BREAKING: Senate Republicans Make History, First To Filibuster Defense Secretary Nominee

TONEY ATKINS comments: I will never vote for another Republican, and I have already lost some friends who belong to the party, or I've simply drifted away from their closed-minded, ignorant and racist thinking and attitudes. We have a BLACK president. Yes, he is BLACK, BLACK, BLACK! Too many of their words, too many of their actions, too much of their obstructionism is plain to the not-so-dumb that Republicans in government are still trying to destroy the historic nation's first black president and attempting to make his every effort unsuccessful. This is a real shame. Republicans are showing their true faces: they are hateful liars who claim to have the best interests of the nation at heart, but they don't. No other president in my memory has been treated with the venom that has been spat President Obama's direction, and I admire him for standing tall and firm. He has accomplished much, and more could be done to benefit U.S. citizens if Republicans could put their racism aside, look at reality and what the American people want, and work in a bipartisan way to make things happen. Fox News perpetuates and sometimes provokes lies about the president and his administration and his goals. Most Americans don't keep up with politics and therefore are not aware of the dirty dealings that are going on in Washington, on conservative radio and Republican-supporter Fox News. Unnecessary falsehoods, outright lies and fears are spread, and the ordinary man believes those fallacies more than the truth because those in higher powers know they can control what people know and believe. If Obama were white, the situation in Washington, DC, might be completely different. Now it's almost completely disfunctional, and that is sad. How other countries look at us today must be much different than we did in the past when we behaved like a superpower. Maybe we will rise to the top again, but only if these extremist Republicans calm down, accept the fact that in this nation "all men are created equal"; if these people can be colorblind where the president is concerned and work WITH, not AGAINST, the black man that the majority of Americans voted to be president. The latest Republican foolishness is seen in the following Think Progress.org report:

BREAKING: Senate Republicans Make History, First To Filibuster Defense Secretary Nominee: pSenate Republicans today chose to uphold a filibuster against Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel, despite many of them previously pledging that they would be willing to allow him to be confirmed. Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and John Cornyn (R-TX) all voted against cloture, despite their pleas during the Bush administration that [...]/p