It's All in Black and White

The Senate decided, after - oh, I don't know - about 120 years to finally apologize for not outlawing lynching. It was necessary, as President Truman once said, to take the authority to prosecute lynch mobs away from the (mostly) Southern states who practiced it. Naturally, the Southern Senators made it their mission in life to block anything that held even a whiff of what is mostly Human Decency.

Okay, fast forward to now. According to reports cited by Driftglass, Corrente and others, apparently 12 Senators dared not speak their names in support of this nonbinding, painless "apology." One wonders what they had to hide, or in their states would be pissed off by their actions. I can see some preacher-man foaming with rage if he ever found out, and telling his congregation to vote the rascal out.

Moving right along, Howard Dean called the GOP to the carpet once again. Certain segments of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire in 2007, and Dean challenged the Republicans to renew those provisions before ever, ever trying to attract more African-Americans into the Party. It seems hypocrisy sticks in Dean's throat.

It should stick in the GOP's, as well. Or would, if Some Particular Republican throats weren't slack from Hits of Black Acid and forced fellatio.