Obstruct at every turn and question their IQs.

I was reading an article over at my favorite website for politics today, and I saw where republicans, once again, blocked one of the president's nominations. This one was for the Secretary of Labor, and Tom Perez was their latest victim. This latest move by republicans in Washington represents what has been a consistent pattern by republicans since the Obama presidency: block and obstruct at every turn.

The article by Lauren Victoria Burke was interesting and insightful as it outlined not only this latest obstruction but many others which might have been over looked because of the mundane nature of these types of things.

As Burke writes:  "There are currently 82 vacancies for federal judges around the U.S.  By using the secret “hold,” Republican Senators don’t have to reveal they are blocking a nominee.

Some in the media, such as veteran journalists Ron Fournier to E.J. Dionne, have written that it’s President Obama that must adjust to Congress or in some way adjust his strategy. But clearly the strategy of obstruction President Obama has faced during the 112th and 113th Congresses is historic.

With compromise disappearing and Congress getting close to nothing done, members are leaving.  The Senate has had a 40% turnover in the last five years.  Many say the culture in the Senate driven by unwillingness to compromise with President Obama have led to the historic obstruction."

Go figure. But what is driving this new attitude towards the American President? Ideology? 

"Of course it's ideology, Field; the man is a Socialist. What else could it be?"

I will give you one guess.

On that note I will segue to another article I read over at Politic365,today.

This one shed some light on one of the darlings of the conservative movement.

"In a recently released video from an American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation analyst Jason Richwine asserts that Latinos, as well as Native Americans, and blacks have demonstrated that they are incapable of “assimilating” and adjusting their IQs to be on par with whites, Jews and Asians.


Here Richwine explains the differences between European and non-European immigrants. Specifically that non-European immigrants should be treated differently than European immigrants so that “we can get assimilation to work.”

In this video Richwine states that the U.S. should find smart, uneducated people from other countries and allow them to enter the country:

This week Richwine’s dissertation from Harvard University was revealed to contain a passage in which he questions whether Latinos’ IQs could ever be on par with whites:

“No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against.”

Folks, in case you didn't know, the Heritage Foundation who this clown represents is leading the charge against immigration reform on behalf of conservatives here in America. This is where Jim DeMint took his wheelbarrow and unloaded the Brinks truck full of money that was offered to him.

"We believe that every person is created equal and that everyone should have equal opportunity to reach the ladder of success and climb as high as they can dream," Heritage said in a statement released by spokesman Mike Gonzalez.

Richwine was not at Heritage when he wrote the paper. In the acknowledgments section of his dissertation, he thanked the American Enterprise Institute, another conservative think tank in Washington, "for its generous support, without which this dissertation could not have been completed."

No Jason, thank you! We always like when the true feelings of ignorant people are exposed, no matter how hard they try to hide their intentions behind the cover of fancy think tanks and political organizations. 

*Pic courtesy of Politic365