GOPer Racism Roundup

GOPer pols are so overtly racist so much of the time that noting each instance is beyond a poor unpaid blogger's resources or patience.  But Senator Tom Coburn at a town hall on Thursday made a number of outrageous and near-crazed comments, including a classic of GOPer racism that appeals to their racist base with a characteristic line of argument: blacks like Obama get all the benefit from "dependency" on government programs.

This is a dog-whistle reminder that the black President must be channeling government billions to fellow blacks, which is the usually unstated substructure of the "anti-government" argument.  (I'm sure the White House didn't fail to notice that this emerged the same day as stories and statements saying that Obama hasn't done enough for black Americans, who are twice as likely to be unemployed as the population in general.)

 It's also behind the frequent charges that Obama is not up to the job, which more than implies that he got ahead not because of intelligence or hard work but because of Affirmative Action. 

But while we're at, in case you missed them here are a couple of other recent GOPer racism examples:  a GOPer member of Congress who referred to President Obama as a "tar baby," and a commentator referring to him as "boy" (although Pat Buchanan's analogy was unfortunate, it could well have been just insensitive to the language he was using.)  All of these are followed by apologies and offstage winks.