During last week’s special legislative session, Republicans and some Democrats in the State Senate slapped Rand Paul.
Senate Resolution 31, sponsored by Senate President David Williams, did the following:
Affirm protections of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States requiring equal protection of the law, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Kentucky Civil Rights Act of 1966 which protect the citizens of the Commonwealth from discrimination.
The resolution was introduced to the Senate on Wednesday and adopted by unanimous voice vote on Friday.
By co-sponsoring and adopting the resolution, the Republican-controlled Senate along with David Williams and other leaders, sent a message to Rand Paul that Mitch McConnell still controls the Republican Party of Kentucky. They’ve worked hard over the past several days to make that clear.
Mitch McConnell recalled that his former mentor, Senator John Sherman Cooper, worked diligently to pass the Civil Rights Act while he was but an intern in his office. John David Dyche, McConnell’s biographer, wrote in the Courier-Journal a little more than a week ago that, “In 1964, McConnell spoke at a (University of Louisville) “Freedom Rally” urging students to march on Frankfort with Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Kentucky civil rights plank.” Dyche also said that McConnell declined to serve as Barry Goldwater’s campaign manager at UofL’s mock Republican convention, instead helping to block Goldwater by nominating moderate Henry Cabot Lodge, passing a strong civil rights plank.
After all of that, I’m pretty sure anyone reading between the lines will see SR 31 as a slap in the face to Paul. And as a signal that Kentucky Republicans are okay with watching him lose, so long as he continues down the path that he’s on.
9 responses so far ↓
1 AttentionWhore // Jun 1, 2010 at 4:57 pm
We all know how needed that resolution was! Thank God for the quick action! I was seriously concerned about not being able to attend the dunk contest next weekend in Louisville.
2 Belknap Banquo // Jun 1, 2010 at 7:45 pm
See you there, Attention Whore. I’ll be the guy with the mini-trampoline and a copy of the 1972 Civil Rights Act. I’m a tramponologist dammit!
3 Belknap Banquo // Jun 1, 2010 at 7:48 pm
PS Why do I get the feeling that starrymessenger is beating off looking at that picture?
4 starrymessenger // Jun 2, 2010 at 12:48 am
i have been semi-censor’d
and no… i am decidedly not
at all doing what B.B just said.
5 starrymessenger // Jun 2, 2010 at 12:49 am
tomorrow has a rasmussen poll out…
6 jake // Jun 2, 2010 at 7:39 am
For the thousandth time, Paultards, when you spam a hundred ridiculous comments in a day? You get automatically moderated.
If you want to be “censored” here on this private website? I’ll happily censor.
7 Just me // Jun 2, 2010 at 11:30 am
Frankly, I’m tickled shitless that Cap’n Kirk has been automatically moderated. It was a bitch scrolling through that crap.
8 Belknap Banquo // Jun 2, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Tickled shitless. I sat in on a meeting once where a good ol boy from Georgia was pitching a Japanese company where there were several translators. Besides making them listen extra hard with his southern accent, he threw in phrases like that dog won’t hunt, dumber than a box of rocks and simple as a clay pie (that was a new one on me,too). In his close, he then said that his firm would be tickled shitless to get a contract with such an outstanding company. During the break, a Japanese guy asked me, What is this tickled shitless? I told him, it means pleased as punch, happy as a clam, happy as a pig in slop, happier than a fat kid at a Baskin-Robbins and it was even better than being tickled pink. Make ‘em earn their money, that’s my motto. Then, to make sure all wasn’t lost in translation, I said that it really meant there was a 10 per cent leeway on the finished price and that all golf would be free. He got the contract.
9 Just me // Jun 4, 2010 at 9:39 am
BB, because I love all things scatological, my preference to “happy as a pig in slop” is “happier than a pig in shit”. As usual, that’s ‘Just me’. :)
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