Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) used an look on Martin Bashir‘s MSNBC show Friday to criticize Republicans for their “intransigence” on the Inexpensive Care Act. However she did it in a unique means: by way of equating the brand new-day GOP with Southern Democrats all over the Civil Rights Motion.

Bashir started by way of asking Norton, in light of the fiftieth anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, how civil rights law would ever were ready to move ahead below as of late’s congressional prerequisites. As a substitute of allowing a vote on immigration reform, Bashir mentioned, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) “spends his time at his laptop mocking” Obamacare “when we’ve got 47 million individuals in this us of a who don’t have medical insurance, we now have over eleven million undocumented immigrants on this us of a.”

Norton indulged Bashir’s line of questioning, while on the related time reminding him that issues weren’t so excellent back in the Nineteen Sixties, and that then it used to be frequently Democrats standing in the way of trade on civil rights considerations. “The intransigence of Republicans nowadays, in particular over issues that may be easily settled,” she said, “jogs my memory of the intransigence of the Southern Democrats, who refused to move on civil rights unless they had to.”

She credited the 1963 March on Washington as no longer handiest “raising the hopes of Americans far and wide the united states of america” but in addition forcing these Southern Democrats to take motion on civil rights. “Most effective three months later,” she recalled, “John F. Kennedy was lifeless.”

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