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Louie Gohmert turns table on Democrats


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A privileged resolution requires the House to either immediately table the motion, which then becomes a vote for or against it, or bring it to the floor for a vote within two days of its introduction. If the resolution survives a vote to table, each side has an hour to debate it before it comes up for a vote on the floor.

Gohmert’s resolution provides a long list of instances in which the Democratic Party supported slavery, the Confederacy, and racist policies, including:

  • The Democratic Party platforms of 1840, 1844, 1848, 1852, and 1856 stated “that all efforts of the abolitionists, or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery . . . are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions.”
  • The Democratic Party platform of 1856 declared that “new states” to the Union should be admitted “with or without domestic slavery, as [the state] may elect.”
  • The Democratic Party platform of 1856 declared that “we recognize the right of the people of all the Territories . . .  to form a Constitution, with or without domestic slavery.”
  • The Democratic Party platform of 1860, in seeking to uphold the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 that required law enforcement officials to arrest any individual suspected of being a runaway slave, stated that “the enactments of the State Legislatures to defeat the faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law are hostile in character, subversive of the Constitution, and revolutionary in their effect.”
  • No Democrat in Congress supported the 14th Amendment, which gave full citizenship to freed slaves. It passed in 1868 with 94 percent Republican support and zero support from Democrats.
  • No Democrat in Congress supported the 15th Amendment, which gave freed slaves the right to vote. It passed in 1870 with 100 percent Republican support and zero support from Democrats.
  • Various state Democratic Party officials enacted policies to disenfranchise and “systematically suppress” the right of African Americans to vote. The resolution specifically cites the 1902 Constitution of the State of Virginia that disenfranchised about 90 percent of the African American voters at the time, forcibly reducing the number of eligible African American voters from about 147,000 in 1901 to about 10,000 by 1905. The resolution notes that this measure was “supported almost exclusively by Virginia Democrats.”
  • The administration of President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, “began a racial segregation policy for U.S. government employees and, by 1914, the Wilson administration’s Civil Service instituted the requirement that a photograph be submitted with each employment application.”
  • When the Democratic Party held its national convention in 1924 in New York City at Madison Square Garden, the event was commonly referred to as the “Klan-Bake” due to the influence of the Ku Klux Klan in the party.
  • Senate Democrats held a 75-calendar day filibuster against the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  • Former Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), a known recruiter for the KKK, led the Democrats to oppose civil rights for African Americans.
  • Democrats “enacted and enforced Jim Crow laws and civil codes that forced segregation and restricted freedoms” for African Americans.
  • In June, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ordered the removal of the portraits of four previous Speakers of the House  who served in the Confederacy, stating that these portraits “set back our nation’s work to confront and combat bigotry.” However, Gohmert’s resolution notes that the Speakers that Pelosi removed (Robert M.T. Hunter, Howell Cobb, James L. Orr, and Charles F. Crisp) were all Democrats.

Gohmert’s resolution also calls for Pelosi to remove from the House wing of the Capitol of any House office building any item that “names, symbolizes or mentions any political organization or party that has ever held a public position that supported slavery or the Confederacy.”

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11 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

Louie is a glib special case of the highest order, who ignores the reality of modern politics, hiding behind what the Democratic Party was and what the Republican Party is today. 

How modern you want?  2010? That's when Joe Biden called Robert Byrd a FRIEND, MENTOR, and  GUIDE.

Former Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), a known recruiter for the KKK, led the Democrats to oppose civil rights for African Americans.

 

 

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35 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

Louie is a glib special case of the highest order, who ignores the reality of modern politics, hiding behind what the Democratic Party was and what the Republican Party is today. 

Lmao!! Haha so if that’s what they were then you have no problem condemning them right?

 

the big switch was a myth

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51 minutes ago, PepeSilvia said:

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Biden isn't conservative or from the South and he openly supported a KKK member as recent as 2010.  Called him FRIEND, Mentor, and a GUIDE.  You and @BarryLaverty just going to ignore that?  Like it didn't happen?  I posted the video showing it.  How do you justify that?

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23 minutes ago, ObiOne said:

Biden isn't conservative or from the South and he openly supported a KKK member as recent as 2010.  Called him FRIEND, Mentor, and a GUIDE.  You and @BarryLaverty just going to ignore that?  Like it didn't happen?  I posted the video showing it.  How do you justify that?

You mean the same guy who called being in the klan was the greatest mistake of his life and has apologized numerous times for it?

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10 minutes ago, PepeSilvia said:

You mean the same guy who called being in the klan was the greatest mistake of his life and has apologized numerous times for it?

Sounds like a very nice guy🙄

https://www.ocregister.com/2012/05/09/walter-williams-most-racists-were-democrats/

The late Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., a former Klansman, wrote during World War II: “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”

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9 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

Let me just throw this out here, again...Trump will be lucky to get the 8% of the Black vote he got last time. People know the truth of today, and they want Trump gone. 

You aren't very good with facts are you?  Opinions o'plenty but debating facts is definitely not your strong suit.

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32 minutes ago, ObiOne said:

Sounds like a very nice guy🙄

https://www.ocregister.com/2012/05/09/walter-williams-most-racists-were-democrats/

The late Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., a former Klansman, wrote during World War II: “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”

So are you saying that people’s minds and hearts can’t change?  That’s not a very Christian way of thought. 

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13 minutes ago, PepeSilvia said:

So are you saying that people’s minds and hearts can’t change?  That’s not a very Christian way of thought. 

I didn't say that.  Sounds like he was pretty racist during his days in congress and later in life.  Biden's FRIEND, MENTOR and GUIDE.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2010/06/30/byrds-kkk-history-shows-partisan-double-standard

In its obituary, the Washington Post went into surprising detail as to just what those activities consisted of and how they might have shaped his career and early record as a legislator. For example:

As a young man, Mr. Byrd was an ‘exalted cyclops’ of the Ku Klux Klan. Although he apologized numerous times for what he considered a youthful indiscretion, his early votes in Congress--notably a filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act--reflected racially separatist views.

The point here is not that Byrd ended his life as a closeted racist--I never met the man--but that, because he was a Democrat, the people who make judgments about what is and what is not newsworthy chose to give him a pass, failing to subject him to a thorough discussion of his past each time he said or did something that might have alluded to it. This was obviously the case after he used the phrase “white n*****s” in a television interview on the subject of race relations in the United States during the Bush presidency

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49 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

Let me just throw this out here, again...Trump will be lucky to get the 8% of the Black vote he got last time. People know the truth of today, and they want Trump gone. 

Seriously, I'm thinking 20-30% this time. He has done A LOT for the people that want to work.

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2 hours ago, PepeSilvia said:

So are you saying that people’s minds and hearts can’t change?  That’s not a very Christian way of thought. 

Don't you know that if you don't believe exactly how they believe, you doomed to the devil land anyways. So I am guessing that asking for forgiveness means nothing. Not that I am a fan of Robert Byrd--but if said he changed--I have to believe him, Obama said several times he evolved/changed--I have to believe him also.  NOT!!!!

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