John Cornyn is a twit.
January 12th, 2010
In a pageant of abject ridiculousness, the GOP is going completely ape-shit upon the revelation that Harry Reid, the current Senate Majority Leader, would say something racist. The current ringleaders of the crusade against Reid, John Cornyn and Michael Steele, seem to think it 'unfair' that Reid keep his job when their friend Trent Lott got booted out of the job for doing something similar.
Yes, Harry Reid said something completely obnoxious and racist, and perhaps he has put the hatchet to his political career. He's doing the best to damage control all of this, mostly by apologizing both to the person his comments were directed at (the President of the United States), but should he step down in disgrace? Perhaps, perhaps not. I don't imagine that'll happen though, and there's a few reasons.
Let us look at some of the people crying about Reid. They include Michael Steele, who has made a point of issuing one racist comment after another in the short period since he took charge of the GOP Time and Time Again, Steele has gone out of his way to prove just what an offensive lump of shit he really is, and yet people are taking him seriously on matters of race?
Oh, and there's John McCain, who has a Lengthy History of making bigoted comments, and unabashedly so; this shit tick in fact refuses to apologize for his litany of racist bullshit. And that doesn't even include his initial opposition to a Martin Luther King holiday, much less all the shit his party pulled in his name during the election season last year.
So John Cornyn, you say that Reid should 'step down'. Perhaps he should, and perhaps he shouldn't. But where's your outrage about the bigoted twits in your own party? Why aren't you lambasting John McCain or John Steele? Why aren't you going after Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter or Glen Beck or all the other twits that act as the 'voice' of your party? Or is racism all right when it's your friends doing it?
Don't worry, I'm not standing up for Reid at all; he's a big boy, and I'm content to let him attempt to do so by himself. But is the GOP really wanting to open the door for more scrutiny on racism, when so many members of their own party have so many skeletons in their collective closets? I don't think they realize that if they keep harping on this, people are going to revisit their recent history. Again.