Ain’t Misbehavin’

by digby

In our regular Joe Klein is an idiot report, please find Joe decrying Karl Rove’s plan to use racism to win the election in the fall by highlighting the potential horror of negroes with subpeona power — and then decrying the horror of negroes with subpoena power.

In fairness, Klein argues that Democrats should not have have allowed these chairmen to be chairmen because they are tainted by being too hot-headed and indiscrete and well … inappropriate. They are more of those horrible 60’s liberals, who “cry” victimization and racism at the drop of a hat.

Why oh why can’t all these blacks be more like that nice Condi Rice who is so ladylike and listens to classical music and knows how to act at a funeral??? Until Democrats can find some of those, they really need to put these bad negroes on the back bench and get some good, solid white centrists to chair committees. Otherwise, we could end up with those horrible ’60s liberal African Americans like Barbara Jordan making speeches like this:

Mr. Chairman, I join my colleague Mr. Rangel in thanking you for giving the junior members of this committee the glorious opportunity of sharing the pain of this inquiry. Mr. Chairman, you are a strong man, and it has not been easy but we have tried as best we can to give you as much assistance as possible.

Earlier today, we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States: “We, the people.” It’s a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not included in that “We, the people.” I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in “We, the people.”

Today I am an inquisitor. An hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that I feel right now. My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution.

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“If the impeachment provision in the Constitution of the United States will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that 18th century Constitution should be abandoned to a 20th century paper shredder.”

Whine, whine, whine. Notice that she mentions her colleague Mr Rangel, one of the uppity blacks Klein worries will become chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and hold hearings and “shoot his mouth off.” It’s been more than 30 years and Klein is worried that now powerful black politicians are going to misbehave in public. What do you call that kind of thinking?

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