Y'all Need to Be Ashamed, Vol. I

It would seem that the full blown Southern Strategy is in effect. Speaker of the House John of Orange (see above) in line with the acknowledgement that they can't win the states they need to win except through re-instituting Jim Crow has spoken what we all know, they are thinking. Not even having the dignity to whisper it, Mr. Speaker throws shame to the wind and confesses that he "Hopes Blacks and Latinos won't show up to vote." If magical thinking can not describe this degree of delusion nor can the banality of (Republican) ignorance explain Boehner's comments, then we are left with a shameless appeal to the baser angels of American character. For those that believe voters of color are too stupid to clearly understand policy differences, those that earnestly believe that you can convince us that the wholesale looting of the US Treasury will solve our economic woes and those that seek to run the same plays from the 1968 (fear of a black city nee country) playbook I grant you you the duly tsked, tsked, "Y'all Need to Be Ashamed" Award (08/27/12)! Congratulations you ignorant amoralistas, no doubt one of your colleagues will overshadow your achievement!