by Jim » Sat Jan 14, 2017 3:18 pm
Accounted by the news-folks as unprecedented was the after-hearing session concerning AG nominee Jeff Sessions allowed by Chairman Grassley. Apparently, three democrat African-American lawmakers, Senator Booker (New Jersey), Congressman John Lewis and Cedric Richmond, chairman of the U.S. House black caucus, asked to be heard in opposition to Sessions’ appointment, though there didn’t seem to be any committee members present (or at least not many) to listen to their vicious diatribes. The TV folks ate it up and I watched it all. The worthies labeled Sessions a racist, not realizing that they, ipso facto, became racists themselves calling Sessions everything but the devil incarnate.
Probably unbeknownst to them, not that it matters, Chairman Grassley had lined up to speak three African-Americans who actually knew and had worked with Sessions for decades, one for 40 years. They set the record straight. To remark the pettiness connected to this “super-hearing,” the House caucus chairman railed at Grassley for not putting their act at the beginning of the hearing or at least somewhere during the hearing and equated that treatment with being made to go to the back of the bus.
The privileged lawmakers delivered the Jackson/Sharpton victimization apotheosis (also known as the slavery edict) and Lewis, as always, brought up Selma in castigating Sessions, who was a 19-year-old college student in 1965 and had nothing to do with the march at the bridge. It was obvious that they were simply venting their respective spleens account Queen Hillary deep-sixed at the polls. Lewis later said he would recuse himself from the inauguration account Trump not actually elected. The hatred runs deep. The effort has been constantly made to use the election as a race-issue despite the fact that probably hundreds if not thousands of blacks are employed in Trump enterprises.