GOP Brain Trust Update
RNC Chairman Michael Steele visited Indiana last week and was immediately cornered by Josh Gillespie in what appears to be a refurbished confessional. Follow the link and you'll of find a video of Steele being asked a question about "diverse populations" in the GOP and an answer from the Chairman that includes a demonstration of his intellectual prowess. Says Steele:
"It's a pretty inclusive idea to say black people are human beings and should not be slaves. When all the world is saying they are, our party said they're not and they fought for it. And not only did they fight for it they included it in such like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and they made it very clear and defined very clearly that we are one nation under God, indivisible, free, and that included everybody..."
Added: Bil Browning points out Steele's belief that life in a contemporary African-American family resembles reruns of Sanford and Son.
2 comments:
Uh, you've got YOUR dates wrong, too.
The Constitution went into force on March 4, 1789, but the Bill of Rights wasn't even proposed until September 25 of that year, and it wasn't ratified until 1791. (Noting, of course, that only 10 of the 12 were ratified.)
The constitution didn't do anything to prohibit slavery. In fact, it guaranteed that Congress couldn't stop the international trade in slaves for two more decades. Slavery wasn't prohibited until the 13th amendment was passed in 1865.
Although there was some god-awful fighting in the 1860s, nothing in the Constitution says we are one nation, indivisible, and nothing prohibits the secession of states. Rick Perry is incorrect when he says Texas has the right to secede guaranteed by the laws admitting that state to the union. It was true the first time, but when Texas was readmitted after the so-called "civil war", that provision was not included. (I say "so-called" because war was never declared.) Perry wants Texas to secede, and I would favor not only allowing it, but encouraging it. Auction off all the federal property in the state, and after building a 20-foot fence on the North, West and East of Texas to keep them critters out of the US, use the remainder to pay down the national debt.
We are not a nation under God, according to the Constitution or Bill of Rights, either. The word "God" does not appear in the document.
I'd make a nasty crack about the pseudo-conservatives who've hijacked the GOP not knowing a hoot about the US Constitution, but I don't think the Democrats do, either. Support for the GOP is non-existant, and deservedly so, but support for the Democratic Party is about one man wide, also deservedly so.
Okay I was off by two years, arguably. Steele was off my 60. I guess that's a fair enough comparison for Harl though.
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