The wingnuts are crying us a river:
Conservative Republicans are worried that political correctness is creeping into their party.
They point to the decision by a House committee to replace 50 state flags — including Mississippi’s, which is emblazoned with the Confederate battle flag — with 50 state coins from the U.S. mint.
Separately, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) sidestepped the controversy this week raging over a North Carolina law barring transgender people from using bathrooms that do not match their born sex, saying he didn’t know enough about what he said was a state proposal.
And while conservative Republicans grumble that President Obama’s decision to pull Andrew Jackson off the front of the $20 bill is playing politics with currency, they feel there’s scant motivation in their ranks to stop him.
“Political correctness has crept into the Capitol,” said David Bozell, president of ForAmerica, a conservative advocacy group.
Brian Darling, a conservative Republican strategist, accused House GOP leaders of caving in to the PC police.
“The House making the decision to take down all the flags so the Mississippi flag is not in the Capitol is a sign of political correctness,” he said. “Until the people of Mississippi decide they want to change it, Congress should fly the state flag.”
It’s interesting to say that it’s “playing politics” to honor Harriet Tubman at the expense of Andrew Jackson. If Obama is doing this just for the votes, who’s voting against it?
Nice sleight of hand here. PC is now the base-rousing designation for what we used to call common decency.
The whole basis of libertarianism and republican thought is that you don’t have to regulate anything, including discrimination, because market forces (meaning the public) will force change.
Well, here it is.
But the RESULT is not what they want, they expected something different. This has been a slow growing process for years. From not being able to use the ‘n’ word openly at work (or family for that matter) without people recoiling and walking away, to Disneyland offering a ‘gay day’, to gay marriages being performed opening, the cultural warriors have been in retreat. Now there is an open seat on the Court, and people are demanding trans get to use the bathroom. Not to mention the portrait of a black POTUS that will soon be hanging in the WH, forever.
They are losing, they know it, they are going crazy.
PC?
They lost.
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The world
How does one replace a flag with a coin?
my question as well, and the link has no link to explain. perhaps displayed instead of the flag. makes sense, since the coins are federal and the flags are states, also a nice solution to the problem
Some of my talented combat vet friends might want to see the bid specs.
wow! heart rending and impressive
I wonder the same thing. Could they possible mean make a flag that has the same image on it that the coin does?
Yet another symptom and example of the rifts that are slowly tearing the GOP apart. The rubes really care about defending their right to bigotry — I mean free speech; the pragmatists see the need to steer clear. It’s the supporters of Trump and Cruz vs. the rest of the known universe writ large. Enjoy the slowly unfolding show.
So easy to yank their chains, isn’t it? Maybe we should try to do more of this.
In 2001, I voted on the historic state referendum to change the flag, but 65% of the people preferred the current Confederate flag. Analysis of the vote indicated it was not entirely along racial lines, but that was 15 years ago, too. Also, in 2000, I actually had the opportunity to vote for Democrat Ronnie Musgrove for Governor and he won, but it’s Repubs full steam ahead now.
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-ms-rf.html
Here is a link to Mississippi’s largest newspaper, The Clarion-Ledger, regarding the topic of Boo’s post. The article includes a discussion about changing the state flag. I believe it will happen in time, but some things are just slow down there.
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2016/04/21/confederate-flag-no-longer-hang-house-tunnel-dc/8
3335860/
Boo, wondering about your thoughts on the as-yet unconfirmed reports that Prince might have died of an opiate overdose.
Maybe they’ll take the statue of Jefferson Davis out of the US Capitol, too.
Preferably dragged out by a noose around his neck.