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Douglas A. Blackmon
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“GOP” leaders like @SenThomTillis vote for @realDonaldTrump power grab (after okaying biggest deficits ever); hohum slander of war heros; Prez adores Putin & Kim; @RandPaul & @foxnews fume that sailors get decent food.
Now this: Morality is irrelevant.

thefederalist.com/2019/03/13/eve…
That weird sound you hear coming from the direction of Kansas would be Dwight Eisenhower screaming and spinning in his grave.
I can’t figure out which is more astounding: the party leadership’s wholesale abandonment of all traditional GOP values (other than opposition to abortion), or the seemingly total lack of commitment to those values by Republican voters.
This has to be the most extreme meltdown of a major American political creed since Democrats abandoned white supremacy as stated policy. Dems were actually moving to a new value system.

Today’s GOP is embracing diplomatic chaos, fiscal recklessness, perjury & adultery.
This is not conservatism.
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Douglas A. Blackmon
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When the @GOP rubber stamp Senate process actually finds a @realDonaldTrump appointee unacceptable, that is a BIG DEAL. But thank goodness. Cain, with his obsession with magic numbers, was historically, recklessly, staggeringly unqualified.
2/ The most substantive crazy contradiction of Herman Cain’s career is that his whole I-made-it-on-my-own, with-no-help-from-anybody story is that
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3/ Cain was a hardworking student at Morehouse in the 1960s, based on reporting I did when he was running for President in 2012. But his tuition was at least periodically paid for by the president of Coca-Cola Co., for whom Cain’s father worked as a driver.
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Douglas A. Blackmon
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When was Obstruction of Justice statute amended to say coverup isn’t illegal if you believe the investigation is unfair? I can’t find that language.
I guess now you can lie under oath, intimidate witnesses, and threaten police as long you think you’re innocent. @matthewamiller
2/ I also can’t find the amendment to the obstruction statute that says this new exemption only applies to powerful white men.

But something tells me not everyone else can get away with telling their children and business associates to lie to the police.
3/ I’m also trying to find out who deleted the words “or attempted” from the federal criminal code.
Apparently, it’s not a crime anymore to “attempt” to organize obstruction, or, say, a terrorist attack or bank robbery, as long as your crew refuses to do the job. Curious.
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Douglas A. Blackmon
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I often love @CharlesMBlow ‘s brutal honesty, but this is way off track and encourages some of the most misinformed neo-Confederate propaganda. It also distracts from the heroism of 100,000s of black soldiers in the Union Army whose sacrifices won the Civil War. /1
In war, there are always contortions of self-interest that on surface appear inexplicable a century (or a few years) later.
Thousands of white Americans initially rooted for Germany in WWI and WWII. There were handfuls of Jews who aided Germans fighting Soviets in Finland. /2
That a small group of people under duress—many of whom didn’t consider themselves to be black—attempted to (but never actually did) support a a slave-holders’ rebellion in 1862 is too complex for simplistic condemnation.
Read @KevinLevin /3
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