Separate But Equal- Clyburn Named 'Assistant to the Leader'

Voters sent a message to Washington in 2010, and that message was that they were not happy with the direction that the Democratic leadership was taking our nation. They inflicted historic losses on the Democrats in the House and higher-than-usual losses on the Democrats in the Senate. The losses would have been higher if Democrats in the House and Senate hadn't aggressively campaigned as moderates who didn't agree with the leadership of Pelosi and Reid and managed to convince voters of that fact. But after all of this, it turns out that the Democrats didn't receive the message and that those moderates who said they didn't side with leadership were only lying to voters, because the Democrats are going to continue with Pelosi, Reid, and Obama.

The only real change that might have occured in the Democratic leadership was a change at the number two position in the House. Democrat Jim Clyburn challenged Steny Hoyer for the second most powerful position for the Democrats in the House, the position of minority whip, in order to shake up the leadership for the Democrats. But leadership and the Democratic rubes rejected Clyburn in favor of keeping more of the same failed leadership and policies that extended and deepened the Great Recession under Pelsoi (since 2006) and Obama (since 2008).

Rather than rejecting Clyburn in favor of Hoyer, Pelosi came up with an interesting compromise- create a brand new separate position for Clyburn, and then pretend that it was 'wink wink' equal with Hoyer. Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress decided that separate was equal, and that after rejecting someone based on the merits (I hope) that it was okay then to create a brand new weaker position to fill with them.

Clyburn is an African-American.

PS Here is a joke for you: "Two politician are having lunch together, all of a sudden one stood up and shouted, 'Your lying.' The other replied, 'I know but just hear me out.'"