Two Times Scalise Voted Against MLK Holiday

[TrueBlue]

Steve Scalise Voted Against Martin Luther King Holiday Twice

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/31/steve-scalise-voted-martin-luther-king-holiday.html


"Steve Scalise will continue to try to run from his dubious association with white nationalists. He may even convince himself that he is “color blind”. However, his two votes against the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday now seem to take on a new significance. At a time when Scalise is trying to distance himself from white racists, his two votes against the MLK holiday are coming back to haunt him. As well they should."

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Bet he didn't think those two votes would be back to re-visit him. But think again. Not a good way for a Republican to start taking over the Top Number 3 position in Congress is it. Bet Republicans wish this story would just go away but it won't as he opened this door. Time for major Damage Control in the Republican Party. This is indeed a very interesting story well worth reading.

[Mac-7]

Steve Scalise Voted Against Martin Luther King Holiday Twice

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/31/steve-scalise-voted-martin-luther-king-holiday.html



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Bet he didn't think those two votes would be back to re-visit him. But think again. Not a good way for a Republican to start taking over the Top Number 3 position in Congress is it. Bet Republicans wish this story would just go away but it won't as he opened this door. Time for major Damage Control in the Republican Party. This is indeed a very interesting story well worth reading.

The black vote is always going to be democrat so taking a principled stand on MLK not going to change the political landscape one way or the other.

[exotix]

I often wonder what kind of human defectives vote-in these human defectives.

[del]

principled stand

:rofl:

good one

[Mac-7]

principled stand

:rofl:

good one


Its not principled to have a national holiday for King but not Lincoln.

[PolWatch]

President's Day

It is also a state holiday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_holiday) in most states where it is known by a variety of names including Presidents Day and Washington's and Lincoln's Birthday and officially celebrates, depending upon the state, Washington alone, Washington and Lincoln, or some other combination of U.S. presidents.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington's_Birthday#cite_note-WaPostFeb14-1) Some states celebrate Washington and the third president Thomas Jefferson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson) but not Lincoln
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[Mac-7]

President's Day

It is also a state holiday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_holiday) in most states where it is known by a variety of names including Presidents Day and Washington's and Lincoln's Birthday and officially celebrates, depending upon the state, Washington alone, Washington and Lincoln, or some other combination of U.S. presidents.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington's_Birthday#cite_note-WaPostFeb14-1) Some states celebrate Washington and the third president Thomas Jefferson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson) but not Lincoln
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In that case why not just have a Black Civil Rights Leaders Day instead of one dedicated only to MLK?

[del]

Its not principled to have a national holiday for King but not Lincoln.

:rofl:

you're a hoot

[PolWatch]

In that case why not just have a Black Civil Rights Leaders Day instead of one dedicated only to MLK?

sounds fair...who else would you include for the honor?

[Mac-7]

sounds fair...who else would you include for the honor?

Thats up to congress.

But I don't think you can name some without overlooking others.

[hanger4]

IMHO Martin Luther King would have voted against

MLK Day also. I do believe he would have wanted the

children in school.

[Mister D]

Thats up to congress.

But I don't think you can name some without overlooking others.

You have to understand. This makes white idiots feel good about themselves.

[PolWatch]

Thats up to congress.

But I don't think you can name some without overlooking others.

well, it was your idea to begin with....who do you suggest?

[Mister D]

You'll notice too that we have none of the MLK Day sale mockery that we'll hear around Christmas time. Saint Martin compromised! Heavens no!

[Mac-7]

well, it was your idea to begin with....who do you suggest?

i just told you.

Don't single any one person and ignore the rest.

[momsapplepie]

Who cares? We have a Columbus day, St Patricks day, etc. It's nothing but a minor holiday, that some people get off from work.
Our nation didn't really need another holiday.

[Bob]

Its not principled to have a national holiday for King but not Lincoln.

Growing up, we had no such thing as a holiday for King. It's a dumb holiday. All it means is government workers get paid for not working.

We once had a birthday set aside for Lincoln and Washington ... might have been one more. But they respect presidents so much they took off the names and just call it presidents day.

Why not call the MLK day protestors day?

[Bob]

Who cares? We have a Columbus day, St Patricks day, etc. It's nothing but a minor holiday, that some people get off from work.
Our nation didn't really need another holiday.

I can't name all of them but in Germany, they have way more holidays. When they have one, you can bet that just about all of the stores are closed down.

[exotix]

Who cares? We have a Columbus day, St Patricks day, etc. It's nothing but a minor holiday, that some people get off from work.
Our nation didn't really need another holiday.
Growing up, we had no such thing as a holiday for King. It's a dumb holiday. All it means is government workers get paid for not working.

We once had a birthday set aside for Lincoln and Washington ... might have been one more. But they respect presidents so much they took off the names and just call it presidents day.

Why not call the MLK day protestors day?
You're missing the point ... Scalise is the common enemy of Lincoln and MLK.

[momsapplepie]

Sure. and Obama is the enemy of the black man.

[Bob]

You're missing the point ... Scalise is the common enemy of Lincoln and MLK.

It is not fashionable on this forum for me to run down Abe the outlaw Lincoln but in my view he was a real SOB.

How many presidents manage to start a war that kills off over 630,000 Americans.

[exotix]

Sure. and Obama is the enemy of the black man.
It is not fashionable on this forum for me to run down Abe the outlaw Lincoln but in my view he was a real SOB.

How many presidents manage to start a war that kills off over 630,000 Americans.
Well what's Presidents Day ?

[Alyosha]

Everyone likes a day off except racists and atheists. Are they stupid?

[del]

It is not fashionable on this forum for me to run down Abe the outlaw Lincoln but in my view he was a real SOB.

How many presidents manage to start a war that kills off over 630,000 Americans.

your purity remains unsullied, bob

[iustitia]

Why exactly does MLK deserve a holiday? Because he was an activist? Where the fuck is Eugene V Debbs Day?

The reality is it's just another bullshit holy day manufactured by the state to lionize corrupt men as saints. MLK supported a few good things, a few bad things, and his personal life was as dubious as that San Fran martyr Harvey Milk. He doesn't deserve a holiday and neither do most men the public schools tell us to honor. Including Lincoln. Ugh.

[zelmo1234]

Steve Scalise Voted Against Martin Luther King Holiday Twice

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/31/steve-scalise-voted-martin-luther-king-holiday.html mall

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Bet he didn't think those two votes would be back to re-visit him. But think again. Not a good way for a Republican to start taking over the Top Number 3 position in Congress is it. Bet Republicans wish this story would just go away but it won't as he opened this door. Time for major Damage Control in the Republican Party. This is indeed a very interesting story well worth reading.

I have a small problem with your article.

"in 1999 he was one of three lawmakers to vote against the holiday, and in 2004 he was one of 6 to vote against the bill"

So if there was only 3 people that voted against it in 1999? why is it not the law? Oh waited

MLK's birthday is a holiday in LA

http://www.legis.state.la.us/lss/lss.asp?doc=74097

So it would appear that there is some skull doggery here?

[Alyosha]

Why exactly does MLK deserve a holiday? Because he was an activist? Where the fuck is Eugene V Debbs Day?

The reality is it's just another bullshit holy day manufactured by the state to lionize corrupt men as saints. MLK supported a few good things, a few bad things, and his personal life was as dubious as that San Fran martyr Harvey Milk. He doesn't deserve a holiday and neither do most men the public schools tell us to honor. Including Lincoln. Ugh.

Why do you hate days off?

[zelmo1234]

It is not fashionable on this forum for me to run down Abe the outlaw Lincoln but in my view he was a real SOB.

How many presidents manage to start a war that kills off over 630,000 Americans.

Well he was amazingly efficient as the it only took 39 days to start the war. secession had already happened when he took the oath of office on march 4 1861 and the shots were fired at fort sumter on april 12 1861

[iustitia]

Why do you hate days off?

I don't get MLK Day off anyway. No loss for me. Mwahaha.

[Alyosha]

I don't get MLK Day off anyway. No loss for me. Mwahaha.

So you want to ruin everyone else's fun, I see?

[iustitia]

So you want to ruin everyone else's fun, I see?

I'm a conservative, after all.

[PolWatch]

I'm a conservative, after all.

are you sure you're a conservative? I don't see a flag lapel pin....I thought those were required

[Green Arrow]

Why exactly does MLK deserve a holiday? Because he was an activist? Where the fuck is Eugene V Debbs Day?

The reality is it's just another bullshit holy day manufactured by the state to lionize corrupt men as saints. MLK supported a few good things, a few bad things, and his personal life was as dubious as that San Fran martyr Harvey Milk. He doesn't deserve a holiday and neither do most men the public schools tell us to honor. Including Lincoln. Ugh.

There's not exactly a wealth of perfect dudes to honor.

[GrassrootsConservative]

There's not exactly a wealth of perfect dudes to honor.

Johnny Appleseed.

[Safety]

well, I was going to jump in on the discussion, but now I see the only direction it can go from here is to the hole.....

[BB-35]

I often wonder what kind of human defectives vote-in these human defectives.


Find a mirror.

[donttread]

Steve Scalise Voted Against Martin Luther King Holiday Twice

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/31/steve-scalise-voted-martin-luther-king-holiday.html



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Bet he didn't think those two votes would be back to re-visit him. But think again. Not a good way for a Republican to start taking over the Top Number 3 position in Congress is it. Bet Republicans wish this story would just go away but it won't as he opened this door. Time for major Damage Control in the Republican Party. This is indeed a very interesting story well worth reading.

We need Holidays in each month, and not like MLK day that only government workers and teachers get off. Lets make MLK day a real Holiday and add some for March, April, June, August, etc

[hanger4]

are you sure you're a conservative? I don't see a flag lapel pin....I thought those were required

:p

[hanger4]

Why do we need the Feds or State or local govs. to tell us or choose who or whom or when or where to honor certain people or events ?? I'd vote no on all these singled out so called honor days.

[TrueBlue]

Scalise speech to hate group more than a mistake

http://us.cnn.com/2015/01/02/opinion/brazile-scalise-controversy/index.html?hpt=hp_t3


"But Scalise admitted last week that he talked before the European-American Unity Rights Organization, which the Southern Poverty Law Center considers a hate group. It advocates white supremacy and wants everybody who isn't like its members to leave the country."


"Peter Wehner is a former deputy assistant to President George W. Bush, and was an adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. "The party of Lincoln shouldn't have as its #3 a keynoter at a white supremacist convention," he said on Twitter."

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It's about the admissions and what Republican Presidential Assistants and Advisers are saying about this issue. But it is quite clear that this is becoming an intense headache for Republicans the more it drags on. Time to seriously deal with this and select someone else for the #3 Republican position.

[hanger4]

Scalise speech to hate group more than a mistake

http://us.cnn.com/2015/01/02/opinion/brazile-scalise-controversy/index.html?hpt=hp_t3





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It's about the admissions and what Republican Presidential Assistants and Advisers are saying about this issue. But it is quite clear that this is becoming an intense headache for Republicans the more it drags on. Time to seriously deal with this and select someone else for the #3 Republican position.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...uro_did.2.html (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/12/kenny_knight_and_barbara_noble_claim_steve_scalise _never_spoke_to_euro_did.2.html)

A non-issue except to blind-partisans.

[Calypso Jones]

It was republicans that marched with king....and many say King was republican..i don't know. It would stand to reason. Except, he was also a womanizer, abusive to women, cheated on his wife, etc. But I guess everyone can do some good...he was for peaceful resistance which 'his side' seems to have kicked to the curb.

It has turned out to be hate whitey day. It has turned out to be used for political agenda and blacks demean King's message by singing We Shall Overcome over every little piddly thing they demand.

[TrueBlue]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...uro_did.2.html (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/12/kenny_knight_and_barbara_noble_claim_steve_scalise _never_spoke_to_euro_did.2.html)

A non-issue except to blind-partisans.
With your url, you seem to know "blind-partisans" quite well don't you! :)
Your side wishes this would just go away but it won't and when your own Republicans are saying it's an issue -- It's An Issue!

[hanger4]

With your url, you seem to know "blind-partisans" quite well don't you! :)
Your side wishes this would just go away but it won't and when your own Republicans are saying it's an issue -- It's An Issue!

Slate is leftwing young-un.

It's only an issue to Repubs cause they are

held to a higher standard than Dems.

[TrueBlue]

Slate is leftwing young-un.

It's only an issue to Repubs cause they are

held to a higher standard than Dems.
LOL. Really? Coulda fooled me http://smiley.nowdararpour.ir/ahswen/47.gif

[hanger4]

LOL. Really? Coulda fooled me http://smiley.nowdararpour.ir/ahswen/47.gif

If you're talking about Slate then read em and weep.

If you're talking about the "higher standard"s then

look no futher than Rev. Wright or Sharpton as a key adviser

to President Obama on race issues.

Other than that you do seem to be easily fooled.

[iustitia]

http://i.imgur.com/Q3wlUnw.png

[Bo-4]

I'm a conservative, after all.

Not to worry, conservatives are quite often fun-suckers ;-)

[iustitia]

Not to worry, conservatives are quite often fun-suckers ;-)

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/1/13/Thats_the_joke.jpg

[The Sage of Main Street]

There's not exactly a wealth of perfect dudes to honor. James Monroe was our greatest President, even though the academented histwhorians only rank him 15th. He was the go-to man who always did more than he was asked to do:

1. He enabled Washington's victory at Trenton by knocking out the Hessians' artillery. He was shot in the chest during that encounter.
2. Even though the anti-leadership Virginia legislature gave him no power as Governor, he talked them into following all his suggestions.
3. He enabled Jefferson's victory in the 1800 election by threatening to order the Virginia militia to march on Congress. The kleptocrats wanted to get the crooked Aaron Burr elected and deadlocked the electoral college.
3. After being told by President Jefferson to buy New Orleans from Napoleon, on his own initiative he managed to acquire the 15 states in the Louisiana Purchase.
4. He saved whatever people and documents were saved when the British burned Washington because he had gone on a dangerous scouting mission and discovered that the capture of the capital was inevitable.
5. After Constitutionalist idol Jemmy Madison had a mental breakdown over that disaster, Monroe took over as President, even though not authorized to do so, hired the right Army and Navy leaders, and saved us from losing our independence in the War of 1812.
6. As President, he enabled Andrew Jackson to conquer Florida.
7. His presidency was known as the Era of Good Feeling. His was one of the few administrations in history that won more seats for his party in the midterms.
8. His ideas for America's future were so sound that it was almost as if all subsequent Presidents wore a "What Would Monroe Do?" bracelet.

[The Sage of Main Street]

It was republicans that marched with king....and many say King was republican..i don't know. It would stand to reason. Except, he was also a womanizer, abusive to women, cheated on his wife, etc. But I guess everyone can do some good...he was for peaceful resistance which 'his side' seems to have kicked to the curb.

It has turned out to be hate whitey day. It has turned out to be used for political agenda and blacks demean King's message by singing We Shall Overcome over every little piddly thing they demand. His assignment from our devious ruling class was to break up the unions' solidarity by forcing together incompatible races in the workplace.

[Safety]

His assignment from our devious ruling class was to break up the unions' solidarity by forcing together incompatible races in the workplace.

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