GOP continues to lie about US history
Middle Class Warrior
rights legislation in the 1960s. This legislation led to the Dixiecrats
in the South joining the GOP and the rise of so-called Reagan Democrats.
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> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:25:52 -0500, Middle Class Warrior
> don't think EVERYONE is.
>
> Read the below, then roll it up (or fold it) and then stick it up
> your dumb ass.
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> Bill Bradley Fouls the Civil Rights Act
>
> by R.D. Davis
>
> A New Visions Commentary paper published December 1999 by The National
> Center
> for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Court, N.E., Washington, D.C.
> 20002,
> 202/543-4110, Fax 202/543-5975, E-Mail Projec...@nationalcenter.org,
> Webhttp://www.nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source
> is credited.
>
> Former basketball star and current Democratic presidential candidate
> Bill Bradley hasn't fouled an opponent on the basketball court in
> years, but lately he's fouling the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bradley
> claims the congressional vote on the Act led to which political party
> he would join. Oh, really?
>
> On October 9, 1999 at an Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner, Bradley
> exclaimed: "I remember the exact moment that I became a Democrat. It
> was the summer of 1964; I was an intern in Washington between my
> junior and senior year in college. And I was in the Senate chamber the
> night the 1964 Civil Rights Act passed that desegregated public
> accommodations in America... And I became a Democrat because it was
> the party of justice. It was Democrats that stepped forward that
> evening in the Senate and cast their vote that washed away the stain
> of segregation in this country."
>
> I believe that Democrats have lied about who supported the Civil
> Rights Act for so long that they actually believe their lies. But
> anytime this lie is retold, I feel compelled to debunk it. So here we
> go again...
>
> The Congressional Quarterly of June 26, 1964 (p. 1323) recorded that,
> in the Senate, only 69% of Democrats (46 for, 21 against) voted for
> the Civil Rights Act as compared to 82% of Republicans (27 for, 6
> against). All southern Democratic senators voted against the Act. This
> includes the current senator from West Virginia and former KKK member
> Robert C. Bryd and former Tennessee senator Al Gore, Sr. (the father
> of Bradley's Democratic opponent). Surely young Bradley must have
> flunked his internship because ostensibly he did not learn that the
> Act's primary opposition came from the southern Democrats' 74-day
> filibuster. In addition, he did not know that 21 is over three times
> as much as six, otherwise he would have become - according to the
> logic of his statement - a Republican.
>
> In the House of Representatives, 61% of Democrats (152 for, 96
> against) voted for the Civil Rights Act; 92 of the 103 southern
> Democrats voted against it. Among Republicans, 80% (138 for, 34
> against) voted for it.
>
> Since Bradley was interning in the Senate, why doesn't he remember the
> major role the Republicans played in fighting for civil rights? During
> the Eisenhower Administration, the Republican Party made more progress
> in civil rights than in the preceding 80 years. According to
> Congressional Quarterly, "Although the Democratic-controlled Congress
> watered them down, the Administration's recommendations resulted in
> significant and effective civil rights legislation in both 1957 and
> 1960 - the first civil rights statutes to be passed in more than 80
> years" ("The Republican Party 1960 Civil Rights Platform," May 1964).
> It reported on April 5, 1963 that, " A group of eight Republican
> senators in March joined in introducing a series of 12 civil rights
> bills that would implement many of the recommendations made in the
> Civil Rights Commission report of 1961."
>
> The principal measures introduced by these Republicans broadened the
> Civil Rights Act of 1964, making it "designed to pass unlike
> Democratic 'public relations' attempts" (CQ, February 15, 1963, p.
> 191). Republican senators overwhelmingly "chided" President John
> Kennedy about his "failure to act in this field (civil rights)."
> Republican senators criticized the Kennedy Administration's February
> 28, 1963 civil rights message as "falling far short" of the Civil
> Rights Commission's recommendations and both party platforms. "If the
> President will not assume the leadership in getting through Congress
> urgently needed civil rights measures," the Republican senators said,
> " then Congress must take the initiative" (CQ, April 5, 1963, p. 527).
>
> At the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, President Lyndon B.
> Johnson praised the Republicans for their "overwhelming" support. Roy
> Wilkins, then-NAACP chairman, awarded Republican Senate Minority
> Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois the Leadership Conference of Civil
> Rights Award for his "remarkable civil rights leadership." Moreover,
> civil rights activist Andrew Young wrote in his book An Easy Burden
> that "The southern segregationists were all Democrats, and it was
> black Republicans... who could effectively influence the appointment
> of federal judges in the South" (p. 96). Young added that the best
> civil rights judges were Republicans appointed by President Dwight
> Eisenhower and that "these judges are among the many unsung heroes of
> the civil rights movement."
>
> The historical facts and numbers show the Republican Party was more
> for civil rights than the Democrats from "the party of justice," as
> Bill Bradley called it. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, in reality,
> could not have been passed without Republican votes. It is an
> "injustice" for contemporary Democratic politicians and the liberal
> news media to continue to not give the Republicans credit for their
> civil rights triumphs. Now is the time for Republicans to start
> informing black Americans of those historical triumphs to lead them
> back to their "home party."
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> A VOTE FOR A DIM IS A VOTE FOR CORRUPTION AND SOCIALISM.
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> LIBERALS SPEND HALF THEIR LIVES BENDING OVER AND THE
> OTHER HALF ON THEIR KNEES.
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> FIGHT ORGANIZED CRIME........VOTE A LIBERAL OUT OF OFFICE.
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> Somewhere in Kenya they are missing their idiot.
> Hey........He's over here.
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Good try, but there is no way to dissuade a moron from
his liberal ideology. It's his religion.
Middle Class Warrior
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:25:52 -0500, Middle Class Warrior
> Once again you lie through your teeth. Just because you are stupid,
> don't think EVERYONE is.
>
> Read the below, then roll it up (or fold it) and then stick it up
> your dumb ass.
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> Bill Bradley Fouls the Civil Rights Act
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>
> by R.D. Davis
>
> A New Visions Commentary paper published December 1999 by The
National
> Center
> for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Court, N.E., Washington,
D.C.
> 20002,
> 202/543-4110, Fax 202/543-5975, E-Mail Proj...@nationalcenter.org,
> Web
If you would have read the post you would know the Dixiecrats left the
Democratic Party after the vote and became Republicans. LBJ and the
Democratic Congress got the credit for the Civil rights Act. LBJ
predicted the law would have a bad effect on the Democratic party for
10 years, but it took even longer for the Dems to recover. To really
understand the vote, you have to look at the regional vote.
The Vote By party and region
Note: "Southern", as used in this section, refers to members of
Congress from the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of
America in the American Civil War. "Northern" refers to members from
the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those
states.
The original House version:
* Southern Democrats: 7-87 (7%-93%)
* Southern Republicans: 0-10 (0%-100%)
* Northern Democrats: 145-9 (94%-6%)
* Northern Republicans: 138-24 (85%-15%)
The Senate version:
* Southern Democrats: 1-20 (5%-95%) (only Senator Ralph
Yarborough of Texas voted in favor)
* Southern Republicans: 0-1 (0%-100%) (this was Senator John
Tower of Texas)
* Northern Democrats: 45-1 (98%-2%) (only Senator Robert Byrd of
West Virginia opposed the measure)
* Northern Republicans: 27-5 (84%-16%) (Senators Barry Goldwater
of Arizona, Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Edwin L. Mechem of New
Mexico, Milward L. Simpson of Wyoming, and Norris H. Cotton of New
Hampshire opposed the measure)
I will give you credit for at least looking up the data instead of
going BWAHHH and gay like you usually do. But again you are dead
wrong.
source: Wikipedia
Middle Class Warrior
Facts are facts. I don't get mine from the Bible like you do.
The Democratic party is far less ideological than the Republican. The
fact is a Democratic president and House pushed the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 over the objections of the Dixiecrats in the South. Most of
those Southern Democrats then became Republicans after the vote.
If you understand the regional vote on the act, you will have a better
picture of what really happened.
Patriot Games
>Here is a video in which a Republican claims her party passed the Civil
>rights legislation in the 1960s.
Oops! Caught LYING:
"The bill was reported out of the Judiciary Committee in November
1963, and referred to the Rules Committee, whose chairman, Howard W.
Smith, a Democrat from Virginia, indicated his intention to keep the
bill bottled up indefinitely."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
"Senators led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to
prevent its passage."
How many Republicans voted AGAINST the Civil Rights Act in the House?
35. (20%)
How many DemocRATs voted AGAINST the Civil Rights Act in the House?
91! (35%)
How many Republicans voted AGAINST the Civil Rights Act in the Senate?
6. (18%)
How many DemocRATs voted AGAINST the Civil Rights Act in the Senate?
21! (31%)