.MaddowBlog: Following Pres. Trump’s racist antics, Speaker Pelosi to get House GOP on the record.
The Washington Post put together a list of congressional Republicans responding to the latest example of Donald Trump’s racism, putting GOP lawmakers in four separate groups. The tallies continue to fluctuate a bit, but as of this morning, the number of Republicans who’ve condemned the president is roughly in line with the number of Republicans who’ve endorsed Trump’s comments . A couple dozen criticized Trump and Democrats simultaneously.
The resolution twice refers to ‘racist comments’ from Trump but it does not call the president a racist.The point of the resolution, of course, is to condemn the president’s racist antics. The measure will have no force of law, but it’s a symbolic effort, allowing the House of Representatives to formally register its disgust.
The effort will simultaneously unite Democrats, allowing the House majority to put aside intra-party divisions and stand shoulder to shoulder against a Republican president’s ugly tactics, directed at four of their own.The whole thing is a bit too long to reproduce here, but I’d draw your attention to the heart of the resolution:
believes that immigrants and their descendants have made America stronger, and that those who take the oath of citizenship are every bit as American as those whose families have lived in the United States for many generations;
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