iiiiiiiiiiiiiiie! (AP)By boycotting a key House committee vote last week and threatening to abandon support for banking regulations, members of the Congressional Black Caucus got $4 billion added to a Wall Street regulation bill and $2 billion to a proposed House jobs bill in spending they sought for African American communities. House Financial Services Committee […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Obama was right when he said “…the most important thing I can do for the African-American community is the same thing I can do for the American community, period…” In other words, Obama’s first obligation is to the American people as a whole, not to the Black community. Yet the Congressional Black Caucus continue to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…can you take care a few people? This NY Times article explains why the CBC opted not to vote for financial regulation reform.
Let’s go back to the dark days of eeeeevil Bush empire. “While the overall rate (i.e., the rate for all jobseekers) and the white rate specifically both fell by 0.4 percentage points in the first three years of the early 1990s recovery, the rate fell slightly faster, by 0.6 points, for African Americans. This relationship […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On the vast political map of any nation, you will always find a group of individuals the political class can always depend upon to keep them in power. I call this group of individuals “The Ignorant Class”. It’s people like Rep. Diane Watson of California who will never be questioned or even challenged by the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
CBC member vows fair probe of Caribbean trip (thehill.com) [hahahaha--sorry! I'm really trying not to laugh here. Okay, to the article.] “The chairman of a House ethics probe into a Caribbean conference attended by members of the Congressional Black Caucus is himself a CBC member who attended the same event in 2005. Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
TV One to begin Sunday show aimed at blacks NEW YORK (AP) — Roland Martin will anchor a new Sunday public affairs show aimed at a black audience that will debut in September on the TV One network. The “Washington Watch” program aims to tap into a new interest in politics and government due to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last week, the Obama administration made it pretty clear that mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine should be eliminated. Two different penalties for the same drug is a very dumb idea–one that only government could make up. Back in ’07, I posted the following excerpts. This was in response to the Congressional Black Caucus’ anger […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday I did a post on how government is cutting the legs off of the school choice movement in D.C. (BTW, I forgot to remind readers yesterday that currently Washington DC spends about $14,400 PER STUDENT — one the highest expenditures per student in the nation. So this silly rebuttal out there that suggests spending […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“To see all of these myths melt right in front of my eyes was something to behold,” he said. “We’ve been led to believe that the Cuban people are not free, and they are repressed by a vicious dictator, and I saw nothing to match what we’ve been told.” (Congressman Emanuel Cleaver) Apparently, the people […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
State Department spokesman Robert Wood had this to say regarding the recent trip to Cuba taken by members of the Congressional Black Caucus. “Members of Congress have the right to travel where they want and to discuss issues with whom they want,” Wood said. “And I am sure members of that delegation will be raising […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All in all, I do not have a problem with folks pushing for their guy our gal to fill up some post. But to make this about race again proves that some folks are not interested in moving beyond this game. From TheHill.com The Congressional Black Caucus is lobbying President Barack Obama to pick African-American […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s your tolerance~ Warren On? Party Off By Richard Cohen washingtonpost.com Not that he was planning to attend, but Barack Obama should know that my sister’s inauguration night party — the one for which she was preparing Obama Punch — has been canceled. The notice went out over the weekend, by e-mail and word of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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