With two high profile Black politicians on trial in the House on complex ethics charges, voter apathy in the African-American community could start to build. If Blacks stay home this November, what should be a bad year for Democrats could turn into a complete disaster.
There is an old expression in Washington, “I don’t know if I’m going to heaven or hell, but I pray the decision is made by the House Ethic Committee.”
President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She received a single Republican vote, from Lindsey Graham (R-SC), which should end any talk of a possible filibuster. The final committee vote was 13-7.
The Obama Administration and British Petroleum went eye to eye and the Feds blinked first.
Now in its 4th day, a mile beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the makeshift patch British Petroleum has installed to stop oil from gushing is still doing its job. The question is, will the Obama Administration order it to be reopened so a pressure relief line can be installed?
It has to be bittersweet. Still being a young man by US Senate standards, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn) is only 66, he will stand at the elbow of President Obama when he signs the Financial Reform bill Dodd helped ram through. Instead of the pinnacle of a long Washington career it will be a Last Hurrah.
In many ways James White is the typical Republican. Running for the Texas Statehouse from rural East Texas, he is a fiscal conservative and has strong religious beliefs. He is pro-life and pro-gun. He has the backing of the Tea Party. White chafes at the tax burden and regulations coming from both Austin and Washington. The only thing that makes him different is the color of his skin. James White is the rarest of rarities, an African-American Republican.
To a layman like me that seems like the AG is arresting the police while giving the people who drive the getaway car a free pass.
How much longer will it be before Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) joins “Hillary” and ‘Newt” in the heady stratosphere of Washington heavyweights who only needs a single name and everyone knows who you’re talking about?
For the foreseeable future, a Kennedy may be the most important and powerful person in America. This one is not a member of the famous “Kennedy Clan” which has dominated Massachusetts and national politics for decades. He is Supreme court Justice Anthony Kennedy.