Lonestar_Logic would fail his history course. No, the GOP did not introduce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the Senate but offered the change to co-sponsor it, which they did wisely. Second, the only northerners and westerners to vote against the Civil Rights Act were Republican. From first to last, the Republicans were in the second seat on this legislation.
I cite this selective and at times false posting above by L_L to note that the major events were passed almost always by Democratically controlled Congresses that put the pistol to the GOP to become "bi-partisan" or be labeled racists.
I also invite you to note that L_L's last date was 1996.
Yes, black Americans know what the Democratic Party was and what the GOP is. Black Americans correctly realize that the Democratic Party protects their interests while the GOP will sell them out to appease the southern wing of the Pubs.
You fail, L_L, you fail.
Move on.
I don't believe I ever stated that the Republicans introduced that particular legislation. Fact is the democrats attempted to filibuster the civil rights act of 1964.
This is how the vote went by party.
The original House version:
Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%–39%)
Republican Party: 138-34 (80%–20%)
Cloture in the Senate:
Democratic Party: 44-23 (66%–34%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%–18%)
The Senate version:
Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%–31%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%–18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:
Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%–37%)
Republican Party: 136-35 (80%–20%)
The bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964 and the "Southern Bloc" of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.[4] Said Russell: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."[5]
The most fervent opposition to the bill came from Dixie lawmakers, like Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC): "This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason. This is the worst civil-rights package ever presented to the Congress and is reminiscent of the Reconstruction proposals and actions of the radical Republican Congress."
After 54 days of filibuster, Senators Everett Dirksen (R-IL), Thomas Kuchel (R-CA), Hubert Humphrey (D-MN), and Mike Mansfield (D-MT) introduced a substitute bill that they hoped would attract enough Republican swing votes to end the filibuster. The compromise bill was weaker than the House version in regard to government power to regulate the conduct of private business, but it was not so weak as to cause the House to reconsider the legislation.
On the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) completed an address that he had begun 14 hours and 13 minutes earlier opposing the legislation. Until then, the measure had occupied the Senate for 57 working days, including six Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, the bill's manager, concluded he had the 67 votes required at that time to end the debate and end the filibuster. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin, the final tally stood at 71 to 29. Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill. And only once in the 37 years since 1927 had it agreed to cloture for any measure.
I understand you liberal fucks have to lie in an attempt to win an argument, but most conservatives are on to your little games. You're not only a fucking joke, you're a lying fuck.
