If the left wants to have a conversation about race, we need to go beyond the Confederate Flag and have the discussion. Democrats have destroyed black communities and families in many places, and continue to do so today. Democrat ideology doesn’t provide any answers, which is why they don’t give any. ~ The Mark Levin Show, 6/23/15
Don't think I can say 'AMEN!' loud enough.
And it should also be noted that while you have all the manipulated white guilters and black activists demanding flags and statues be removed, schools and parks be renamed, there is a Democratic political and media-driven underbelly guiding this movement, desiring to remove these emblems, not because of connotation or offense, but because they want to ERASE the roots of their own racist past that leads directly to today's racialized present.
In addition to the introduction of blacks during Revolutionary War times, Barton extensively debunks the purposeful Democratic misinterpretation of the Constitution's three-fifths clause (something I've heard Levin explain on numerous occasions), and how the true meaning behind it began to lead towards the early abolition of slavery, including abolishing the slave trade in 1808...that is, until the rise of the Democratic Party...
Here's where the brutal truth begins with the 1820 Missouri Compromise, followed by the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, all strengthening slavery and all supported by Democratic Congresses, leading towards the 1857 Dred Scott Decision, handed down by a Democratic-controlled Supreme Court, to eventually rip the country apart with the succession of the Democratic, pro-slavery Confederacy. (also note in this segment the correlation of slavery to abortion, and how both, with strong Democratic backing, have affected the black American community). Contrast all of that with the Republican-backed abolition of slavery in 1862 and the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, followed by early civil rights laws passed in 1864, including the repeal of Democrat's Fugitive Slave Law...
...and finally the abolition of slavery with the 13th Amendment in 1865, with only 19 out of 82 congressional Democrats supporting its passage compared to 100% of Republicans' support...
Note in this segment the mass shooting of 1866 in New Orleans by Democrats (just saying, if the current president wants to talk about those in relation to gun control). Also, here's where we're introduced to the Democratic terrorists of the time, the Ku Klux Klan. And when the 14th Amendment (1868) finally came about, granting citizenship to freed slaves, not a single Democrat in the House or Senate voted for this civil right.
While modern Democrats like to play demographic politics, and have begun baiting Republicans into doing so as well, this segment begins to show the sharp dichotomy of the many congressional black Republicans throughout history vs. their limited black counterparts residing on the Democratic side of the aisle. But following, to take a line from the narrator, "While black Americans immediately following the Civil War had indeed begun a distinguished chapter in their history, the opposition to their rapid success grew just as rapidly as had their successes." More Democratic intimidation and violence...but inevitably leading to the 15th Amendment (1870), where once again, not a single Democrat from the North or South voted for blacks to have the right to vote.
So a quick review so far...
Today, Democrats abuse the hell out of these three Amendments, twisting their original intent into something they were never meant to be (reminiscent of the way they've reinterpreted the 3/5ths clause and so much of the Constitution), creating 'civil rights' out of everything under the sun, all for the sake of reshaping an American society with moral relativism, radical egalitarianism and national welfarism (just to name a few) at the helm controlled by an all-powerful, centralized government. In essence, recreating a new kind of slavery.
But the Democratic rejection of civil rights for black Americans didn't stop there. In the 1875 Civil Rights Bill, all Republicans supported it, all 114 Democrats opposed it. This bill was the last of almost two dozen other civil rights bills passed by Republicans with overwhelming Democratic opposition. It would be nearly 90 years before another civil rights bill was passed. Why? Because in 1876, Democrats regained Congress for the first time since the beginning of the Civil War, and not only successfully blocked support on any further progress, causing civil rights momentum to wane, but also brought Reconstruction to an abrupt close, bringing the South back under Democratic control and reestablishing institutionalized racism. From the barring of federally held offices for the next 70 years to the intimidation over education, segregation had begun. 1954's Brown v. Board of Education ending segregation in schools begins to be discussed in the segment...
...and what follows is the uncompromisingly racist and absurd Democratic responses that lapse into the following segment. Also echoed is the sentiment of those Democratic leaders who stood in the doorway then, doing so again with the insistence of black students remaining in failing schools and rejecting vouchers or parental choice in education. Backing up a bit, by the 1880's, the Democratic political movement known as Southern Redemption had begun to reverse Reconstruction and Republican-passed civil rights laws, once again depriving black Americans of civil rights with poll tax, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, suppressive procedures and Black Codes (i.e., Jim Crow Laws)...
...not to be forgotten, forced segregation within state Democratic laws replaced federal anti-segregation laws in 1875 and regrettably became the legal standard for the next 75 years, along with gerrymandering of congressional districts and white-only primaries. The Supreme Court went back and forth with the Democratic Party over white-only primaries, finally striking them down from party policy in 1944. Intimidation and violence was also used for Democratic disenfranchisement of black Americans, alongside the revision of state constitutions and other Democratic devices to prevent blacks from voting (some of which weren't struck down by the courts until the 1970's). By the turn of the 20th century, the Democratic Party had proven successful in black voter suppression, and actively sought to repeal the 14th and 15th Amendments...
In 1915, the racial film Birth of a Nation was released to bolster Klan recruiting to its heights, and Woodrow Wilson seemingly embraced it. Recognizing all of this, we begin to ask what happened to create the dramatic shift towards what we currently observe today with black Americans' levitation towards the Democratic Party? Well the first attempt was made with FDR's invitation to vote; however, with the lynchings of the 1930's, black Americans remained steadfast in their knowledge of who the Democratic Party was (note, between 1882 - 1964, 4,743 individuals were lynched, 3,446 blacks, 1,297 whites). While Republicans led the effort to pass anti-lynching laws and consistently called for a ban on lynching, Democrats successfully blocked those bills and their platforms never condemned lynchings. Also of particular note in this segment is the faith shared by the black community as they went through these troubling times (the Rev. Richard Allen and the AME church are even mentioned!)...
Although, political warning bells were rung by such statemen as Rep. Joseph Hayne Rainey prior to the turn of the century...
“You gentleman on (the Democratic) side of the House have voted against all the … amendments of the Constitution and the (civil rights) laws enforcing the same. … Now you come to us and say that you are our best friends. … The Democratic Party may woo us, they may court us and try to get us to worship at their shrine, but I will tell the gentleman that we are Republicans by instinct, and we will be Republicans as long as God will allow our proper senses to hold sway over us.”
...here's where we begin to see the further paradigm shift in the Democratic Party's attempt to garner the black vote, with Democrats under FDR placing language in their platform calling for an end to racial discrimination. Yet, Democrats continued to kill every piece of civil rights legislation in that era. Proving more courageous than FDR, Truman worked boldly to change the Democratic Party and institute an aggressive civil rights package. However, the Democratic Party killed all of his proposals as well. Then came Eisenhower, who, well aware of the southern Democratic congressional commitment to racial segregation, sought the elimination of all racial discrimination under his authority, even managing to set up a Civil Right Division of the Justice Department. Nevertheless, Democrats continued to prevent progress towards civil rights, gutting meaningful provisions as they passed through Congress. Through two more Democratic presidents, JFK and LBJ, against the will of their own political parties, the latter was able to sign into law the Civil Rights Bill of 1964, followed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. As Barton highlights, "These two important civil rights acts were signed into law under a Democratic president, but it was the Republicans in Congress who made possible the passage of both acts...Democrats had it completely within their power to pass those bills, but they did not. Republicans overwhelmingly came to the aid of Democratic President Johnson." If not for strong Republican support, neither bill (both of which retained the heart of Eisenhower's work) would have become law...
As a result of these civil rights laws, black Americans made some of their earliest and most significant political strides in the modern era while affiliated with the Republican Party, which has continued within our generation. Yet, many of these strides have gone unreported in a mainstream media beholden to the Democratic Party. Barton illustrates an important point here through these elections, some of which contribute to the paradigm shift:
In Democratically controlled states, rarely are African-Americans elected statewide, with the exception of U.S. Senators in Illinois and a governor in Virginia. And most African-American Democratic members of Congress usually are elected only from minority districts; that is, Democratic districts where minority voters make the majority, rather than where there's a Democratic majority of white voters. On the other hand, African-American Republicans are usually elected statewide in Republican states or in congressional districts with large white majorities...
This is the utilization of demographic politics that the Democratic Party has come to perfect.
There's also another attesting factor to the paradigm shift (although not included in this video documentary, but mentioned in a review of the book):
(It is significant that over recent years, a popular rumor has been widely circulated across the African American community that if Republicans were elected to Congress or the presidency, they would not extend the 1965 Voting Rights Act and would, in fact, remove the right to vote from African Americans. (Certain provisions in the 1965 Voting Rights Act must be periodically renewed by Congress.) Many in the African American community have believed this rumor and surveys have indicated that a belief in this rumor was a substantial cause for voting against Republicans. Even though the NAACP has condemned the long-standing report as totally false (the 15th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees African Americans the right to vote, not the Voting Rights Act), it has been an effective political tool for Democrats to use against Republicans. In fact, in the 108th Congress when Republicans proposed a permanent extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, it was opposed by the Congressional Black Caucus (composed of Democrats) for fear that they would lose an effective political tool against Republicans.) …many African Americans today have picked up the Democrats’ long-standing hatred for Republicans without understanding its origins; yet the racial issues behind the generations-long Democratic hatred for Republicans is well documented.
Combine this also with LBJ's institution of welfarism under the misleading moniker of a 'War on Poverty', which 50 years later has proven to be a total failure, but an attractive allure nonetheless, and the deceptive shift of black Americans away from the Republican Party over to the Democratic Party unfortunately begins to take shape. What Rainey described as 'proper senses' no longer 'hold sway over us.' At this point, Barton says that though the political history of black Americans has often proven Frederick Douglass right when he reminded them that "For colored voters, the Republican Party is the ship, all else is the sea," he professes that no one from any background, whether political, religious or racial, should ever love any political party above principle. He also presents the disclaimer that although history is clear about the major differences in how political parties treated blacks, neither party is completely blameless in all of its actions, nor have all the leaders in a party always been good or bad...
Both of these segments, and thus the remainder of the documentary, conclude with the assertion that we must allow our moral, religious and constitutional heritage to guide us towards noble leaders, not necessarily a particular political party.
So before we continue on about a flag or a name, perhaps we should take note of those making the most noise, along with THEIR history, and consider what's really going on here. And by all means, prayer and meditation for Providence would certainly help. We need the clarity of faith and unity, alongside the power of knowledge, now more than ever in our modern society.
ADDENDUM: Levin shared at least an hour's worth of 'missing' Democratic history on Wednesday's program...
We need to defend our American heritage against a leftist political movement using tactics based in hate, division, and race. The left wants to talk about tolerance while President Obama hosts anti-Israel activists and the Muslim Brotherhood at the White House. The history of the Democrat party is full of racism, including celebrated figures like Lyndon B. Johnson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson. Confederate Flags and monuments will be taken down left and right, but schools and roads named after FDR and Wilson will go unchanged. It’s amazing how the Republican party is now viewed as the anti-civil rights party when it is truly the party of liberty.
There's no way to slice anything good out of this. Once again, an imperial president not only gets what he wants, but is given what he wants...by his purported opposition.
Don't be fooled.
Where the TPA vote is being heralded as a legislative victory for Obama and McConnell (and Boehner for that matter...what sordid bedfellows)...
RCP: Tuesday morning, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell pledged the legislature would pass bills giving the president trade promotion authority "by the end of this week."
At least 60 senators must vote for it to clear a procedural hurdle Tuesday for a final vote tomorrow. In a May 21 vote, 62 senators backed fast track, but some like Sen. Ted Cruz have returned to "undecided."
"We shouldn't let this opportunity for a significant bipartisan achievement slip past us," McConnell said Monday. "If we simply vote the same way we just did a couple weeks ago, we won't."
TheHill: The Senate on Tuesday voted to advance President Obama’s trade agenda, approving a measure to end debate on fast-track authority.
The 60-37 motion sets up a vote on final passage on Wednesday. If the Senate approves fast-track or trade promotion authority (TPA), it would then be sent to Obama’s desk to become law.
Fast-track authority would allow Obama to send trade deals to Congress for up-or-down votes. The White House wants the authority to conclude negotiations on a sweeping trans-Pacific trade deal.
Thirteen Democrats backed fast-track in Tuesday’s vote, handing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) a major legislative victory. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) voted against the procedural motion.
The Democrats cast "yes" votes even though the trade package did not include a workers assistance program for people displaced by increased trade. The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program was a part of the last fast-track package approved by the Senate in May, but became a key part of opposition to the package among Democrats in the House.
To move fast-track forward, the White House and GOP leaders in both chambers decided to break TAA away from fast-track and to try to approve both in separate votes.
After the Senate votes Wednesday on final passage for fast-track, it will take a procedural vote on a package that includes TAA and trade preferences for African countries known as the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
McConnell has promised both bills will reach Obama’s desk by the end of the week.
“If we all keep working together and trusting each other, then by the end of the week the President will have TPA, TAA and AGOA and Preferences on his desk,” he said on the floor.
The House has already passed fast-track but it must still vote on the package including TAA, which faces opposition from conservatives.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) reiterated on Tuesday his pledge to vote again on TAA as soon as it clears the upper chamber.
“The House will consider TAA once it passes the Senate as part of a new trade preferences bill. And we are ready to go to conference on the customs bill. Our goal is to get TPA and TAA to the president's desk this week and deliver this win for the American people,” he said in a statement.
...it's been a legislative dud for both the American people and constitutional conservatives, Cruz in particular, who finally reversed support of this disaster in the 11th hour, because he realized how corrupt the process is in the House. But it ain't just the House, Senator!
Breitbart: The American people do not trust President Obama. And they do not trust Republican leadership in Congress. And the reason is simple: for far too long, politicians in Washington have not told the truth.
Both President Obama and Republican leadership are pressing trade promotion authority, also known as TPA, or “fast-track.” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) both oppose it.
As a general matter, I agree (as did Ronald Reagan) that free trade is good for America; when we open up foreign markets, it helps American farmers, ranchers, and manufacturers.
But TPA in this Congress has become enmeshed in corrupt Washington backroom deal-making, along with serious concerns that it would open up the potential for sweeping changes in our laws that trade agreements typically do not include.
I'm pretty certain this is what Sen. Sessions was warning about just last week that some didn't want to believe. And it would appear as though the time to filibuster has passed.
Like I said, all in all, no way to slice any good from this.
Levin sounded equally disgusted tonight...
On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show: The idea that John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and their cronies in Congress would support this further surrendering of power is unacceptable. President Obama has already told Democrats he intends to use the powers he’d get from the trade bill to advance his positon on global warming, immigration, and his entire leftist agenda. McConnell is so proud to be working with Democrats while he and Boehner force Republicans to deliver Obama his agenda. Mark speaks with Sen. Ted Cruz about the trade bill fiasco and the current state of Congress.
UPDATE: And the Senate passes 'fast-track' Trade Promotion Authority on Wednesday...Republicans marching lockstep with Obama towards globalization. Insanity, ain't it?
LegalInsurrection: Today the Senate voted to approve the “fast track” Trade Promotion Authority bill.
Yesterday’s test vote revealed that today’s final vote was likely to swing in favor of the controversial procedural bill, which has both hardline conservatives and pro-union Democrats at odds with an unlikely bipartisan coalition.
Now, the trade debate will head back over to the House, where Democrats who were successful last week in blocking fast track’s passage will have to decide whether or not they will switch gears and support the TAA companion legislation.
Votes on the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) bill will be taken separately, forcing Democrats to bank on promises from Congressional leadership that the supplemental aid package will indeed come up for a vote. Earlier this month, Dems opposed to the trade legislation shot down TAA in an effort to stall passage of fast track trade authority in the House.
Today the Senate also advanced a bill that combines both TAA and African trade provisions. Once this bill passes the Senate (the cloture motion passed with over 70 votes, so it’s reasonable to assume the final vote will swing in the bill’s favor), it will head to the House, where it is also expected to pass.
Many have commented on this image throughout Monday, but perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind is that this so-called mainstream media objectivity is our political playing field going into the 2016 elections...
Courtesy of the Associated dePressed, this is but a taste of how astray our free press has become, particularly when contrasted against their preferred party's ruler...
Blatantly obvious, or obviously blatant, bias. More of that civility that liberals like to pay lip service towards, I suppose. But, hey, at least we're learning who they fear the most.
Gun control one week; Confederate flag the next. The narratives are passed down the line from this White House to their surrogates, then regurgitated by a mainstream, liberal biased media and passed off as news. Time and time again, the Left controls the agenda. And while those narratives rage on, our imperial president fans the flames with more racialization. The media demands the SC statehouse gets rid of the confederate flag, while Obama drops the N-word during a 'WTF' podcast interview. Talk about disconnected (so classy, NOT)! While the nation attempts to come together after Charleston, the Left continues to divide. After seeing the worst of humanity in this heinous act, we see the best of humanity reflected in these families and friends; but this president, his party, the collective Left cannot allow the people to come together in faith and forgiveness, and there's a reason for that: Because they've ALWAYS divided...
TRS: Mark Levin opened his show saying that once again the nation is focused on the left’s agenda, removing the Confederate flag, when it had absolutely nothing to do with what happened in Charleston. He also rips Obama for his use of the n-word and his comments on racism being in our DNA.
On Monday’s Mark Levin Show: Instead of discussing real issues we’re dragged into the Democrat agenda again, talking gun control and the Confederate flag – neither of which would have stopped the tragedy in South Carolina. Racism isn’t in the DNA of Americans despite President Obama’s claims. The Democrat party has done more damage to race relations than any other group. Race relations were very good before Obama, and now it’s like we’re living in the 1960s all over again. What’s in the news isn’t news anymore; it’s just Democratic press releases.
Slavery, segregation, Jim Crow - all progressed and supported by the Democratic Party. They can't even consider taking their first off the $20 bill! Racism is of the Democratic mindset. So if Obama wants to talk about racism in anybody's DNA, that rotten apple doesn't fall far from the tree (of his own choosing, no less).
The same people who are complaining about the Confederate flag, raised that very flag in the mid-19th century, and now they're blaming everybody else, particularly of the white persuasion. They talk as if all blacks are victims & all whites are guilty (and some truly believe that!). There's your racialization and fanning the flames, while We The People (black, white, polka-dotted) are trying to come together in faith and unity.
Chasing the Confederate flag while destroying black urban communities across the land, promoting white guilt and dividing the rest of the nation into demographic politics, riling up tensions at every turn. That's THIS PRESIDENT, that's THIS DEMOCRATIC PARTY, that's THE LEFT! They CANNOT allow national healing, because that would be their undoing.
Progressives within both political parties want a government of discretion, not one of law. And wouldn't you know that we'd end up with the worst combination: imperialism from the Left, impotence and enabling on the Right. Levin appropriately paves the way to solve one of these problems in regards to the latter quislings (this could also be applied to the former, but good luck on that lost cause of a caucus)...
TRS: Mark Levin responded to the strong-arming by Jason Chaffetz last night in enforcing the will of the Republican establishment by laying out a plan to take down Boehner from the speakership.
Breitbart: It’s time for conservatives to take out House Speaker and all of his comrades in primaries, nationally syndicated radio host, New York Times bestselling author, and conservative movement thought leader Mark Levin argues in an exclusive comment to Breitbart News.
Levin’s comments come after Boehner’s retaliation against conservatives hit a new low this weekend, with a report from Politico about how House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) — playing along with Boehner’s scheme to attack Republicans for voting their conscience—removed Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) as the chairman of a subcommittee on his full committee. Levin even compared Boehner to 20th century Communist Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and how he cleansed his government of all dissent.
“Speaker Boehner’s and Congressman Chaffetz’s removal of Meadows is the latest in a series of ideologically-driven attacks on conservatives. Boehner seems to think he’s Stalin cleaning out all opposition in the Kremlin,” Levin said. “No Republican Speaker in recent times has behaved with less integrity in his wielding of power.”
Levin said that Boehner, House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) — and more — each need to be removed by Republicans across the country in primaries in 2016. He says this is because the leadership has failed to learn the proper lessons from the astronomical defeat of now former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in 2014 in a primary against now Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA), the first time in U.S. history a sitting House Majority Leader was defeated in a primary. The position of majority leader was created in the late 1800s, so that means this never happened for more than a century—and Levin is calling out GOP leadership for failing to learn from the unprecedented event.
“Obviously, the lessons of Eric Cantor’s humiliating loss have not resonated with Boehner, McCarthy, and Scalise,” Levin said. “The only solution is for Conservatives to husband their resources and target these three in the coming Republican primaries. Conservatives need to find serious candidates and raise funds nationwide to defeat them. Let them fight for their political careers as our response to their disgusting and pathetic behavior.”
Instead of using their power against Obama, the party seems to have taken aim at conservatives in a bid to coalesce and re-enforce its own embedding into the body politic like a fat blood-sucking tick. Is that what we voted them in for?
To Conservatives in these political districts of Ohio, California and Louisiana: It is time to take a stand and mount an all-out political assault against these bought-and-paid-for establishment hacks! They do not represent your interest, only their own; therefore, they must be retired and replaced. Only you, the voter of these states, have that power.
"Conservatives across the country need to raise significant resources to target and defeat Boehner, McCarthy, and Scalise in upcoming primaries or they'll continue their war on conservatives in pursuit of bigger government."
ADDENDUM: While Boehner gloats over the removal of NC Rep. Mark Meadows and purging other conservatives for daring to vote their conscience (and principle), conservatives appear to be mounting a counterattack...
Newsweek: Conservative lawmakers serving as subcommittee chairmen are finding themselves on the receiving end of retribution from House leadership for defying party leaders.
Last week, 34 Republicans broke from their party in voting against a routine procedural rule that would have advanced Trade Promotion Authority. Since then, GOP leadership has come down hard on those members, removing some from the leadership team and threatening others with losing subcommittee chairmanships.
This show of force from leadership has angered conservative lawmakers and members of the House Freedom Caucus, who are speaking out against the “culture of punishment and fear” that’s emerged during John Boehner’s tenure as speaker.
Glad they're speaking out, but it's time for action. This Speaker needs to be removed!
Last week, while all eyes were on Charleston, the bastardized remnants of the Republican Party took a Rahm Emmanuel approach in pushing through TPA passage in the House and sending it on to their equally miscreant counterparts in the Senate for a vote scheduled to take place this week.
One week after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejected Obamatrade by voting against a key provision of it — Trade Adjustment Assistance — GOP establishment lawmakers resuscitated Trade Promotion Authority and rammed it through Thursday afternoon. The final talley was 218-208.
The House action is unusual. As Breitbart News reported: “To engage in the complicated procedural chicanery needed to revive the once-dead Obamatrade, bringing its Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) portion back to life, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) needed to gut a previous bill that has passed the House and Senate and then insert Obamatrade into it. It’s actually a very similar process to how Obamacare passed the House.”
Obamatrade will face more hurdles, though.
Because the Senate passed TAA and TPA together, the individual House version will now have to go back to the Senate for approval, where it may face a filibuster. It’s unclear how many senators would support TPA without TAA, a measure to aid workers who lose their jobs because of trade policy.
The Senate isn’t expected to take up TPA until next week, but Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has expressed confidence it can pass.
Obamatrade is making for unusual partnerships in Washington. Barack Obama is working with McConnell and House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) to pass a measure his own party largely rejects.
Last week he traveled to Capitol Hill to lobby for his trade measures, but shortly before the House vote on TAA, Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced she opposes it. More than 300 representatives ended up voting down TAA, setting the stage for Thursday’s moves to bring TPA back to life.
I'm not as convinced of the supposed hurdles. Boehner and McConnell are damned and determined to give this imperial president more authority, thus ushering in ObamaTrade. Unfortunately, conservatives aren't coalesced in opposition, and too many are selling out America in the name of 'free trade'.
with a solemn softening and a humbled heart. Now here's the WRONG way...
...with the hardening demeanor of gun-control and racialist politics, which leads one to ask: perhaps the latter cultural derisiveness plays a part in the mayhem? This was a quick departure from before and after he uttered these words, just words. But you can always count on this president to never let a crisis go to waste.
I thought I should however at least provide readers with a few stats that conflict with what Obama would have you believe about mass shootings not happening in other advanced countries (here, here and here). Took me just a few minutes to find those, so I'm certain resourceful folks out there are perfectly capable of finding more truth to quash the lies.
Lastly, I'll refer to self-described ‘Indo-Creek/African American Libertarian’ Eric July in handling the incendiary liberal responses that would 'rather divide us by blaming all white people rather than seeing how much true profound sorrow is found from all Americans, black and white, conservative and liberal.'
Don't believe me that politicians will fuel this foolishness for political game?
Obama just blamed it on gun control
Let us meditate and pray as we recall the great words of a past Democratic president...
"Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder. What unites us is far greater than what divides us." ~ John F. Kennedy
...along with a dose of English enlightenment...
"Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like." ~ William Law
Comfort our Christian brethren in their grief, Lord, as we mourn with them.
The victims’ families spoke out in court to the Charleston shooter and when you hear them, they represent the best of America. You see how united America is with these families and then you have President Obama trying to divide us. We need a President who speaks to America about healing, humanity, the greatness of faith and God but we didn’t get that. We got a President who decided that this would be a perfect time to gin up the gun debate. There’s evil in humanity and no law or politician will change that.
So the TPA vote doesn't go their way, and look at how John Boehner and Mitch McConnell plot with Obama. (How does this look right to any conservative?) Not only do they continue to push towards fast-tracking his phony trade deal...
TheHill: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that he and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) have consulted with President Obama on passing fast-track trade authority after it suffered a big setback last week.
McConnell believes the trade package passed by the Senate in May can still make it to Obama’s desk despite getting blown up in the House last week.
“The speaker and I have spoken with the president about the way forward on trade,” McConnell told reporters. “It’s still my hope that we can achieve what we’ve set out to achieve together, which is to get a six-year trade promotion authority bill in place that will advantage the next occupant of the White House as well as this one.”
The House on Friday narrowly passed fast-track authority but it defeated accompanying legislation to extend Trade Adjustment Assistance, a program aiding workers displaced by foreign competition. Both measures needed to be approved for the package to be sent to Obama.
The Senate passed fast-track and TAA in a single passage and it’s unclear whether the Senate would accept sending only trade promotion authority to the White House. The administration has also insisted the two issues should be paired.
“Obviously there was a malfunction over in the House on Friday that we all watched with great interest and we’re not giving up. We still think there may be a path forward to get an achievement here that we’d like to get,” McConnell said.
The House on Tuesday passed an extension giving them until the end of July to figure out how to finish work on Obama’s trade agenda.
...they also kneecap their own who oppose them just to give Obama more power now (don't get distracted or ahead of ourselves by the 'next occupant' talk either)...
Breitbart: After a group of Republicans nearly scuttled the Obama trade effort last week by voting against a procedural rule dictating the debate terms for the trade bill, House leadership is pushing back.
National Journal reports that House leadership has removed three of the dissenting members from the GOP whip team.
Reps. Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM), and Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) have been removed from the whip team after they sided with GOP rebels to vote against a rule governing debate on a trade bill, according to sources close to the team.
The repercussions come as House Republicans prepare for another procedural vote to bring back Trade Adjustment Assistance — a key portion of the Obama trade effort to pass Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which would grant the president fast-track authority to negotiate trade deals — as late as July 30.
The report noted that House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) had indicated in the past that he would not condone members opposing the rule and that Lummis was aware of those boundaries.
“Cynthia knew going into the rule vote last week that being a member of the Whip Team has certain parameters,” Lummis spokesman, Joe Spiering, told National Journal. “She understands his decision and departs the Whip organization with nothing but the utmost respect for Mr. Scalise and his entire organization.”
Tuesday morning, House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) voiced his disapproval about members who buck the party’s procedural rules.
“I’m not very happy about it,” Boehner told reporters following a closed door caucus meeting. And I made it pretty clear to the members today I was not very happy. We’re a team and we’ve worked hard to get the majority, we’ve worked hard to stay in the majority and I expect our team to act like a team. And I, frankly, made it pretty clear I wasn’t very happy.”
National Journal notes that there remain rule dissenters that hold positions of leadership who could be affected as well including Reps. Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), and Rep. John Fleming (R-LA).
We know they're not conservatives, but honestly, tell me how they can even be called Republicans anymore when they're working this hard for a Democratic, statist, imperial president, but hardly working for their own constituency? #progressiveRINOs
TheHill: The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is sounding the alarm about the nuclear talks with Iran, warning the United States has made "breathtaking" concessions that risk creating a "bad deal."
In a letter sent Monday, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) warned President Obama he must be willing to walk away from the negotiating table.
"It is breathtaking to see how far from your original goals and statements the P5+1 have come during negotiations with Iran,” Corker (R-Tenn.) said in the letter, referring to a group that includes the U.S., the United Kingdom, China, France, and Russia plus Germany.
Corker said negotiators “have moved” from trying to strike a 20-year agreement to a 10-year one and seem ready to let Tehran continue to develop its ballistic missile effort and maintain research and development for advanced nuclear centrifuges.
“I understand the dynamics that can develop when a group believes they are close to a deal and how your aides may view this as a major legacy accomplishment. However, as you know, the stakes here are incredibly high and the security implications of these negotiations are difficult to overstate,” Corker warned.
He asked Obama to “please pause and consider rethinking the entire approach. Walking away from a bad deal at this point would take courage, but it would be the best thing for the United States, the region and the world.”
Iran and the six world powers hope to strike a deal by June 30 that would curtail Tehran’s nuclear effort in exchange for sanctions relief.
The talks have come under withering criticism from GOP lawmakers and U.S. allies like Israel who believe a “bad deal” would empower the Iranian regime.
And now we learn that Obama and Kerry are arming Iran with nukes, and apparently there aren't any consequences to the Islamo-Nazi regime in Tehran cheating on the deal. Is anyone really surprised?
CNN: Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged Tuesday that the Iran nuclear deal most likely won't require the country to detail suspected past efforts to develop a nuclear weapon, a concession sought by Tehran.
"We are not fixated on Iran specifically accounting for what they did at one point in time or another," Kerry told reporters Tuesday by remote video from Boston, where he has been recuperating from a broken leg.
"We know what they did," Kerry added. "We have no doubt. We have absolute knowledge with respect to the certain military activities they are engaged in. What we are concerned about is going forward."
His comments downplayed a long-standing demand by world powers that Iran come clean about any past efforts to develop a military dimension to its nuclear program. U.S. officials and European diplomats previously pledged that sanctions relief would be tied to Iran answering lingering questions from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog.
The United States and five other world powers are negotiating with Iran to curb the country's nuclear program and keep it from building a nuclear bomb, though Iran insists that its nuclear program is peaceful.
See, RINOs like Corker, along with much of the GOP leadership, want to show how they can 'govern' in a 'bipartisan' way, when all they've effectively done is surrendered their treaty powers to Obama...and as Levin shares with us tonight, astonishingly, Sen. Corker is just now realizing how foolish of a move it was. Why the hell do we keep electing these people?
(Disclaimer: I'd hope that'd go without saying concerning HillRod, as this is a conservative blog)
Jebster, we don't need you or your pandering or anymore of your establishment...
On Monday’s Mark Levin Show: Jeb Bush officially announced his run for the 2016 presidency, and he’s being pushed by the same people that pushed against President Reagan. We have to dismiss the self-serving statements from governors with crappy records telling us we need someone with executive experience. Jeb has never talked of Americanization, which is what assimilation used to be. Instead he is segregating his message like a liberal and pandering based on ethnicity. We need a national leader that understands the importance of national sovereignty and speaks to the American people, not our races or genders, and is prepared to undo the damage of President Obama.
...not a third Bush, foolish Republican Party. And as Levin pointed out in Monday's program, we don't need a candidate who finds 'greatness in government'.
"Some of the worst things that have happened in the last hundred years or so have been done by Republicans. Most of them have been done by Democrats, but many have been done by Republicans. The progressive wing of the Republican Party supported the 16th Amendment and the federal income tax. The progressive wing of the Republican Party supported the 17th Amendment and the destruction of the Senate and the usurpation of state legislatures. The progressive wing of the Republican Party pushed the EPA, they pushed OSHA. They embrace these things. The progressive wing of the Republican Party, George W. Bush, expanded Medicare. While it's imploding, the man expands it. And we can go on and on.
It's very, very rare that we've actually had a conservative president. I'm not saying a perfect president, a conservative president. It's very, very rare. There have only been a couple in the last century, Coolidge and Reagan. Now there have been presidents who've done conservative things, but I'm talking about men who are principled conservatives trying to advance the agenda, imperfectly, but nonetheless, trying to advance the agenda of federalism, of a limited central government, of slashing spending, and so forth and so on. That's their instinct, that's their desire. Whether they were able to pull it off in every instance, we know they weren't. But that's quite different, that's a different starting point, than a progressive RINO, or as I call them, these French Republicans. It's a different starting point."
The greatness is in WE THE PEOPLE, the citizenry. And Jeb can't seem to bring himself to celebrate that...ni siquiera en español.
