[doug from upland]

I love to see the RATS fight. I guess they would say in Al Campanis-like fashion that Jefferson just didn't have the necessities for the job. Tell me again. Which party is racist?

[gubamyster]

ping

[Texas Eagle]

To quote Montgomery Burns:

"Ehhhhhxcellent."

[isom35]

whats's that old saying? "you lay down with dogs, you get fleas"

[lewislynn]

Pelosi and Matsui?...The House Democrats are done.

[Kay Soze]

Democrats need their votes but will NEVER elevate blacks with in their party.

[Brimack34]

They are shocked!! How many times can you be kicked in the teeth? They use you over and over and over and over. Wake up people. Poor, Black, Unions, Women, Teachers,(Find me more) They use you for power. We Conservative's know, we have RINO'S doing it too us.

[Lancey Howard]

Could somebody explain to me how the Republicans managed to orchestrate the elevation of the pathetic simpleton Nancy Pelosi to Democrat Minority Leader? I just can't stop smiling....

[butter pecan fan]

Could that be grumbling I hear among the house Negroes? Buck up, buddies, you chose the "party of inclusiveness." And you already got the "first black President" as your reward -- come on now, what more do you expect from your 'Rat leaders?

[BradyLS]

Pelosi's Ace in the hole: If Big media doesn't pick up the story, IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

[goldstategop]

The liberal segregationist pressure group called the Congressional Black Caucus is grousing at Nancy Pelosi's slapping them down. They still don't understand what being on the Liberal Plantation means - being subservient and doing as you're told. Blacks will never advance in the Democratic Party as long as they routinely give it 90% plus of their votes.

[tm22721]

Black Democrats will still be the House slaves and defer to their 'massa' Pelosi.

They have no choice. Tara lives.

BUMP

[yoe]

My, my, my........didn't Hillary just say that the GOP's constant exploitation of race was very bad? And Terry McAuliffe says so too...but what have we here, the Black Caucus is threatening Pelosi because she didn’t appoint a black American? "If our leadership doesn't think we have juice to make their lives hard, then they are wrong." My, my, my...threatening and racist at the same time. Umm!Umm!

[GailA]

pelosi dissed JUNIOR by this appointment too.

[Taxman]

Good post.

Another reason that Rep. Jefferson was passed over for the DCCC position is that he is very interested in fundamental tax reform -- he holds a Masters degree in Tax -- and is not as hard left liberal as Pelosi and Matsui.

We can't have any "outside the Marxist box" thinking in the Leadership, don't you know!

Matsui and Pelosi are committed Marxists, and they will purge (or prevent elevation to a leadership position) the Democrat House Membership of any and all who are not committed to their Marxist agenda.

We must remember that the first order of business for any new dictator is to shoot all potential competitors.

Which is good news for those of us who favor fundamental tax reform.

Wonder if there are any Democrat House Members who will change parties, now that the new leadership has begun to show its true colors?

[Aeronaut]

"Now she's saying the party will find some other way to get us into leadership," says the Black Caucus member. "But we know that's just talk. You know, we didn't get along well with [Republican Rep. J.C.] Watts. But I'll say this for the Republicans: they gave him a leadership position without blinking. My party can't say that, and it saddens me."

This is the message to deliver over and over again.

[Budge]

"Now she's saying the party will find some other way to get us into leadership," says the Black Caucus member. "But we know that's just talk. You know, we didn't get along well with [Republican Rep. J.C.] Watts. But I'll say this for the Republicans: they gave him a leadership position without blinking. My party can't say that, and it saddens me."

Did someone turn on a light bulb here?

[BaBaStooey]

democrats have been doing this for years upon years. let's list all the blacks who have been kept down by the democrats.

First off, clinton pal terry macauliffe was picked as dnc chair over maynard jackson, the former mayor of atlanta. Then Terry goes out and screws up the 2002 eection for the dems. nice choice there.

Carl McCall wins the Dem primary for Gov. in New York, a very heated primary with former Clinton cabinet member Andrew "the son" Coo-mo. The dems then basically bail on McCall and offer him up like a sacrifice to the Pataki re-election campaign.

Harold Ford Jr. from Tennessee, a young, intelligent congressman who has represented the party hundreds of times on cable news shows, and would have been a terrific choice to lead the party, is passed over in favor of that crazy broad from the left coast.

Democrats have not elevated minorities to substantial leadership positions, compare this to J.C. Watts, a Republican who served in the leadership of his party before retiring this year.

Add the fact that Dems have not had a single black candidate for the Senate in recent memory (i think), and the senate campaigns of republicans like Alan Keyes in Maryland (he lost to Sen. Paul Sarbanes D-MD in 1988 and Sen. Barbara Mikulski D-MD in 1992).

Also, George W. Bush instead has elevated two very intelligent and charismatic minorities, Powell and Rice, to leadership posts in his administration. In the meantime, Clinton nominated some people to his cabinet, but Elders and Espy did not last long on the cabinet, and Clinton held Ron Brown in such high regard that he laughed at the man's funeral. I dont even need to get into what happened to Vince Foster. It seems to me that these were token appointments, while in Bush's case, all the minorities he has picked, right down to Labor Sec. Elaine Chao, have been qualified and competent in their jobs.

[mhking]

HA-ha!

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[monocle]

The Democrats love blacks as a voting block but despise them as individuals. In the recent election, the Democrats rather then giving a black, Alan Page, an opportunity to make a name for himself selected a known loser, the DNC pulled the rug from under McCall and Democrats quickly closed the door on Representative Ford.

I believe most of the fury about Lott was to divert the attention of the blacks from the actions of the Democrats to the words of a single Senator.