tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post3299900505689206643..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Tailgunner TedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-12508667057701088242015-11-01T21:32:04.862-05:002015-11-01T21:32:04.862-05:00The thing is, when you ditch the left/right spectr...The thing is, when you ditch the left/right spectrum of politics, it becomes clear that the role of Sam Ervin has been taken... by Ted Cruz. <br /><br />If one imagines the United States to be engaged in a debate over the size and role of government, then Ervin is a defender of "the left" as attacked by "the right".<br /><br />But politics does not work this way. John Birchers were a politically engaged group mostly within the GOP. Sam Ervin did not need their votes. Instead, every election he could count on the support of an equally engaged opposing group: white supremacists, a group mostly housed in the Democratic Party. <br /><br />The change has not been what radio station these worst elements of the American body politic listen to. The change is the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which re-introduced black people as voters who aligned themselves with the party that gave then that right. <br /><br />This led directly to our current situation, because racists fled the Democratic Party and joined the Birchers to become the GOP base of hate. Combined, they control the primary elections in red states. Thornton Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11402495641975262697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-57917830138764138292015-11-01T20:02:45.443-05:002015-11-01T20:02:45.443-05:00well over a year ago, i tried to get some artist f...well over a year ago, i tried to get some artist friends to do a nice picture of cruz mccarthy<br /><br />so yeah, others have noticedSoccer Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10745967553131454562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-16537620606426484162015-11-01T14:41:33.696-05:002015-11-01T14:41:33.696-05:00That's a fair criticism. Sam Ervin was indeed ...That's a fair criticism. Sam Ervin was indeed a leading defender of segregation. As Karl Campbell (2001 "Claghorn's Hammurabi: Senator Sam Ervin and Civil Rights," <i>The North Carolina Historical Review</i>, Vol. 78, No. 4, pp. 431-456.) wrote:<br /><br />"Year after year, and congressional hearing after congressional hearing, Sam<br />Ervin stood as the segregated South's first line of defense in the United States Senate."<br /><br />Campbell concluded his article with the following assessment:<br /><br />"The most consistent aspect of Sam Ervin's record on civil rights was not his vaunted constitutional philosophy but rather his unwavering opposition to every legal remedy to racial discrimination proposed during his twenty years as a United States senator. Ervin's legal reasoning was never as coherent as he and his apologists claimed. During the 1950s and 1960s, the senator stretched judicial principles, introduced legal red herrings, shifted constitutional rationalizations, and, most significantly, reversed himself on Brown. Of course, some of Ervin's constitutional objections did raise substantial concerns, especially when he argued for legislative resistance to executive law-making—the issue that put him on the road to Watergate. And it cannot be denied that the senator's constitutional philosophy led him into numerous heroic crusades to protect civil liberties. But Sen. Sam Ervin not only fought to preserve the Constitution, he also fought to preserve Jim Crow and its legacy. His constitutional arguments represented the best legal case North Carolina's old country lawyer could build to defend his guilty client."Sandwichmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11159060882083015637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-702604589957839692015-10-31T20:39:48.725-04:002015-10-31T20:39:48.725-04:00Yeah, I sure miss Sam Ervin.
Sam Ervin's car...Yeah, I sure miss Sam Ervin. <br /><br />Sam Ervin's career in politics took off when he served as the legal advisor to a state sponsored lynching in NC. Later:<br /><br />"In 1956, Senator Ervin helped organize resistance to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision calling for desegregation of schools by drafting The Southern Manifesto"<br /><br />https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Ervin<br /><br />Bipartisanship in 20th Century America was only possible due to the exclusion of blacks from the electorate. <br /><br />Thornton Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11402495641975262697noreply@blogger.com