Bigotry Loses, Republicans Hold On To Divisive Racism

8:07 pm EST July 13th, 2006 | Politics | 11 Comments

Glad that this passed, even with all the GOP delays and footdragging.

The House voted Thursday to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act, rejecting efforts by Southern conservatives to relax federal oversight of their states in a debate haunted by the ghosts of the civil rights movement.

The 390-33 vote sent to the Senate a bill that represented a Republican appeal to minority voters who doubt the GOP’s “big-tent” image.

All of the “no” votes came from Republicans, in defiance of their own leaders.

As John J. Miller at The National Review says, this is a defeat for the Republicans and conservatives. Interesting how a win for racial equality is a blow to the right, huh?

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11 Responses to “Bigotry Loses, Republicans Hold On To Divisive Racism”

  1. Frank_D says:
    July 13, 2006 at 9:07 pm

    “By passing this rewrite of the Voting Rights Act, Congress is declaring from on high that states with voting problems 40 years ago can simply never be forgiven, said Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., one of several lawmakers pressing for changes to the law to ease its requirements on Southern states.

     I sincerely hope the U.S. Senate corrects these problems so when the bill returns to the House for final passage I can vote for it, said Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., whose state is one of those under federal scrutiny

    Arizona? Was that a Confederate state? I forget&

  2. Bushwacked says:
    July 13, 2006 at 11:07 pm

    Actually it was.

  3. Marty says:
    July 14, 2006 at 12:07 am

    Ding!

  4. Frank_D says:
    July 14, 2006 at 1:07 am

    From JAN to JUL 1862…

    So now there should be Civil Rights’ Voters’ legislationed aimed directly at them?

    Excellent.

  5. JWG says:
    July 14, 2006 at 6:07 am

    I guess New Mexico should have to get special permission from the federal government, as well, since it made up half of the “Arizona” Confederacy. Oh, and we should look into California.

    The [Arizona Territory of the Confederate States of America] overlapped but was not identical to the Arizona Territory created by the United States in 1863. The Confederate territory was the scene of important battles in the western campaign of the American Civil War, primarily because it offered Confederate access to southern California, which then had a large pro-Confederate population.

    I hate California racists.

  6. JWG says:
    July 14, 2006 at 6:07 am

    If a vote against the Voting Rights Act equals hatred of minorities, then voting against the Flag Burning Amendment must mean you hate America. Your logic doesn’t equate, but thanks for playing the race card…it’s what liberals like to do instead of arguing the actual facts.

  7. deus_ex_machina says:
    July 14, 2006 at 9:07 am

    If a vote against the Voting Rights Act equals hatred of minorities, then voting against the Flag Burning Amendment must mean you hate America.

    On the contrary – the Voting Rights Act is a made-in-America original product. The Flag Burning Amendment is a foreign import from the likes of Cuba, Iran and China.

    I wouldn’t mind allowing imports of Cuban cigars, but Cuban law is another thing entirely.

  8. scratch says:
    July 14, 2006 at 9:07 am

    This is not one of my pet issues, but I just want to go on record here and now saying that I fully support The Emancipation Proclamation.

  9. drpedro says:
    July 14, 2006 at 11:07 am

    yea deus your right!

    Cubans have a law agaisnt stealing and murder too! Lets throw those damn commie laws out!

    Thank god we have leftists here who CARE about Amerika and point these things out to the rest of us troglodite mouth-breathers……

  10. Sundown says:
    July 14, 2006 at 3:07 pm

    This might be a collosal shock to you, drpedro, but theft and murder are illegal in almost every nation. Flag desecration is illegal in a select few, and not the nations that the USA should want to emulate.

  11. JWG says:
    July 14, 2006 at 5:07 pm

    Cripes…the point is that we’re still voting to force federal control over state legislation in selected voting precincts for actions that occurred before most current Americans were even alive (over 55% of Americans are under 40). If you oppose this matter then you’re labeled a racist as Oliver demonstrates.