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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on August 17, 2017, 04:47:23 pm
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Pelosi wants Confederate statues out of Capitol
By Mike Lillis - 08/17/17 12:25 PM EDT
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday joined the growing chorus of Democrats calling for the removal of Confederate statues from the Capitol.
Calling the monuments a “reprehensible” symbol of a racist era, Pelosi urged Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and other GOP leaders to support an effort to purge the statues from the building.
“There is no room for celebrating the violent bigotry of the men of the Confederacy in the hallowed halls of the United States Capitol or in places of honor across the country,” Pelosi said in a statement.
Ryan's office quickly responded, noting that it's the states, not Congress, that decide which statues should be placed in the Capitol.
“These are decisions for those states to make," said Doug Andres, spokesman for Speaker Ryan.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/346960-pelosi-wants-confederate-statues-out-of-capitol
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A key purpose of permitting these statues was to sow reconciliation and healing following a war that pitted brother against brother.
Why is reconciliation and healing outside the purview of today's left?
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Nice, Pelosi.
Well, I want you out of the Capitol but neither of us is gonna get our wants.
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Now that this bandwagon is moving at a decent pace over rough terrain, can someone on it give Pelosi a little nudge?
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A key purpose of permitting these statues was to sow reconciliation and healing following a war that pitted brother against brother.
Why is reconciliation and healing outside the purview of today's left?
They weren't taught US History the way we were...
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A key purpose of permitting these statues was to sow reconciliation and healing following a war that pitted brother against brother.
Why is reconciliation and healing outside the purview of today's left?
You know the answer. They want power and they have found a tool to further divide people.
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Nice, Pelosi.
Well, I want you out of the Capitol but neither of us is gonna get our wants.
I think we should keep her in Washington! In a specimen bottle as a reminder!
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Jefferson, Washington and Adams will be next.
Count on it.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, "1984"
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The Democrats just can't help themselves, here they go over-reaching yet again.
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The Democratic Party is the biggest monument to slavery and the Confederacy there is. I agree that one monument should go.
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Start with this one in the Senate, Nancy ...
(http://michaelshaneneal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Senator-Robert-C.-Byrd.jpg)
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The Democratic Party is the biggest monument to slavery and the Confederacy there is. I agree that one monument should go.
:amen:
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Ya' know I thought it was Trump tripping over himself but this is going to backfire on the Democrats big time.
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Ya' know I thought it was Trump tripping over himself but this is going to backfire on the Democrats big time.
Maybe, just, maybe, Trump has been "dumb like a fox" all along. The Democrats keep falling for the bait.
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Ya' know I thought it was Trump tripping over himself but this is going to backfire on the Democrats big time.
They are bigly overplaying their hand. Trump just needs to shut up and stop giving them ammunition and things to distract from it.
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They weren't taught US History the way we were...
they get better grades by taking basketweaving or Home Ec. Now the libtards want to abolish testing (like they recently did in Detroit Pub schools) because kids were flunking out. they once pushed standards, but now don't want anyone to be tested. REDICULOUS!