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Pelosi wants Confederate statues out of Capitol
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Posted on 08/17/2017 9:58:22 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Pelosi wants Confederate statues out of Capitol

By Mike Lillis - 08/17/17 12:25 PM EDT

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday joined the growing chorus of Democrats calling for the removal of Confederate statues from the Capitol.

Calling the monuments a “reprehensible” symbol of a racist era, Pelosi urged Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and other GOP leaders to support an effort to purge the statues from the building.

“There is no room for celebrating the violent bigotry of the men of the Confederacy in the hallowed halls of the United States Capitol or in places of honor across the country,” Pelosi said in a statement.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; dixie; liberalfascism; pelosi; purge; speakerryan; statues; uscapitol
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To: Sub-Driver

The libs were in power there for decades and walked right by them daily.

They are trying to get repubs to own democrats racist pasts.


81 posted on 08/17/2017 6:30:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Sub-Driver

She also makes it about men.

Unbelievable undead shrew of a slag.


82 posted on 08/17/2017 6:32:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: socialism_stinX

Yes. And by logic if the entire Confederate history is to be expunged it seems logical to remove all states that were confederate.


83 posted on 08/17/2017 6:43:28 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (proawakileftist)
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To: Sub-Driver; 2ndDivisionVet; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; Clintonfatigued; AuH2ORepublican

plenty of statues in the capitol of those in the North who were pro-slavery and fought the Abolitionists for every inch on slavery.

California supported pro-slave Buchanan in the 1856 election over Republican Fremont.

Maryland voted for Filmore. It was a slave state. Nancy is from Baltimore. One of their statues is a slavery man.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8291654

The other one is Charles Carroll
In 1828, aged 91, he served as president of the Auxiliary State Colonization Society of Maryland,[23] the Maryland branch of the American Colonization Society, an organization dedicated to returning black Americans to lead free lives in African states such as Liberia.

that is RACIST


84 posted on 08/17/2017 7:24:23 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ))
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To: Sub-Driver

Don’t be a follower.. be a leader.

The only man who is acting like a leader is Trump...

pelosi .... the dems are followers... monkey see monkey do...
and the repubs....
They want more of what they see the illiterates are doing. Never had an original idea on their own... right down the path to destruction.

To be a leader, you have to get it in the head that you will be different than the crowd... you will always be different... don’t follow.. lead!


85 posted on 08/17/2017 7:38:54 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: wiggen

Democrats WERE the KKK when the KKK was real and had power and hurt people. Democrats were the White Citizens Council when the ‘Council’ had power in the South and damaged lives.

George Wallace who stood in the schoolhouse door to stop a black child from entering the School was a democrat.

So was Bull Conner...

And Hollings who brought back the Confederate Battle Flag to South Carolina in the 60’s as a way to ‘give the finger’ to ‘uppity negros’...

Yeah, I can see why democrats want to destroy that history. They were the slave owners and later the Jim Crow bullies...

Just like they’re bullies and liars in our time as they were back then.


86 posted on 08/17/2017 9:42:57 PM PDT by GOPJ (Start by tearing down statues ...burning books, and eventually you go after people - John Davidson)
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To: Sub-Driver

Gonna have to get rid of the name, “Democratic Party,” since they were slave owners who aggressively promoted slavery.


87 posted on 08/17/2017 9:46:02 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: DouglasKC
Give an inch, they’ll take a mile.

No...it's "Give 'em and inch and they'll think they're a ruler." ;o)

88 posted on 08/17/2017 10:16:44 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Nancy can shove it up her wrinkled rancid -——.


89 posted on 08/17/2017 10:18:35 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Sub-Driver

This should be a perfect opportunity for Republicans. Hold hearings on which monuments should be removed. But don’t just include Confederates. Include every Dixiecrat who ever served and has his name on something. The Rayburn and Russell buildings. KKK Byrd. Every single one of them. Drag the Democrats Jim Crow history into view.


90 posted on 08/18/2017 6:13:00 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: DesertRhino
want to hear a plausible scenario where this doesn’t end in violence

There is one. And after watching people pee all over themselves Saturday onward it looks more and more likely.

We all, well enough of us, just go quietly into the world they have planned for us.

91 posted on 08/18/2017 9:23:16 AM PDT by riri
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To: Sub-Driver

Well, we want Pelosi out of the Capitol City!


92 posted on 08/18/2017 7:22:45 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: Taxman

We sure do. Nancy Pelosi showed once again her mean-spirited bigotry. Hey, Nancy, how about going for diversity, and allowing different viewpoints and a respect for history?


93 posted on 08/24/2017 3:18:52 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: apocalypto

Ms. Pelosi MOST CERTAINLY falls into the category of “venomous harridan!”

America and the world will be a whole lot better off after she exits the political stage, kicking and screaming, stage left.

Until then, we can continue to giggle while she MAKES A FOOL OF herself. She is a bat-shit crazy LIEberal VENOMOUS HARRIDAN who, IMHO, is driving rational people FAR, FAR AWAY FRom the Democrats!

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, NANCY!


94 posted on 08/24/2017 9:09:56 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Wonder when they’ll call for a ban on cotton.


95 posted on 08/24/2017 9:17:20 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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