EYE Am Back! Let's Roll!

By Spider Martin

Before EYE type another world let me acknowledge a milestone and thank those of you who read this blog even when EYE am on hiatus.  EYE composed my first post on RedEyes Front Page on January 17, 2010, after being booted from the pages of Left in Alabama on Friday the 13th, 2009.  Since then EYE  have been banned from more blogs, forums, public meetings, organizations, etc. so EYE must be doing something right (pun intended).  EYE have been called a Keyboard Warrior and although it was meant as slam EYE take it as a compliment.  So here we are ten years, 1911 posts, 3921 comments, and 710745 pages view later still plugging along.

I don't have any illusions as to my "influence" or importance in the world, but I love my country, and in my own way I hope to make a difference because I want to make this world we live in a better place for everyone.

Let's Recap:

The Civil War for control of the Alabama Democratic Party Plantation is headed to mediation.  EYE tried to tell them this divisive #DoOver was going to divide and conquer the Alabama Democratic Party forever but did they listen?  Nope.  So much has been said and done, EYE don't see mediation as a solution and maybe it's time for the Alabama Democratic Majority to start our own damn party and force Republicans and Democrats to compete for our votes. 

Ironically one of the alleged complaints about Nancy Worley is that she didn't support Democratic candidates in the last election, but those same malcontents aren't saying a mumbling word about Alabama Senator Doug Jones voting with the Republicans and sending mixed messages about his upcoming impeachment vote.

The challenge for Mr. Jones is whether voters see him as reasonable and unbiased, as he hopes, or as an appeaser of the other side. His appeals risk alienating not only the Trump-supporting Alabamians he has to answer to when he faces re-election in November, but also liberal Democrats — his base — some of whom he says have wanted to remove the president since “the minute he took his hand off the Bible when he was sworn in.”

Um No, Mr. New York Times Columnist Jeremy W. Peters  Doug Jones doesn't have to answer to the Trump-supporting Alabamians.  As a matter of fact, listening to advice like this is why his re-election is in jeopardy.

History to the contrary, too many white Democrats refuse to learn that Blacks can win elections. Less than a week after Black voters were hailed for having “saved America” through a record turnout in Alabama to defeat Roy Moore’s bid for the U.S. Senate in December, pundits were advising the Democratic Party that it should reward its Black supporters by shoving them to the back of the political bus yet again. Bill Scher’s Dec. 20 article in POLITICO was typical of this bad advice. He suggested that in 2018, Democrats should run candidates like Doug Jones, who won a narrow victory over Roy Moore but polled lower than Moore among white voters.

And how are Alabama's African American voters being rewarded?  By being thrown to the back of the bus.

Worley and attorney Benjamin Maxymuk appeared before the Credentials Committee today. Worley argued, in part, that the election last year was challenged only because she won. She characterized the DNC’s demands on the state party to change its bylaws as an effort to take from black party members the ability to elect blacks to the State Democratic Executive Committee.

“So just get your boots on because you’re going to need a whole lot of water sprayed on you,” Worley said. “Not from those water hoses that we saw in Alabama back in the 60s. But it’s because you’re going to be burning in hell for taking away people’s voting rights.”

This is what punishing the base to spite your face in Sweet Home Alabama looks like. 

“We not go let folk kick us around and dog us around and keep putting them back in office,” he charged from the podium. “We are not going to do that.”
Reed didn’t mention folk’s name. Didn’t have to.

And that's unfortunate since Alabama is key to Democrats gaining control of the Senate.  

But here is the Political Play of the Decade: For Democrats to have any realistic hopes of taking control of the U.S. Senate from Republicans they need to hold on to Jones seat. So control of the U.S. Senate is in the control of Alabama's Black block vote and we are damned if we vote for Doug Jones and damned if we don't.

Ain't that a dip?