Jo’s Cafe

Did Tara move to Washington?

Speaking at an event in Harlem honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., the senator said the GOP-controlled House of Representatives “has been run like a plantation, and you know what I’m talking about. It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard.”

Big Dog reminds us this isn’t the first time either …

Yesterday Hillary Clinton pulled out the race card when she used the word plantation to describe the Congress under the rule of the Republicans. Many might try to dismiss this obvious racist remark by saying it was a spur of the moment or off the cuff remark. But this is what she said about Congress in a November 2004 interview:

CLINTON: Well, I mean, what can I say? It’s just so typical. I mean they’re running the House of Representatives like a fiefdom with Tom DeLay as, you know, in charge of the plantation.

Me thinks someone needs to start giving a damn about what this hawk is saying.

Update: (HT: Michelle Malkin) Cox & Forkum have and OUTSTANDING Cartoon on this very thing.