"Why are Democrats afraid to put a black woman on the court?"

The newest framing by Karl Rove: Democrats who want to keep the filibuster are racists.
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WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats injected racial politics into the struggle over President Bush's judicial nominees and the Senate's filibuster rules on Thursday, underscoring partisan differences while compromise-minded senators from both parties pursued an elusive agreement....

"Why are they afraid to put a black woman on the court?" asked Bishop Harry Jackson, chairman of a group of black pastors, standing next to Majority Leader Bill Frist at a news conference outside the Capitol. Referring to Janice Rogers Brown, a California Supreme Court judge whom Bush has named to the federal appeals court, he called her "not only a legal hero for black America, she is a legal hero for all America."

Frist, R-Tenn., did not mention Brown's race in his own remarks. He said Democratic treatment of her nomination was "unnecessary, uncivil. It is injustice. I pledge to you here today that I will do everything in my power to see that it stops."

He made his comments after members of the Congressional Black Caucus said he had declined to meet with them to discuss the issue. An aide said Frist was speaking on the Senate floor at the time. The Democratic lawmakers proceeded to a news conference where they released a letter to the Tennessee Republican arguing that his call for a partial ban on judicial filibusters "would be particularly offensive to people of color."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050520/ap_on_go_co/filibuster_fight

Remember Clarence Thomas?

Actually, I'm surprised we haven't heard this yet. Pathetic. :eyes:

That was the reason they went with her first. They are thinking or '06 and '08. A good strategy actually.

Can be fatally flawed as well.

she may be appear black, but she changed her registration to 'white' some time ago. :eyes:

We're really against affirmative action too. That way, we make sure all the confederate states vote for us.

I mean, she knows a great deal about law so no one should have a problem with it. While we're at it, let's talk to Mr. Bush about that whole ordeal regarding Robert Byrd or his avoiding the conference with the NAACP. We'll be more than happy to have conversations about civil rights.

Asshole.

The mere fact they are trying it shows quite clearly what utter contempt Rove and company have for African Americans. Karl doesn't think they are intelligent enough to see straight through this idiocy.

And, I might add, if Democrats choose to grace this drivel with a response, they damn well better frame it that way. If they get defensive, they too will have sorely underestimated the vast intelligence of the black electorate.

and freedom. And we don't believe in Jeesus.

Bout time them freepers figgered all this out.

The 'coarse' non sequitur, as Abe might say ....

Her color has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the rejection of this woman, who is WRONG for this job no matter WHAT her color ....

the 'race bomb' if it could be in any way applicable.

Accused Dems of being racist against Hispanics?

This goes along with Frists' Minstrel Show.

They need to turn the page, this crap doesn't work any more


What do I care what the skin color of the tool that wants to put a collar around my neck?

right off the bat!!

Racism does not stand for address in a civil society. The people to be put on these courts are extremists in every degree. Karl Rove's tactic screams of the 2004 election he had stolen.

http://www.cronus.com/electionfraud
http://www.bradblog.com
http://www.votersunite.org

People are not trusting anything the Bush administration does or says anymore. You can use those tactics once, twice even three or four times but after ten or twenty times it starts to play like a broken record. Rove's day in the sun is getting dimmer and dimmer. People are on to his lies and evil tactics.

Bad news, day in and day out, gets to be pretty depressing. We need a serious turn of the tide, asap.

that there's a guy in South Dakota who actually believes this line. If I hear anything more about anybody else buying it, I'll post it.

and take a stand for or against them without regard to their skin color?

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1793108&mesg_id=1793108