No Uniting With Terrorists

I don’t want to unite with those responsible for the insurrection at our nation’s Capitol. I want us to unite in holding them accountable.

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) January 12, 2021

Being On The Right Side Of History

“For some, this vote may be hard. But we have a mission and a mandate to be on the right side of history.”

Thank you, @repjohnlewis. pic.twitter.com/QmB6nxHPFi

— The Leadership Conference (@civilrightsorg) December 18, 2019

Rep. Maxine Waters: “It is no secret that this President could have been impeached a long time ago...In the final analysis, justice will have been served in America, and Donald Trump will have been impeached.” pic.twitter.com/WcqZH525PQ

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) December 18, 2019

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Nancy Pelosi announces the tally: 230 votes to impeach Donald Trump, 197 votes against, and 1 vote present. Donald Trump has been officially impeached. pic.twitter.com/quKj6dH8TM

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) December 19, 2019

Todd Piro: "Does impeachment help or hurt Trump in 2020?"

Carol: "I think it'll help him among people who don't care about facts."

Piro: [slight pause] "Alright." pic.twitter.com/SO3THQlI2D

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) December 19, 2019

Impeachment Inquiry Hearing Day 3

LIVE: House Impeachment Inquiry Hearing https://t.co/jgtVqahKIg

— CSPAN (@cspan) November 19, 2019

She Did Not Tell A Lie

Whoopi: "The Democratic party turned its back on Obama. Clearly he had a life before -- and he's gone back to that life. And I don't need to hear from him -- I can see what's happening. This is on us" #TheView

cc: @jaketapper pic.twitter.com/NdGgqCgIal

— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) July 30, 2018

Actual Cover Of People’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’

President Barack Obama in New York for a Democratic Party fundraiser

On chasing the “Archie Bunker voter”

In case it hasn’t been made painfully clear, the Democrats seeking to succeed Barack Obama as president have no time for his coalition.

First, Hillary Clinton, the presumptive nominee, urges the President to “take advice” from Nancy Pelosi on the TPP trade deal. You know, just like her husband did when he was in charge. Oh, except, Mr. Clinton didn’t. Call me confused, but I thought that, aside from sheer incompetence or malfeasance, the members of a president’s party were supposed to take leadership from him, not nip at his heels over every initiative.

Then, of course, we had Senator Bernie Sanders opining yesterday that black Americans needed to stop voting based on race. The sheer audacity of this statement is mind-boggling. There would have been no Democratic wave of 2006, or two Obama landslides, without the African American vote. And these same African Americans, before the arrival of Barack Obama, voted in almost lock-step for every tired-ass white Democratic candidate which made it through the primary meat grinder. Were blacks voting based on race when they voted for Al Gore or John Kerry?

That was insulting enough. But that was just the shot. Here’s the chaser. Sen. Sanders then went on to say that Democrats had to regain the “working class vote”.

Let that sink in. A sitting United States senator, caucusing with Democrats, running for the Democratic presidential nomination, an avowed socialist, made a distinction between black votes and working class votes. In his mind, the two are mutually exclusive, not overlapping in a Venn diagram. Blacks over there, working class over here.

President Obama showed Democrats how to win. And it wasn’t by slavishly pining after the “working class vote”.

Let’s call that vote for what it is: white voters who left the Democratic coalition in droves after the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, and have stayed away ever since then, generation after generation giving its allegiance to the GOP.