats' entire bench strength consists of jerks, and if they weren't allowed to field them, they'd have no presence at all on congressional committees.
ARLEN SPECTOR ---- H - E - L - L - O !!!!
Yeah, but they're placing their absolutely WORST jerks on the Judiciary Committee.
One man's jerk is another man's advocate.
Their only choice other than outsourcing (outside the dem party) is to place jerks on the Judicial Committee-they can't place what they ain't got.
I think it is very VERY scary that the immediate and future security of America depends upon self-serving career politicians typically representing the Democrat party. Their evident low characters and limited mentalities contrast sharply with Alito's far superior intellect, scope of knowledge and reflected wisdom. I've said it before, and I am saying again: All of America's problems can be directly attributed to Congress and career politicians.
These things would probably take about 15 minutes if they took the cameras out of the room.
Are you sure you have the right Eastland? By the time line, maybe his daddy or uncle said these things?
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