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Democratic lies to keep black voters “on their plantation”!

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Harry

Reid’s


History

Lesson



By John Fund


___December 8th, 2009



Wall Street Journal

Harry Reid’s History Lesson – WSJ.com

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Majority Leader Harry Reid

tarred opponents of his health

care bill yesterday as the

equivalent of those who opposed

equal rights for women and

civil rights for blacks.


In a remarkable statement

on the Senate floor,

Mr. Reid lambasted Republicans

for wanting to “slow down”

on health care.


“You think you’ve

heard these same

excuses before?

You’re right,”


he said.

“In this country there

were those who dug

in their heels and said,

‘Slow down,

it’s too early.

Let’s wait.


Things aren’t

bad enough’ —

about slavery.


When women

wanted to vote,

[they said]

‘Slow down,

there will be a

better day to

do that —

the day isn’t

quite right. . . .'”


He wrapped up his

remarks as follows:


“When this body

was on the verge

of guaranteeing

equal civil rights

to everyone

regardless of the

color of their skin,

some senators

resorted to the

same filibuster

threats that we

hear today.”

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Senator Reid’s comments

were quickly condemned.


“Hyperbole.

It is over the top.

It reminds me of earlier

people talking about Nazis,”

said Juan Williams of

NPR and Fox News,

author of “Eyes on the Prize,”

a definitive history of the

civil rights movement.


Historians also faulted

Mr. Reid’s curious reference

to the Senate civil rights

debates of the 1960s.


After all,

it was Southern Democrats

who mounted an 83-day

filibuster of the 1964 Civil

Rights Bill.


The final vote to cut off debate

saw 29 Senators in opposition,

80% of them Democrats.

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Among those voting to block

the civil rights bill was West

Virginia Senator Robert Byrd,

who personally filibustered

the bill for 14 hours.


The next year he also

opposed the Voting Rights Act

of 1965.

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Mr. Byrd still sits in the Senate,

and indeed preceded Mr. Reid

as his party’s majority leader

until he stepped down from

that role in 1989.


The final reason Mr. Reid’s

comments were so inapt

and offensive is that the

battles for women’s suffrage

and civil rights he referred

to were about expanding

freedom.


That’s not what the

2,074-page health care bill

being debated in the Senate

today does,

with its 118 new regulatory

boards and commissions.


Mr. Reid may reach his

needed 60 votes to pass

his bill this month,

but he is pursuing it

using the most tawdry

and deplorable of tactics.


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