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“Maybe the [GOP] elephant symbol needs to be replaced by… a middle-aged white evangelical male gun owner.”

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Today’s L.A. Times letter to the editor, because our voices matter:

Re “Ugly numbers for the GOP,” Column, March 4

It appears that Skelton’s critique of the California Republican Party applies nationally. As California and the nation have become the most diverse they have ever been, the GOP has become less diverse. Maybe the elephant symbol needs to be replaced by the more appropriate one of a middle-aged white evangelical male gun owner.

The GOP strategy against President Obama has always been to portray him as the “other.” How are we to believe this GOP is capable of embracing diversity?

Stan Seidel

Rancho Palos Verdes

Video- Soledad O’Brien To Former RNC Chair: Do Minorities Not Know You, Or Do They Just Not Like You?

Soledad rocks. Via.

Cartoon of the Day- Republican Outreach

Clay Bennett editorial cartoon

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Valerie Jarrett: Obama Cabinet “far from finished – will have diversity including women, including people of color.”

valerie jarrett leg obama cabinet

Premature judgification is rampant these days. Please note: If it persists for more than four hours, see your doctor. Or something. But enough about spoofs of epidemic GOP medical issues and, erm, shortcomings. We have gratuitous criticisms to address!

Or maybe they’re not gratuitous, but can we at least give the president time to, you know, complete his Cabinet picks before we all jump on his choices?

(CNN) – “His Cabinet when he’s finished – and he’s far from finished – will have diversity including women, including people of color,” Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett told CNN’s chief national correspondent John King and chief political analyst Gloria Borger from the White House shortly before Obama took the Oath of Office.

See? Valerie Jarrett’s leg isn’t the only female representation that we should expect to almost, barely, kind of see in the coming months. We’ll likely see all kinds of legs. Patience.

However, I do hope they’ll be more prominent in the next group photo. Maybe both legs will even be visible next time. And if the photographer is feeling particularly generous, perhaps a glimpse of an arm would be in order.

Jarrett:

One picture does not speak a thousand words.

He believes he makes his best decisions when he is surrounded by people who have different perspectives and give him their best ideas,” she said. “I spent a lot of time in the Oval Office and I’m in there with a great number of women who he listens to and whose council and advice he trusts greatly.

See?

So to all you critics out there, you don’t have a leg to stand on. (Bygones.)

Cartoons of the Day- GOP Minority Outreach



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Headline O’ the Day– “New U.S. House: Women and minorities to the left; white men to the right”

Yesterday I was very proud to post PhotOH! The most diverse Congress in U.S. history.

Today I spotted this headline at CNN.com:

New U.S. House: Women and minorities to the left; white men to the right

That just about says it all.

The contrasts between the parties’ platforms is stark enough, but the visuals are also stunning:

On the Democratic side: Women and minorities — a coalition that, along with young voters, largely helped re-elect President Barack Obama — collectively will for the first time in the nation’s history outnumber white male Democrats.

On the Republican side: The majority of the House seats will be held by white men — a group which far outnumbers the now dwindled numbers of House GOP women and minorities after the losses of two minority members and about a half dozen women from that caucus.

Back in 2010, I posted a segment of The Rachel Maddow Show that is worth a second look, VIDEO- Rachel Maddow Show: “Be afraid, white people! The black people are coming for you!”

The GOP better stop ignoring demographics and take a look at today’s America, because, despite their denials, yesterday’s America is gone. And at this rate, the Republican party will be, too.

PhotOH! The most diverse Congress in U.S. history

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Think Progress has a great post with a great graphic. Above is the graphic, here’s the post, and here’s a hint of things to come:

… 4 new African American representatives, 10 new Latinos, 5 new Asian Americans and 24 women in the House or Senate… the first two Hindu congresspeople, the first Buddhist senator, and the first non-theist to openly acknowledge her belief prior to getting elected… 4 new LGBT congresspeople or senators, including the first openly bisexual congresswoman and the first openly gay congressman of color…

This election was one of the most rewarding in my lifetime.