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Home Front: Politix
US Congressman says Republican base 'animated by racism'
2014-04-14
[Iran Press TV] A prominent Democrat Congressman says America's broken immigration system remains stalled because the base of the Republican Party has racist elements, but all Republicans are not racist.

Steve Israel, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, made the remarks in an interview with US broadcaster CNN on Sunday.

"Not all" Republicans are racist, said Israel, but "to a significant extent, the Republican base has elements that are animated by racism, and that's unfortunate."

Earlier this week, Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
, the Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives, blamed racial issues for the Republican Party's failure to take action on comprehensive immigration legislation.

"I think race has something to do with the fact that they're not bringing up an immigration bill," Pelosi told news hounds on Thursday.

The CNN journalist asked Israel about Pelosi's comments. He said he agreed with her remarks.

Pelosi also accused Republicans of being disrespectful to members of the administration of President Barack Obama
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money...
and to women.
Posted by:Fred

#14  Exactly what race are Illegal Aliens Nancy?

Serious question because if you are claiming (and indeed you, Nancy Pelosi, are!) that "Illegal aliens == Mexican (or Latin American)" then isn't that a very, very racist statement you, Nancy Pelosi, are making?

Equating a legal status (in this case 'ILLEGAL' as in 'IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW') with a race (or in this case nationality.) is one of the most racist things I've seen.

Kind of like claiming "All blacks are Criminals!". Which is patently false.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-04-14 16:29  

#13  Here's how racist I am: If Mexican law allowed me to go somewhere down on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, buy property, enjoy the same voting rights, the same access to health care, education for my kids, the same protection under the law just the same as if I was here in California I would go. But that, unfortunately, is not the case. And yet, Mexicans expect to come to my country and demand all of those things, without having worked for them or paid any taxes for them, at my expense. If it's racist for me to believe that's not fair then I guess I'm a racist. That's an uncomfortable idea because I have a lot of friends whose ethnic background is Hispanic. I would like to assert that the policies advocated by the likes of Pelosi, McCain and Obama have led to a polarization in our society and to tensions with our neighbors to the south. If the law had been upheld all along it wouldn't have to be that way.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-04-14 14:28  

#12  Private property or home - Compound
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-04-14 14:12  

#11  yep,

The Leftest Dictionary -

Racist - you disagree with me
Evil - you don't willing accept my authority and agenda
Domestic Terrorist - you actually resist my power
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-04-14 14:10  

#10  It may be the attempt to redefine Racist.

Destroying language disrupts the ability to communicate. Imagine you want to make a painting. You go to the hobby store to buy your paints. The paints have the different colors on them, but are only labeled white, black, yellow, red, green, etc. You can tell there are different types of green, but they are all called green.

You make your painting, somebody asks, "Wow, how did you make those trees?" You can only reply, "I used a green, a different green, and a third green."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-04-14 12:33  

#9  Bored to tears by baseless repetition of the word "racisim" is much closer.
Posted by: Slusoth Hupolung6411   2014-04-14 11:25  

#8  If the Repubs were smart (!), they'd just start saying stuff designed to elicit the most hysterical, over the top responses from the Dems.
Posted by: Raj   2014-04-14 09:55  

#7  This is the problem - the Dems are inventing stuff out of whole cloth, and not even one single reporter publicly calls them out on it. These "reporters" instead carry the lie and bias straight to the mainstream outlets who idealogue editors have the talking heads and hack writers parrot it, as Goebbels dictum says.


Goebbel's dictum? Here you go:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." (apocryphal attributed to Goebbels)

as well as

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over”
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-04-14 08:17  

#6  Besoeker - of course you're still an evil racist. Anyone who agrees with the philosophies of those people is an evil racist. Even them - they are not legitimately black. Or so I'm told by my betters.
Posted by: Glenmore   2014-04-14 07:39  

#5  I share a somewhat similar political and social philosophy as Dr. Ben Carson, Herman Cain, Condolisa Rice, Clarence Thomas, Allen West, Parker, Keyes, Sowell, my old barber in Leesburg, and the junk man....... am I still an evil racist ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-04-14 06:26  

#4  Projection from the oikophobes.

What is marxism except discriminating based on groups?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-04-14 05:32  

#3  I consider myself immune. Any time someone says that to me, my answer "Yes, I'm very much pro-humans!" They get this weird look on their face cause while the logic part of their brain realizes they have just been trumped, their liberal brain cannot process what you said.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2014-04-14 03:27  

#2  Eventually, you [Americans] will become immune to accusations of racism. The question is when?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-04-14 02:36  

#1  Coming from the party of the Klu Klux Klan.
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-04-14 00:49  

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