Posted on 06/18/2020 11:06:16 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Thursday blocked the Senate from passing a bill to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) tried to pass the bill by unanimous consent, which allows legislation to pass without a vote but also enables any one senator to block it.
The measure would remove statues of individuals who voluntarily served in the Confederacy from the Capitol.
Booker called keeping statues of Confederate figures in the Capitol a "painful, insulting, difficult injury."
"The continued presence of these statues in the halls is an affront to African Americans and the ideals of our nation," he added.
Schumer added that passing a bill to remove the statues would be one step toward confronting the "poison of racism."
"Candidly, I don't think it would be too imposing to ask our states not to send statues of people who actively fought against this country. You know, there is a reason that Connecticut doesn't send a statue of Benedict Arnold," Schumer said.
But Blunt objected, noting that Congress had an agreement with states and that he wanted time to consider giving the issue a hearing in the Rules Committee, which he chairs.
"I'd like to ... get the opinion of people who are taking similar statues out of the building. I'd also like to find out what other states have in mind as their part of this agreement," Blunt said.
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First they came for the Statues and I did not speak out because I was not a Southerner.
Then they came for the Police and I did not speak out because I was not Police.
Then they came for Republicans and I did not speak out because I was not a Republican.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Once mobs have power it's only a question of time...
That means remove Byrd, Gore Sr., Fulbright, and the rest of the racist Jackasses. And both Pres. Johnsons.
Long live our history!
Instead of taking all the Confederate soldier
statues down why not enhance toe historic record
by erecting statues that honor the slaves?
What the GOP idiots who support tearing down these monuments can't or won't acknowledge is that this isn't really about the Confederacy or the South, it's about attacking the evil "dead white males" who created western civilization, starting with the easy targets first. Now emboldened, they're going after statues of Winston Churchill and will be going after statues of George Washington next. I hope that politically correct Republicans are happy with their choice of allies.
Bullseye.
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