<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>In keeping with the GOP's sense of diversity, I recommend they adopt the following slogan . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Black is beautiful. Tan is grand. </div><div>But white is the color of the boss man."<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div></div><div><br>On Nov 28, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span>Here are the 19 House committee chairs</span><br><span></span><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><republican-leaders.jpg></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Notice anything that they all have in common?</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span>Courtesy of People's World at:</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://peoplesworld.org/new-house-committee-chairs-reflect-gop-s-concept-of-diversity/">http://peoplesworld.org/new-house-committee-chairs-reflect-gop-s-concept-of-diversity/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><image.jpeg></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WASHINGTON - Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, demonstrated the difficulty his party has with the concept of diversity yesterday when he announced the names of the 19 people who will chair all of the major committees in the new Congress.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They are all white men and most of them are millionaires.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rep, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the defeated vice presidential candidate, will continue to chair the powerful House budget committee, despite having exhausted the six-year term limit. The GOP lifted the rules to allow him to continue in that post.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They did not change the rules however when it came to a woman. The one female chair that House Republicans have, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, has to step down because her term is up.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The failure to include even a single woman or member of a minority group surprised many in the Capitol here who noted they would have expected something different from a Republican Party that had just been so soundly rejected by women and minority voters.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"One would think House Republicans would learn from their mistakes," a senior Democratic aide told the Huffington Post. "But they elected a roster of committee chairs that represent their ranks: old white men."</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Democrats have not yet announced who will be the ranking members of their party on each of the 19 House committees but at least nine or 10 of the 19 are expected to be women, African American or Latino.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Either Reps. Nita Lowey nor Marcy Kaptur, Democrats of N.Y and Ohio respectively, is slated to take the most powerful Democratic House Committee post on the Appropriations Committee.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.), an African American, will take over as the ranking Democrat on Financial Services with Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who is also African-American, maintaining his top slot on the Judiciary Committee.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------<br><span></span><span></span><br><span>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</span><br><span></span><br><span>"Moscow Cares"</span><br><span><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Tom Hansen</span><br><span>Moscow, Idaho</span><br></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span></div></blockquote></body></html>