February 7, 2006

The Day RFK and LBJ Joined the GOP

Posted by Adam Graham in : General

I was about to go to bed after gargling Salt Water, but in his efforts to defend blatantly politicizing a funeral Russ said something in the Comments over at Pam’s, I just had to comment on :

How could you not mention politics at the funeral of someone whose husband’s and her own civil liberties were violated by a lawbreaking Republican president spying on them without warrants when sitting right behind you is a lawbreaking Republican president violating thousands of Americans’ civil liberties by spying on them without warrants?

Wow, a Republican President wiretaped MLK. Who’d that be? Well, it couldn’t have been Nixon. You see King was shot in 1968, Nixon came to power in ‘69. Though as Nixon managed to order John Kerry into Cambodia into 1968, I suppose anything is posisble. Lets go to The Atlantic:

On October 10, 1963, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy committed what is widely viewed as one of the most ignominious acts in modern American history: he authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to begin wiretapping the telephones of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Wow, some revisionism there on the part of Radical Russ. It began under the Democratic Administration of JFK, by Democratic Attorney General RFK and continued under the Great Society Administration of LBJ.

The Libs would love to rewrite the Civil Rights story to put Republicans as the bad guys. Truth is that only 18% of Republicans opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 compared to 32% of Democrats in the Senate. In the House, 37% of Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act compared to 20% of Republicans. The fact is that if Black Americans had been forced to depend on the votes of Democrats alone, the Civil Rights would not have happened.

8 Comments

  1. Comment by "Radical" Russ [Visitor]

    You’re right. My bad. Sometimes when I’m typing at oh-dark-thirty in the morning, I get way ahead of myself. I had Nixon and COININTELPRO on my mind.

  2. Comment by "Radical" Russ [Visitor]

    Now, to your “Republicans are all about civil rights” point. You’re absolutely correct about the civil rights votes. Hmm, what area of the country did those Dixiecrat, er I mean, Democrat votes against civil rights come from. Hint: LBJ, when signing the Civil Rights Act, said he was losing that area of the country for Democrats for a generation. Now, following that, which party was it that pursued a regional “strategy” designed to maximize the votes of those formerly Democrat racists.

    And, by the way, when your party is actively trying to write second-class citizenship for gays and lesbians into the Constitution, forgive me and Democrats and LGBT-rights supporter Coretta Scott King for calling B.S. on your holier-than-thou civil rights stand.

  3. Comment by Michael [Visitor]

    Yup . Russ hit the nail on the head once again. Read a little history before you make a stupid remark. While you are at the finger pointing and blame game let me remind you of one thing. Lincoln was a Republican. What right could be any more important than the right not to be sold into slavery.

  4. Comment by Andrea Graham [Member]

    we don’t want to make them second class citizens. Gays have as much right to marry as the next person. They just can’t marry a person of the same gender because marriage is by definition a union between members of the opposite sex. To me trying to change that age-old definition invokes 1984.

  5. Comment by "Radical" Russ [Visitor]

    Shorter Andrea: Gays have just as much rights as we do, as long as they are just like us.

    Shorter Michael: The Republican Party has the exact same standards as they did in 1865.

  6. Comment by Michael [Visitor]

    Shorter Michael: The Republican Party has the exact same standards as they did in 1865.
    Comment by “Radical” Russ

    The Democrats don’t have the same ideals they had in 1960 .Remember , Kennedy and his brother were huge fans of the wire tap. But then you know all about that . Well , now anyway . ( russ thought Nixon wire tapped the Kings )

    Flip flop alert. Russ thinks the history of Dems in civil rights matters. Oops. But when it comes to Republicans it no longer applies.

  7. Comment by Adam Graham [Member]

    Shorter Russ: Let me go ahead and steal this trick from a liberal blog to avoid serious discussion with oversimplified summaries.

  8. Comment by Michael [Visitor]

    Notice too, that he will constantly resort to long meandering explanations to cover up his goofs.

    Short version. It’s a personal attack but its truth power so that’s OK. … Then it’s simply a general attack….Then its a personal attack again…..what kind of attack is it today. Well, that depends. What time is it.

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