They don't read the bills so why not judge without reading reviewing the evidence? - Granite Grok

They don’t read the bills so why not judge without reading reviewing the evidence?

Congressional Black CaucusThese are part of our highest level of lawmakers – the Congressional Black Caucus.  One would expect that they would take the time to do what we pay them for – read the bills before voting on them.  Fat chance of that happening if you have EVER read their remarks concerning one bill or another – some are simply clueless about them or on other things (like Congressman Hank “we’ll tip over Guam if we put more troops there” Johnson) like this (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Congressional Black Caucus denounces Ferguson grand jury

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Monday called the grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson a “slap in the face” for those seeking justice for the death of Michael Brown.  “The Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown is a miscarriage of justice,” CBC Chair Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) said in a statement released after the decision was announced late Monday evening in Missouri. “It is a slap in the face to Americans nationwide who continue to hope and believe that justice will prevail.”

The evidence given to the grand jury in Ferguson was just released today and somewhere I have bookmarked a post that says 60 witnesses and 4,900+ pages of testimony.  To my knowledge, there is no mechanism that automatically sends such evidence to black CongressCritters in cases where other blacks die in confrontations with whites (regardless of the circumstances) ahead of decisions.

Thus, when did CongressCritter Fudge have the time to read (or  even glimpse, glance, or scan) the evidence that the 12 jurors used in making their decisions?  Or (yes, I will go there) fudge her answer simply because of her title (a la Barbara “I spent years earning this title” Boxer)?  Or a case of racism on her part?  Or a hissy fit – it HAS to be RASCIST! or “a miscarriage of justice” simply because she and the other members of the CBC didn’t get the result they wanted.

Look, I am as partisan as the next; I want things to go the way I believe they should instead of the way that someone on the other side of the aisle wants.  Every single time.  But there is ideology and then there is evidence.  Too often, we see the former being placed far above the latter. As an engineer, I have to deal with facts all day long – either stuff works or doesn’t and I can’t say that it is when the evidence says it isn’t.

I just wish politics would work more like that and politicians acting more like engineers (who do have their own knockdown – drag outs as well) that when stuff says one thing, it cannot say the other.
“This decision seems to underscore an unwritten rule that Black lives hold no value; that you may kill Black men in this country without consequences or repercussions,” Fudge’s statement continued. “This is a frightening narrative for every parent and guardian of Black and brown children, and another setback for race relations in America.”

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