And not a second sooner, considering this:
Could you imagine? We don’t have to imagine because we just lived through the last 8 years while awake. For example when exactly will Donald Trump apologize for the years of disrespect he gave President Obama while questioning his birth certificate and college transcripts? Two things, along with his tax returns, that Trump himself has refused to share with the public?
This people, is exactly what White Privilege looks like.
I myself did not see any apology in this statement by Trump.
Now, not to mention her in the same breath, but Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what I mean. President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period. Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.
Nope, no “I’m Sorry” there anywhere.
Nor did I see any of the above people haughtily demand that Trump issue any such apology. I didn’t see an apology from any Conservatives when Rep. Joe Wilson screamed “You Lie” during Obama’s first state of the Union Address when he said his healthcare reforms wouldn’t give insurance to “illegal Immigrants.”
Did we see an apology for Justice Alito who mouthed “Not True” and shook his head as Obama said that Citizen’s United would open up our elections to unlimited spending, considering the fact that a $Billionaire just bought his way into the White House?
Did any Conservatives demand for an apology when Tea Party leader Mark Williams called Obama a “Muslim Kenyan Welfare Thug-in-Chief?”
Did any Conservatives demand an apology when Conservative Actor Clint Eastwood put on a little “skit” with an empty chair where he imagined lecturing a foul-mouthed unruly childish Obama.
How many Conservatives demanded an apology from Governor Jan Brewer when she waggled her finger in Barack Obama’s face during their face off over SB1070?
Remember Jan Brewer, governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015? If you don’t live in Arizona, you probably know her for two things: signing Senate Bill 1070, the controversial immigration enforcement law that was partly struck down by the Supreme Court, and wagging her finger at President Obama on an airport tarmac.
You might not know that while Ms. Brewer outraged the left, she also angered the conservative establishment by breaking with small-government orthodoxy. The same Governor Brewer who wanted immigrants to show their papers to any police officer with “reasonable suspicion” also sought a temporary sales tax increase to close a budget gap and for Arizona to accept the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. She won both fights over loud objections from the right.
And I didn’t hear any Conservative scream loudly for an apology when Newt Gingrich called Obama the greatest "Food Stamp President” despite the fact that the rise of people utilizing SNAP was associated with the economic crash of 2008 during the final year of Bush's administration, not President Obama.
Also I didn’t hear any Conservatives apologize for deliberately plotting to sabotage Obama’s Presidency, and hence America, just to be able to get back in power in 2012 (or 2016 as the case may be).
For several hours in the Caucus Room (a high-end D.C. establishment), the book says they plotted out ways to not just win back political power, but to also put the brakes on Obama’s legislative platform.
“If you act like you’re the minority, you’re going to stay in the minority,” Draper quotes McCarthy as saying. “We’ve gotta challenge them on every single bill and challenge them on every single campaign.”
The conversation got only more specific from there, Draper reports. Kyl suggested going after incoming Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for failing to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes while at the International Monetary Fund. Gingrich noted that House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) had a similar tax problem. McCarthy chimed in to declare “there’s a web” before arguing that Republicans could put pressure on any Democrat who accepted campaign money from Rangel to give it back.
“You will remember this day,” Draper reports Newt Gingrich as saying on the way out. “You’ll remember this as the day the seeds of 2012 were sown.”
Remember the Fiscal Cliff? Remember America’s credit rating getting down graded? How’s the confirmation process for Merritt Garland coming along?
Yeah, ok.
In point of fact the Hamilton cast didn’t embarrass or attack VP-Elect Pence, they simply asked him to do his job fairly and justly for all Americans.
“Vice President Elect Pence, welcome," he read. "Thank you for joining us at Hamilton-An American Musical. We are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights. We hope this show has inspired you to uphold our American values, and work on behalf of all of us.”
Did some in the audience boo Pence? Did they boo the cast for bringing this up at all? That’s a matter of opinion, but it could easily have been a little of both.
But apparently based on the response so far, this request by member of a play whose lead character is played by an openly gay man with HIV to a man who has endorsed Gay conversion therapy and blocked a needle exchange program for months during a AIDs outbreak among IV drug users in Indiana while he was Governor is just going a. bridge. too. far. from. proper. decorum.
And apparently Conservatives don’t believe in the Constitution, at least, not this part.
Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Sure Mike Pence is owed an apology, right after we hear each and every one for all the above.
All of them.