click the pic
Posted on 02/03/2012 6:48:01 AM PST by Kaslin
Congressman Jim Moran is an old white Democrat from Virginia who thinks he can judge whether we minority conservatives are acting sufficiently non-white enough. Moran's an inveterate bully, a brawler, a crook and a bigot. And not one of his civility-preaching liberal colleagues has the courage to call him out.
Responding on cable news to GOP Rep. Allen West's blunt criticisms of President Obama this week, Moran derided the retired U.S. Army colonel, who is black, as "not representative of the African-American community." Moran then launched into the kind of tired race-traitor tirade I've heard from progressives of pallor for more than 20 years.
How dare we "people of color" stray from the left's ideological plantation? If we choose personal responsibility over entitlement, capitalism over statism or self-determination over identity politics, presumptuous white liberals appoint themselves spokespeople for our forefathers and deciders of our true destinies.
To wit: Lt. Col. West "just seems clueless now that he has climbed aboard ship," Moran fumed. "He's climbed this ladder of opportunity that was constructed by so many of his ancestors' sweat, sacrifice, blood, you know, they did everything they could for his generation to be successful. But now that he's climbed on board ship, instead of reaching down and steadying the ladder, he wants to push it off."
West, his father, his mother and his brother all dedicated their lives to military service; four consecutive generations of his family served in the U.S. armed forces. As a freshman congressman, West's message has been a compelling agenda of self-empowerment. For this, he is savaged by a House colleague as a racial saboteur?
But Moran was just warming up. Next, he contrasted conservative West with big-government savior Barack Obama, who he said acted in proper accordance with his ancestors "by reducing college tuition and training our workers, trying to get a decent job for everybody" and leaving a "constructive legacy."
Er, how's the savior's near double-digit unemployment, record food stamp enrollment, re-inflation of the housing and higher-education bubbles, and massive redistribution of wealth from the working class to the Wall Street bundler class working out for you?
Moran hailed Obama as "our Lion King" and compared his Republican detractors to the "hyenas in the background trying to cause trouble" for the White House. This bumbling chief of political correctness apparently is unaware that those hyenas in the Disney movie have been criticized for perpetuating negative stereotypes about blacks and Hispanics. Dog-whistle politics, anyone?
Do Moran's constituents in Virginia's 8th district support his incessant race-baiting? Last year, he accused Tea Party activists of racism for sweeping out entrenched Democrats in the November 2010 midterm elections. It "happened for the same reason the Civil War happened in the United States. It happened because the Southern states, the slaveholding states, didn't want to see a president who was opposed to slavery," he ranted to Arabic-language television network Alhurra. "(A) lot of people in the United States don't want to be governed by an African-American, particularly one who is liberal, who wants to spend money and who wants to reach out to include everyone in our society."
Yet, only two short years before, this hopelessly racist nation put Obama in the Oval Office with a landslide victory. Logic never was the demagogue's strong suit.
The aptly named Moran, an 11-term incumbent, continues to be rewarded by voters for his extravagant spending habits, self-dealing and diarrhea of the mouth. As I've reported previously:
-- While on the Alexandria (Va.) City Council, he was charged with casting a vote that helped a developer friend win a bid for a lucrative plot of public land. A special prosecutor concluded that Moran had violated the state's conflict-of-interest law. He sobbed as he pleaded no contest to a felony charge of vote-peddling. He received a year's probation for a reduced conflict-of-interest misdemeanor charge and was forced to resign.
-- In 1995, he had to be subdued by Capitol Hill police when he threw a punch at California Republican Rep. Randy Cunningham on the House floor. After the incident, Moran blamed "talk radio" for creating a hostile environment in Washington. That same year, he screamed "I'll break your nose" at Indiana Republican Rep. Dan Burton during a hearing.
-- In 2002, Moran revealed in financial disclosure statements that he accepted a $50,000 loan in January 2001 from an "old friend," billionaire America Online co-founder James Kimsey. The congressman claims to have paid the business mogul back at 15 percent interest over three months, and his spokesman emphasized the loan came with no accompanying quid pro quo.
-- Kimsey's gift came on the heels of Moran's disclosure that he had received another Big Business-tied loan: $25,000 from "old friend" Terry Lierman, a drug industry lobbyist representing Schering-Plough. After getting that unsecured loan at a lower-than-market interest rate, Moran co-sponsored a bill that would extend the patent on Schering-Plough's allergy medicine Claritin -- and prevent generic drug manufacturers from offering inexpensive alternatives.
Liberal busybodies are an annoyance. Liberal race-card abusers who lambaste patriotic minority conservatives to cover their own dirty deeds make my brown skin crawl.
“Moran’s an inveterate bully, a brawler, a crook and a bigot.”
Lol. Don’t hold back - Tell us what you really think, Michelle.
I always thought of him more as a wife-beating pig, but I guess you can call him a racist.
Rep Allen West (R-FL), Herman Cain, Rep Tim Scott (R-SC) to mention a few, do not submit and bow to their white DemWit “owners”... thus they must be “whipped”. Not unlike their ancestors on the plantation or during the Jim Crow days. Behavior of minorities MUST conform to (white) liberal scripts for any minority to be “approved” for victimhood! Demanding such conformity is the true racism in our nation today! True a 100 years ago, true today! Democrats party of racism, then and now.
I'd call him a "thug", but that would be an insult to thugs everywhere.
I admire Mr. West's honesty and conviction and, to tell the truth, I've seen too many instances where you put a hand down to help people only to find that they take not only your hand, but the arm as well. We've spent trillions since Johnson's War on Poverty, mainly in an effort to buy votes, and poverty is worse now than ever. Personally, I'd like to see aid to the poor go back to the Church and private charity giving aid to those who really need it rather than to those who can help themselves but find it easier to take my money rather than earn it.
I can’t stand that my state continually elects this vile.
Moran ? Should be spelled as Moron !
Concerning democrats, “meet the new boos, same as the old boss” ! At least the Jim Crow democrats were straight forward compared to today’s democrats on keeping blacks on the proverbial plantation !
Michelle needs to walk this pun back a bit. "Moran" is a good Irish name belonging to many good Irish that have had to deal with this lame pun their WHOLE life. . usually with their fists. Jim Moran besmirches the good name Moran.
Obviously his democrat constituents are ignorant, or as racist as he is. Otherwise they wouldn’t
Ferlater
Just why doesn’t moron just go smack around some little ckid or his ex-wife...No...wait...he already has done that. Bwahahahahaha!@ What a pathetic putz and representative DIMocRAT.
That freak is still in office? I thought he went the way of Alan Grayson.
Righteous anger is a powerful thing.
Righteous anger is a powerful thing.
Think its time for LTC West to lay one giant, meaty right hook to the side of Moron’s jaw.
Moron isn’t fit to pick up dog sh*t off the street.
Don’t what’s worse; Moron being elected for 11 terms, or the useless parasite idiots who keep voting him back in.
Our state isn't electing him, the city of Alexandria is and too many of its residents are just like him.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.