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Boehner: Confederate Flag ‘Should Be Gone’ from National Cemeteries
Breitbart ^ | July 10, 2015 | Pam Key

Posted on 07/11/2015 7:27:47 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

In a preview clip from his interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) said there will be a debate about removing the Confederate flag from national cemeteries in Congress but in his opinion the flag “should be gone.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: boehner; confederate; flag; gope
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To: VeniVidiVici

Maybe they are...I’m not sure. If so, then it’s definitely a misguided solution searching desperately for a problem to solve.


41 posted on 07/11/2015 8:06:29 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Timber Rattler
This would be a good time to whip out a “lesser of two evils” ping list. Man! I'm sure glad Nancy Pelosi isn't Speaker!
42 posted on 07/11/2015 8:07:12 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: eeriegeno

Boehner flies under the white flag of surrender. It’s his flag of choice.


43 posted on 07/11/2015 8:07:19 PM PDT by flaglady47 (The useful idiots always go first)
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To: Timber Rattler

FUJB.


44 posted on 07/11/2015 8:09:32 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Timber Rattler
I was in Gettysburg last week for the first time and I was surprised that only a handful of marked graves exist there for the Confederate soldiers. Most CSA troops were thrown in shallow unmarked graves or temporarily buried and moved out a few years after burial. A handful are still there and should be honored with a CSA flag that they died fighting for.

As far as what that clown boner wants to do, I would not be concerned. He never accomplishes anything he publicly says he will get done.

45 posted on 07/11/2015 8:10:20 PM PDT by GregoTX (Remember the Alamo)
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To: FewsOrange

You HONOR the MEN who fought and died under that BANNER even if you don’t like the banner.
They were still AMERICANS.


46 posted on 07/11/2015 8:11:30 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Timber Rattler

Why is he spending time thinking about and commenting on this? They’ve got a d*** mess up there and THIS is what he concerns himself with? What a waste of our money.


47 posted on 07/11/2015 8:13:54 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: Milton Miteybad

I guess you didn’t get the memo, but the feckless GOP Congress critters are wanting to ban ALL Confederate flags from national cemeteries, including those small ones placed on Confederate soldiers’ graves, their families be damned.


48 posted on 07/11/2015 8:14:08 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Yes, they are.


49 posted on 07/11/2015 8:15:49 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Irenic

Post of the evening! (For me, at least.)


50 posted on 07/11/2015 8:16:32 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Timber Rattler

Oh, just go cry somewhere and leave us alone, Boehner.


51 posted on 07/11/2015 8:16:42 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
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To: Timber Rattler
Yes, they are.

I figured they were. Boehner can go to Hell.

52 posted on 07/11/2015 8:19:22 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (American Taliban - The Democratic Party)
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To: Timber Rattler

Has anyone asked any Confederate re-enactors their opinion about the flag opposition? You might get some language you haven’t yet heard plus a lot of actual American history in a lesson you won’t forget.

With this insane push, are re-enactments next to feel the spear of liberal aggression?


53 posted on 07/11/2015 8:23:07 PM PDT by varina davis (WHOEVER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS FOR 2016)
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To: Timber Rattler
The more he keeps his mouth SHUT, the smarter he becomes!!

And I Like him....

54 posted on 07/11/2015 8:27:02 PM PDT by terycarl (, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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To: Timber Rattler

Boehner, you gutless POS, kindly f*ck off!


55 posted on 07/11/2015 8:27:14 PM PDT by dadgum (Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
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To: Steelfish

“Reagan’s biggest mistake was to make Bush his VP.”

That’s what I thought the minute I heard Bush was his pick.


56 posted on 07/11/2015 8:28:02 PM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: pleasenotcalifornia
Reagan’s biggest mistake was to make Bush his VP.” That’s what I thought the minute I heard Bush was his pick.

wrong

57 posted on 07/11/2015 8:33:04 PM PDT by terycarl (, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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To: FewsOrange

“The flag that should fly in National cemetaries is the Stars and Stripes.”

Would it be ok to acknowledge the confederacy in, say, the Confederate Cemetery in Fredericksburg, VA?

Apparently not, because the National Park Service has removed that one and others from it’s website.

The NPS should immediately turn those cemeteries over to those who care about our national heritage, since they can’t seem to give a damn.

As for you, why do you think these cemeteries have been preserved for 150 years?

If American Soldiers that fought for the Confederacy cannot be acknowledged, then who will give a damn when the political winds turn against Arlington Cemetery? Think that’s far fetched? I don’t.


58 posted on 07/11/2015 8:36:30 PM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: Timber Rattler

Mr Boehner, could you please remind this simple voter... what kinds of regimes and leaders are the ones who seek to ban symbols, rewrite history, and force people to change their preferences to comply with the will of others? It’s been done many times in history. Please, take a moment, and let us know how just, how successful, and how peaceful these regimes were.


59 posted on 07/11/2015 8:37:22 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Army Air Corps

Too true.


60 posted on 07/11/2015 8:39:13 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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