I find it very, very, very hard to believe that no one at a media outfit as big as the NYP was unaware, in this day and age, that "monkey" is a racial slur against black people. Especially post-George Allen. Especially in a company run by News Corp. Otherwise, I agree completely with your analysis on that cartoon.
There's harrassment, and there's obstruction. Not a single House Republican and only three Senate Republicans voted for the stimulus bill. Although perhaps I am unfair in attributing this entirely to racism. Republicans have a long history of obstructionism; just look at their history of filibustering in the post-Clinton years.
Democrats, on the other hand, are cowards who talk big to their base but fold under talk radio pressure every time. And they do it because they know that those voters who aren't right, however disgusted they are with Democratic cowardice, have no other options in the current two-party system than to vote for the party that claims to share their political outlook but refuses to put their money where their mouths are.
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There's harrassment, and there's obstruction. Not a single House Republican and only three Senate Republicans voted for the stimulus bill. Although perhaps I am unfair in attributing this entirely to racism. Republicans have a long history of obstructionism; just look at their history of filibustering in the post-Clinton years.
Democrats, on the other hand, are cowards who talk big to their base but fold under talk radio pressure every time. And they do it because they know that those voters who aren't right, however disgusted they are with Democratic cowardice, have no other options in the current two-party system than to vote for the party that claims to share their political outlook but refuses to put their money where their mouths are.