Alabama Republican Legislators Sign Loyalty Oath?
January 3rd, 2006Hmmm, we saw this earlier today and wondered what to make of it. Sounds like a Bush-Rove-Delay move to force every Republican to march in lock-step with the neo-con right, or face all kinds of political and social wrath.
Republican legislative candidates who began qualifying Tuesday had to sign a “first-of-its-kind pledge” to support the choices of the House and Senate Republican caucuses for leadership positions in the new Legislature, according to the Associated Press.
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Rep. Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, said he’s unsure if Republicans will pick up the 11 House seats they need to gain a majority in the lower chamber. But even if they don’t, they can have an impact on the next leadership and the next rules by voting as a bloc, he said.
Reminds me of the Wallace days - and a certain reich in a certain European country.
Read the full AP story, before it comes out in Wednesday’s newspapers…
Tags: Alabama Legislature
January 4th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
You know what else this is reminiscent of besides the third reich?
The loyalty oaths of the McCarthyism witch hunts in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The most prominent use of loyalty oaths in the United States was during the decades of 1950 and 1960. The Red Scare during
the McCarthyism period in which Congressional hearings of Senator Joseph McCarthy helped to sustain a national mood of concern about communist agents.