The current Southern Republican Leadership Conference is famously happening in New Orleans, right within the district of Anh “Joseph” Cao, who only won because his Democratic challenger was a terrible international criminal, and will lose in November, probably. His district is approximately 100 to 200% Democratic, so he voted for the House health care package the first time around only last fall, winning the respect of his GOP peers. So he was at the SRLC today, talking to who else but goddamn hero Dave Weigel, when some crazy lady came up to harass him, and Weigel did his “Weigel thing” where he hears out crazy people and types it up for the Internet.
“I supported you,” said Kim Hasney, a photographer from Jefferson Parish. “I can’t support you anymore.”
“You have to understand,” said Cao, “that I represent a district that’s 70 percent Democrat.”
Cao thanked Hasney for her honestly, but after she sparred a bit with other Republicans about what it was fair to expect from Cao, she told me of her disappointment with how he was using his vote.
“He had fundraisers, he had meetings, all in the suburbs — the white suburbs,” said Hasney, who attended one of those events. “He had nothing in the district. We got him elected. Then, he goes and says ‘but I have to represent my district,’ which is all liberal, giveaway, spread-the-wealth, welfare, black. We thought he would try to change the demographics of that district by supporting things that were not giveaway things. You know, supporting things that would get them out of the ghetto.”
Hasney made it clear that she opposed Cao’s votes because she thought they were the wrong way to lift poor blacks in New Orleans out of poverty. “I’m not just talking about black people,” she said. “The Vietnamese people flourish in that area because they’re workers.”
Cao, she said, should have focused on free market solutions that could help other residents lift themselves up by their bootstraps.
“I thought that was what he was going to do,” she said. “As a conservative Republican, bring a work ethic, bring a non-welfare ethic.”
She’s not a racist. She just has no idea what has been happening in Congress for the past 1.5 years, which makes her sound like a racist when she tries to talk about these things — things that were weaker market solutions far to the right of anything liberals wanted, ideally. Also, it doesn’t matter how much cash the benevolent white folks would give his campaign. If he voted like a wingnut, he’d be out in his first re-election campaign. And he did, and he will be.
So the lesson is, people should shut up unless they actually pay attention to policy and politics, or they will be mocked on the Internet, thank you.
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Racist old white woman says what?
You number 10 Joseph Cao!
Casual racism is casual.
Representing the majority sounds like a socialist concept. I don’t think he’s from around here.
“She just has no idea what has been happening in Congress for the past 1.5 years, which makes her sound like a racist when she tries to talk about these things — things that were weaker market solutions far to the right of anything liberals wanted, ideally.”
Jim, you are expecting her to be able to grasp political reality outside the retarded binaries of wingnut thought–black/white, Stalinist/Free (Market), etc.
Essentially, you are asking her to be someone entirely different from who she is, or ever will be: a hopelessly deluded “useful idiot,” seething with misdirected anger and fear and completely taken in by an illusory identification with this country’s ruling class. In other words, a wingnut.
I was going to say, “Yes, how dare Cao represent the interests of the actual people who voted for him, instead of the teabagger Republican base,” but it looks like Ms. Hasney already got there, only she wasn’t joking.
I’m also so tired of conservatives screaming about “free market solutions”. The free market is the problem, morans; it doesn’t work as a solution.
Pretty soon they’ll be calling him Old Yeller…
It was then that Glenn Ford walked up to her and slapped the shit out of her.
Oh MAN, Sarah Palin’s giving away caribou jerky! How very socialist of her.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/04/caribou_jerky_from_sarahpac.html#comments
Damn welfare recipients and their lack of a work ethic! Cue commentary by Craig Nelson in 3…2…
That would put Kim in the “bring back the lash” category.
Don’t tell that ol’ cracker theres a nigbee in the White House.
I love Confederate History Month.
So the Vietnamese flourish in the “giveaway, spread-the-wealth, welfare” ghettos because “they’re workers?” And if they had a good dose of the “Republican work-ethic, non-welfare-ethic” then they would be fine, and no longer be in the giveaway Welfare ghettos, as opposed to now when they do work?
You mean the hard workers like Teabagger welfare queens?
This is more of that “good” tinted who are never supposed to make fun of the whities and don’t get upset when the white guys get yellow fever and try to fuck all our women, yet blow a head valve when we show up to take your hot (with tramp stamp) sister out on a date.
Ah, the sweet smell of internet mockery. Smells like poop and sadness.
Hope every stripper / dealer / hooker in NOLA follows the example of my stripper / hooker / dealer friends in NOLA & has a camera phone ready at all times for the duration of HateFest 2010.
Honey, it’s hard to lift yourself up by the bootstraps when you can’t even afford the boots.
I hope those free market solutions lead to all those poor blacks and Vietnamese making enough money to buy houses in Kim’s neighborhood. Though I don’t know that a double-wide in a trailer park is a step up from a slum.
“She’s not a racist.”
In the words of Terreblanche’s brother, “we’re not racists; we just believe in purity of race.”
She’s an ARMY–”Asian Republican, My Yoni”
Same racist lady, Different Blog http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0410/Considering_Katrina_at_the_SRLC.html?showall
[re=552891]JMP[/re]: I actually think this sort of thing is pretty telling. She’s complaining that he (to be fair, only once) voted how the people in his district, the ones that cast votes in his elections, wanted him to. She feels wronged (and here is the important part) that he didn’t vote with the people who made campaign contributions, saying “We got him elected.”
What does this say about the Republican psyche? The people that vote don’t matter, in fact in many cases they get in the way. What matters to them is which side, fiscally speaking, the bread has been buttered on. The scenario that she painted was one where she and her compatriots literally attempted to purchase this man’s vote, and she doesn’t merely see nothing wrong with this, she expects something for her money.
[re=552906]ManchuCandidate[/re]: If I say you can have all the white women you care for, and recognize that white people are generally pretty awful about race, is it cool if I still have a terrible, terrible case of Yellow Fever?
I’d like an order of spring rolls and shrimp pho, and a couple of Tiger beers.
[re=552980]Zadig[/re]: Damn, you nailed it.
I am unclear on her plan to get the people in his district “out of the ghetto.” (I live in his district.) Do we get to go live in her neighborhood now? (Like the Jeffersons? Not the Bill Jeffersons.)
Where all the nice whites give money to make sure overwhelmingly Democratic districts are represented by Republicans. That seems generous all around. Did she give a phone number?
[re=552980]Zadig[/re]:
Ha. Yeah, I’m actually cool with it.
What I’ve noticed about yellow fever is that it only affects white men. North America White women not so much. Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for “I am Curious Yellow” Euros or I’d be more than likely a Redstate Virgin saving himself for Russian mail order brides.
[re=553000]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Should have gone to Berkeley. Cuts both ways pretty deeply there, since whites and Asians are the two dominant racial groups (although finding hot women of any race on campus is tough for all, since the school trends more towards smart than social). Plus there’s a women’s only college (Mills) 15 minutes away, and the straight hot women there aren’t as picky. I should know – I married a Mills woman 17 years ago who was (and is) so out of my league that friends let me know it at the reception.
There are easier ways to get mocked on the internet. Jonah Goldberg just had to release a publicity photo, for example.
[re=553000]ManchuCandidate[/re]:
What is this “Yellow Fever” of which you speak? I am totally unfamiliar with the concept.
Is there a newsletter for it or something? Do tell.
[re=553011]Berkeley Bear[/re]:
All this time I thougt you were gay. Go figure.
If there were only a word for people that make assumptions about people based solely upon their racial heritage….
Bad Jefferson Parish racist! No invitation to next year’s Zulu ball for you!
Why are these people here in our beautiful, jazzy N.O. springtime??
Been hearing that Trickle Down garbage since the early 80s, even when the enlarged prostates of Republicans made it seem like a trickle it was the same old Golden Shower. Got every tax break they could buy under Bush 2 and invested the gains with Bernie Madoff and Sir Allan Stanford in Credit Default Swaps. Nice work, wrecked planet.
Old privelaged white guy addressing an earnest black youth, “Pull yourself by your boot straps!”
“Yes, Sir!” Turns to leave.
“Wait a minute, come back here, kid. where’d you get those boots? Everyone knows a kid like you can’t afford boots like that. You steal those boots, kid? Up against the car! Spread ‘em! Got any sharps? Hands behind your back!(Click)You have the right to remain silent…”
Sometimes I wonder where this shit comes from. Tonight I found out. Switching “mode” on the steering wheel to CD 1–an NPR station replaying the most boring show “The Story”, I hit it once more and got CD 2, with a different boring story on another another NPR station. To get to CD, I have to go through AM first. You with me so far?
Some guy was talking on AM. I stopped to listen. It was some guy I’ve heard of, I think, named Michael Savage. It was nuts. He just sat there and pulled fuck-all out of his ass, citing a World Net Daily (isn’t that the political version of Weekly World News, except on the internets?) citing a story found “deep” in the NPR “archives” called “Son of Africa” about Obama and he says: “there it is. What more do you need? Even NPR says he was born in Kenya. How did people miss this?”
Any story taken as a whole on NPR is rejected outright by these morans because it’s just liberal propoganda . But something out of context that can be used as a basis for a winger lie–then NPR is the ultimate Holy Bible, infallible truth, the Pope of all things political.
And he was trashing a possible SCOTUS appointment for looking too jewy and ugly, like Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
WTF? People listen to this shit? Seriously?
No wonder women like this crazy lady are, well, crazy. All they listen to are people like this Savage person and actually believe candidates belong to the biggest investor. We all knew it was true, except even most semi-literates realize a representative democracy actually isn’t supposed to work that way.
I know the answer to this, but doesn’t she get how illogical she sounds? She can’t even match her stereotypes up right. She wants poor blacks to move out of the ghetto (but not next door to her or anything like that, of course). She’s mad that the guy voted like his consituents wanted him to the first time around (I know, the horror, right?). And it just goes on and on and on.
I’d say the misery of being a brain-dead conservative, but it’s got to be bliss to never have to apologize for our defend your nonsensical, fevered dreams. Imagine going through life never being confronted with reality, or when confronted with it mentally shutdown altogether into a hibernation of pure stupidity.
The folks of NO were drowned like rats just a few years ago, and this crazy bitch is whining and angry because we’ve finally decided to take a step into the civilized world like just about every other First World nation before us? I’m absolutely dumbstruck at the conservative reaction to what has been a largely conservative-minded health care reform. Let’s be honest, more than half the stuff in the current reform bill is shit that REPUBLICANS had been proposing for years. This wasn’t some “socialist takeover of health care” this was pretty weak market-based reform.
Sorry, I can’t make a joke about this. If they go this bat-shit insane over conservative, market-based reform of health care, what wont they shit their pants over?
[re=553121]DustBowlBlues[/re]: I see I’m not the only one confused of my ass about the times in which we live. I thought the conspiracy theories that swirled around Clinton were crazy. I honestly never could have expected what this Congress and this president have to work with in terms of public sentiment. You know, we use the word crazy gets thrown around a lot to describe our current political environment, but it simply doesn’t do it any justice.
I’m not talking about all the blacks, just the lazy ones. Now, take your average Chinaman, he’s a hard worker. That’s why I voted for Mr Cao. I thought, well, he’s a Chinaman, but they’re hard-working like white folks. Then I find out he’s some kind of Red Commie. Well, I should have known, those sneaky bastards. But we’re not racist. I mean, we gave Michael Steele a job. Of course, he’s kind of eff’ing it up.
Check out the pearls on the racist tea party lady. She bought them from a hard-working Chinaman pearl diver who was so properly obsequious to her when she paid him a pittance for the pearls.
http://www.facebook.com/kim.hasney?ref=search&sid=508607900.4101718032..1
He should have asked Buffy what she does for a living? Fucking rich white guys? Like a whore?
Maybe the lady is on to something. Why would anyone want to lift themselves out of poverty when they know the Bush tax cuts are going to expire?
“We thought he would try to change the demographics of that district by supporting things that were not giveaway things.” Calgary had a mayor a few years ago that changed the demographics of Calgary by giving away free one-way bus tickets. I bet this is one “giveaway thing” she would support.
So congresspeople are supposed to be chaning the demographics of the districts that elected them? It makes me feel a little light-headed contemplating the implications of this…
[re=553166]CanadianBacon[/re]: We only like “giveway things” for the rich and multinational corporations.
[re=553166]CanadianBacon[/re]: One way bus tickets? What a great idea. We could leverage the whole ‘Celebrate Treason in Defense of Slavery Month’ and provide one way bus tickets to Virginia. Maybe even bundle it with a free dental exam.
Ignorant clown has a website http://www.southernculturephoto.com/custom.html and an email hasney@southernculturephoto.com
Cao’s vote is completely understandable. Democracy is new to “his people”.
[re=553181]Gayer Than Thou[/re]: You know who else changed the demographic makeup of his country for his desired results…HENGH?
This is very beautiful conference for the strong Politics thanks.
Wasn’t this guy the Future-of-the-GOP 4 or 5 Futures-of-the-GOP ago.
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