Shameful
March 2, 2015 - by
A loyal TAPster outraged by Thom (No Clean Hands) Tillis contributes today’s blog:
Just when we thought it couldn’t get any colder last week, Senator Thom Tillis embarrassed North Carolina again, voting against Loretta Lynch’s nomination as US attorney general.
Lynch is the daughter of a Baptist minister from Greensboro who opened his church to protesters during the lunch-counter sit-ins of the 60s. She attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School. (Note to Thom: That is THE Harvard University in Cambridge, not the online, for-profit version.) She has served as the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She is known as a tough prosecutor of honest-to-God terrorists.
To that, all Tillis could muster was, “She was raised right.” Then he declared that the decision to vote against her in the Senate Judiciary Committee, “was the most difficult I’ve had to make in my 45 days on this job.”
Only 45 days? It seems like an eternity already.
This “no” vote comes in the same Judiciary Committee meeting where three of the Senate’s most outspoken and curmudgeonly Republican senators–Orrin Hatch, Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake– voted for her confirmation. Yes, even Graham, our Confederate flag-waving neighbor to the South–South Carolina that is– saw his way to a yea vote, because, he said, she is qualified for the job.
Could it be that Tillis was stung by her unapologetic support for the Justice Department’s lawsuit against North Carolina to overturn its draconian voter ID law—a law Tillis himself championed?
When civility and decorum take a backseat to pure meanness and race baiting, it is a cold, dark day in North Carolina. The condescension breaks in icy waves like the slush on Nantucket’s beaches.
As Reverend Barber put it, “To see other southern Republican senators put aside the politics of extremism and support attorney Lynch’s nomination and then watch Thom Tillis refuse is a tragic misrepresentation of the values of North Carolina and the call of history. Shameful,” he said.
Shameful indeed. And, shame on you, too, Richard Burr.
Shameful
March 2, 2015/
A loyal TAPster outraged by Thom (No Clean Hands) Tillis contributes today’s blog:
Just when we thought it couldn’t get any colder last week, Senator Thom Tillis embarrassed North Carolina again, voting against Loretta Lynch’s nomination as US attorney general.
Lynch is the daughter of a Baptist minister from Greensboro who opened his church to protesters during the lunch-counter sit-ins of the 60s. She attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School. (Note to Thom: That is THE Harvard University in Cambridge, not the online, for-profit version.) She has served as the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She is known as a tough prosecutor of honest-to-God terrorists.
To that, all Tillis could muster was, “She was raised right.” Then he declared that the decision to vote against her in the Senate Judiciary Committee, “was the most difficult I’ve had to make in my 45 days on this job.”
Only 45 days? It seems like an eternity already.
This “no” vote comes in the same Judiciary Committee meeting where three of the Senate’s most outspoken and curmudgeonly Republican senators–Orrin Hatch, Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake– voted for her confirmation. Yes, even Graham, our Confederate flag-waving neighbor to the South–South Carolina that is– saw his way to a yea vote, because, he said, she is qualified for the job.
Could it be that Tillis was stung by her unapologetic support for the Justice Department’s lawsuit against North Carolina to overturn its draconian voter ID law—a law Tillis himself championed?
When civility and decorum take a backseat to pure meanness and race baiting, it is a cold, dark day in North Carolina. The condescension breaks in icy waves like the slush on Nantucket’s beaches.
As Reverend Barber put it, “To see other southern Republican senators put aside the politics of extremism and support attorney Lynch’s nomination and then watch Thom Tillis refuse is a tragic misrepresentation of the values of North Carolina and the call of history. Shameful,” he said.
Shameful indeed. And, shame on you, too, Richard Burr.