If you think that Cokie Roberts is a liberal, you might be a moron. The first clue is that her daddy was Hale Boggs. Hale Boggs got his start in politics fighting against Huey Long’s Louisiana machine. Huey Long was a fire-breathing liberal. Hale Boggs didn’t like fire-breathing liberals. And neither does his daughter. Also, too:
During his tenure in Congress, Boggs was an influential player in the government. After Brown v. Board of Education he signed the Southern Manifesto condemning desegregation in the 1950s and opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet unlike most southern congressmen of his era, he supported the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Open Housing Act of 1968.
That’s actually a better than average record for a Southern politician of that era, but it’s not the record of a liberal. Now, don’t get me wrong. Cokie Roberts isn’t some radical conservative, either. And her dearly-departed sister served as a fairly liberal mayor of Princeton, New Jersey. I grew up with Cokie’s nephew and can’t say enough nice things about that whole family. Yet, it’s been clear forever that Cokie and her husband Steve are a little right of center.
And, in any case, Newsbusters completely misunderstood her comment. She wasn’t blaming the Constitution; she was blaming the Republicans for acting like they serve in the majority of a parliamentary system. She was saying, in effect, you can’t act like that because of our Constitution.
This is a woman who criticized Obama for visiting his dying grandmother in Hawaii and also criticized Glenn Beck for being worse than a clown. She doesn’t like anyone to do anything out of the ordinary (like, say, hail from a tropical island). She’s a radical centrist. So, yeah, she’s no fan of teabaggers or liberals.
