Scalise must go, already: Seriously, why does he still have a GOP leadership job?

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Joan Walsh, writing in Salon...

Last summer, RNC chair Reince Priebus told the National Committee of Black Journalists he had a dream.

“If we work like dogs day in, day out — instead of getting 6% of black votes across the country … we can do a lot better,” Priebus told the group. “That’s our goal.”

It turns out he actually used that odd term – “work like dogs” – more than once in pitching his plan to expand black support for the GOP. “If we work like dogs…instead of 5% in the black community, can we get to 9 percent?” he asked NBC’s Chuck Todd. On the whole issue of the GOP’s demographic problems – with young, Latino, Black, gay and single women voters — Priebus pledged last year: “We’ll work like dogs to try to figure it out.”

Ironically, Republican leaders worked like dogs over the holiday season, but not to win black support. Instead they’re trying to hold on to a leadership role for Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, after it came out that he addressed former KKK grand wizard David Duke’s European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO), a white nationalist organization, in 2002. House Speaker John Boehner says he wants Scalise to stay as whip, and so does Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

Meanwhile, Reince Priebus seems to be working like a dog to avoid commenting on the mess. Oddly, I can’t find any evidence of a statement on Scalise from the normally gabby media hound.

It’s particularly offensive that Scalise, who once pitched himself politically as “David Duke without the baggage,” is replacing the only Jewish member of House Republican leadership, or the House Republican Caucus generally (other than incoming freshman Lee Zeldin), Eric Cantor (h/t Rachel Maddow). Duke told reporters he founded EURO because white Americans were facing “genocide,” and the group’s Web site blamed Jews:

Full article http://www.salon.com/2015/01/06/scalise_must_go_already_seriously_why_does_he_still_have_a_gop_leadership_job/

Joan Walsh, intellectual hottie!

[TexasProgresive]

1. Whose gonna make him?

His fellow puKKKs who have control of the house and senate? These people have no shame. That might be our problem we get shamed even when we shouldn't. Paul Wellstone's funeral comes to mind.

[djean111]

2. Because the GOP leadership and the GOP base do not see anything wrong with him. nt