I agree- I just wish you would provide the same Consitutionally guaranteed courtesy to Democratic politicians you accuse of breaking the law. I like how some of you Rethugs have one set of rules for your own and another set for Dems.

“Oh, but lawyers disagree over whether Bush actually violated the statute.” Fine, let’s have a legitimate legal proceeding to find out instead of a fucking whitewash by the judiciary committee. You folks don’t even want to find out whether Bush broke the law or whether he intentionally lied to us about Iraq. At the same time you accuse us of not throwing our own Democratic officials overboard over some imagined crime.

Reagan lost the nomination to Ford in 1976. But when the former California governor ran for the presidency again in 1980, he began his campaign with a controversial appearance in Philadelphia, Miss., where three civil rights workers had been brutally killed. It was at that sore spot on the racial map that Reagan revived talk about states’ rights and curbing the power of the federal government.
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Conscience of a conservative?

Ronald Reagan was key to the South’s transition to Republican politics. Goldwater got the ball rolling, but Reagan was at his side from the very beginning.”
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The Civil Rights Act, signed July 2, 1964, by President Lyndon Johnson, ended legal discrimination against blacks at hotels, restaurants and department stores. It also made discrimination illegal in hiring. Barry Goldwater, the Republican presidential nominee that year, decided to make himself a voice for opponents of the Act.

Goldwater said he supported the white Southern position on civil rights, which was that each and every state had a sovereign right to control its laws. The Arizona Republican argued that each American has the right to decide whom to hire, whom to do business with and whom to welcome in his or her restaurant. The senator was right at home with Southern politicians who called the Civil Rights Act an attack on “the Southern way of life.”

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1953700&columnId=1929301

Ken Mehlman, the Republican National Committee chairman, this morning will tell the NAACP national convention in Milwaukee that it was “wrong.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302342.html

This is actually really light – but its the first time these racist Tory/Loyalists copped to it.
Forty plus years later, of course

http://www.brazosriver.com/april_6_nick_lampson_press_confe.htm

BTW, you don’t see an “R” behind Ted the Swimmers name. Pervert Repubs belong in jail or worse. But those understanding progs seem to manage to explain away many Dem’s legal or sexual behaviour..

“There should not have been any physical contact in this incident,” McKinney said.

“I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all, and I regret its escalation and I apologize,” she said surrounded by colleagues on the House floor.

She said she would vote for a resolution expressing support for the efforts of Capitol Police.

McKinney’s apology came as a District of Columbia grand jury began hearing testimony Thursday related to the confrontation, sources said.

A decision on whether the Georgia congresswoman will be charged could come as early as next week, federal law enforcement sources said.

Senior congressional sources said that two House staff members — Troy Phillips, an aide to Rep. Sam Farr, D-California, and Lisa Subrize, executive assistant to Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Michigan — have been subpoenaed to testify.

Legal sources familiar with the case said the investigation into the incident is continuing and that is it unclear what impact McKinney’s apology will have.

Police say McKinney struck a Capitol Police officer last week when the officer did not recognize her as a member of Congress and tried to stop her from entering a House office building when she did not present identification.

McKinney accuses the officer of “inappropriate touching” and racial profiling in the incident.

James Myart, an attorney representing McKinney, said he wouldn’t be surprised if his client were indicted.

“Grand juries do what grand juries do,” Myart said. “However, I would think that they would recognize that there simply is not enough evidence here to even bring an indictment.”

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, which has declined to comment because the facts of the case are in dispute, met Wednesday evening to discuss the incident. McKinney was in attendance.

Also Wednesday, McKinney deflected questions about the confrontation, while the Capitol Police chief said the lawmaker should have known better.

Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said McKinney didn’t stop at an officer’s request, then turned around and hit him after he grabbed her when she passed a security checkpoint.

“Any time an officer does not know who the person is coming in the building, I direct them to stop that person. And even if you’re stopped, you’re not supposed to hit a police officer. It’s very simple,” he said. “Even the high and the haughty should be able to stop and say, ‘I’m a congressman,’ and then everybody moves on.”

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/06/mckinney/index.html

Comment by Redleg

Racially insensitive indeed. The woman’s new do makes her look like Buckwheat. If anything I was being kind to the race whore and Marxist brillowheadedtumblefuck..

*****OK, explain Ms. McKinney’s lack of religious sensitivities – she’s one of the most notorious anti-Semites in the Congress today. And the “racism” component isn’t flying this time, Cynthia. You look completely different with the new ‘do. I can’t decide which I like better – the prim, school marm look, or the “windswept, I didn’t have time to run a pick through my tresses” look….
I RARELY agree with Nancy Pelosi or Steny Hoyer, but when those two turn on a Dem, that Dem screwed up (as Dick Cheney would say) “big time”.

Comment by ron powell

“Buckwheat” McKinney is a race whore and a Marxist fuckwit. The fact that she’s female and black is just icing on the cake so there’s nothing to feel guilty about if you happen to be a Liberal. You have no option BUT to defend her. If she were a republican and pulled that stunt we’d have her out of office the next election but not before the Liberals demanded that she be prosecuted for attempted murder of a police officer. Tell me I’m wrong.

That said, I’ve had it with McKinney v. Cop. Time for a parody.

McKinney Trial Moved to The Hague

EWM- (April 5, 2006) Succumbing to the reality that the U.S. legal system is not up to the task of handling the “trial of the century,” officials announced today that the cop-beating trial of Rep. Cynthia McKinney will be reclassified as a war crime and moved to The Hague.

McKinney is accused of striking a Capitol Hill police officer who accosted her for bypassing a security checkpoint in the Longworth House Office Building. McKinney, a black woman, says it was a case of “racial profiling.” The burley cop, who was not injured, says his “feelings were hurt.” A tourist who witnessed the incident says, “Christ on a cross, can these morons just get over it?”…