Talking Points Memo has a post on the 12 craziest things from Pat Buchanan’s new book. This one really caught my eye:
Before the 1960s, equality meant every citizen enjoyed the same constitutional rights and the equal protection of existing laws. Nothing in the Constitution or federal law mandated social racial, or gender equality.
Really, Pat? Everything was hunky-dory before 1960? I guess slavery & Jim Crow were just figments of everyone’s imagination.
I think one of the worst recent trends is for conservatives to bitch and moan about how awful life is for them. The phrase “back of the bus” should be thrown under the bus.
(Source: tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com)
"For some in Congress to force taxpayers to defend discrimination is simply outrageous. Every day Congress fights over funding to keep teachers in classrooms and police on the streets, so the idea of spending $1.5 million in taxpayer dollars on lawyers to defend a law that targets LGBT Americans is beyond the pale. I strongly urge Speaker Boehner to rethink this misguided strategy and reinvest these funds in something that might create jobs for America’s middle class."
— Delaware Senator Chris Coons, from a press release
(Source: coons.senate.gov)