To: conservative98
It’s just too bad canes aren’t allowed on the
house floor any more.
7 posted on
01/17/2019 2:31:00 PM PST by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
It’s just too bad canes aren’t allowed on the
house floor any more.
Sadly few will understand the reference
28 posted on
01/17/2019 2:48:51 PM PST by
CIB-173RDABN
(I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
To: tet68
Steny would look good in a cane.
To: tet68
Most famously, in 1856, Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina caned Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts on the Senate floor so brutally that Sumner had to be virtually carried from the chamber — and did not retake his seat for three years. Clearly, wielded with brute force, a cane could be a potent weapon.
44 posted on
01/17/2019 3:03:28 PM PST by
Evil Slayer
((Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war....))
To: tet68
Good point. I got the historical reference.
63 posted on
01/17/2019 3:24:57 PM PST by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: tet68
While the caning was done by a house member, the one caned was a senator and the caning took place in the senate, IIRC
90 posted on
01/17/2019 4:44:11 PM PST by
Hieronymus
((It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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