Huh What Now?

Did anyone even know that Lurita Doan was black until Congressional Republicans decided to bring it up yesterday?

On a number of occasions, Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led his colleagues in accusing their Democratic counterparts of targeting Doan because she was a black woman and a Republican.

“You’re an African-American Republican so you’ve got a big bull’s eye on you,” Davis, the former chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said to Administrator Doan at one stage. […]

Davis wasn’t the only Republican member in the House hearing to make such an allegation. “You’re a Republican, a minority, and a woman, a GOP contributor, and they’ve targeted you, they’re circling you to come after you,” said Rep. John Mica (R-FL), who objected to the hearing at various occasions.

Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT) also said, “I find that when an African-American is a Republican, somehow, she is treated differently by Congress.”

Take a look at Lurita Doan:



She's black? Really? She looks like a 1950s astronaut's wife.

This really hits the bottom of the "how low can you go" meter. Doan violates the Hatch Act by using the General Services Administration to help elect Republican candidates, and the defense is "you're picking on her because she's black." Incredible.