gotten too much political power. they had gone too far with the civil rights bill the voting rights bill, and they were looking for a home. and sure enough the republican party came up with this southern strategy. which basically said we ll use code words, we ll be abstract. you can t bring your overt racism but here s what we ll do. we ll be abstract. there s a great not only abstract. they re being absent this weekend at a pivotal moment. and you know ryan also at a time that they ve not scheduled the vote on loretta lynch who would be the first african-american woman to be attorney general, the second african-american attorney general in history. haven t even scheduled to vote. that s how we go into this weekend here. much work left to be done here ryan. right. and part of the problem is our political system where there s a regional system in congress and there s a national system. so they re having trouble
would kill jobs. with our desperate needs for jobs and economic growth is this really the time to raise taxes? to create bureaucracies and burden every job creator in our land? but it didn t kill jobs. in fact that month marked the beginning of the the longest streak of prit sector job growth in history. and it s still going. 60 straight months. speaker boehner s been wrong about this for five straight years. and today i m told he finally issued an apology. i have it right here. quote, while it is welcome news that more americans found work last month, middle-class families continue to be left behind by the president s policies. wait. wait. that s not an apology. speaker boehner, what about those claims that the affordable
people thought that maybe at least he would go. but he s not going to show up. joe, it is not a hard political thing to do. it s standing up for american history. george bush will be here. but here s what former rnc chair michael steele said about it quote, we do dumb real well. it is astounding to me that whether it is supporting the continuation of the voting rights act or commemorating a pivotal part of american civil rights history, republican leadership prefers to sit on the sidelines. isn t that exactly right, joe? it s exactly right, but you know what it does, it fits into what lee atwater created a couple of decades a few decades ago, the southern strategy. remember what the southern strategy was. dixie-crats were very upset. these are southern democrats, that african-americans had