Posted on 10/24/2019 10:49:39 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Hundreds of lawmakers from both parties came together Thursday in the Capitol to honor the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, the son of sharecroppers who rose to become a giant of the Democratic Party and a principal figure in the impeachment investigation of President Trump.
One by one, congressional leaders and Cummings’ closest allies paid tribute to the Maryland Democrat, 68, who passed away last week after a lengthy illness and lay in state Thursday in Statuary Hall, the old House chamber in the Capitol.
It was a rare display of comity for a Congress that’s been entrenched for weeks in a partisan battle over impeaching Trump — a process to which Cummings, who served as the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, was central.
Cummings is the first African American lawmaker to lie in state in the Capitol, with his casket sitting atop the black catafalque originally constructed for Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
“Elijah was truly a master of the House. He respected its history, and in it he helped shape America’s future,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). “For the children, he wanted a future worthy of their aspirations and true to the values of America.”
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Following the ceremony, members of the CBC banded together around Cummings’s casket, wearing kente cloth in solidarity.
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One of the greatest hacks ever.
Bah. Another leftist, power-hungry, war-mongering, Constitution-hating, un-American globalist tyrant dead. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
YAWN.
Rat Racists love Rat Racists.
This tells you all you need to know about Congress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
A lot of people were great before they went to D.C.
I would like to see more of these post-death tributes and soon. Soros, Hillary, Pelosi, RBG, Schumer, Schiff, Mad Max, ...
One of the biggest scumbags EVER..destroyed Baltimore, didnt give a rats ass about his city and only showed up when it was election time..basically the male version of Maxine Waters
He was absolutely horrible
Pandering to the “black vote”, which the blacks of Baltimore most of all must be sick of hearing about Cummings.
Democrats have two synonyms to their party name: 1. hypocrite 2. exaggerator (abusers of hyperbole)
What a crock. Greatest what? Race pimp? Huckster? I guess that describes most dimrats now.
Great restraint in order . . . but I will not make myself a hypocrite by agreeing that he was a great man just because he’s dead. . . he wasn’t a great man.
There are lots of historical figures who, because they are dead, have made the world is a better place with their absence. Cummings is nowhere near the top of that list, but I would say he belongs in that general category.
Maxine Without the hair.
Representative Cummings was nothing but a race-baiting grifter who did very well for himself and nothing for his district. Cummings got his “walking around money” and shafted everyone else.
Here we go. We are on the path to deification. Won’t be long before the request is made for a national holiday. Then the demand or Congressional resolution to name federal buildings after him, schools in Maryland will be named after him, streets, and on and on. And no one dare question this guy’s ethics and dealings lets they be shouted “racist” in the public square.
What a farce. Hey, maybe he’s now eligible for a Nobel Prize. I know he’ll keep on voting for the next 100 years.
One of the great Grifters?
A smiling high handed con man..........................
Nothing more than a dead traitor who was executed and who rots in hell!
where is the Ha-Ha icon
In all defense of mad max, her district was a disaster when she was first elected. Although she has kept the poverty act and racism charges going for decades. Why should she care about district she doesn’t live in?
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