CBS News:
"When the House voted Tuesday night to formally denounce President Trump's racist tweets, only four Republicans voted in favor of the resolution. All four come from states that Mr. Trump won in the 2016 election."
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The president's tweets about "go back where you came from" were freaky, to me -- this is how the hitler stuff gets started. They don't say on Day One, OK, we want to build factories to kill 6 million Jews before 1945. No, it goes in little steps, increments, changes that don't seem very good but people say, "Oh, well, we don't like it, but we can live with it."
As Anne Frank wrote in her diary, "Our freedom was strictly limited. Yet things were still bearable."
First it's undocumented immigrants at the border: families separated, children in cages deprived of daily necessities. Then, as Chris Matthews pointed out on Hardball, now the president has moved on from undocumented, to picking on people born in this country -- i.e., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- insulting them as unwanted "foreigners."
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Niemoller's poem:
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.
Anthony Scaramucci, who used to defend Trump, criticized him on this, saying -- Every immigrant who comes to America has had to hear this -- i.e., the insult that says, "go home!" or "go back where ya came from!"
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Voting in the U.S. House to formally denounce president's racist tweets:
Democrats: all of them
Republicans: four of them
The four Republicans who voted against the racism are
Representative Susan Brooks of Indiana
Representative Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania
Representative Will Hurd of Texas
Representative Fred Upton of Michigan.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives who voted No to taking a stand against this president's escalating, un-American prejudice, bigotry, and bullying are as follows, and they will be up for re-election and possible primary races in 2020....
from Alabama,
Bradley Byrne
Martha Roby
Mike Rogers
Robert Aderholt
Mo Brooks
Gary Palmer.
from Alaska,
Don Young.
from Arizona,
Paul Gosar
Andy Biggs
David Schweikert
Debbie Lesko.
from Arkansas,
Rick Crawford
French Hill
Steve Womack
Bruce Westerman.
from California,
Doug LaMalfa
Tom McClintock
Paul Cook
Devin Nunes
Kevin McCarthy
Ken Calvert
Duncan D. Hunter.
from Colorado,
Scott Tipton
Ken Buck
Doug Lamborn.
from Florida,
Matt Gaetz
Neal Dunn
Ted Yoho
John Rutherford
Michael Waltz
Bill Posey
Daniel Webster
Gus Bilirakis
Ross Spano
Vern Buchanan
Greg Steube
Brian Mast
Francis Rooney
Mario Diaz-Balart.
from Georgia,
Buddy Carter
Drew Ferguson
Rob Woodall
Austin Scott
Doug Collins
Jody Hice
Barry Loudermilk
Rick W. Allen
Tom Graves.
from Idaho,
Russ Fulcher
Mike Simpson.
fromIllinois,
Mike Bost
Rodney Davis
John Shimkus
Adam Kinzinger
Darin LaHood.
from Indiana,
Jackie Walorski
Jim Banks
Jim Baird
Greg Pence
Larry Bucshon
Trey Hollingsworth.
from Iowa,
Steve King.
from Kansas,
Roger Marshall
Steve Watkins
Ron Estes.
from Kentucky,
James Comer
Brett Guthrie
Thomas Massie
Hal Rogers
Andy Barr.
from Louisiana,
Steve Scalise
Clay Higgins
Mike Johnson
Ralph Abraham
Garret Graves.
from Maryland,
Andy Harris.
from Michigan,
Jack Bergman
Bill Huizenga
John Moolenaar
Tim Walberg
Paul Mitchell.
from Minnesota,
Jim Hagedorn
Tom Emmer
Pete Stauber.
from Mississippi,
Trent Kelly
Michael P. Guest
Steven Palazzo.
from Missouri,
Ann Wagner
Blaine Luetkemeyer
Vicky Hartzler
Sam Graves
Billy Long
Jason Smith.
from Montana,
Greg Gianforte.
from Nebraska,
Jeff Fortenberry
Don Bacon
Adrian Smith.
from Nevada,
Mark Amodei.
from New Jersey,
Chris Smith.
from New York state,
Lee Zeldin
Peter T. King
Elise Stefanik
Tom Reed
John Katko
Chris Collins.
from North Carolina,
George Holding
Virginia Foxx
Mark Walker
David Rouzer
Richard Hudson
Patrick McHenry
Mark Meadows
Ted Budd.
from North Dakota,
Kelly Armstrong.
from Ohio,
Steve Chabot
Brad Wenstrup
Jim Jordan
Bob Latta
Bill Johnson
Bob Gibbs
Warren Davidson
Mike Turner
Troy Balderson
David Joyce
Steve Stivers
Anthony Gonzalez.
from Oklahoma,
Kevin Hern
Markwayne Mullin
Frank Lucas
Tom Cole.
from Oregon,
Greg Walden.
from Pennsylvania,
Dan Meuser
Scott Perry
Lloyd Smucker
Fred Keller
John Joyce
Guy Reschenthaler
Glenn Thompson
Mike Kelly.
from South Carolina,
Joe Wilson
Jeff Duncan
William Timmons
Ralph Norman
Tom Rice.
from South Dakota,
Dusty Johnson.
from Tennessee,
Phil Roe
Tim Burchett
Chuck Fleischmann
Scott DesJarlais
John Rose
Mark E. Green
David Kustoff.
from Texas,
Louie Gohmert
Dan Crenshaw
Van Taylor
John Ratcliffe
Lance Gooden
Ron Wright
Kevin Brady
Michael McCaul
Mike Conaway
Kay Granger
Mac Thornberry
Randy Weber
Bill Flores
Jodey Arrington
Chip Roy
Pete Olson
Kenny Marchant
Roger Williams
Michael C. Burgess
Michael Cloud
John Carter
Brian Babin.
from Utah,
Rob Bishop
Chris Stewart
John Curtis.
from Virginia,
Rob Wittman
Denver Riggleman
Ben Cline
Morgan Griffith.
from Washington state,
Jaime Herrera Beutler
Dan Newhouse
Cathy McMorris Rodgers.
from West Virginia,
David McKinley
Alex Mooney
Carol Miller.
from Wisconsin,
Bryan Steil
Jim Sensenbrenner
Glenn Grothman
Sean Duffy
Mike Gallagher.
from Wyoming,
Liz Cheney.
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