0 republican-enforced shutdown. not just on getting health care to the tens of millions lying in emergency rooms today, but on everything on every progressive front. it s not an overstatement to say right now even the very notion of elected self-government is now openly and shamelessly under assault. with the president s enemies now extend is nothing less than expunging the legacy from the history books before it s even written. clarence page is with the chicago tribune. and ron reagan is a former radio talk show host and msnbc contributor. the tea party is waging a water in an effort to nullify the president s existence as an american. tease are some of the highlights from a tea party rally today in washington, d.c. which included activist larry klayman who has accused the president of being a muslim among other strange ideas. take a listen. we don t want to return to the days of 1776 when we had to rise up, when we had king george the president s executive authority. blocked anothe
replacing it with a republican-enforced shutdown. not just on getting health care to the tens of millions lying in emergency rooms today, but on everything on every progressive front. it s not an overstatement to say right now even the very notion of elected self-government is now openly and shamelessly under assault. with the president s enemies now extend is nothing less than expunging the legacy from the history books before it s even written. clarence page is with the chicago tribune. and ron reagan is a former radio talk show host and msnbc contributor. the tea party is waging a water in an effort to nullify the president s existence as an american. tease are some of the highlights from a tea party rally today in washington, d.c. which included activist larry klayman who has accused the president of being a muslim among other strange ideas. take a listen. we don t want to return to the days of 1776 when we had to rise up, when we had king george iii who was far less wo
the role of the judiciary in little rock, the role of the judiciary was always key in the civil rights movement, civil rights protesters get arrested. are they going to get out of jail? we re going to have a protest. will there be abinjunction against the protest. state courts want to enjoin a protest, are the federal courts going to act and in fact even as far back as the montgomery bus boycott who most people don t know is that in fact the federal judiciary helped save the montgomery bus boycott, they won the boycott because they filed a lawsuit and got it in front of the federal judiciary and eventually the u.s. supreme court declared the alabama segregation statute unconstitutional. so federal judges were going to be key in whether or not the movement was going to succeed or fail in the south and the ken diadministration put a number of federal judges in who issued rulings that were rear to law. harold cox would speak in racial epithets from the bench, would refer to afri
i am democrat all the way. when i got to washington, there was a sense that i had that many of the white guys who were in charge of running civil rights present company excluded [ laughter ] really weren t steeped deeply in it and how deep and nasty and hard and mean the racism in this country still was. and pretty words weren t going to fix it. that made it impossible for me to first of all continue as a lawyer who was going to make some money, which it turns out i didn t do, to my wife s unhappy dismay. but you couldn t you couldn t live in this society, this heated racial society and not get in it. and get in it with force and effort. and i thought the kennedys were nice people for being so rich. but that they didn t really understand the depth, the americanism, and the awfulness of america s racial problems. there wasn t no quick thing to do. some clever, oh, get mack. have mack bundy come in here and say something clever, and maybe we can figure out how to do this.
oh, oh, no, oh, no, and so part of what you see going through when you go through the document in the truman library, folks are like, you know, truman, you re going to have to die. you re going to have to go. we re going to have to get rid of you some way or another. you re going to have to go. for the southern democrats, the politicians themselves were saying, unless you get back on this track, we re going to bury you. you will not see the white house again. you see this then in the democratic national convention in philadelphia in 1948 in july where when hubert humphry gets up and he makes a speech that says we ve been in the shadow of states rights for too long, and it s now time for us to walk within the bright sunshine of human rights, and the crowd goes wild and the southern democrats are sitting there going oh really. and they get up and walk out and form the dixiecrat party with the strom thurmond as the dixiecrat s presidential nominee. this was he faced when yo