You know, I’ve always considered Jim Clyburn, Democrat from South Carolina, to be one of the most racist members of Congress. And his most recent comments in which he described Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has little regard for a piece of landmark civil rights legislation because he’s "white and proud" only serve to confirm that opinion. Personally, I thought that was a bit too much even for him. It was on Friday that this senile old bigot told the Huffinton Post Friday he was "absolutely shocked" to hear the conservative justice describe to a key section of the Voting Rights Act as a "perpetuation of racial entitlement" earlier this week. The court heard arguments about the provision that requires the federal government to sign off on voting system changes in certain states that have a history of discrimination.
"I’m not easily surprised by anything, but that took me to a place I haven’t been in a long time," Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, told the Huffington Post. "What Justice Scalia said, to me, was, ‘The 15th Amendment of the Constitution ain’t got no concerns for me because I’m white and proud.’" I’d like to take just a second here to explain exactly how it is that he became the third-ranking Democrat in the House in the first place. That would be, of course, because he’s black. You see, when the Democrats lost control of the House in 2010, there weren’t enough members who thought Clyburn was bright enough to hold a ‘real’ leadership position, so old Jimmy was about to pull the race card. So a ‘compromise,’ of sorts, was reached and the position he now holds as the third-ranking Democrat, was essentially created out of whole cloth.
Anyway, South Carolina and Texas have both been blocked from implementing new voter identification laws because they fall under the Voting Rights Act. Commenting on that, Clyburn said, "When you have in 2012…states making changes to their laws that you can look on their face and see that these changes will make it harder for minorities to have their votes affect the results that they intend, you say that we don’t need [the Voting Rights Act] anymore? Is this some kind of entitlement?" Adding, "Well, the Constitution of the U.S. is an entitlement for everybody." He said the law "had a positive impact on the voting rights of people traditionally denied the right to vote. To ignore that, to me, is beyond the pale. It means you went to the bench with an agenda." He said, "Playing around with the Voting Rights Act is playing with fire."
I always find it a bit disingenuous whenever Democrats start talking about anything related to our Constitution. And this attack on Scalia is just more of the typical brand of scorched-earth partisan attacks constantly employed by sleazy Democrats. I think we all realize that there’s nothing that matters to Democrats more than the acquiring, and maintaining for themselves, as much political power as possible. And in that quest there is absolutely nothing that they will not say or do. And this ignorant old hypocrite is a fine one to talk about anyone going to the bench with an agenda. The two faux justices appointed by Barry were sent to the court, not to uphold the Constitution, but to assist him in moving forward with his agenda to destroy America. And for Clyburn to place Justice Scalia in the same category as a Kagan and a Sotomayor should earn for him nothing but contempt from every American who believes in the Constitution.
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