ObamaCare is the Democrats' new Kansas-Nebraska Act

Grand Old Partisan ^ | September 27, 2010 | Michael Zak

[Michael Zak]

Has the Democratic Party ever enacted a law as atrocious as its government takeover of the American people’s healthcare? Has the Democratic Party ever enacted a law so unpopular? Yes and Yes.

In 1854, Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency. Their top priority was to repeal the Missouri Compromise prohibition of slavery in the northern territories. The author of this infamous legislation, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, was Stephen Douglas, a Democrat Senator from Illinois and owner of a slave plantation in Mississippi.

Senator Douglas claimed the law would be a final solution to the slavery question, so that Congress could move on to other issues. In fact, the Kansas-Nebraska Act sparked a political firestorm...

[jessduntno]

“Most neo-Confederate loons on Free Republic are Democrat operatives, trolling to discredit conservatives.”

Hahahahahaha ... ALL the GOP lackeys like you that are helping to develop the “New Southern Strategy” for Mike Steele are bottom feeders who don’t know what Conservatism is.

[jessduntno]

You forgot to include “Mommy” on your ping list ...

[jessduntno]

“Still it should be remembered that Stephen Douglas was a slaveholder and had no problem with his Kansas-Nebraska Act extending slavery throughout the West.”

So, in other words, he was much like US Grant, who lived on a small “gift” of a farm on the grounds of a plantation owned by his wife’s family and oversaw (when he was sober) his wife’s plantation and slaves at White Haven for several years until he moved to a free state, at which time he sold his “boy” and went to IL? Do you think Grant “had no problem” with slavery at that time? Or does the suggestion that the corruption of slavery is only relevant when it suits your purposes?