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Mwalimu Daudi says:

Steele’s slow-motion meltdown reminds me of an old joke about a Soviet diplomat that was giving a US Senator an earful. “You Americans are always telling lies about the lack of freedom in the Soviet Union!” the diplomat shouted at the Senator. “It’s a lie! We have exactly the same freedom that you Yankees do! In America you can stand in front of the and shout filthy language against the President of the United States. In my country you can stand in front of the Kremlin and shout filthy language against the President of the United States.”

Except for the part about “shouting filthy language against the President of the United States” (which these days will probably land you in jail for a racial “hate crime”), the joke illustrates the deadly danger of self-censorship.

Think of it! A mediocre Democrat judge with a history of overturned decisions makes an ugly racist gloat, wrong dismisses a case because the plaintiff is white, and it’s the judge’s critics that are supposed to whimper in fear. The first step to totalitarianism is self-censorship of politically-incorrect truths, and the fact that Sotomayor is a racist troll who lacks the judicial temperament to be a judge is indeed a fact.

Steele, whose only ambition seems to be to win the favor of white Democrat liberals, does not understand the evil of reverse discrimination. Nothing about Sotomayor’s history is “compelling” – she is a rich liberal who attended an excellent Catholic high school and who played the race and ethnicity cards to rise well above her level of incompetence. There was a time when the GOP opposed this as an evil straight out of Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa, where race and ethnicity were the supreme issues. Not any more, apparently.

I am a white man married to a black African woman. Our son is considered “biracial” (whatever that means). It angers me that racists like Sotomayor and Obama are willing to fan racial and ethnic tensions for no other reason that to get power, creating an atmosphere that my son will have to somehow survive. Steele of all people should know better.

I have given up on the GOP as the last refuge of those who believe in freedom and personal responsibility instead of government dependency and dividing people along racial and ethnic lines. A third party cannot come too soon.

CinderellaMan says:

I don’t feel comfortable at all with Obama’s plan to start a “Cyber-Security” program. The democratic leadership have already shown an intent to scrutinize and shut down free speech with the “Fairness” Doctrine. Then we see a written policy directive from his new Homeland Security head to, essentially, ferret out the right wing people ( which would include forums, etc.) who had what the left deemed “radical” underpinnings.
This democratic leadership, in the White House, the Congress and Senate, is filled to the brim with an arrogant, one-sided agenda, with no checks and balances.
Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly are onto something in their review of ACORN. I believe they’ve laundered money ( you tell me how Obama brought in 150 million a month with everyone coming in under the 2000 maximum). And what could be worse for America than a one-party government already guilty of stealing an election, and hard at work to lock up the next one?
A very interesting read on how voters were threatened:

http://tinyurl.com/nu933g

Truly, the dictatorial nature of Barack Hussein Obama is breathtaking.

artgal says:

Well, if Steele is concentrating on getting the urban vote, then I guess “slammin’& rammin'” is how Steele is introducing his Urban Voter Appeal Plan for the GOP. It’s all about highlighting what someone looks like instead of what their qualifications are, and – as other’s have pointed out – engaging in self-censorship.

In other words, Bobby Jindal’s dismal display responding to Obama’s economic bill in February will be the strategy from now on.

What is especially infuriating is Steele has some ammunition and is too much of a ‘kitty’ to use it. Why isn’t ANYONE screaming about the way the Dems treated Miguel Estrada in 2003 when Bush wanted to appoint this Latino man to the Supreme Court? One of the MAIN criticisms coming from the Dems is ‘He is Latino’ (http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004305).

Clearly, this ‘strategy’ of Steele’s (remember: he said EVERYTHING we see coming from him is strategy…) stands in sharp contrast to the statement he issued last week that the honeymoon w/ Odumbass is over – which was a statement indicating there was going to be some contrast in how the Reps have been responding to this administration thus far. So I guess that means, the GOP is right back where it started from: a vacant lot.

I think “Slammin’ & Rammin'” has a subtitle: Lay Down & Shut Up – This Will Only Hurt For a Minute Because It’s Not As Bad As When The Democrats Do It.

Maybe the new GOP slogan should be: “We Will Buy Dinner Before We Screw You – Not After You’ve Been F**ked!”

artgal says:

So I got the court itself wrong – a mistype on my part as I was fuming while writing, ok? DC Circuit. There. Does that change the fact the Dems were blatantly & comfortably racist in their rhetoric & disapproval of Estrada? NO!