Virginia Foxx is at it again. Now she's claiming it was republican leadership, in the sixties, that passed civil rights. More below.
The video speaks for itself, but here's the transcript of Dennis Cardoza's (D-CA) passionate rebuttal of her idiocy:
CARDOZA: Today, what I’m hearing on the floor really takes the cake. The gentlelady from North Carolina, in her statement just now, indicated that the Republican GOP had passed the Civil Rights Act legislation with almost no help from the Democrats. I can’t believe my ears. It was the Kennedy and Johnson administration where we passed that Great Society legislation. It was over the objections of people like Jesse Helms from the gentlewoman’s state that we passed that civil rights legislation. John Lewis...
FOXX: Would, would the gentleman yield?
CARDOZA: No, I will not yield. John Lewis, a member of this House, was beaten on the Edmund Pettus bridge to get that civil rights legislation passed. Tell John Lewis that he wasn’t part of getting that legislation passed.
Of course Virginia Foxx likes that old tyme revisionism. The only obvious mistake is that it's horribly false. When Johnson (D) got Kennedy's (D) Civil Rights and Voting Rights vision through congress, the opposition was heavily southern democratic and republican. But who cares about facts, huh?
UPDATED:
By party
The original House version:[9]
Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%)
Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)
Cloture in the Senate:[10]
Democratic Party: 44-23 (66%-34%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)
The Senate version:[9]
Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:[9]
Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%)
Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%)
The vote count for the civil rights bill in the house and senate. Weren't even many republicans to mount ANY kind of opposition, and the democratic votes that went the other way were all "Dixiecrat" racists that eventually joined with the republican party. It's a ridiculous lie to say that the democrats, who had sixty-seven senate votes at the time civil rights was passed, were "very little" help in passing it. Via Wikipedia.