I would imagine when you’re hired on as a National Review racist that you’re expected to do better than this. The desk comes with expectations. There are co-workers to consider, and an East Coast Klavern legacy to dignify. And if your very best efforts only result in hucking a hanging meatball our way nobody is going to feel particularly satisfied:

Near-Suicidal Immigration Policies
By Victor Davis Hanson | National Review

Deportation has become a near-taboo word. Yet the Boston bombings inevitably rekindle old questions about the way the U.S. admits, and at times deports, foreign nationals.

Despite the Obama administration’s politically driven and cyclical claims of deporting either a lot more or a lot fewer non-citizens, no one knows how many are really being sent home — for a variety of reasons.

Oh yes, that’s the photo above the column. No it isn’t really that size – it’s much bigger. Hanson also asked the graphics department to render Tsarneav’s nose so that it nudged old dowagers in the asscrack as they doddered by, but “3-D” isn’t yet so sophisticated.

Say Victor? This is what you’re going with? No one knows how many Boogaloos get deported from the United States? Eek! I myself bothered to look into that horror, briefly. Turns out the deporting parties be the government who, wow, keep tabs on such things.

Although President Obama supports setting a path to citizenship for many illegal immigrants, his administration deported a record 1.5 million of them in his first term.

In addition, the released by the government in recent days show that an unprecedented 409,849 people were deported for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.

Zoot obscures! Numbers and all.

All-time highs. Damn. After you began so promisingly with the Menacing Terrorist.

And how does one define deportation? If someone from Latin America is detained by authorities an hour after illegally crossing the border and sent back, does he count as “apprehended” or “deported”?

Just what does “deport” mean? At what point does it apply? This is the sophistication a game of Jenga would rise to if it were played with shims.

If a terrorist climbs over a border fence and lands in Arizona, I’d say he’s in America. If you’d like to send him home, the word is appropriate: He’ll be “deported.” K? This, btw, typically occurs only after he’s been “apprehended.” But feel free to fly him back to Jalisco employing a helicopter and a grappling hook if that’s your thing.

President Obama’s own aunt, Zeituni Onyango, not only broke immigration law by overstaying her tourist visa but also compounded that violation by illegally receiving state assistance as a resident of public housing. Only after Obama was elected president was his aunt finally granted political asylum on the grounds that she would be unsafe in her native Kenya.

Right about here I assume Hanson spits on the ground. Ptaw. So she’s likely to get kidnapped, and ransomed, for nothing, and then killed as a result of some meaningless far-flung family association, but are those reasons to rescue her? She tried to stay in America. She went and lived in public housing. What is wrong with you people?

Let’s see what the old man is peddling right now. “Schools push a curriculum of propaganda.” The evil educators again. Maybe they’re hectoring the impressionable students with ‘slavery’ rather than instilling in them a love for our Ronald Reagan. That’s evil enough for me. Which reminds — remember when the Texas school board tried to re-classify American slavery as “Atlantic Triangular Trade”? What a howler. A real business/enterprise hot one. That’d be like calling Dear Ronnie a “Commie Lover.” Or saying he was “Animated And Sensate.” Don’t be silly.

Speaking of ole’ Arms For The Ayatollah, remember his 1980 campaign? In his triumphant march to the drooler presidency, the candidate professed his love for “State’s Rights” before the assembled people of Neshoba County, Mississippi. Ah, the good old days. The onlookers included some of the local police and Sheriff’s deputies, dba the Ku Klux Klan, who beat, shot and then buried those three niggah/jewboy Yankees back when LBJ was running for election. As the Klansmen saw themselves victims of Federal “civil rights” malarkey, and Reagan, for campaign purposes, touted the government as a fascist institution, everybody got along mighty fine. Ronnie went on to win every state in the South save Jimmy Carter’s Georgia and swept the election. Don’t know if that actually counts for propaganda any more than merely, say, political racism.

But that’s neither here nor there. Oh George, what’s it this time?

The three R’s — formerly reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic — now are racism, reproduction and recycling. Especially racism. Consider Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction.

Will do.

Wisconsin’s DPI, in collaboration with the Orwellian-named federal program VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America; the “volunteers” are paid), urged white students to wear white wristbands “as a reminder about your privilege, and as a personal commitment to explain why you wear the wristband.”

Where is George getting his news from? Townhall.com. Honestly. His Eminence now uses the same fever bog to source his editorials that Chuck Norris uses to wipe the HITLER! from his shoes. Yoo-hoo, George? They don’t make clown noses your size any more? You couldn’t find your foot with the missus’ shiny revolver? Here’s the yawn-debunk, courtesy the same Wisconsin DPI:

It was not a VISTA document, nor was it a Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) document . .

To be absolutely clear, no DPI official has asked, requested, or
encouraged any school district, educator, or student to wear any
wristband, and none of our VISTA volunteers have had any children put on any wristbands.

So George was lying about that. Even if the thing were true, consider the prospect of TALKING ABOUT WHITE PRIVILEGE!!!1!1! Boo! Seriously boo!

In Delavan-Darien High School’s “American Diversity” curriculum, students were urged to verify white privilege by visiting a Wal-Mart toy section and counting the white and black dolls. After objections, the school district is reconsidering this curriculum.

This source: Todd from Fox News radio. Black dolls! YYEEEEAAARRGGHH!

No corner of the country is immune to propaganda pretending to be pedagogy. Lincoln Brown of KVEL-AM in Vernal, Utah, says one student from the University of Utah showed him required reading that told students to “list ways your family may have colluded with or benefited from the exploitation of African-Americans.”

George’s latest source? Townhall.com once again. A student! AAAAIIIEEEYYYY . .

But now. Let us, like post-earthquake responders walking among the Haitian dead, tally the damage here. Hmm? There were white-privilege wristbands that never existed. Check. There were visits to Wal-Mart children’s aisles that likely never happened. Check-check. And there was a certain someone who got pissed about his homework. Check checker zulu-niner-geronimo check and all this adds up to . . hmm see . . carry the conflagration . .

And Americans wonder why their generous K-12 financing (higher per pupil than all but three of the 34 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nations) has done so little to improve reading, math and science scores.

The failure of U.S. Education. No choice but to defund the thing now, of course.

The Conservative Political Action Conference asks: “Are You Sick and Tired of Being Called a Racist and You Know You’re Not One?” [Ha] A racist answers, “. . why can’t we be more like Booker T. Washington Republicans? His famous statement that ‘Let’s be unified like a hand but separate like the fingers’?” Why not re-segregate society? Fair question. Good thing CPAC exists, how otherwise would America face these questions? The KKK were a spiffy bunch and the Model T was pretty cool, so why not?

But first, another puzzler: Why are conservatives the biggest cowards on Earth?

‘Trump the Race Card’ Panel at CPAC Marred by Segregationists
Rick Moran | Pajamas Media

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion — even when it is shockingly anachronistic.

Slavery isn’t wrong, mind you, it’s only out of date. Unfashionable this year. Racism is, well, musty. For the fuddy-duddy. Like a hoop skirt, or sarsaparilla. Look:

“. . when Douglass escaped from slavery, I think 10 years or 20 years after he escaped from slavery, he writes a letter to his former slave master and says ‘I forgive you. For all the things you did to me.’”

“For giving him shelter and food all those years?”

Very old school. Not technically wrong, per se. It’s all of a free country, and let’s not be too hard on this fellow.

Clearly, there were many conservatives present at the session who disapproved of the talk of segregation and Terry’s take on slavery. But it is equally clear that there is a small, but vocal subset on the right who hold obnoxiously outmoded and outdated views on race.

Which are not wrong, remember. Only “outmoded.” Like grammy’s Victrola.

Sorry, but this kind of tone-deafness on the part of some conservatives — along with the exploitation of scenes like this by Democrats — is why “outreach” to minorities is such a difficult task.

Not that “this kind” of thing is wrong. It’s “tone-deafness.” Like a bad song.

Blacks don’t hear talk of the GOP being the opportunity party, or the party that fights for inner city parents who support the idea of vouchers to send their kids to a school of their choice . . Whose fault is it that blacks and other minorities hear the Scott Terrys and Matthew Heimbachs and not the Smith brothers, or Tim Scott, or Alan West?

Why do they focus on racists like Scott Terry? Maybe because racism? Which is wrong?

Here’s a preview. Not sure ‘racist’ fits the description. ‘Obnoxious’ is closer. Comments at VW’s YouTube page are positive, but that’s no surprise. The soundtrack is awful.

Jonah has put the empty bag of Cheetos over his head again. Bad Jonah! No!

To Appeal to Black Voters, GOP Must Run Gauntlet of Racism Accusations
Jonah Goldberg | Townhall.com

If the GOP wants to win more black votes, it will need to get a lot more “racist.”

The scare quotes are necessary because I don’t think the Republican Party is racist now (and, historically, the GOP has a lot less to answer for than the Democratic Party does) . .

I hate writing about these posts. Goldberg is wide-eyed insane. There he walks past us, and he’s wearing a hat. IN NEWS GOLDBERG: “You’ll Never Catch Me Wearing a Hat.” Look at ole’ Jonah go, gorging on garlic Funyuns. BREAKING GOLDBERG: “Why Goebbels Disliked The Jews, Loved His Funyuns.”

If Pantload, running from the salad bar, tripped and fell over Ann Coulter, and the tangled pair accidentally mated (Satan wakes), the future child would be some mix of Shirley Temple and Damien. Precious would present herself all rosy cheeks and sugar smiles. But then she’d dose your tea, squinch a portable sander up your sleepy ass, and nurple your bunghole forward and reverse for a half-hour of giggles. Jonah’s reaction: ‘Precious? She could never do that, no.’

But that hasn’t stopped a lot of people from slandering Republicans as racist for one reason or another.

. . Such moral bullying makes white liberals feel better about themselves. It scares moderates and centrists away from the Republican Party, and it no doubt helps dissuade wavering blacks from even thinking about giving the GOP an honest look.

Racism? Republicans could never do that, no.

Questioner: But the fact is, isn’t it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?

[Lee] Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

Atwater was the deputy director of Reagan’s 1984 campaign, the manager of George H.W. Bush’s 1988 campaign (where he befriended George W.), and was, from 1989 through 1991, chairman of the whole shebang: The Republican National Committee. Where does Jonah think all the racial animus came from? Amos and Andy re-runs? He obviously thinks black people are senseless idiots. Meet the genuine liberal conspiracy.

10 days left. Smart sophisticated people look at the polls and think smart thoughts:

So here’s a prospect worth contemplating: What if Romney carries the popular vote, but Obama regains the presidency by winning 270 votes or more in the electoral college?

“I think it’s a 50/50 possibility — or more,” said Mark McKinnon, who was a political strategist for President George W. Bush.

“If the election were held tomorrow, it wouldn’t just be a possibility, it would be actual,” added William A. Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution . .

Oh the clownery visited upon us occasionally by the electoral college. The Founding Fathers may have been funnier than how they were painted. But this, no, is not another one of those ‘excelsior the popular vote’ posts. This is cleverer than that. This is the Washington Post:

No incumbent president seeking a second term has ever won the electoral college and lost the popular vote.

Every modern president to be reelected — Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Clinton, George W. Bush — has gotten a bigger share of the vote in their second bid for office than their first, and with it, a chance to claim a mandate.

A win in the electoral college that is not accompanied by one in the popular vote casts a shadow over the president and his ability to govern.

Remember how George W. Bush was hamstrung by this issue in 2001? Lost to Al Gore, won the office? Dead on arrival, he was. No I don’t remember that. So it is that incumbents only can zombify our politics. Incidentally, this has never happened before so it’s a fairly sure thing.

Gosh and golly smart people. I wish Karen Tumulty had been less cerebrum-riot-y and more look-at-the-country-y when she’d written this. There’s a bigger issue pointed out by the tight polling. All anyone had to do to see it was look at the politics clearinghouse site Memeorandum today. Here is a story by the AP:

Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice toward blacks whether they recognize those feelings or not . .

In all, 51 percent of Americans now express explicit anti-black attitudes, compared with 48 percent in a similar 2008 survey. When measured by an implicit racial attitudes test, the number of Americans with anti-black sentiments jumped to 56 percent, up from 49 percent during the last presidential election. In both tests, the share of Americans expressing pro-black attitudes fell . .

The AP surveys were conducted with researchers from Stanford University, the University of Michigan and NORC at the University of Chicago.

Americans are more racist now than they were in 2008. Hooray! No wonder President Spearchucker can’t kill the hapless Romneybot (*click-clack* nothing can kill Romneybot *whirr* only Romneybot can kill Romneybot *click*). The polls are this close because half of the country is insane. Responding to Romney spokesman John Sununu, who accused General Colin Powell (blah person) of being Afro-racist, here’s Larry Wilkerson in an interview with Ed Schultz:

My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people — not all of them, but most of them — who are still basing their positions on race.

Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as Commander in Chief and President, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that’s despicable.

That’s Republican Colonel Larry Wilkerson, on the Republicans. Those jerks are voting more vigorously against the Black Candidate than they are for the Man Who Stood For (insert here). Mitt would win their votes as a hologram as long as he was programmed Navajo white. And then this, the creme de la ruses:

It’s the birth of Barack Obama! Probably the pranksters should not have casted Big Jim Slade in the starring role, probably. But there are explanations. We know this because someone asked:

–Well, that baby is massive. It looks like it’s at least a year old.

Babies are born heavy all the time. I see no issue with that. And I assure you, most of the general public has no idea how big infants are in Kenya.

–What?

You might think the US is a fat society, but in Kenya they are born big and then they become light. Which is evidenced by the fact that today, Obama is really light and fit. That’s just the way it is.

That makes sense. Now if he could tell us why the tad Obama keeps flicking cigarette ashes from his beard. We wonder. Why he’s wearing a houndstooth jacket and a fez, reading Kerouac and slugging a bottle of absinthe, we’re curious to know. If the fool over there—> hadn’t blown the con with his multiple production tells, he’d probably have had a million people in the streets calling for grown Obama’s resignation. Does anyone doubt that?

And it’s not like the rural rubes are the only trogs. The congressional Republicans have repeatedly called him a communist and Marxist and terrorist and death on two legs. Have opposed every proposal he brought to the table, particularly if they themselves proposed it first. Screamed “You lie!” while he tried to speak to them. Filibustered the legislation he supported more than three hundred sixty times, a record. They don’t like him? They’d like to abolish even the memory of an Obama.

Karen Tumulty should open her eyes. It’s very neat and swell to opine about a hobbled presidency on the horizon. But this one was dented by racism from the start. With polling in the swing states currently running in the President’s favor, it brings up the likelihood that Obama will win. Hence the trolls will gnash their fangs, and they’ll jam a burning cross in the wheels of Congress, again, and clever Karen will say “I told you so.”

PIERS MORGAN: Colin Powell has decided to opt for President Obama again despite apparently still being a Republican. Is it time he left the party, do you think?

JOHN SUNUNU: . . frankly, when you take a look at Colin Powell, you have to wonder whether that’s an endorsement based on issues or whether he’s got a slightly different reason for preferring President Obama.

Sununu points out that we have only Powell’s endorsement to consider, which is unfair. John thinks we might ignore his decision and turn our attention elsewhere. We might consider Colin Powell himself. I mean, who is this guy anyway? If we all had a photograph of him, or a charcoal sketch, we could “take a look at” the guy. Maybe then we would learn something.

MORGAN: What reason would that be?

SUNUNU: Well, I think that when you have somebody of your own race that you’re proud of being President of the United States — I applaud Colin for standing with him.

He’s like the President in being of a rare and different race. That’s why the General isn’t interested in foreign policy or the war in Afghanistan. He’s unconcerned with the complexities of politics and such. Can you blame him? Of course not. Like Governor Sununu, I only applaud Colin Powell for his racism. It’s okay, black people are like that.

You got the folding chair out, put it two feet from the screen. Stocked the Igloo with ice and beer. Poured the bags of Funyuns, Queso Cheese Ruffles and Blazin’ Buffalo Ranch Doritos into a tupperware hopper. Unplugged the land line, threw the cell phone in a pillow case and crammed it between the mattresses. Closed the windows and drew the blinds because OH YES there will be yelling. After all tonight is the whole shootin’ match. 21 days to go, and whoever wins this debate will probably win the election. Then Fox Nation tells you:

Aw CRAP.

1) Staging -Romney won the toss. Romney will enter and remain stage right, camera left. Obama will enter and remain stage left, camera right.

2) Order of candidate introductions – The Romney campaign lost the coin toss. Obama will be introduced first. Romney will be introduced second. The campaigns will advise on exact wording of candidate introduction.

3) Order of questioning- Obama loses toss. Romney will take the first question. Obama will take the second question . .

HE LOST 3 out of 4 coin tosses. Oh well, see you in Tehran. Elizabeth Warren 2016!

What about this: The second Romney administration. Magical or merely Historic? Please discuss or mooga booga (as needed).

xhrono | 9 hours ago

Romney DOMINATES pure chance game because he is a businessman, and not a politician

liberalwarrior | 7 hours ago

Wow, desperate much Conservatives? LOL!!!!

notorious_dvg | 6 hours ago

No desperation, it just illustrates that Obama can’t do anything right, even when he has a 50/50 shot.

j9opine | 5 hours ago

Next First Lady FIRST–present first gorilla 2nd.

hikermike2012 | 5 hours ago

she was just mad because she dropped her banana on the floor and one of the offspring grabbed and swallowed it before she could get her knuckle dragging fingers on it!

angrywetcat | 9 hours ago

huh. i thought it would be more like this…

Hello America, this is the Debate! In this corner we have the Planet of the Apes. In the other corner, we have the intelligent white people that actually know what they are doing. Pick a corner America, and vote. For those supporting the Plant of the Apes party, your food stamps, welfare checks and oDimwit phones will be cancelled tomorrow.

This would not be George Will’s best column. No I don’t know of an example of his decency, column-wise. I’m just stating what must surely be fact. It’s really rotten. This is as two-faced as a WaPo editorial gets, and the sneer is poorly hidden.

As George is the grand purveyor of the perfumed pooh-pooh, perhaps it’s to be expected. He has a long history of picking up with thumb and forefinger whatever you tossed onto his plate, moderately speaking, and fairly vomiting. How this is appalling and shabby and insulting. He does not near his nose with trash. Though it fascinates him that you would be so enamored of this blackened banana peel your mongrel dog has been using for bathroom tissue. Is it true? Are you still fond of this Obama? Oh Dear.

Obama’s administration is in shambles, yet he is prospering politically. This may not, however, entirely be evidence of the irrationality of the electorate. Something more benign may be at work.

Now would be time to pull out the black ballplayer references. Let’s start with Frank and Jackie Robinson, shall we? UGH. No I didn’t see this coming. I didn’t think he had the nerve, frankly. Nobody should have this kind of nerve, excepting daytime art thieves. Frank Robinson was the first black manager hired by Major League Baseball, and he was also the first fired.

The fact that the Indians felt free to fire Robinson — who went on to have a distinguished career managing four other teams — showed that BLAH BLAH . .

Someone else around here is a first black person, I wonder who.

That Obama is African American may be important, but in a way quite unlike that darkly suggested by, for example, MSNBC’s excitable boys and girls who, with their (at most) one-track minds and exquisitely sensitive olfactory receptors, sniff racism in any criticism of their pin-up.

I don’t see anything sinister, honestly. I see George Will with his baseball-love can’t transcend the existence of American racism. Nor can he erase the four years of vicious bigotry hurled at this president. By wincing at its mention, he of course reminds us of its existence. This makes him not elitist in a way to be bigoted, only to be entirely dismissive. That’s why George is tempted to crush the ants of MSNBC. And to remind us of the excitable girls with one-track minds and sensitive snoots ogling Frank Robinson. Which is not to diminish Frank, and so Frank’s diminished. George can be angry with the people who call out racists in public life, but it only makes him a divining rod for racism. What a smartypants.

Instead, the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure — thereby admitting that it made a mistake in choosing him — seems especially reluctant to give up on the first African American president. If so, the 2012 election speaks well of the nation’s heart, if not its head.

The More You Know. Cue glockenspiel.

Conservative racism knows no bounds, and it never sleeps.

During the Creston Classic Rodeo on Saturday afternoon, [Mike] Hayhurst made a joke over the public address system about Michelle Obama that reportedly went like this: Playboy is offering Ann Romney $250,000 to pose in the magazine, and the White House is upset about it because National Geographic only offered Michelle Obama $50 to pose for them.

And it is wholly clueless. Given the children and women in attendance, you’d assume a clown would know better than to harangue the unsuspecting crowd with caveman politics. They’re only nibbling on candy or sipping cool Pepsis in the Summer heat, fer gosh sakes. But no:

Several people who attended the event emailed The Tribune and said they heard racist and offensive remarks during Saturday’s bull-riding event. For example, Gretchen Ross of Cayucos said she heard the rodeo clown compare a black bull to President Obama, asking what they have in common.

“Besides the obvious?” was the answer, Ross said. “A couple of good points and a lot of bull in between.”

She added: “My son and I were offended by that. I thought it was disrespectful to the audience.”

Ross and her husband, Michael Foster, also recalled a comment that referenced actress Lohan’s time behind bars, and said Hayhurst joked, “We need Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.”

Hayhurst is nothing more than what he appears to be. Instead of simply saying “Sorry,” he saw the controversy as a good time to flash his wingnut badge:

“Thanks to the Founders and defenders of our great nation, we are afforded our free speech rights . . “

Cram it, clownie.

I am so sick of reading this revisionist crap.

Drop the Racial Rhetoric
Obama should blow his own dog whistle and tell his partisans to desist.
By Deroy Murdock | National Review

Congressman-for-Life Charles Rangel blah blah . .

Oh I’m sure the President has got a dog whistle of his own he can blow. Ugh. And everyone will know it’s time to stop the bigoted anti-racial farce or something. Anyway, here comes the lying again.

Biden’s comments were just a bizarre and crude effort to scare black people into voting Democrat, again. . .

While one may disagree with Romney, his running mate Paul Ryan, and every Republican on Capitol Hill, the notion that the GOP is itching to re-enslave blacks is an outrageous, disgusting lie that utterly mutilates American history. As most students learn in junior high school, abolitionists launched the Republican party to end slavery. Republicans defeated the Confederacy and then spent Reconstruction trying to incorporate blacks into American society. Democrats fought them at every turn.

After the War of Northern Aggression, after the waves of cursed reconstructionists and carpetbaggers receded, the Republican Party was unwelcome in the South. All politics was conducted through the Democratic Party. It was both conservative and liberal, left and right (but mostly waaay right). During the debate over the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 21 of the 22 senators that represented the South were Democrats. 87 of 94 Southern members of the House were Dems.

Saying your party wasn’t guilty of Southern racism while your party was exiled from the possibility is no argument at all. Murdock plays games with words like “Democrat.” The Southern Republican may have barely existed but the familiar reactionary conservatism was certainly there. To this point, look at the differences between voting patterns North and South regarding that historic act:

On the Senate version, the Northern Democrats voted 45 -1 for it and the Southern Democrats voted 20 -1 against it. It didn’t particularly matter what party you said you belonged to, once you got below the Mason-Dixon line you were a right winger. And do you remember the powerful voting bloc the Southern politicians composed at the time?

In the United States, the conservative coalition was an unofficial Congressional coalition bringing together the conservative majority of the Republican Party and the conservative, mostly Southern, wing of the Democratic Party. It was dominant in Congress from 1937 to 1963 and remained a political force until the mid 1980s, eventually dying out in the 1990s.

These were America’s most conservative politicians: Southern Democrats. To say they were or are linked to liberal or progressive politics in any way is to lie. These were the racist white supremacists, like Strom Thurmond, that the GOP received with open arms after the successes of the civil rights movement.

And the “Southern Manifesto,” remember that?

The Declaration of Constitutional Principles (known informally as the Southern Manifesto) was a document written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places. The manifesto was signed by 99 politicians (97 Democrats) from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The Congressmen drafted the document to counter the landmark Supreme Court 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education, which determined that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional.

How’s that for Originalist States’ Rights Tea Party activism?

The Southern Manifesto accused the Supreme Court of “clear abuse of judicial power.” It promised to use “all lawful means to bring about a reversal of this decision which is contrary to the Constitution and to prevent the use of force in its implementation.” The Manifesto suggested that the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution should limit the reach of the Supreme Court on such issues.

Tenthers. You get my point. Back to hooray! Deroy:

President Ronald Reagan named General Colin Powell to be America’s first black national security adviser and authorized the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday.

My butt. Presidents authorize no such thing. They either sign or veto the legislation, and Reagan wanted to veto it.

Reagan staunchly opposed the King Holiday bill. And he did not oppose it as later historical revisionists claim solely for cost reasons, that is that the federal government couldn’t afford to give federal employees another day off. This is the politically palatable cover.

At a press conference October 19 two weeks before he grudgingly signed the bill he quipped that he’d sign it only “since Congress seemed bent on making it a national holiday.” It took every ounce of the congressional bent that Reagan ridiculed to get him to put his signature on the bill. Congress passed the bill with an overwhelming veto-proof majority (338 to 90 in the House of Representatives and 78 to 22 in the Senate).

And don’t forget:

Reagan revealed even more of his true thinking about King in a letter to ultra-conservative former New Hampshire governor Meldrim Thompson. He unapologetically told Thompson that the public’s view of King was “based on image, not reality.” Reagan was roundly criticized for besmirching King, and he subsequently publicly apologized to King’s widow, Coretta Scott King. In assailing King, Reagan simply followed the well-worn ultra-conservative and racist script that King was a radical, racial agitator, and a closet communist.

Got it, Deroy? Reagan had to apologize to Mrs. King for being a stupid ass. For being your typical commie-baiter of the conservative Republican sort that is still found flogging his race jitters today. All of a dozen days ago Rep. Todd Akin said he was open to repealing both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. So enough of your garbage, Murdock.

ADD . . This is good:

Mr. Reagan’s letter replied to one he received from former New Hampshire Gov. Meldrim Thomson, who asked the President to veto the bill. In the letter, Mr. Thomson called Dr. King “a man of immoral character whose frequent association with leading agents of communism is well established.”

Mr. Reagan replied, “I have the same reservations you have, but here the perception of too many people is based on image, not reality.”

Mr. Reagan telephoned Mrs. King before leaving for a weekend of golf at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, which has no black members.

Yes, your precious Ronnie really cared about the likes of you Deroy.

This is just a reminder, nothing more. Don’t take this for anything other than what it is.

Stephen Marks is typical of the sorts of sleaze that make a living in politics. He is a lurker and a parasite and he’s angling to make money off the approaching election. So he slapped together this video. He’s hoping somebody in the Romney camp will be impressed with it and crack open the nearest slush fund. Here:

Notice how Henry Louis Gates being arrested for trying to get into his own house amounts to a ‘racist altercation.’ We are to believe Henry was the bigot there. Nice try. I can’t say I’m impressed with the strategy, or the execution. Marks might be the laziest man in the conservative ‘movement.’ It hasn’t occurred to him that everyone’s already noticed the president is black, and the people for which this is an issue have already taken a predictable side on the matter. Maybe he thinks we’re all n*gger lovers, and that alone is tantamount to burning a cross on the GOP’s lawn.