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Rep. John Conyers Calls For ‘Thousands Of People’ Protest In Front Of White House

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Michigan’s Rep. John Conyers (D) is loudly voicing his disappointment with the White House’s handling of the debt negotiations, and is calling on Americans to join him in making their dissatisfaction known.

At a press conference organized by members of the “House Out of Poverty Caucus,” Conyers encouraged those who agreed with him to march on Washington in protest of Barack Obama‘s additions to the debt ceiling deal and in order to “educate” the President:

I say that we’ve got to educate the American people at the same time we educate the President of the United States. Because the Republicans, Speaker Boehner or Majority Leader Cantor did not call for Social Security cuts in the budget deal. The President of the United States called for that. My response to him is to mass thousands of people in front of the White House to protest this.

An increasingly impassioned Conyers then asked “Will someone please tell me what date they have in mind to let America be America again?,” noting that what he wanted was full employment for Americans as a “matter of government policy.”

Have a look at Conyers’ speech:

h/t FoxNews.com

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6818447 Arjan Singh

    Saying something negative about Obama. That’s Racist

  • Anonymous

    I’m in, Rep Conyers! Where do I go to get on the bus?

  • Anonymous

    Cornell West isn’t going to do it.

    http://tinyurl.com/3cu5t9d

  • Rftwilliams

    Let’s get this movement moving.  I’m with Congressman Conyers 100%!!!  Charter the buses and let’s get moving.

  • Harry Flashman

    Does this mean he’ll miss visitation at the west Virginia federal prison where his wife is, um, vacationing? Because family is the most important thing you know.

    Of course, he didn’t know anything about what she was doing.

    Did he?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    The White House got the Republicans to agree to increase the debt by 9 trillion over ten years instead of 10 trillion.  What a travesty.

  • Harry Flashman

    That’s nice. Such enthusiasm. But…you don’t think Conyers is going to be on a bus, do you? That’s for peasants, not the liberal elites.

    But, hey, you out there in liberal zombieland need not worry. They’ll tell you what to do next.

    And which bus to get on.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not going unless I get a free meal.

  • Ralph-NY

    Right after I hit the pool today I’ll swing bye.

  • Anonymous

    This guy is a perfect example of Democrat policies and their consequences, all ya gotta do is look at his state and the city of Detroit in particular.

  • LJB57

    Obama’s gotta go, he’s a monumental LOSER!
    (Even dumb-ass liberals are turning against this imbecile)

  • Anonymous

    dumbass trailer park repukes like you may not want to jump on the cornel west bandwagon too fast, you may find that you violently disagree with what he says like this:

    “The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they simply want what most people want, to be judged by the quality of their skills, not by the color of their skin. But the black conservatives overlook the fact that affirmative action policies were political responses to the pervasive refusal of most white Americans to judge black Americans on that basis.” — Cornel West (Race Matters)  

    Or This:

    “White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples.” — Cornel West

    I dont think Mr West likes your ilk much…he despises white folks…youre better off dealing with me…Mr West, if he caught a stupid ass hobbit like you on his property would put a hot one in ya sorry ass 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    It’s because Obama is no liberal and the teabaggers don’t care what he is or was, they were gonna hate him anyway. Now his base is turning against him because he gives the Republicans everything they want, all the time. Hope he gets wise before the election and tries being a liberal for once, he might see that that is the thing that actually works.

  • Anonymous

    Conyers has every right to do this. I don’t understand why anyone would want to be identified as a follower of Conyers, but it’s their Constitutional right to look foolish.

    I think by “educate” the President, Conyers means to drag him back down into the entitlement fold.

    Besides, I think it would be fun to watch a parade of parasites. Their loathsome behavior always makes for interesting headlines in the blogs. Of course the MSM won’t cover it in full context.

  • SNAPTIE

    Hey John Boy: Now that your “Old Lady” is locked Up for Fraud & Corruption? What are the chances we get to see her on MSDNC’s Weekend Prison series.?

  • Anonymous

    How long do you suppose it will be until the Black Caucus and Al Sharpton call Obama a “white man”?

  • Harry Flashman

    Heh.

  • Anonymous

    Say….isn’t his wife Monica doing a three year stretch in prison for taking bribes to award a billion dollar sludge contract…..?

    http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/04/19/Monica-Conyers-seeks-release-from-prison/UPI-45911303242910/

  • Anonymous

    Liberal policies really helped Detroit. (and every other major urban cesspool, hell they’re all dem stronholds)

  • James

    E-D-J-U-M-A-C-A-T-E.
    edjumacate

  • Anonymous

    The poverty pimp John Conyer’s is 82 years old. Democrats–party of the young–LOL.

  • Anonymous

    So, are we all trailer park trash or rich white guys on wall street? You gotta get your talking points straight boy!

  • Anonymous

    Only the unemployed “gimme folks” will show up.

  • Anonymous

    “White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them.”

    That’s why you call the president the H.N.I.C, right? No degradation of his body color there, right?

    West describes o’bama this way: “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of
    corporate plutocrats. And now he has become head of the American killing
    machine and is proud of it.” Dr. West’s comments would be
    excusable coming from a radical extremist intent on widening the racial
    divide between the president and African Americans, but West is an
    intelligent professor who should know better than to invoke the race
    card just because Obama is not president to Black Americans exclusively.

    Hobbit the new “it” word now?

  • Anonymous

    Ray Nagin got some slightly used busses for rent….

  • Darealistntx

    Let the whole govt blame everything on one man.  Members of Congress, you are the legislators and have chosen leaders within your chambers. You seem to forget that you were elected officials as well and have obligations to do your job and legislate.  To toss all the blame over the POTUS, whether it be Obama, Bush, Clinton or those to come is completely counterproductive. If the POTUS says lets raise the debt ceiling with nothing on it, when Congress did you not fight to do that??  Democrats where is your fight as well?? U leave him in the balance standing alone fighting your colleagues over there in Capitol. You let Freshman members of Congress hijack the whole system and that goes for both sides. So yeah, if I decide to go to Washington to protest, it will NOT be at 1600 Pensylvania Ave, but it will be Capitol Hill.  But thats after I find some time for vacation because most of us do all the work that it once took 4 people to do.

  • Anonymous

    What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
    *Democrat leadership.*

    *Detroit**, MI**, (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected Republican mayor since 1961,** *

    *Buffalo**, NY** (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;** *

    * Cincinnati **, OH** (3rd)… since 1984;** *

    * Cleveland **, OH** (4th)… since 1989;*

    * Miami **, FL** (5th) has never had a Republican Mayor;*

    * St. Louis **, MO** (6th)…. since 1949;*

    * El Paso **, TX** (7th) has never had a Republican Mayor;** *

    * Milwaukee **, WI** (8th)… since 1908;** *

    * Philadelphia **, PA** (9th)… since 1952;** *

    * Newark **, NJ**(10th)… since 1907.** *

    Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” *

    *It is the disadvantaged who habitually elect Democrats – yet remain disadvantaged.” *

  • Anonymous

    And the poor…

  • Holistic

    Old man Conyers, still looking for his reparations. This man is sad!

  • Anonymous

    It’s hilarious. It’s all documented and plain as day but these cesspools will vote demo forever and ever…The dems give them their booze & cigs & crack and it just stays the same forever.

  • Anonymous

    By “hijack” you mean that the Freshmen who are standing on the principles that got them elected, and were sent to Washington DC to do on behalf of those whom elected them? That is called, what you wrote in your post: “(NOT) forget(ting) that you were elected officials as well and have obligations to do your job and legislate.”  They were elected to legislate the will of those who elected them.

    Who said this in 2006?

    “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt
    limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government
    can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial
    assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal
    policies. … Increasing America’s
    debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the
    buck stops here’. Instead, Washington
    is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and
    grandchildren. America
    has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

    Yup. The current POTUS who threatened social security, VA, and civil servants.

  • GoNavy

    Easy now USMC, facts like these can be explained….it’s Bush’s fault.  LOL!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    Calling Al Sharpton…. Your country needs you more than ever !1!!!!

  • GoNavy
  • progressive_hunter

    He’s busy filing taxes

  • Anonymous

    Cornel West is a racist and a jackass, like you.

  • Anonymous

    Just ONE more debt limit raise… and I’ll stop….. I promise. I can stop any time I want…

    Carter, after defeating Ted Kennedy
    for the Democratic nomination, attacked Reagan as a dangerous
    right-wing radical. For his part, Reagan, the former Governor of
    California, repeatedly ridiculed Carter, and won a decisive victory; in
    the simultaneous Congressional elections, Republicans won control of the
    United States Senate for the first time in 28 years. This election marked the beginning of what is popularly called the “Reagan Revolution.”

    Sound familiar? All this “bagger” “hobbit” talk here, and initiated by the left wing politicians, is going to lead the republican presidential candidate to do to o’bama what “Ray-gun” did to o’carter.

    Why isn’t the left screaming about gas prices as “Big Oil” is sill “screwing” America? Thought o’bama would stop “Big Oil” in its tracks? Although he has unemployed may oil workers…

  • Anonymous

    I see no reason why Tea Party folks shouldn’t take an opportunity to come together on things we agree about. Obama sucks!

  • Anonymous

    And interviewing “rape” victims… And running the white interlopers out da’ hood.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-J-Robb/636524442 Stephen J. Robb

    First…Let me say this about John Conyers:
    ROFLMAO!!!
    Now….John….Make sure the placards fgor your 40 or so protesters say “WE  MISS BUSH…HE WAS A LEADER”.
    Amerika will be America again when Obama….ALL the Dems…(including YOU…John) and the RINOS are all history.
    Tea Party Patriots RULE!!!

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure they’re dried out by now.

  • Anonymous

    Now that’s some funny chit from John CONyers. Maybe he can get his wife Monica sprung from jail on a weekend pass to join the festivities. His son can drive folks in daddy’s government paid for Cadillac escallade. Of course daddy has already had TP pay for hisson using the car for his personal gain. Just another government lifer representing the fools from Michigan who keep putting him back in office.

  • http://twitter.com/kalifani6 kalifani6

    Shut the fuck up retard.

  • Dflojak

    Just check who’s driving the bus, and all you white folk step to the rear.

  • Jerry Baustian

    In the second presidential debate in 2008, Senator Obama promised entitlement reform in the first two years of his administration, or at any rate by the end of his first term; he said Social Security and Medicare could not survive without reform.

    Will the president now begin to work harder to achieve this campaign promise?

  • http://twitter.com/kalifani6 kalifani6

    I’m with you for the most part but, Dr.West doesn’t “hate white people”. Dissecting and disseminating the truth about racism, does not mean that he is racist himself.
    Passionate yes.
    Tethered by cyclical thinking he is not.

  • Dflojak

    Look, USMC, just because these elected officials have actually done what they were elected for is no reason not to denigrate and name call them. The truth is, I have actually heard the likes of tom Brokaw today compliment the teaparty for sticking to their guns and doing what they said they were going to do. Kind of refreshing, don’t ya think.

  • Dflojak

    Look, USMC, just because these elected officials have actually done what they were elected for is no reason not to denigrate and name call them. The truth is, I have actually heard the likes of tom Brokaw today compliment the teaparty for sticking to their guns and doing what they said they were going to do. Kind of refreshing, don’t ya think.

  • http://twitter.com/kalifani6 kalifani6

    Lol! x]

    Stick with the actual subject matter —-and not imaginary insults, boy.

    Got that, BOY?

    Now go tell yer momma to have my dinner ready when I by the time I get home! That dumb bitch lazy.

  • Anonymous

    I’m saying that there is so much ideology and not enough reality in DC…on both sides. Yes, we all have goals and visions of how we think the govt should run and operate, but we also have to look at the reality of the situation (s).  And those members of Congress elected on principles are also expected to govern.  I look at them on cable news (I watch all the networks and also try to read/listen to their WHOLE comments on the web) and it’s frustrating to hear these people run down talking points and ignore questions. You cannot just sit back and not listen to reason, facts, and logical debates, especially in a country where we have two parties.  There has to be give and take on both sides.  So if someone is only going to say no because they want this president to fail or dont agree with his policies, they arent serving this nation very well in my opinion.  This president has done an extreme amount of “compromising” and giving in to the other side when he is not getting much of anything in return.  If the POTUS fails, we fail. Regardless of what side of the aisle we’re on, we have debt that needs to be paid, we have the deficit spending that needs to be reduced, and we also need revenues to be raised. And in time once things are balanced, we can review whats on the table. It can’t be one sided and pointing fingers.  It should be more along the lines, “we tried this, but it didnt work…so let’s try another approach.”Thats what frustrating about Washington.  I know each side has their sacred cows but if we are going to move forward as a nation, were have to be realistic and take some hits.  I would rather you try something than to do nothing out of fear for losing political points. But that can be asking too much for a politicians.

    And by the way, I’m assuming USMC is for the US Marine Corps.  I want to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for our nation.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, Obama twice told the public to call their congressmen, so a lot of us did. HOWEVER, we called them to tell them NOT to negotiate with Obama! Whoops! Be careful what you wish for, Barry (and Conyers, too).

  • Anonymous

    Good one!

  • Anonymous

    And a t-shirt!

  • Anonymous

    He’s (Sharpton) got a payroll job now, so the IRS will be garnishing his back taxes here shortly, ha!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ramer-Biggs/100001904853902 Ramer Biggs

    im white and i think Cornel West is a great man.he stands up for the poor.and not a shill for the wealthy.unlike you pablo.

  • Anonymous

    Cornell West is a bigot and a race baiting pimp. People like him keep hate alive.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ramer-Biggs/100001904853902 Ramer Biggs

    why dont all you repubs grow a conscience.and care for people.stop being a schill for the wealthy.

  • Anonymous

    What has he done for the poor lately? Does he give his time and money to shelters or does he simply rail against the whitey? Does he go into poor black neighborhoods and try to help change the culture or does he simply rail against whitey?

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget the leeches and parasites.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6818447 Arjan Singh

    Clearly you think I’m retarded because I’m the evil white devil with a name like Arjan Singh.

    Very mature response. Simply pointing out the hypocrisy. It always one side that injects race into the debate, and in this case I would like to see that same side label Rep. Conyers a racist for criticizing the President.

  • Wake up America

    All this was a plot by Obama and his thugs to set the Republicans up. He wants to put the economy on their backs. He destroys it and now he wants to hand it over. Obama is the great manipulated. Everything he does is to get reelected. He has been a disaster for this nation! He makes the mess and he wants somebody else to clean it up. The Dems are making it look like theyre irate with Obama. This is all an act to get the independents to think that Obama has gone to the right. The Dems will votefoe him no matter what. So they are painting the picture like they’re resale mad at him. All part of the plot!

  • Anonymous

    You going hungry, foo.

  • Anonymous

    What does he actually do, other than run his fat mouth? Do you agree with him that Obama is a terrorist?

  • Anonymous

    I care for people. I don’t care for this government. It’s hard to find anyone who does that isn’t collecting a check from it.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    This cat Conyers has been a Congressman for 46 years . When is enough enough ?

    Go mow your lawn , Conyers . Take 56year Congressman Dingell with you .

  • Anonymous

    Imagine the hysteria of the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist extremists if there were a bill that ACTUALLY CUT BIG GOVERNMENT SPENDING, instead of the establishment sham that is up for a vote in CONgress !!! Then the d-cRAT socialists would get their dream – America becomes Greece.

  • Resident of 0bomberVille

    Corruption and bad governance has a face, and that face is Conyers’

    -Save America – Nuke DC-

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_35AXYSN5OZ6XMDCUX2TNPIPZQE Andre Thompson

    Thank you Mr. Conyers – a true modern day patriot and modern day patriarch of the United States of America.

    I am with you.

  • Anonymous

    Pppplllllffffff!

  • Anonymous

    Yes, it always makes you wonder about the intelligence of these morons’ constituents. Their average IQ is probably about high as his, i.e., barely double digits.

  • Anonymous

    This was the guy who ridiculed the idea of reading a congressional bill before voting on it because it would be too time-consuming.

  • Anonymous

    And you can add the Levin brothers, Frick and frack to the list.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=621836715 Kevin Schmidt

    John Conyers said the most intelligent thing I’ve heard come out of Washington in a long time, “Protest in front of the White House.”

    That is why it was easy to guess a bunch of trolls would hijack the comment sections and turn it into a schoolyard mud ball battle to distract everyone from talking about the issue of protesting in front of the White House.

    We have to end the Gilded Fascist Elite’s control of the White House and Congress, not to mention the Supreme Court, the Pentagon, and just about every state legislature in the country!

    Bring Wisconsin to Washington TODAY!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=621836715 Kevin Schmidt

    John Conyers said the most intelligent thing I’ve heard come out of
    Washington in a long time, “Protest in front of the White House.”

    That is why it was easy to guess a bunch of trolls would hijack the comment sections and turn it into a schoolyard mud ball battle to distract everyone from talking about the issue of protesting in front of the White House.

    We have to end the Gilded Fascist Elite’s control of the White House and Congress, not to mention the Supreme Court, the Pentagon, and just about every state legislature in the country!

    Bring Wisconsin to Washington TODAY!!!

  • Republicans are Liars

    Here let me spell it out for you BOY. The foot soldiers of the Tea Idiots are the trailer park trash. The puppet masters are the Koch brothers of the world, Wall Street and Big Business. The problem was the Tea Idiots almost pull one over on their puppet masters by taking down the entire economy. It might have taught Wall Street a lesson that dealing with idiots can have its down side.

  • Republicans are Liars

    You know you spend do much time here if I was your boss I would be
    wondering just what in the hell are you doing for your job? I guess you
    are just wasting tax payers money. You aren’t trying to solve the
    problem, you are the problem. Go to work. Quit wasting my tax dollars. Nobody wants to hear your opinion, You are suppose to be recruiting soldiers. Go do your job.

  • Anonymous

    >> Bring Wisconsin to Washington TODAY!!!

    Yes, bring Wisconsin to Washington! That will do the trick! Because America just loved to watch all those screaming and yelling little babies…oops, I mean protestors…each night.

    P.S.: since you’re coming from Wisconsin, also remember to wear your cheese hats!
    Because those REALLY help to make any protest look more entertaining on TV!

  • Anonymous

    Well, there’s a reason this guy keeps getting reelected. Conyers’ district is populated by the overflow of morons who couldn’t move into Charlie Rangel’s neighborhood…!

  • WardMD

    For ONCE, I AGREE with Rep. John Conyers!  Obama REALLY F’ed this Debt Ceiling deal up!  In fact, EVERYTHING Obama DOES turns to CRAP!

  • RDD
  • Pjackson

    You are and idiot. Old people need to get that monthly check. Thank you President Obama for being the person with the bigger heart.Dems and Reps make over $150,000.00  a yr that are sitting in Washington . They can wait for a hold out but my mother can not. Go to hell anyone who disagrees with his decision.  His hands were tied. He still not the worst Pres. It was Busch Number 2. Thats why he does not talk. Obama is for the people not just blacks. Put a Mexican in office and blacks,whites and any other race will be screwed. They favor there own even it they are not qualified for the job.

  • Pjackson

    You stupid unless you and all your family are rich.  SSI checks might have been stopped. Old people cant afford that.  Obama is very smart. He new not to depend on idiots like you for support.  He was the better person in this deal.  Why is america against one man?  They just want someone to blame.  You check to see if in your family you dont have elderly person that was not worried about this issue. I wish we could send them to your house for a month.

  • Pjackson

    I really wish he would not run again. They cant take the fact that he won the Pres from him.  He should just stop and relax. F the american people,black and white. I have never none a man that love this country more than him. This country does still have a long way to go.

  • Pjackson

    Never you dooky.  Obama is not just for black people but for all people.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-J-Robb/636524442 Stephen J. Robb

    Conyers is just a remindert of how important it is that we take out the trash in 2012.
    Like we need a reminder with Beelzobama on TV every day.

  • OH

    In your dreams – rich guys

    In reality – trailer park

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