So lemme get this straight:  Trent Lott was ripped to shreds for his somewhat effusive praise of the late Strom Thurmond on what was then his 100th birthday, and he’s eventually forced to resign from the Senate.
Meanwhile, Dingy Harry Reid can apparently get away with an apology for describing the Ayatollah as – and I quote:
“light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
And not only that, but he’s got the rest of the Demoscum coming to his defense – particularly those still on the plantation.
(Yeah, I said “plantation”.  Don’t like it?  Come do something about it.)
Separately, the Congressional Black Caucus plans to issue a new statement Monday, defending Reid and brushing back Republicans.
“Senator Reid’s record provides a stark contrast to actions of Republicans to block legislation that would benefit poor and minority communities — most recently reflected in Republican opposition to the health bill now under consideration,” CBC Chairwoman Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said. “I look forward to Senator Reid continuing to serve as Majority Leader to guide this important agenda through the Senate.”
Proving yet again that, if standards are good, double-standards must be twice  as good.
Leftist fucknozzles…
Item:  Dhimmi Kadhr, aka Peanut-dick, accuses Our Hero, Joe Wilson™ of being a closet racist (hat tip:  LC Gaius Lawrenitis Negris over at the Rott).
Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act “based on racism” and rooted in fears of a black president.
“I think it’s based on racism,” Carter said in response to an audience question at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. “There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.”
Uh huh.  Riiiiiiiight.
Item:  Fifty years ago, Dhimmi Khadr was quite the racist himself (hat tip:  Ed Driscoll).
(Minor update:  Broken up for a little better readability.)
When Carter returned to Plains, Georgia, to become a peanut farmer after serving in the Navy, he became a member of the Sumter County School Board, which did not implement the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision handed down by the Supreme Court. Instead, the board continued to segregate school children on the streets of Carter’s hometown.
As Laughlin McDonald, director of the ACLU’s Voting Project, relates in his book A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia, Carter’s board tried to stop the construction of a new “Elementary Negro School” in 1956. Local white citizens had complained that the school would be “too close” to a white school. As a result, “the children, both colored and white, would have to travel the same streets and roads in order to reach their respective schools.”
The prospect of black and white children commingling on the streets on their way to school was apparently so horrible to Carter that he requested that the state school board stop construction of the black school until a new site could be found. The state board turned down Carter’s request because of “the staggering cost.”
Carter and the rest of the Sumter County School Board then reassured parents at a meeting on October 5, 1956, that the board “would do everything in its power to minimize simultaneous traffic between white and colored students in route to and from school.” (Emphasis added.)
And yet another case of PotKettleBlack™ rears its ugly head.  And, as usual, it has its roots in the Demoscum Party.
But what can you expect from the party that is in proud possession of the two worst-ever occupants of the White House?
Looks like San Fran Nan Piglousi is starting to realize that, uhhhhh, those very mad-type people over there, uhhhhhh, are kinda, y’know, uhhhhhhhhhhh, armed…”
This is the same Shrieker Of The House™ that accused us (in a roundabout way) of being Nazis because we were supposedly “carrying swastikas”.  This is the same San Fran Nan Piglousi that claims that the CIA “lies to everyone, duh”.  Same Piglousi that loudly proclaimed that she was a “fan of ‘disruptors'”.  Y’know, back then when they were on her  side.
Now?  Not so much.
PotKettleBlackMuch™, O Shrieker?
Methinks she is starting to finally realize that this is not going to end well for her, her supporters or her party.  Methinks she is finally starting to realize that, one way or another, her 15 Minutes Of Fame™ are about to be up, and that the Dustbin of History™ is straight ahead.
Aaaaaaaah, who’m I kidding?  This is Piglousi, remember?
It is  fun to dream, though. 
At least, about her realizing it.  The other part about those 15 minutes of hers being up is actually true.
Especially  the “one way or another” part.
(Hat tip:  Dan Riehl, whose Fine Blog™ is getting blogrolled posthaste.)
One of the things about which the Demoscum constantly squeamed
the last eight years or so was President Bush’s use of something called a “signing statement”.  When Dubya signed a bill and enacted it into law, he would also issue a statement advising how he would interpret said law – whether there were parts he’d treat differently than what the Imperial Socialist Congress™ intended, or simply ignore whole parts of said law.  These “signing statements” were generally used to get around parts of bills Dubya correctly interpreted to be bullshit attempts on infringement of his responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces, but were used for other purposes on occasion.
(Such an example of the aforementioned squeaming can be found here – if  you have the stomach for it.)
In fact, one of the aforementioned (yes, that’s the Word Of The Day™ – why do you ask?) Demoscummic critics of said Dubya practice was one B. HUSSEIN!!!!!  Obambi.  Here, see for yourself:
So it is a great curiosity that the Ayatollah…seems to have developed an affinity for the practice.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, The Won denounced President Bush’s use of signing statements as an “abuse” after he used them to authorize officials to bypass laws like a torture ban and oversight provisions of the USA Patriot Act.
Since taking office, The Won has relaxed his notion of what he deems to be appropriate signing statements and on July 21, 2009 Representatives Barney Frank (D-MA) and David R. Obey (D-WI), sent a letter to Obama complaining about one of his signing statements.
“During the previous administration, all of us were critical of the president’s assertion that he could pick and choose which aspects of Congressional statutes he was required to enforce. We were therefore chagrined to see you appear to express a similar attitude. The policy of using signing statements to assert the right of the White House to ignore certain provisions of legislation regarding the IMF, the World Bank, and other international financial institutions may result not in the invalidation of those various provisions, but rather in insufficient Congressional support for further funding of these institutions.”
Obama said he could disregard the negotiation instructions under his power to conduct foreign relations.
PotKettleBlack™ there much, Jugears?