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Dems block Senate resolution honoring Margaret Thatcher
American Thinker ^ | 04/12/2013 | Rick Moran

Posted on 04/12/2013 7:04:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

This is beyond petty. It is ignorant. A hold has been placed on a resolution honoring Margaret Thatcher in the Senate which, as Katherine Rosario explains, is an insult:

"A Senate resolution to honor Lady Thatcher was supposed to pass last night. However, per well placed sources on the Hill, Democrats have a hold on the resolution. To refuse to honor a woman of such great historical and political significance, who was deeply loyal to the United States, is petty and shameful. One truly has to wonder, what is it about Lady Thatcher that gives them pause? Her unfaltering commitment to freedom? Or perhaps the way she fought for individual liberty and limited government?

The House used traditional bereavement procedures, the same model they used for John F. Kennedy. It's a simple, solemn means of honoring the individual by passing a resolution and immediately adjourning. Similarly, Great Britain's House of Commons was recalled, bringing members of Parliament back from vacation to honor Lady Thatcher.

Those actions were a fitting response to the death of one of the world's greatest post-World War II leaders."

Do the Democrats believe they can alter history by ignoring it? Evidently, yes. The Democrats' action in refusing to allow the resolution to come to the floor, and then adjourning as sign of respect for the dead, is loutish behavior.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: democrats; senateresolution; thatcher
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To: SeekAndFind

When Ondinga sent back the bust of Winston Churchill to Great Britian...the handwriting was on the wall.


21 posted on 04/12/2013 8:10:04 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Sans-Culotte

Ditto and they’re the enemy within.

I have NOTHING in common with them.

NO shared values.

They celebrate a pagan, commercial Christmas.


22 posted on 04/12/2013 8:10:31 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
..the handwriting was on the wall.


23 posted on 04/12/2013 8:11:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Moron... if it was Che... they would let the bill pass!! Marxists!!


24 posted on 04/12/2013 8:26:46 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen
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To: ExCTCitizen

Just wait until Mandela dies......they’ll probably order the flags to go half staff.


25 posted on 04/12/2013 8:29:03 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Dem hate anything that is tied to honor.


26 posted on 04/12/2013 10:07:38 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: dfwgator

...and will Clinton dies the staffs & poles will go to half-erect...


27 posted on 04/12/2013 11:22:34 AM PDT by MSF BU (n)
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“Just wait until Mandela dies......they’ll probably order the flags to go half staff.”

Or Castro.


28 posted on 04/12/2013 11:27:41 AM PDT by NorthernCrunchyCon (Rand/Rubio for some R&R from change.)
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To: C210N

That was a statement attributed to Margaret Thatcher (as I’m sure you knew).


29 posted on 04/13/2013 6:41:21 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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