Posted on 07/09/2015 1:37:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A stemwinder from last night’s debate in the South Carolina house, in case you missed it elsewhere. Jenny Horne’s position prevailed, of course; Nikki Haley’s set to sign the bill removing the flag in a formal ceremony sometime this hour.
But the flag drama’s not done yet, my friends. Thanks to the congressional GOP, it’s just getting warmed up:
Republican leaders on Thursday abruptly yanked an environmental spending bill from the House floor before a final vote amid a storm of protest over an amendment that would have allowed Confederate flags at federal cemeteries…
Only the day before, Republicans had assented to Democratic amendments to an appropriations bill that would remove the flag from federal sites and gift shops.
But at the request of several Southern lawmakers, Republicans reversed themselves, and offered an amendment to allow the flag placement. A vote on that amendment had been expected Thursday afternoon. The National Park Service, which has permitted the placement of Confederate flags on graves, had already begun to direct staff to remove them…
“Don’t Republicans understand that the Confederate flag is an insult to 40 million African-Americans and many other fair-minded Americans?” [Democrat G.K. Butterfield] said, directing his remarks to Representative Ken Calvert, Republican of California, the sponsor of the amendment.
GOP Rep. Mick Mulvaney, who supports removing the flag from the South Carolina statehouse, opposed a ban on the flag at federal sites on grounds that it would prevent private citizens from placing the flag on grave sites. Meanwhile, knowing a nice wedge issue when she sees it, Nancy Pelosi’s floating a flag bill of her own to induce a little extra squirming by Republican leaders:
The House voted Thursday to refer legislation banning the Confederate flag image from the Capitol to a committee, effectively punting the issue.
The dramatic vote was forced by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who was eager to put a spotlight on the issue after House GOP leaders pulled a separate bill from the floor after an intra-party fight over the flag.
Pelosi’s resolution would have forced Mississippi’s state flag, which includes the Confederate flag, to be removed from the House side of the Capitol.
Removing the flag of one of the 50 states from the U.S. Capitol because the design doesn’t meet contemporary left-wing standards of acceptability is ridiculous and deeply cynical, but also characteristically shrewd. South Carolina voting to remove the rebel flag is a problem for Democrats because it’s a Republican operation lock, stock, and barrel: Haley’s a Republican, the two houses of the state legislature are controlled by Republicans, the most memorable floor speech of the debate was made by a Republican (Horne) — it’s in direct conflict with the traditional Democratic narrative that the GOP is a thinly veiled reincarnation of the Klan. They needed to get back on offense racially, and the opposition of Mulvaney et al. to the flag amendment in Congress made that easy for them. It was a no-brainer that Pelosi would try to double down with a dumb but effective bill demanding the banishment of Mississippi’s flag. It won’t achieve anything but the GOP opposition on it gives Democrats a reason to tell their base, “See? They haven’t changed at all.”
Anyway, here’s to healing.
Yes, and they will be behind high walls with armed security forces while the rest of population will be in the big boiling pot that has become the USA. Watch out when they start stockpiling old tires.
Saw this earlier on a lefty forum. Doesn’t it make sense to cut us loose so they can have the socialist utopia they so richly deserve?
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
:-) You don’t need to thank me. That’s exactly what they’re trying to do.
I hear ya.
= :^)
Gone? Not even close. The fact is.... there will be more Confederate Battle Flags flyin' now than ever before. I'm already seeing it here in Florida.
Molon Labe!
loved her fake crying with no tears...
standard operating procedure for female politicians...actually for females in any position of power...
Republicans are just despicable. They fold like a cheap suit every time. Once considered a shoo-in for 2016, they will be in ruins by their own cowardice.
Yep. Rednecks. Not an insult.
I am completely and totally sick and tired of hearing about the confederate flag from the politically correct crowd. The flag is part of U.S. history, leave it alone, we have far bigger problems that that old flag. What other part(s) of our history will those idiots go after and want removed?
Its’ HISTORY you ass hats, get over it and YOURSELF.
Language, Borders, and Culture
Why didn’t this embarrassing disgrace of a Southern female simply launch herself from the podium onto her black friends and offer to perform certain services for them?
I can’t say any more about the imbecile or I’ll be banned.
After 50 years? Or after 150 years? Even if it's only after 15 or 20 years, things have been building up to this for a while.
in my book “redneck” is a good ol boy who enjoys life and gets along well with his black neighbors. There are probably some on this site he equate the word with being racist. I don’t.
RE: Why didn’t this embarrassing disgrace of a Southern female simply launch herself from the podium onto her black friends and offer to perform certain services for them?
She might want to, for consistency sake also move to change the stars and stripes.
The American stars and stripes FLEW OVER ships transporting slaves from Africa LONGER than the existence of the Confederate Flag.
Yes, and I would love to ask her about that.
Not to mention the fact that the idiot who murdered the black churchgoers also took pics of himself with the American flag.
She’s term-limited, sadly.
}:-)4
You know what I mean. The flag is not the issue.
But I am with you. I went through my old stuff and found my old rebel flags and they are flying in defiance.
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