"No voting qualification ...shall...deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color."

There is a law, passed by congress, that says "No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color." And now the Republicans are up in arms because it names names. It says, in specific, the states that, at the time it was written, they were having trouble in. And low and behold, those are the states that there still IS trouble in.

It doesn't matter that this was written 41 years ago. It doesn't matter that it names names. If someone wants to bicker points, they should pull out the fact that while at one point and time, there was need for their name to be there, there isn't one anymore and that they've reformed. Whether or not that is true is completely inconsequential - they can still do it and still get away with it and still look like they aren't racists assholes.

To me, not passing this law, is kind of like it taking nearly 40 years for the anti-discrimination law to pass in Washington state. Maybe it wasn't race specific - that was already in place - but there should never be any upheaval over anti-discrimination laws. This just doesn't make sense. Are they trying to PROVE they're bigots? That they think they're better than others?

Because that's all their managing to do. Stuck pigs squeal loudest, indeed.