Newt Gingrich has raised a ruckus after calling Barack Obama the “Food Stamp President.” It’s an accurate statement since there has been a 44% increase in food stamp recipients since Obama took office. Apparently, however, Democrats haven’t figured out how to coordinate their messaging regarding Gingrich’s statement to determine if Gingrich is a typically racist Republican (since we all are, right?) or not.
Big mouth Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee insists Gingrich is using “code words” like food stamps to mask the racism Republicans use to divide the nation along racial lines. Also according to the “eminent” Democrat:
To say children in New York should “pick up a broom and work…is a code word to, if you will, portray poor children and poor school districts that they have seen no one work legitimately,” she said.
So to Sheila Jackson Lee, “work” is another “code word” for racism. I see. Well, I for one am glad she explained it. Although I have to wonder about that since I see all kinds of people from various ethnic backgrounds who…you know…work. Silly me; I should have realized the truth of Sheila Jackson Lee’s community-based reality.
But here is where I get confused, being a troglodytic Neanderthal all of us conservatives are, not able to see the nuance in the world. According to MSLSD’s Lawrence O’Donnell, it’s not that we’re racists; it’s that the evil genius Gingrich is playing us for fools:
There’s a tremendous amount of cynicism in Gingrich’s use of food stamps because of what he actually know that his Republican debate audiences do not know. His Republican audiences do not know that most people on food stamps are white. His Republican audiences don’t know that most people use it temporarily, and, most importantly, his Republican audiences don’t know what Newt does know which is there would be no food stamps in America were it not for Republican Senator Bob Dole who held the key to making the food stamp program happen.
Oh boy is my tiny, unnuanced brain about to explode. Democrats tell us that Americans who are black need and want food stamps because those Americans don’t have the opportunity to get jobs to earn the money needed to buy basic foodstuffs, as is the case with all Americans who are white and the other colors of the rainbow. But when Republicans mention to Americans who are black that they shouldn’t be demanding food stamps, Democrats say that’s racist, even though Democrats have told us that Americans who are black do demand food stamps. When mean Republicans want the federal government to reduce food stamps, Democrats say that’s also racist. Yet, it turns out more Americans who are white receive food stamps than American who are black. Supposedly, Gingrich supporters don’t know this; therefore, da-deep, da-deep, da-deep, da-deep, blah, blah, blah…
See what I mean?
All of this was meant to highlight another blatant example of how Democrats in the media and in Washington will shamelessly throw out the race card on a whim. We know why, and they know why. Barack Obama is an utter failure as President, while Democrats in Congress are utter failures at governing. They have nothing. In fact, all they have is less than nothing since that’s what their race card is.
Cross-posted at Scipio the Metalcon.
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Best way to tell a liberal is losing an argument is when they call the other person a racist
bk (Diary) Sunday, January 22nd at 6:39AM EST (link)This was a good week for it. We also learned that Newt is a racist because he called Juan WiIliams “Juan”.
Instead of being a racist...
scipio62 (Diary) Sunday, January 22nd at 6:42AM EST (link)…and calling Juan Williams “Juan”, maybe Gingrich should have called him “Hey You”.
A just war leads to a just peace and freedom. An unjust peace leads to death.
Cross-posted at Scipio the Metalcon.
post-2010, the Democratic Party is now the Party of Identity Politics
lizzie Sunday, January 22nd at 8:43AM EST (link)Scipio: while I appreciate your post, and totally agree that “Racist!” is all the post-2010 Democratic Party still uses to silence criticism of Obama, as a disillusioned fiscal conservative (Blue Dog) still registered democrat in New York, your confusion misses how:
1) there is NO leadership
2) Identity politics is all they have (the Obama campaign has official “outreach” to Jewish-American voters, which I find particularly insulting, even more so since Obama’s official WH “celebration” of Hannukah coincidentally was scheduled almost two weeks in advance of the actual date, but oddly on the 24th anniversary of the 1st Intifada. I digress, but Hanukkah celebrates the insurgent Maccabean victory of the Greek Empire, and Obama disrepected that by turning his WH celebration into a fundraiser.
3) I routinely criticize ALL of Obama’s postmodern, transnational, multicultural foreign policy at The New Republic, and am routinely called a Racist by the Obama choir. When TNR had dozens of posts on the Mosque at Ground Zero, I was highly critical of the proposal based on historic preservation of the building (with considerable research to back up my criticism). The Obama choir condemned me as a Bigot.
4) Pelosi and Obama fail to realize that they only had their majority because of Blue Dogs, who either lost in 2010, or have retired in a steady stream since 2009.
Both parties fracture and regroup over time.
Kind of scary (to me) that BOTH parties are simultaneously fracturing and NOT re-grouping in 2012.
Which is why almost 2/3 of voters (mostly democrats like me and independents worried about jobs and debt) want a 3rd party.
The DNC is already planning to use Senate contests with women to drive turnout. The GOP can NOT use abortion as a major issue in 2012.
Newt using food stamps is all about the absence of jobs.
No one pays any attention to Sheila Jackson-Lee.
lizza, I appreciate your concern
scipio62 (Diary) Sunday, January 22nd at 9:28AM EST (link)And I do agree that Newt is using food stamps to answer why there is a lack of jobs.
However, abortion is a key issue. Factoring that roughly 40 million babies have been slaughtered since Roe v. Wade, and factoring in a 5% unemployment level if the economy were going well, that’s an additional 20 million workers who could be paying taxes. This would potentially include $120 billion in employer- and employee-contributed payroll taxes to fund Social Security and Medicare annually (at the 2009 payroll tax rate and using a median income of $50,000 per year). All in the name of “choice”.
Besides, and this is why abortion is a big issue, Roe as a Supreme Court ruling on par with Scott v. Sandford (Dred Scott) since it denies the humanity of human beings.
A just war leads to a just peace and freedom. An unjust peace leads to death.
Cross-posted at Scipio the Metalcon.
sorry scipio, wrong issue for 2012
lizzie Sunday, January 22nd at 6:53PM EST (link)The New York Dems used “protecting women’s reproductive rights” to drive voter turnout in Manhattan in 2010 when they saw how Cumo (d) and Paladino (r) had ZERO enthusiasm, and the congressional contests would drive turnout.
They used Sen Kirstin Gillibrand as the poster girl.
It worked so well that
1) NY Medicaid that is bankrupting New York was NEVER an issue, and
2) the Dems swept ALL statewide contests, including State Comptroller where even the NYT endorsed the GOP candidate because the Dem was a corrupt political hack (he won).
The DNC has been recruiting women for open Senate contests in 2012 in order to use the same strategy because there is ZERO enthusiasm for negative coattails Obama.
I used to always vote D for president because I am a realist on a woman’s right to choose. Women will always find a way to abort, or worse, infanticide. That is human history. It should be safe, legal, and rare.
I was willing to set aside my strong position in the interest of the American economy in 2008, and the New York economy in 2010.
This is the one issue that Democrats always win.
Maybe Roe v Wade was argued wrong, but the precedent establishing the right to privacy was 1965 Griswold v CT, which finally overturned the last of the state Comstock Laws from 1873 that made contraception illegal. It was so impossible to overturn the Victorian Comstock Laws state by state that the judicial route was started in the 1930′s, from One Package to Griswold in 1965.
More than half the people alive today have a belief system that does NOT believe that life begins at conception. That is a religious belief that should not be imposed on everyone.
There are two main ways that women climb out of poverty (globally): education for girls, and access to contraception and family planning.
Rick Santorum needs to exit this contest.
I will not even protest vote with Santorum in 2012 as I protest voted with Paladino and the other statewide contests in 2010.
end of discussion because I know that those of you who believe abortion is the #1 issue are never open to discussion.
Response to lizzie
scipio62 (Diary) Monday, January 23rd at 7:13AM EST (link)I agree that abortion isn’t the number one issue. The economy, our rights being squashed by the Obama regime, and the gross illegality of the Obama regime are the big issues.
But reading through your comment, you still have too much of the false beliefs taught by the pro-abortion Democrats in you.
You say most people don’t believe that life begins at conception, which you say is, and were probably taught, a religious belief. On the contrary, it’s been proven scientifically that a baby developing in a mother’s womb is the same species as the mother, a human being in every sense of the word. To say life doesn’t begin at conception is a denial of a scientific fact.
Most people in the U.S. believe Roe v. Wade should be overturned, even if they are somewhat pro-abortion. Those numbers have been rising steadily for years. Just because the people of NY believe something else doesn’t mean those beliefs extend everywhere.
And then you say the main ways for women to get out of poverty is education, access to contraception, and family planning. At whose expense, taxpayers? We’ve seen how the state has imposed its belief system over parents as if the parents never existed. In NYC, pro-abortion fanatics got the City Council to regulate pro-life family planning operations out of business to eliminate the competition for abortion mills like Planned Parenthood. At least the NY courts smartly told the pro-abortion zealots to stick it and forced the city to dump the regulations.
Republicans don’t need to be Democrats on abortion to be electable. All that does is help Democrats. But I agree it isn’t the big issue of this election. Although I will say Republicans should stomp on Obama for his pro-infanticide position.
A just war leads to a just peace and freedom. An unjust peace leads to death.
Cross-posted at Scipio the Metalcon.
Sorry.
scipio62 (Diary) Sunday, January 22nd at 9:30AM EST (link)I meant lizzie.
A just war leads to a just peace and freedom. An unjust peace leads to death.
Cross-posted at Scipio the Metalcon.
post-2010, the Democratic Party is now the Party of Identity Politics
lizzie Sunday, January 22nd at 8:43AM EST (link)Scipio: while I appreciate your post, and totally agree that “Racist!” is all the post-2010 Democratic Party still uses to silence criticism of Obama, as a disillusioned fiscal conservative (Blue Dog) still registered democrat in New York, your confusion misses how:
1) there is NO leadership
2) Identity politics is all they have (the Obama campaign has official “outreach” to Jewish-American voters, which I find particularly insulting, even more so since Obama’s official WH “celebration” of Hannukah coincidentally was scheduled almost two weeks in advance of the actual date, but oddly on the 24th anniversary of the 1st Intifada. I digress, but Hanukkah celebrates the insurgent Maccabean victory of the Greek Empire, and Obama disrepected that by turning his WH celebration into a fundraiser.
3) I routinely criticize ALL of Obama’s postmodern, transnational, multicultural foreign policy at The New Republic, and am routinely called a Racist by the Obama choir. When TNR had dozens of posts on the Mosque at Ground Zero, I was highly critical of the proposal based on historic preservation of the building (with considerable research to back up my criticism). The Obama choir condemned me as a Bigot.
4) Pelosi and Obama fail to realize that they only had their majority because of Blue Dogs, who either lost in 2010, or have retired in a steady stream since 2009.
Both parties fracture and regroup over time.
Kind of scary (to me) that BOTH parties are simultaneously fracturing and NOT re-grouping in 2012.
Which is why almost 2/3 of voters (mostly democrats like me and independents worried about jobs and debt) want a 3rd party.
The DNC is already planning to use Senate contests with women to drive turnout. The GOP can NOT use abortion as a major issue in 2012.
Newt using food stamps is all about the absence of jobs.
No one pays any attention to Sheila Jackson-Lee.
It's disgusting
Common_Cents (Diary) Sunday, January 22nd at 9:35AM EST (link)Newt does need to clarify that his “food stamp President” remarks are that obama is failing the people, not attack the people on food stamps themselves.
It SHOULD be obvious, but the slime media spins it that way. So Gingrich should qualify his remarks.
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.