This Is What Inspires Barack Obama: Running From Your Job and Subverting Democracy
Bob Hoge
4–5 minutes
As we’ve reported, Texas Democrat lawmakers fled the state in order to block a quorum to prevent voting on a redistricting measure. I’m pretty sure this type of action was not covered in former President John F. Kennedy’s 1955 influential tome, “Profiles in Courage.”
But to a more recent former president, this kind of anti-Democratic action is somehow uplifting:
Former President Barack Obama praised a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers for fleeing their state to stop a vote on a redistricting bill, calling their actions "inspiring," according to reporting.
Texas state Rep. Gene Wu, who is chairman of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, posted on X on Thursday, thanking the former president for meeting with the lawmakers via Zoom.
Wu said the Democrats were "encouraged" by Obama’s words and "remain committed to fighting for democracy, in Texas & across the country."
This is what Barack Obama is proud of—"work that they’ve done.” Meaning, abandoning their jobs and running off to other states in a panic. Or, “we’re all for subverting democracy to ‘save democracy.’”
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