Accountability? I Don't Think So

Oh, geez.  So today Eugene Robinson goes off about the non-issue involving Steve Scalise.  Scalise, as you know, is the House Majority Whip, a congressman from Louisiana who apparently spoke before a group of white separatists formed by David Duke -- in 2002.  Since Scalise is not a member of the group, and apparently wasn't convinced to join -- he was the one speaking, after all -- it isn't clear what the big deal is. 

But that didn't stop Robinson from going on his high horse.  In his column attempting to associate Scalise's speech (which no one claims had anything to do with the organization in front of which it was given) with Republicans nationwide, he wrote the fascinating line, "We hold officials accountable for what they say and do."

Well, Mr. Robinson, the heck we do. 

You yourself, Mr. Robinson, wrote a piece a few years back about a Democrat, a fellow who did far worse on your moral scale than to speak before a group of white supremacists -- he was one.  He was a member of the KKK, later a Senator and long-time Senate Majority Leader.  Fellow name of Robert Byrd (D-WV).  Of course, you wrote about his "redemption" and how much he had "changed."

Funny how you didn't afford Mr. Scalise the opportunity to claim redemption or change, for an event of 12 years ago that neither you, nor we, even know his connection to.  But no, not only did you hang him, and assume him to be a racist of some kind; you tarred the entire 2015 Republican membership with the "R" word, based on an unclear act 13 years since.

Mr. Robinson, I am a Republican (though a conservative more than a party member), and I am far, far less racist than the man who until his death in 2010 was the Democratic leader of the Senate!  I'm sorry, Mr. Robinson, but if you're the one throwing the race card around -- and I hardly think racism to be the capital offense you do -- you'd better save your "advice" for your own party and your own tribe. 

Because there's also this fellow name of Sharpton spending an awful lot of time in the White House advising the president, considering he is avowed racist, anti-Semite, tax evader (I rate that as worse than racist, by the way) and riot inciter.

I think your next column about his racist tendencies will be your first, eh, Gene?

Copyright 2015 by Robert Sutton