Dream of Equality Is GOP's Nightmare, and the Deceitful James Sensenbrenner's

Updated - Today, August 28, President Obama and 10,000s will mark the 50th anniversary of the March for Jobs and Freedom in D.C.

Republican Congressional leaders will not be attending though they were invited, reports J. P. Green. 

And don't look for Wisconsin's Republican politicos with that voting rights poseur, James Sensenbrenner to show up en masse; they know their presence would be ironic at best, obscene in reality. 

Here's what the phony Sensenbrenner said last week:

Congressman Sensenbrenner: "I regret that the Department of Justice announced its intent to file a lawsuit against Texas’ Voter ID law citing Section 2 to the Voting Rights Act.  The Texas legislature passed Voter ID, and Governor Perry signed this legislation into law in 2011. Voter ID laws are an essential element in protecting the integrity of our electoral process and do not have a discriminatory intent or effect. (But he's a Voting Rights champion, just ask him. This line of crap has been peddled since at least 2009 by Diana Marrero of the GOP's Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

Republicans are on vacation, but their non-attendance is not necessary to gauge their active hostility towards the Civil Rights Movement.

Here's what Sensenbrenner said at a Republican National Committee Luncheon Monday: "I am committed to restoring the Voting Rights Act as an effective tool to prevent racial discrimination, more subtle discrimination now than overt discrimination. The first thing we have to do is take out the monkey wrench that the Supreme Court threw at it."

Lying hypocrite, Sensenbrenner.

Sensenbrenner refuses to support the mega Voting Rights Act -- the Mark Pocan proposed Right-to-Vote constitutional amendment. But he won't, and neither will many House Republicans.

If the economic rights and the civil rights for which King was assassinated were ever secured we would have a much different America than today.

The White House says today, "As Congressman John Lewis reminded us – at both the 1963 and 2013 marches - we have work to do on voting rights, on jobs, on equality of opportunity in this country."

Yes, there's work to do, and the Republicans are our blood enemies.


Voting Rights

As for the crown jewel of the Civil Right Movement, the Voting Right Act, gutted (Section Four) by five GOP members of the Supreme Court, no doubt Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-White People) is hard at work in his Milwaukee suburb drafting a contemporary formula that will pass GOP muster on the Court one week after slamming the U.S. DoJ and Attorney General Holder for using Section Two of the Voting Rights to protect Texas voters against Texas’ Voter ID law. He's not.

Here's a roadmap for redrafting Section 4 for Sensenbrenner's benefit:

Any state or political subdivisions' legislation judged by a preponderance of evidence standard to have the effect or purpose of chilling or obstructing the right to vote on account of race will be sufficient to place this and other jurisdictions, as determined by the U.S. Department of Justice into the preclearnace regime as specified in Section Five.

Have the House Judicial counsels run it through current voting rights doctrine and make it happen, if you do actually give a damn about voting rights.

Jobs

As for jobs, the first part of the March for Jobs and Freedom, how about we make it public policy to reach full employment?

Sure, Republicans will shout their slogan: 'Governments doesn't make jobs, the private sector does,' and then run with their hands out to the Kochs and other plutocrats.

How about we keep it local and consider asking Oshkosh Corporation for comment on this GOP talking point? 

Will Oshkosh Corp respond and say: 'Yes, we don't accept government contracts, that money comes from government.' 

Take a look at the U.S. Dept of Defense Contracts page, enter "Oshkosh Corp," and golly if $100s of millions in contracts don't come up for the last 10 years. 

Good jobs. Maybe the Republicans will cry, 'hey, that's government money creating those jobs; that's no good.' 

Right, and Sensenbrenner is the second coming of SNCC.

Here's a partial listing of what you get when enter "Oshkosh Corp" into the search field of the
U.S. Dept of Defense Contracts page.

It would take a while to load all the results, but even Republicans might see the picture emerging after a few seconds. That's one company in one small Wisconsin town.

Think if we invested publicly one-tenth of this sum total for jobs for peace, jobs for the environment, jobs for infrastructure, jobs for education.

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Defense.gov: Contracts for Monday, August 01, 2011

www.defense.gov/.../contract.aspx?contractid=4589...

CONTRACTS. ARMY Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded a $904,184,088 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the modification of an ...

Defense.gov: Contracts for Monday, January 07, 2013

www.defense.gov/.../contract.aspx?contractid=4951...

Lockheed Martin Corp. -- Missiles and Fire Control, Grand Prairie, Texas, was awarded a $ ... Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded a $ ...

Defense.gov: Contracts for Wednesday, September 05, 2012

www.defense.gov/.../contract.aspx?contractid=4869...

CONTRACTS. NAVY Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., is being awarded $67,540,517 for fixed-price delivery order #0007 under previously awarded indefinite ...

Defense.gov: Contracts for Friday, July 02, 2010

www.defense.gov/.../contract.aspx?contractid=4315...

CONTRACTS. ARMY Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded on June 29 a $584,914,693 firm-fixed-price, requirements contract.

Defense.gov: Contracts for Friday, December 03, 2010

www.defense.gov/.../contract.aspx?contractid=4422...

Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded on Nov. 30 a $27,971,404 firm-fixed-price contract. This procurement is for a ...

Defense.gov: Contracts for Thursday, November 12, 2009

www.defense.gov/.../contract.aspx?contractid=4160...

Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded on Nov. 10, 2009, a $438,440,000 firm-fixed-price contract for 1,000 of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected, All Terrain ...

Defense.gov: Contracts for Tuesday, December 29, 2009

www.defense.gov/.../contract.aspx?contractid=4189...

CONTRACTS ARMY Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded on Dec. 22, 2009, a $258,364,288 firm-fixed-price contract for the purchase of ...

Defense.gov: Contracts for Wednesday, July 30, 2008

www.defense.gov/.../contract.aspx?contractid=3830...

McDonnell Douglas Corp., DBA the Boeing Company, St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $ ... Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., is being awarded ...

Defense.gov: Contracts for Thursday, May 20, 2010

www.defense.gov/.../contract.aspx?contractid=4285...

CONTRACTS. ARMY Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded on May 17 a $72,686,593 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 1,460 ...

And on and on.