John Boehner is worried that Democrats are "snuffing out" the America he grew up in. You know, the America where we had different drinking fountains for white folks and black folks. The America in which women were expected to be nurses and stewardesses instead of doctors and pilots. The America in which gay people shut up, hid themselves, and silently committed suicide when they became too old to hide it. This is what's underlying the ongoing GOP assault on Thurgood Marshall at Kagan's confirmation hearings. They long for an America that was once racist, sexist and homophobic. We already knew this, but it's rather remarkable to hear them admit it.
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