Yesterday, in a rare act of mental clarity and ideological congruence with the black community, the Congressional Black Caucus elected progressive champion Barbara Lee, 62, as it’s chairwoman. She accepted the gavel of leadership from the galactically corrupt, inept and stupifyingly arrogant Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the worst congressional caucus chairman in all of human history.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the chief enabler and mother of the felonious a**clown Kwame Kilpatrick, the former “Playa Mayor” of Detroit, should’ve resigned from the chairmanship, the caucus, and the race, and been downright embarrassed to be seen in public, but the plucky doyenne of Detroit ain’t got no shame in her game.
The people of Detroit apparently do have a sense of shame and almost sent her tail back home in last August’s Democratic primary. They sought to punish her for the incredibly tacky, ghetto soap opera of sleeze playing out daily on television and in print.
It was incredibly demoralizing how the caucus and the House Democratic leadership circled the wagons around a corrupt “public servant” who chose to empower her relations rather than her constituents by finding new and sleezy methods of using nepotism and cronyism to fortify the Kilpatrick Dynasty’s political machine.
Moreover, she led the caucus into betraying the economic interests of the black and brown constituents they’ve been elected to serve by heeding Barack Obama’s call to bailout Wall-Street instead of Mainstreet.
Normally progressive members like Barbara Lee followed her lead, listened to the House Leadership and Barack Obama, and jumped off a cliff into the waiting arms of economic catastrophe.
My prayer is that Barabara listens to the still, small voice of her mentor Shirley Chisholm and tunes out the House Leadership and the president elect on matters of progressive principle.
the chief enabler and mother of the felonious a**clown Kwame Kilpatrick, the former “Playa Mayor” of Detroit
well, I guess that’s all you’re going to write about Mayor Trifling.
Congratulations to Barbara Lee!!!
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Mukasey collapsed giving speech
rikyrah,
Yeah, I heard. According to Politico, he’s alert and coherent now. Maybe he can explain why waterboarding is not torture now.
I love your blog! It is refreshing (if a little disorienting) to read some honest news. Those no-strings-attached bailouts are total insanity. Corporate welfare…big-time looters (who’ll get richly rewarded for their theft). Now, we’re seeing attempted bailouts for the corrupt leeches who mismanage the auto industry…”jumped off a cliff into the waiting arms of economic catastrophe,” is right.
“a**clown”
HA! I love it.
I’ve always liked Barbara Lee. I find her to be smart, attractive and a natural leader.
Much better than Mama Cheeks.
It’s kind of interesting that there’s a consolidation of power in the House among the Californian Democratic delegation: first Cheeks from Detroit, MI is dethroned and also Dingell from Dearborn, MI, both in favor of California reps. Hmm… Pelosi is expanding her reach.
From SB: “…should’ve resigned from the chairmanship, the caucus, and the race, and been downright embarrassed to be seen in public, but the plucky doyenne of Detroit ain’t got no shame in her game.”
A female Ted Stevens, perhaps? As “he with no shame, should be embarrassed, yet glorified by fellow politicians in his last speech on the floor”…tsk-tsk-tsk.
As Zeitgeist pointed out, interesting goings-on in DC, especially the Waxman/Dingell situation…hmmm. I honestly tend to have a love/hate thing with my California gal, Pelosi, as well as Feinstein, but that’s another blog.
Btw, SB, not sure if it’s just me, but the formatting on the comments is going into the sidebar thereby rendering the far right of comments unreadable. (I’m not so fond of ‘the far right’ anyway, soooooo…. Oh wait, that’s a different far right.
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I’m glad to see that the CBC has regained its sanity. Barbara Lee is simply wonderful. She’s might favorite member of Congress…maybe of all time.
She’s my favorite too Trip…
She’s very consistent and is usually unafraid to take the unpopular stance on things if she believes in it…
Hello there!
I hope that she will continue to blow the trumpet on the issues that are DEEPLY important to our people.
We shall see!
On an unrelated note…
Did you know about the racist incident at Princeton that occurred?
http://blackwomenblowthetrumpet.blogspot.com/2008/11/flickering-flame-of-hipster-racism-at.html
We CAN NOT let this pass under the radar!
I do like the Christmas re-design.
I am missing my Skeptical Brotha.
SB you gotta come back with a post on the demise of Dollar Bill.
Why oh why didn’t they weed his sorry ass out in the primaries??
Dollar Bill got beat…LOL
What is the psychological rationale for people like Kwame’s mother and Dollar Bill?
What kind of delusional world do they live in where there behavior is okay?
Blago of Illinois just arrested. Wanted to sell Obama’s Senate Seat
Blago is delusional…maybe psych evals are needed for people before they run for public office?