Excerpt from ANN COULTER’s brand-new book, DEMONIC: THE LIBERAL MOB ENDANGERING AMERICA

Human Events ^ | 06/07/2011 | ANN COULTER

[Yosemitest]

DEMONIC: THE LIBERAL MOB ENDANGERING AMERICA CHAPTER 10 (excerpt)
CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE MOB: GEORGE WALLACE, BULL CONNOR, ORVAL FAUBUS AND OTHER DEMOCRATS
By Ann Coulter


It was the Democratic Party that ginned up the racist mob against blacks
and it is the Democratic Party ginning every new mob today—
ironically, all portraying themselves as the equivalent of the Freedom Riders.
With real civil rights secure—
try to find a restaurant that won’t serve a black person
—modern civil rights laws benefit only the mob,
not the victims of the mob, as American blacks had been.
Just as fire seeks oxygen, Democrats seek power,
which is why they will always be found championing the mob
whether the mob consists of Democrats lynching blacks
or Democrats slandering the critics of ObamaCare as racists.

Democrats have gone from demagoguing white (trash) voters
with claims that Republicans are the party of blacks,
to demagoguing black voters telling them Republicans are the party of racists.
Any mob in a storm.

The liberal fairy tale that Southern bigots simply switched parties, from Democrat to Republican, is exactly wrong.
What happened is:
The Democrats switched mobs.
Democrats will champion any group of hooligans in order to attain power.
As Michael Barone said of the vicious segregationist (and Democrat) George Wallace,
he was “a man who really didn’t believe in anything—
a political opportunist who used opposition to integration
to try and get himself ahead.”

This is why the Democrats are able to transition so seamlessly
from defending Bull Connor racists
to defending Black Panthers, hippies, yippies,
Weathermen, feminists, Bush derangement syndrome liberals,
Moveon.org, and every other indignant, angry mob.

Every segregationist who ever served in the Senate was a Democrat
and remained a Democrat except one.
Even Strom Thurmond—
the only one who later became a Republican
—remained a Democrat for eighteen years after running for president as a Dixiecrat.
There’s a reason they were not called the “Dixiecans.”

A curious sleight of hand is required to hide from the children the fact
that all the segregationists in the Senate were Democrats.
In history books, such as Robert A. Caro’s biography of Lyndon Johnson, the seg- regationists are not called “Democrats.”
They’re called “Southerners.”3

Except it wasn’t just “Southerners” voting against civil rights.
Not every senator who opposed black civil rights was a Southerner,
but every one was a Democrat.
In addition to the Southern Democrats who voted against putting the 1957 civil rights bill on the Senate calendar, for example,
there were five Democrats from nowhere near the South:
Democratic senator Wayne Morse of Oregon—a favorite target of Senator Joe McCarthy
—Democratic senator Warren Magnuson of Washington,
Democratic senator James Murray of Montana,
Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana,
and Democratic senator Joseph O’Mahoney of Wyoming.4

According to Caro, the Western Democrats traded their votes on civil rights
for a dam authorization on the Idaho-Oregon border.
That’s how dear black civil rights were to liberals—
they traded them away for a dam.

While Democrats are the party of the mob,
Republicans are the party of calm order,
willing to breach the peace only when it comes to great transgressions against humanity—
slavery, abortion, and terrorism.

After the Civil War, it was Republicans
who passed the Thirteenth Amendment, granting slaves their freedom;
the Fourteenth Amendment, granting them citizenship;
and Fifteenth Amendment, giving them the right to vote.
It was Republicans who sent federal troops to the Democratic South
to enforce the hard-won rights of the freed slaves.

Then, as now, the Democrats favored the hooligans.
The Ku Klux Klan was originally formed as a terrorist group to attack Republicans
who had come to the Democratic South after the Civil War
to help en- force legal equality for freed slaves.

It was—again—Republicans who passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866
and the Reconstruction Act of 1867, both signed into law by Republican president Ulysses S. Grant.
Under the “living Constitution,” the Supreme Court upheld fraudulent “separate but equal” accommodations
for blacks in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson.

Republicans kept introducing federal civil rights bills
and Democrats kept blocking them—
a bill to protect black voters in the South in 1890;
antilynching bills in 1922, 1935, and 1938;
and anti–poll tax bills in 1942, 1944, and 1946.

With a lock on the racist mob vote, Democratic politicians won elections
and promptly resegregated the entire South with Jim Crow laws.
In 1913, Progressive Democrat president Woodrow Wilson even instituted segregation in Washington, D.C.,
bringing Jim Crow to the federal workforce.
Wilson summarily dismissed black officials from their federal jobs in the South and in D.C.

A friend of Wilson said that with him running the country,
“Negroes should expect to be treated as a servile race.”7
There’s your post-racial Democratic Party.

A crucial part of the Democrats’ victim folklore is that
they have been losing the South to Republicans over the past half century
because the Democrats stood on principle to oppose race discrimination,
while the Republican Party pandered to racists in the South
—a region of the country liberals believe is composed primarily of Klan members.
(That might be your first clue as to why Southerners don’t like liberals.)
The Republican Party’s allegedly racist appeal to Southerners
is darkly referred to seventeen times a day in the mainstream media as the “Southern Strategy.”

In fact, it was Eisenhower who broke the Democrats’ hold on the South in 1952,
and if anyone was appealing to bigots that year, it wasn’t Eisenhower.
Democrat Adlai Stevenson, known to experience “personal discomfort in the presence of Negroes,”12
chose as his running mate John Sparkman of Alabama, a Democrat segregationist.

And yet the Old South—
which according to mainstream media accounts
voted Republican solely out of racial resentment
—suddenly started voting Republican in 1952.
Ike carried Tennessee, Virginia, and Florida outright,
and nearly stole Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia from Stevenson.
(Eisenhower lost Kentucky by a microscopic .07 percent
and lost West Virginia and South Carolina by fewer than 4 percentage points.)

This was just four years after Democrat-turned-Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond won four Southern states.
But running with a segregationist didn’t help Stevenson in the South a few years later.

Then, in 1956, the Republican Party platform endorsed the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education that desegregated public schools;
the Democratic platform did not, and would not,
as long as Democrats were winning elections by appealing to the racist mob.
This led the black congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. to break with his party
and endorse Eisenhower for president.

Governor Orval Faubus, progressive New Deal Democrat, blocked the schoolhouse door to the Little Rock Central High School
with the state’s National Guard rather than allow nine black students to attend.
In response, President Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard to take it out of Faubus’s hands.
Then he sent the 101st Airborne Division to walk the black children to school
and stay with them throughout the day.

Eisenhower implemented the 1948 executive order President Truman had issued—but then ignored—desegregating the military.
Also unlike Truman, Eisenhower hired blacks for prominent positions in his administration.

It was Republicans who overwhelmingly introduced, promoted, and passed every civil rights act
from the end of the Civil War right up to and including the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
President Eisenhower pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, written by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, guaranteeing black voting rights,
to be enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice.

During the endless deliberation on Eisenhower’s civil rights bill, Senator Lyndon Johnson warned his fellow segregationist Democrats,
“Be ready to take up the goddamned nigra bill again.”
Senator Sam Ervin, another liberal luminary—
instrumental in the destruction of anti-communist Republicans Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon
—told his fellow segregationists,
“I’m on your side, not theirs,”
and advised them to face up to the fact that
“we’ve got to give the goddamned niggers something.”14

Until 1964, every civil rights act had presented no possible constitutional problems—
those federal laws were fully within Congress’s enumerated powers to enact
because they were directed at government officials (Democrats)
who were violating the Constitution by denying black citizens the right to vote.

Federal laws aimed at discrimination by government actors are expressly within Congress’s authority under the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Democrats opposed these civil rights laws
not because of any questions about Congress’s authority to enact them—
they couldn’t care less about the Constitution
—but because they wanted to keep discriminating.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act was again supported overwhelmingly by Republicans and less so by Democrats.
As with the 1957 and 1960 civil rights acts, it was Republicans who passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act by huge majorities,
with a distinctly smaller majority of Democrats supporting it.
In the Senate, for example, 82 percent of Republicans voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act,
compared with only 66 percent of Democrats.
In the House, 80 percent of Republicans supported the ’64 bill,
compared with only 63 percent of Democrats.

The only reason Democratic majorities were beginning to support civil rights for blacks was
that by 1964—thanks to Republican voting rights acts—more blacks were voting.
Democrats couldn’t keep winning elections in some parts of the country by appealing to the racist mob.

As Democratic senator Carter Glass of Virginia had explained years earlier,
“Discrimination!
Why that is exactly what we propose,”
saying the Democrats sought to
“remove every negro voter who can be gotten rid of,
legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate.”
The Democrats’ position on civil rights depended on where the votes were.

Once the Democrats got involved, civil rights became just another racket with another mob.
Unlike previous civil rights laws, the 1964 Civil Rights Act included provisions aimed at purely private actors,
raising the hackles of some constitutional purists, notably Barry Goldwater, the Republicans’ 1964 presidential nominee.
Goldwater, like the rest of his party, had supported every single civil rights bill until the 1964 act.
But he broke with the vast majority of his fellow Republicans to oppose the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Like many other conservatives opposed to a living, growing, breathing Constitution,
Goldwater actually opposed only two of the seven major provisions of the bill—
those regulating privately owned housing and public accommodations.
But there were other provisions he would have made tougher.
For example, Goldwater wanted to make it mandatory
that federal funds be withheld from programs practicing discrimination,
rather than discretionary, as President Kennedy had requested.

Goldwater was a vehement foe of segregation.
He was a founder of the NAACP in Arizona,
donating the equivalent of several thousand dollars
to the organization’s efforts to integrate the public schools.
When he was head of the Arizona National Guard, he had integrated the state Guard
before Harry Truman announced he was integrating the U.S. military.
As the Washington Post said, Goldwater
“ended racial segregation in his family department stores,
and he was instrumental in ending it in Phoenix schools and restaurants
and in the Arizona National Guard.”

But he was also a believer in limited government.
It was, after all, racist Democratic politicians in the South
using the force of the government to violate private property rights
by enforcing the Jim Crow laws in the first place.
As Sowell points out, it wasn’t the private bus companies
demanding that blacks sit in the back of the bus,
it was the government.

Goldwater not only had personally promoted desegregation, he belonged to a party
that had been fighting for civil rights for the previous century against Democratic obstructionism.
Lyndon Johnson voted against every civil rights bill during his tenure in the Senate.
But by the time he became president, he had flipped 180 degrees.
Appealing to regional mobs wouldn’t work with a national electorate.

Unlike mob-appeasing Democrats, Goldwater based his objections to certain parts of the 1964 Civil Rights Act on purely constitutional principles.
Along with other constitutional purists in the Republican Party,
Goldwater opposed federal initiatives in a lot of areas, not just those involving race.
By contrast, segregationist Democrats routinely criticized the exercise of federal power and expenditure of federal funds
when it involved ending discrimination against blacks—
but gladly accepted federal pork projects for their states.

It would be as if,
after fighting the Democrats for a hundred years over the issue of abortion,
Republicans finally got Roe v. Wade overturned,
and then, out of pure political calculation, Democrats jumped on the bandwagon
and demanded a federal law outlawing abortion.
Some pro-life Republicans would probably object
that federal law outlawing abortion
is not one of Congress’s enumerated powers.

On the basis of Republicans’ constitutional objections,
Democrats would then reverse the entire history of the pro-life movement
and start claiming the Democratic Party alone
fought to end abortion in America.
That is exactly what they have done with the history of civil rights.

[Yosemitest]

Thanks Ann, for such great work.

I ordered my signed copy of "Demonic". how about you?

[Yosemitest]

And let us not forget ...

Obama: "I Don't Want the Folks who Created the Mess to do a lot of Talking" "

Okay, then the DEMOCRATS need to shut up!!!

Lets review:

Who was it that moved Medicare Trust Funds out of the "trust box" and into the General Revenue, replacing them with Government I.O.U.s?
"In early 1968 President Lyndon Johnson [DEMOCRAT] made a change in the budget presentation by including Social Security and all other trust funds in a"unified budget." "

Who was it that expanded Medicare and Medicaid to cover many, many more people than it was originally designed to cover?

The History of Medicare

In 1965, the Social Security Act established both Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare was a responsibility of the Social Security Administration (SSA), while Federal assistance to the State Medicaid programs was administered by the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). SSA and SRS were agencies in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). In 1977, the Health Care Financing Administration was created under HEW to effectively coordinate Medicare and Medicaid. In 1980 HEW was divided into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The first U.S. President to propose a prepaid health insurance plan was Harry S. Truman [DEMOCRAT]. On November 19, 1945, in a special message to Congress, President Truman outlined a comprehensive, prepaid medical insurance plan for all people through the Social Security system. The plan included doctors and hospitals, and nursing, laboratory, and dental services; it was dubbed "National Health Insurance." Furthermore, medical insurance benefits for needy people were to be financed from Federal revenues.

Over the years, lawmakers narrowed the field of health insurance recipients largely to social security beneficiaries. A national survey found that only 56 percent of those 65 years of age or older had health insurance. President John F. Kennedy [DEMOCRAT] pressed legislators for health insurance for the aged. However, it wasn't until 1965 that President Lyndon B. Johnson signed H.R. 6675 (The Social Security Act of 1965; PL 89-97) to provide health insurance for the elderly and the poor.

On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Bill (Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act) in Independence, Missouri in the presence of former President Truman, who received the first Medicare card at the ceremony; Lady Bird Johnson, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, and Mrs. Truman also were present. President Johnson remarked: "We marvel not simply at the passage of this Bill but that it took so many years to pass it."

Medicare extended health coverage to almost all Americans aged 65 or older. About 19 million beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare in the first year of the program. Medicaid provided access to health care services for certain low-income persons and expanded the existing Federal-State welfare structure that assisted the poor.

The 1972 Social Security Amendments expanded Medicare to provide coverage to two additional high risk groups disabled persons receiving cash benefits for 24 months under the social security program and persons suffering from end-stage renal disease.

...(continued at link)
So Democrats,
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE
FOR INSURING THE FAILURE
OF THE MEDICARE/MEDICAID PROGRAM!!!

So DEMOCRATS ... SHUT UP!!!

You have no integrity!!!

[Jerrybob]

Great title for a book: Demonic. Hard-core liberals are certainly that. Take any issue: the poor -- do far better under programs initiated by conservatives than they do by programs initiated by liberals; however, liberals have the poor convinced that the opposite is true.

Same thing with blacks, same thing with jobs, same thing with the environment -- everything. Liberals call good bad and bad good AND THEY GET AWAY WITH IT -- and people believe them....

[rockinqsranch]

Bookmark for Later Read. Got halfway through, but gotta go now. Thanks for the post.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Yosemitest.

It was the Democratic Party that ginned up the racist mob against blacks and it is the Democratic Party ginning every new mob today -- ironically, all portraying themselves as the equivalent of the Freedom Riders.

The Demwits are the party of slavery, the party of the Klan, the party of Jim Crow, the party of segregation, the party of racism, the party of abortion, the party of state-engineered destruction of the family, the party of atheism...

[corlorde]

Yup, bookmark.

[wintertime]

I ordered my signed copy of “Demonic”. how about you?
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Not a dime to Coulter from me! She is insulting.

If she can't defend Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution and denigrates those who do, then she is an entertainer and opportunist. She is not a patriot or a true conservative.

[RoadTest]

If only the black people of this country knew this:

Slavery - Democrat
Liberation - Republican

Segregation - Democrat
Integration - Republican

Ghettos - Democrat
Opportunity - Republican

Get the word out.

[Rummyfan]

Received my copy from Amazon today. Got a long plane ride Thursday so will crack it open then.

[RoadTest]

“Not a dime to Coulter from me! She is insulting.

If she can’t defend Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution and denigrates those who do, then she is an entertainer and opportunist. She is not a patriot or a true conservative.”

Article II - The Executive Branch Note

Section 1 - The President Note1 Note2

The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

(The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not lie an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; a quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two-thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice-President.) (This clause in parentheses was superseded by the 12th Amendment.)

What’s the problem?

[wintertime]

I am “cranky” enough not to buy this book and I urge others not do so as well.

[libertylover]

...the party of acceptance of Crimes Against Nature...

[ViLaLuz]

“Not a dime to Coulter from me! She is insulting.”

But, but, she’s the right wing Judy Garland!

[OKSooner]

We saw Ann with Hannity last nite and poor Sean... It was like Ann had drunk a whole pot of coffee in the green room.

We like Ann but she really needs to chill some (I mean, Hannity's her friend, right?) and go get a pizza every once in a while.

[RoadTest]

“I am “cranky” - - - “

That’s the problem. That answers my question.

[DJ MacWoW]

What’s the problem?

The problem is that you cut off the appropriate section.

No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

[wintertime]

But, but, she’s the right wing Judy Garland!
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Very cute! Sitting here laughing.

And...Coulter is just as much and entertainer and as phony as those cute little red slippers.

[RoadTest]

“The problem is that you cut off the appropriate section.

No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”

Well, I quoted the whole section as it was printed in the site (http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html) I used. I didn’t know any of it had been “cut off”.

[DJ MacWoW]

US Constitution online - U.S. Constitution - Article 2 Section 1

[wintertime]

What’s the problem?
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It's that little ‘ole “natural born” section. That's the problem. Those who can't defend the constitution are not conservatives.

Evidently Coulter isn't a conservative. She **uses** conservatives. She is an actor and poser. She merely let her mask down a little when she mocked that by calling them “CRANKS” and used the KKK to make her point.