The White House seems more exercised about a Nazi-panderer being a top Republican leader in Congress than most congressional Democrats:
Scalise has been under fire over revelations that he gave a speech to a white supremacist group 12 years ago.
Scalise is the third-ranking Republican in the House. Several members of his party say they are supporting him after he said he regrets giving the speech.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest says it’s up to Republicans to decide whether he retains his position and what that says about their conference. But Earnest says who is in their leadership “says a lot about who they are, what their values are and what the priorities of the conference should be.”
I expect the House Republicans to shrug.
They are who we thought they were.
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Yes, I was thinking it might be useful to know what Scalise actually said in his speech. I believe this is the slush fund he was talking about:
Of course there are non-racist ways to talk about slush funds. But we’ve got a situation here where Scalise’s defense is that he was all about the slush funds, and he just accidentally gave a speech about slush funds at a EURO conference, because how was he to know that the European-American Unity and Rights Organization was a white supremacist group?
So you know you’re in a bad spot when your best defense is that you’re a total idiot. But to judge whether it’s even true that Scalise didn’t know what kind of people he was talking to, it would be really good to know what he said.
That could probably apply to 90-95% of their conference, if not by creed then certainly by deed/votes. Who they are, what their values are and what the priorities of the conference should be has been clear ever since Ronald Reagan went to Philadelphia, Mississippi proclaiming fidelity to “States’ Rights” – no surprises here. They can go attempt the anatomically impossible.
I say keep him in the post, and then point out again and again and again that he’s a nazi and the republicans support him.
I would say that taking every opportunity to describe him as one who is “sympathetic to the politics of noted white supremacist David Duke” would be a fitting millstone to hang around his neck. That is, if you could ever find a Democrat willing to play hardball.
Someone should hire a German oom-pah-pah band to follow him everywhere.
And so henceforth, the masthead above the Rep Congress shall read, ‘The members of David Duke’s party without the baggage’
What he regrets is being caught.
That is not a shrug from the GOP. Take a deep breath…you will smell fear. They are afraid of David Duke. Where is Joe Lieberman, Eric Cantor, or AIPAC? If Mike is such a great guy, how come they have apparently disappeared off the face the the earth. It is time for some David Duke video. There are generations out there who have no idea about the hate David Duke represents.
Giving a whip to a bigot is not a good idea…