Rep. party has 2005 calendar for Blacks --- really this is not a joke

[donsu]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-franken20feb20,0,6027377.story?coll=la-sunday-commentary


A Year-Round Party for Blacks
# The GOP is their hero. Just look at the calendar.

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I guess that's why the Republican Party has chosen to move past the race-based voter suppression of yesteryear — by which I mean last year — and honor the spirit of Black History Month by unveiling its "2005 Republican Freedom Calendar: Celebrating a Century and a Half of Civil Rights Achievement by the Party of Lincoln." Seriously. See it for yourself at

policy.house.gov/ 2005_calendar/.

This calendar was unrolled with a great deal of flourish, apparently the centerpiece of the GOP's strategy to make inroads among black voters in the 21st century. To that end, every day of the year is notated with a Republican civil rights achievement.

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read the article to see how they twisted things

what's next? will blacks be finding these calendars in the mail or their seat at church?

[WI_DEM]

1. Why didn't we think of this first!!

:)

[tom_paine]

2. August 1980: Raygun signals the Republican Party is now Lee's Party

not Lincoln's.

You think that's there on the Bushevik calendar of Civil Rights, the day St. Ronnie made sure EVERY Confederate KNEW where he stood on the issue of "Uppity Negroes"

Is Philadelphia Mississippi famous for anything BESIDES Liberal Murdering?

I thought not.

[Jade Fox]

3. Oh, so now we have the GOP to thank for Civil Rights????

I am truely going to :puke:

This is condescending beyond belief. It just shows you how utterly clueless
the Republicans are about race.

Republican Freedom: now there's an oxymoron.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. If you know any republican buddies

going after this point out how Robert Kennedy junior was friends with MLK junior and was probably going to appoint him his VP if they both weren't killed. How come there isn't a black republican caucus? How come there aren't any blacks on the republican side in the Senate? How come they're all democrats? Uh huh. This is such a joke.

[pauliedee]

14. Republicans force poverty to fill military

Most blacks know that the republicans are anti-affirmative action and voter suppressionists through racial profiling. They cut funding for healthcare and education. Their party likes to keep people in poverty to force the black youth to fill the military vacuum.

I recently read an article about how some preachers gave Bush support because he promised them big funding under his faith based initiatives program. The GOP can buy a few preachers and window dress the cabinet, but the Democrats encourage ALL blacks to BE the party and RUN for office. They ENCOURAGE a fair opportunity for ALL to get a good education!! They fight for healthcare access to ALL! The democrats ARE ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS!! The republicans are oppressors who tax the entire salary of the poor and middle class, but only a small portion of the wealthy's earnings. Only up to $90,000 of a salary get taxed to go into social security while over 90% of a millionaire's earnings go untouched.

Typical Bush league. :puke:

[FreedomAngel82]

4. This is a joke, right?

If these people were serious they'd stand up for blacks on voting day!

[WI_DEM]

6. Their latest bid to win the "black vote" is to pay off some AA

ministers and have them start preaching against gay marriage. It's the only way the Republicans can campaign by pitting one group against another.

[JI7]

7. i see the Don King strategy failed

[Kerrytravelers]

8. Because when I think Civil Rights...

I think Republican.


Good God. History matters not to these peole. They just make up what they want to believe and mix it in the Kool-Aid.

[Cappadonna]

9. Wow! As a Black Person , I don't know whether to laugh of to curse

This is so silly and condescending, its just plain sad. Its an old Chris Rock joke about the difference between Bill Clinton and his black friends and George Bush's one black friend. While Clinton treated Vince Foster as just another guy in his posse, Bush would have a black man on his shoulder lik a parrot squawking "Bush like Niggers!!"


The fact that Republicans have to go to depth to convince Black people that they care about their concerns on reinforces how little they actually care about them. When you have to work you lies, the truth becomes alot more obvious. Its the same logic for the whole "Britney Spears is a good Christian virgin" a few years back. Everyone with a brain (and ever hung around evangelical girls) know that the girls that scream the most about being pure and chaste are usually the skankiest creatures around.

To put it bluntly, Greens and Dems don't go around trying to convince Black people about their stances on social justice since its usually a Democrat or a Green (regardless of color) leading the charge against injustice. Republicans are so disingenuous and insincere about their beliefs that even their Black leaders seem like heartless, lying jackasses.

[Jade Fox]

12. That Chris Rock quote is great.....

I never heard it before. (Something tells me the Republicans are not happy
about Rock hosting the Academy Awards)

I think the GOP should have called their calendar "Bush Like Niggers"!

[donsu]

10. we are witnessing a "new reality" a new flaver of kool aid

let's shred this new reality

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. An exerpt from the editorial

"Black male unemployment in many American cities, including New York, is now above 50%. If Republicans are serious about reaching these voters, they might want to start by addressing this crisis. Instead, they've got a calendar."

Sorry but I was too repulsed to post any parts of that calendar.

[cosmicdot]

13. how many of these partisan 'calendars' will be mailed on taxpayer dime?

i.e., mailed under Republican-use of the franking privilege?

are they published by the government?

I see it was 'designed' by Jonathan Briggs and Briggs Design Associates -- who paid for that?

why is this GOP propaganda on the house.gov website?

will they be delivered to school systems nationwide?

of course, the propaganda is downloadable from a government website ... making it even easier for dissemination ...

From CongressCritter Chris Cox's introduction about the calendar:

"Leading the organized opposition to these ideas 150 years ago, just as today, was the Democratic Party."
http://www.policy.house.gov/2005_calendar/about.cfm
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So much overlooked, too, which, hopefully, will lead to an antithetical, 'the real story' version.


so many examples ...

recently:

It missed the vote turning down Ted Kennedy's amendment to the
Class Action "Fairness" Act of 2005, which would have amended 'the definition of class action in title 28, United States Code, to exclude class actions relating to civil rights or the payment of wages.'

Not one Republican voted 'yea'.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00006#position



from the GOP House Policy site (linked from the calendar page) ...
http://policy.house.gov/

is a blurb/brief on the background of the Class Action bill ... I'm trying to figure out Frist's comment that delaying the bill was "destroying jobs" ...

Senate Minority Blocks Class Action Fairness The House approved the Class Action Fairness Act in June 2003; On July 8, 2004, Sen. Frist noted that despite bipartisan support, "a minority of Senators preferred to use this piece of legislation as a vehicle for miscellaneous political amendments," and the bill was again stalled. "Unfortunately some of my colleagues are choosing politics over enacting good public policy," Sen. Frist said, delaying relief to the judicial system and destroying jobs.

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