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The Spectacle Blog
J. Christian Adams manages the neat trick of concision and comprehensiveness at the same time, in this column on Sec-Labor nominee Thomas Perez. Key passage:
Perez has amassed a record demonstrating contempt for the rule of law, hostility toward the private sector and an aversion to telling the truth under oath.
If confirmed, Perez would be the most radical cabinet Secretary since Henry Wallaceheaded the Department of Agriculture for President Roosevelt.
If the GOP Senators cannot stop Tom Perez, they cannot stop anyone.
Perez’s record provides ample basis for 41 Senators to send the White House a letter saying the nomination should be withdrawn.
If the GOP Senators do not block this guy, we might as all all move to New Zealand, because it means there is not even a shred of an opposition party in the Senate with any spine, heart, or gumption.
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Oldefarte| 3.22.13 @ 2:22PM
I'm not defending any politician when I say that the lack of spine, heart and gumption rest with the American people who voted not once, but twice for this POTUS. That is where the blame should lie primarily. Stupidity does not begin to describe the lack of same IMHO, since Americans completely avoided common sense with their actions or inactions on these dates, and the present social, economic, political crisis is entirely due to same. To vote for a candidate solely due to color of skin, a dumbar$ reason such as DIVERSITY, because a labor union hack orders same is insanely deplorable and entirely stupid. America deserves what they are now receiving in this POTUS using his political power to appoint, subvert, coerse, bypass etc in order to achieve domestic terrorism is deserved by this nation and no sympathy should be provided to same accordingly!!!!!
Podesta| 3.22.13 @ 7:15PM
Say, Quin, how is that Hispanic outreach going for ya?
As Greg Sergeant recently explained at the WaPo, the GOP is making the same doozy of a mistake it did in attacking now U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor. Tom Perez has established a formidable record of fighting for justice for the disempowered in every job he has held. Most recently, he has rooted out failure to pursue the objective of fair treatment of all Americans at the Justice Department. There is no one more admired by people interested in civil rights or by the Hispanic community.
The Obama administration is smart to make the fight to appoint Perez public and high profile. By doing so, it gives the Republicans rope to hang themselves with as they falsely claim to be seeking to expand the party beyond its more than 90% white base.
Oldefarte| 3.23.13 @ 6:54PM
He is a thug, a thief and a lowlife who ignores the law to soot his political advantaged manipulation of the law for his prejudiced criminality. he is a pig, but WTF so is his boss. Americans were utterly stupid to vote for this garbage twice and they are now receiving what they deserve. This nation is being destroyed by the like of them [and him] and will not ever recover until they grow some brain cells and begin to vote responsibly and intelligently. Why riot, burn, kill etc when you can trojun-horse style take over a nation's government from within by brainwashing the stupids into voting for your candidates????????????????
Oldefarte| 3.23.13 @ 6:55PM
SUIT, not soot!