If You Get Arrested For Protesting Genocide, Shouldn’t You At Least Get A B+?
By Vince Leibowitz on Sep 3, 2006 in 2006 Texas Elections
The rankings by various special interest groups alternately amuse, mystify and startle me from time to time.
Take, for example, the rankings of the Genocide Intervention Network at DarfurScores.com.
Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), was the only one from Texas to get an “A,” and that’s great for Doggett (and, of course, an embarassment to most of the Republicans in the state’s congressional delegation.
My question, however, is:
“How did Doggett get an ‘A’ while Al Green (D-Houston) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston) both got arrested while protesting the Darfur genocide, and they only got a ‘B’ and a ‘C’ respectively?”
Of course, the rankings are based on resolutions signed onto and all of that. But, you’d think getting arrested at a protest would count for something. At least a B+…
Alas, two more victims of Charles Murry’s Bell Curve.