Posted on 08/10/2010 1:20:47 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Rep. Keith Ellison called for the resignation of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs after he said the “professional left” would only be satisfied with the Obama administration after “we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon.”
In an interview with The Hill, Gibbs vented further: “I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested.” On people who said that President Obama was too centrist, he said, “They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.”
Rep. Ellison told The Huffington Post, “This is not the first time that Mr. Gibbs has made untoward and inflammatory comments and I certainly hope that people in the White House don’t share his view that the left is unimportant to the presiden. I understand him having some loyalty to the president who employs him, but I think he’s walking over the line.”
Ellison said that Gibbs’ resignation was warranted. “That’d be fair, because this isn’t the first time. And, again, people of all political shades worked very hard to help the president become the president. Why would he want to go out and deliberately insult the president’s base? And why would he confuse legitimate critique with some sort of lack of loyalty.
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[Moslem] Keith Ellison called for the resignation of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs after he said the "professional left" would only be satisfied with the Obama administration after "we have Canadian healthcare and we've eliminated the Pentagon." ...Ellison told The Huffington Post, "This is not the first time that Mr. Gibbs has made untoward and inflammatory comments and I certainly hope that people in the White House don't share his view that the left is unimportant to the presiden. [sic] I understand him [sic] having some loyalty to the president who employs him, but I think he's walking over the line... people of all political shades worked very hard to help the president become the president. Why would he want to go out and deliberately insult the president's base? And why would he confuse legitimate critique with some sort of lack of loyalty."Why does Ellison confuse legitimate critiquie with some sort of lack of loyalty? Because he's another Islamic demagogue and a disgrace to the Congress.
Can you believe it?
I have never seen such a screwed up bunch of morans in my life.
yes, morans
What’s the problem? They won’t be happy until we have socialized health care and no military. Hell even then they won’t be happy, they’ll still find something to bitch about and say they are speaking “truth to power” even though they are in power.
Rep. Keith Ellison called for the resignation of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs after he said the “professional left” would only be satisfied with the Obama administration after “we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon.”
It doesn’t happen often but when Gibbs is right, he’s right.
I hope, hope, hope, they are driving the Left nuts.
I like Gibbs where he is. He shows America that we have an executive branch bent on totalitarian government that dictates to Congress what laws to pass, even drafts them for Congress,and rules by executive fiat, decides which laws on he books to enforce and which to not enforce based on a system of racial minority and ethnic minority nationalism.
No. Ellis doesn't get it. If he did he would be picking his battles , making the more important ones count, like repeal of Health Care, stopping Cap n Trade, and questioning Obama's leaving Iraq,questioning Obama's treason against Israel.Gibbs is a just little frog in a big pond of alligators.
Ellis, go wrestle the gators!
Requiring photo IDs to vote in federal elections would be banned under legislation introduced Wednesday by Rep. Keith Ellison, who said such requirements disenfranchise minorities, the poor, women, elderly and young people.
“While photo IDs seem harmless, they are in fact the modern day poll tax,” Ellison, D-Minn., said in a statement.
Ellison, who serves on the Judiciary Committee, got an important backer for the bill, as the panel's chairman, Michigan Democrat John Conyers, signed on a co-sponsor.
Ellison proposed the bill the day after the chief of the Justice Department's voting rights division, John Tanner, apologized at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing for saying that aging is not a problem with black voters because they die before they become elderly. Ellison and other Democrats grilled Tanner at that hearing.
At a National Latino Congreso in Los Angeles earlier in the month, Tanner had discussed state laws that require photo identification for voting, saying that elderly voters disproportionately don't have the proper IDs.
“That's a shame, you know, creating problems for elderly persons just is not good under any circumstance,” Tanner said, according to video posted on YouTube. “Of course, that also ties into the racial aspect because our society is such that minorities don't become elderly the way white people do. They die first.”
Tanner had also been criticized for clearing a Georgia law requiring voters to show government-issued photo IDs at the polls. A subsequent photo ID law was upheld by a federal judge last month, and the U.S. Supreme Court will consider Indiana's photo ID law, which is similar to Georgia's, this term.
Ellison noted that people do not need a photo ID to vote in Minnesota.
“In Minnesota we go to great lengths to make voting as inclusive as possible,” he said, arguing that has helped with voter turnout. But advocates of voter ID laws argue they're needed to prevent voter fraud.
Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said that requiring a voter ID helps preserve the integrity of the voting process.
“The right to vote is one of the most fundamental liberties we have as Americans,” he said. “And to protect that right, we must ensure that those who vote do so legally.”
“modern day poll tax,”
No, that would be if we made you pay to vote with a check and produce an ID to verify your check.
Watch a lefty's head explode: ask them if they believe kids should be “forced” to show valid photo ID before purchasing cigarettes. Or does that “disenfrachise” them?
Ellison is a disingenuous idiot.
I wouldn’t mind a national ID card, IF IT WAS NECESSARY TO USE IT TO VOTE, and if it was used to deport illegal aliens.
Yes Ellis is tilting at windmills when he should be locking and loading.
Reminds me of Ron Paul.
What an amusing thought!
It could be an attempt at triangulation. I don’t think Obama is that centrist.
Yeah; turn the devil on the devil. I love it.
I just hope he is not found with three bullets in the back of his head and his wallet missing.
Secretary Robert Gibbs after he said the “professional left” would only be satisfied with the Obama administration after “we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon.”
They're not even left enough for themselves. It's a real dilemma. Just see how Michael Moore, for instance, invests. They're stinkin’ hypocrites, every last one of ‘em. We know the GOP is far away from ideal. But the RATS are just plain pathetic, asinine, insane - pick your pejorative.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if Gibbs is a freeper in a couple of of years.”
LOL!
Biden, with his propensity for plagiarism - perfect!
While he looks innocent, zer0 is going to have his lackeys hound all the evil white people out of the administration and replace them with nation of islam thugs. He’s already gone a good ways toward that goal.
I really think this is all bull to MAKE Obama not look SO LEFT —as well as— the left are never happy.
Hmmm, Gibb’s statement sounds like Clinton whining about “the left-wing media.” I think the WH is going to try to fake to the right/middle.
Does Gibbs really think this will win back Independents for Obama?
LOL!
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