{"id":7681,"date":"2014-12-31T23:02:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T23:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7681"},"modified":"2014-12-31T23:02:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T23:02:12","slug":"racial-issue-gets-in-gops-way-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7681","title":{"rendered":"Racial issue gets in GOP&#039;s way once more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>That darn issue of race relations has just bitten the Republican congressional leadership right in the backside.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you just hate it when that happens?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"untik8a5ZI\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/228293-gop-closes-ranks-around-scalise\/\">GOP closes ranks around Scalise<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;GOP closes ranks around Scalise&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/228293-gop-closes-ranks-around-scalise\/embed\/#?secret=pKfWCQaihc#?secret=untik8a5ZI\" data-secret=\"untik8a5ZI\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>GOP House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., spoke to a white supremacist group in 2002. The group was founded by a fellow Louisianan, one-time Ku Klux Klan grand dragon\/wizard\/potentate\/medicine man David Duke.<\/p>\n<p>Scalise says now he &#8220;regrets&#8221; his &#8220;error in judgment.&#8221; He condemns the views of &#8220;groups like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it was a dozen years ago. No harm done <em>now<\/em>, right? He spoke six years before entering Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Should he quit his leadership post? Should the congressman quit his House seat? I&#8217;m not going there until we know more about what he said and the nature of the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>It does kind of remind me of what happened when former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., had the poor judgment to say something kind about the late Sen. Strom Thurmond&#8217;s 1948 presidential campaign. That was when ol&#8217; Strom broke away from the Democratic Party &#8212; of which he was a member back then &#8212; to run for the White House as a Dixiecrat. He was a segregationist back then &#8212; and proud of it, too! He just didn&#8217;t like mixing with black people &#8212; even though, as we would learn later, he mixed it big time with an African-American woman, with whom he produced a daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Lott said this about Strom: \u201cWhen Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We&#8217;re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn&#8217;t have had all these problems over all these years, either.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, brother. That got Lott into some serious trouble. Lott stepped down as majority leader.<\/p>\n<p>Two questions: Did the invitation to Scalise come from a group &#8212; the EURO Conference &#8212; identified easily as a white supremacist organization? And did he know of\u00a0Klansman David Duke&#8217;s association with it?<\/p>\n<p>The deal-breaker well might be the Duke involvement. Let&#8217;s come clean, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That darn issue of race relations has just bitten the Republican congressional leadership right in the backside. Don&#8217;t you just hate it when that happens? GOP closes ranks around Scalise GOP House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., spoke to a white supremacist group in 2002. The group was founded by a fellow Louisianan, one-time Ku &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7681\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Racial issue gets in GOP&#039;s way once more<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[849,1276,2179,2182,2692,2836,4424,4437,4902,5255],"class_list":["post-7681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-capitol-hill","tag-david-duke","tag-house-gop","tag-house-majority-whip","tag-kkk","tag-louisiana-gop","tag-steve-scalise","tag-strom-thurmond","tag-trent-lott","tag-white-supremacists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}