This isn't about politics. It is about history. It is a fact, this is about history.
No one wants to talk about the fact President Obama is an African American. No one wants to address the grievances the minority populations in the USA has against history. Supposedly, the nation is dissolving racism by not mentioning it. It is going to evaporate into the vapors of the country.
This is about the federal judiciary, right? Appointments, of course, there is a FED Chair that has to be confirmed, but, whether the media wants to recognize it or not, President Obama is seeking to promote African Americans in government. We have one Black Senator from New Jersey and he was only recently elected. I am sure Senator Booker was mentored to run.
Oppression is a funny thing. The laws can reflect equity among all the people, but, 'the practice' of equal opportunity is something very different. Oppression causes resignation of people, not necessarily surrender, but resignation to their own reality. To that end the USA is very guilty of ignoring the lack of equity in the USA of all the people. Why? Why the USA? Why not the media? Politics. It is the politics of the nation that causes the oppression of the 20th and 21st century.
The majority of the nation are Caucasian. Neoteny. What do you see when you look out on life? Yourself. That is what you see? What do we know about the way African Americans are viewed and why? This is where the media is at fault, but, we see difference, both physical and cultural and we see danger in our subconscious. If one accepts the fact racism has been extremely stubborn in the USA for reasons almost invisible, then one has to realize winning in politics means reaching out to the majority to win.
Every Republican in the country will state they aren't racist, but, yet they allow the extremism to stimulate voters to the polls. That has been going on for a long time given the fact it is only recent history Americans began to identify with African American authority.
CBS News
September 13, 2013
Todd J. Gilman
No one wants to talk about the fact President Obama is an African American. No one wants to address the grievances the minority populations in the USA has against history. Supposedly, the nation is dissolving racism by not mentioning it. It is going to evaporate into the vapors of the country.
This is about the federal judiciary, right? Appointments, of course, there is a FED Chair that has to be confirmed, but, whether the media wants to recognize it or not, President Obama is seeking to promote African Americans in government. We have one Black Senator from New Jersey and he was only recently elected. I am sure Senator Booker was mentored to run.
Oppression is a funny thing. The laws can reflect equity among all the people, but, 'the practice' of equal opportunity is something very different. Oppression causes resignation of people, not necessarily surrender, but resignation to their own reality. To that end the USA is very guilty of ignoring the lack of equity in the USA of all the people. Why? Why the USA? Why not the media? Politics. It is the politics of the nation that causes the oppression of the 20th and 21st century.
The majority of the nation are Caucasian. Neoteny. What do you see when you look out on life? Yourself. That is what you see? What do we know about the way African Americans are viewed and why? This is where the media is at fault, but, we see difference, both physical and cultural and we see danger in our subconscious. If one accepts the fact racism has been extremely stubborn in the USA for reasons almost invisible, then one has to realize winning in politics means reaching out to the majority to win.
Every Republican in the country will state they aren't racist, but, yet they allow the extremism to stimulate voters to the polls. That has been going on for a long time given the fact it is only recent history Americans began to identify with African American authority.
CBS News
September 13, 2013
...More than 70 percent of Obama's confirmed judicial nominees (click here) during his first two years were "non-traditional," or nominees who were not white males. That far exceeds the percentages in the two-term administrations of Bill Clinton (48.1 percent) and George W. Bush (32.9 percent), according to Sheldon Goldman, author of the authoritative book "Picking Federal Judges."
"It is an absolutely remarkable diversity achievement," said Goldman, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, who is only counting judges once, even if they fit more than one category....
Now, you might say 70 of SOME of his nominees simply isn't that many anyway, but, it does prove the fact President Obama has a mission in promoting the African American Brain Trust in the USA. I don't think that is a bad thing considering the assault on Voting Rights. We have witnessed the GOP actively attempting to eliminate voters to benefit their elections. Elections I might add that assaults the Middle Class, Unions and the entities that empower minorities to accumulate wealth.
So, here we are with a successful re-election of our first African American President. By every measure that should not have happened. By every measure Barack Obama should have been a figure head and token Black to the minorities and the USA should have given him only one term. However, he proved he is brilliant and not a flash in the pan. He is loyal to the Middle Class and minorities.
There is every estimate he is not finished lining the halls of the Judiciary with minorities. I can't wait. This is the time to correct the path in the USA. It is time to place brilliant people, like himself, in places of power to carry out the same loyalty he feels. It is not empty loyalty. The USA chronically proves it could not care less about the Middle Class and minorities. The economic collapse of 2008 is proof of the disregard to our people. Our vulnerable people. So, we need minorities though out the county to hear cases and be loyal to the law and best outcomes of people rarely placed in priority.Todd J. Gilman
23 November 2013
“It is simply intolerable for a partisan minority to block a bipartisan majority from conducting the nation’s business,” one senator declared in the midst of ongoing partisan warfare over a president’s long-blocked judicial nominees. “It is intolerable that the standards now change depending on who is in the White House and which party is the majority party in the Senate.”
Two days later, the same senator returned to the Senate floor to promote the exact idea Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid executed last week: holding a majority vote to change Senate rules, ending the use of filibusters to block nominations.
“We are talking about treating presidents who have won national elections with the respect they deserve,” he said.
That was May 2005. On Thursday, that same senator — Texan John Cornyn, now the deputy GOP leader — denounced Reid’s maneuver as “a raw exercise of partisan political power.”
In both parties, nearly every senator in office more than five years has been both for and against the nuclear option.
Here’s a certain Democrat warning Republicans in April 2005 “to think about the implications of what has been called the nuclear option.”
Voters, he said, expect both disagreement and cooperation in Congress. But “what they do not expect is for one party, be it Republican or Democrat, to change the rules in the middle of the game so they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet.”...
The reaction has been comical to say the least.
The Senate has been 'keeping score.' Like what? Somehow keeping score of the number of federally appointed judges by Democrats and Republicans justified the filibuster.
I don't think so.
Keeping score, do you believe that? 370 GOP appointees and 370 Democratic appointees and more than 70 positions still open. Excuse me?
Why is there more than 70 positions open? GOP politics. Not the keeping score part either. SMALL GOVERNMENT was being imposed on the people of the USA though the judiciary. 70 courts are absent of judges. Does the judiciary work well with 70 non-functioning courts? I wouldn't think so. Not only that, but, when one looks at some of the decisions they are obviously partisan.
If that trend continued as it was being enforced by McConnell where would our Supreme Court Justices be coming from? How do we insure having a range of choices to place in our higher courts if there are dearly few to choose from. The entire issue is hideous. The democracy we tout as free was being deprived of our judicial appointees to enforce small government and limit choices in the future to the Supreme Court. You talk about control, holy smokes.
So, Mitch McConnell obviously took advise from FOX News. "Fair and Balanced." 370 on each side of the courts. How negligent is that? How could a Congressional Senate leader actually justify his actions? He endangered the country both today and the future.
There will be nice outcomes to the Senate now. The filibuster was actually feeding the Tea Party. Of course, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul sued the Senate floor for their political constituencies, but, it is more than that. A sixty vote majority required recruiting all the Democrats and a few Republicans in order to pass legislation. That is stacking the odds against Republicans to face a primary runoff and Democrats to face a general election challenge. The Senate Vote is suppose to reflect what is considered best for the country, not pressure on Senators to carry the day and sacrifice their careers in the process.
The Senate is not suppose to be at war with each other. That is McConnell was doing. He was forcing his Republican colleagues to make silly decisions rather than decisions that benefited the country. McConnell was not only acting against the people of the nation, but, his own political party. He was forcing extremism in his own political ranks.
Now, all the Senators can vote according to their priorities of what is important to move the nation forward. The actions by the majority of the Senate to remove the filibuster will remove the extremism currently at work in the Senate. Democrats and the Republicans willing to sign on to a bill in the face of a very hostile GOP political environment can now vote as they want to rather than as demanded of them.
So, now that it is finally done, I congratulate Senator Majority Leader Reid. He acted bravely and with commit to the future and making it a stronger country; rather than simply waving the white flag all the time to an extremist GOP unable to act in favor of the country's best outcomes.
President Obama is a great President. He is finally ending the Civil War and placing equity in the country for minorities and women. We are lucky to have him as President.
