Dean Accuses Bush of 'Giving Lip Service' on Equal Rights

[madfloridian]

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200512%5CPOL20051202a.html

"One day after President Bush called on Congress to extend certain provisions of the Voting Rights Act to the delight of black civil rights leaders, a report about the Texas redistricting plan drew the ire Friday of Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, who said Bush is saying one thing and doing another regarding equal rights.

According to a Washington Post report, senior officials at the Justice Department rejected the advice of attorneys in the department's civil rights division and approved former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's (R-Texas) redistricting plan despite the lawyers' finding that it would dilute "black and Hispanic voting power."

"The news that the political cronies President Bush installed at the Justice Department overruled the objections of the Department's civil rights experts to push through Tom DeLay's Texas redistricting plan is the latest example of President Bush's 'say one thing, do another' approach to promoting civil rights," said Dean in a statement.

"While giving lip service to promoting equal rights and protections under the law, the Bush Administration has systematically undercut those same protections," said Dean."

[blm]

1. I wish this news came out before Bush's hypocritical appearance

for the Rosa Parks bill.

[newswolf56]

3. It has long been out, ignored by our party and censored by most media:

See my post (#2) immediately after yours, also my post yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5496305#5496683

[newswolf56]

2. Another example of a bitter truth I posted here yesterday:

Bush -- applying the principles of Josef Goebbels as refined by Karl Rove and Grover Norquist -- often makes gestures that, on further investigation, are proven not only meaningless but false and therefore deliberately misleading. Indeed it is increasingly one of Bush's favorite tactics.

Bush's Justice Department is working hand-in-glove with Republican-resurrected southern segregationists to undermine the very voting rights act Bush (falsely) claims he wants renewed.

Moreover, the Texas redistricting case Dean cites is merely one example.

In another such case, Bush's own attorney general enthusiastically approved a harsh, expensive identification requirement imposed by the (GOP controlled) Georgia legislature -- a requirement clearly intended to eliminate African-Americans (and impoverished and elderly voters in general), most of whom are Democrats.

The surprising silence of the national Democratic Party on the Georgia case is probably another sad expression of the Democrats' ever-more-obvious fear of losing votes to rekindled white racism: the vicious, enduring, relentless racism that has never dwindled but was merely closeted and is now again outed by the public's indifference and even approval of the genocidal aftermath of Katrina. Significantly, most Democrats remained silent about the post-Katrina atrocities too.

Here is a link on the Georgia case:

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/1105/18natvra.html

Bottom line, ANYTHING Bush does that appears progressive (or even humanitarian) is a lie. He is the most brazenly, openly fascist president in U.S. history.

[blm]

4. They are shameless. Dirtiest bunch I have ever seen.

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[realFedUp]

5. Ya gotta watch hips, not their lips....nt

[madfloridian]

6. Kick

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