Star Member malaise (192,995 posts)
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THe next time a ReTHUG member of Congress refers to his friends on the other side
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I want a response stating that Congressmen and Congresswomen X and Y have no friends who do not condemn racism, misogyny and kidnapping children and putting them in concentration camps.
I am sick of watching Dems give these deplorable scumbags a pass.
That is all
Star Member malaise (192,995 posts)
2. You don't play nice with these criminals
racists, women haters and scumbags
... the Clintons?
Star Member panader0 (18,834 posts)
8. It wasn't the Dems who ended the decorum of Congress.
It started even before the "You lie!" yell at Obama.
It has gone down hill so fast it's unreal.
The "Honorable" so and so is BS.
I agree with you.
On May 22, 1856, the "world's greatest deliberative body" became a combat zone. In one of the most dramatic and deeply ominous moments in the Senate's entire history, a member of the House of Representatives entered the Senate Chamber and savagely beat a senator into unconsciousness.
The inspiration for this clash came three days earlier when
Senator Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts antislavery Republican, addressed the Senate on the explosive issue of whether Kansas should be admitted to the Union as a slave state or a free state. In his "Crime Against Kansas" speech,
Sumner identified two Democratic senators as the principal culprits in this crime—Stephen Douglas of Illinois and Andrew Butler of South Carolina. He characterized Douglas to his face as a "noise-some, squat, and nameless animal . . . not a proper model for an American senator." Andrew Butler, who was not present, received more elaborate treatment. Mocking the South Carolina senator's stance as a man of chivalry, the Massachusetts senator charged him with taking "a mistress . . . who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight—I mean," added Sumner, "the harlot, Slavery."
Representative Preston Brooks was Butler's South Carolina kinsman. If he had believed Sumner to be a gentleman, he might have challenged him to a duel. Instead, he chose a light cane of the type used to discipline unruly dogs. Shortly after the Senate had adjourned for the day, Brooks entered the old chamber, where he found Sumner busily attaching his postal frank to copies of his "Crime Against Kansas" speech.
Moving quickly, Brooks slammed his metal-topped cane onto the unsuspecting Sumner's head. As Brooks struck again and again, Sumner rose and lurched blindly about the chamber, futilely attempting to protect himself. After a very long minute, it ended.
Bleeding profusely, Sumner was carried away. Brooks walked calmly out of the chamber without being detained by the stunned onlookers. Overnight, both men became heroes in their respective regions.
Surviving a House censure resolution, Brooks resigned, was immediately reelected, and soon thereafter died at age 37. Sumner recovered slowly and returned to the Senate, where he remained for another 18 years. The nation, suffering from the breakdown of reasoned discourse that this event symbolized, tumbled onward toward the catastrophe of civil war.
Sumner appeared not to have noticed Brooks’s approach and, despite the attacker’s later claim that he announced his intentions at once, he proceeded to pummel Sumner with the cane, giving the taller man not even half a chance to stand up and defend himself.
Brooks himself reported to have hit Sumner thirty times, maybe more. It is known that the cane broke in the process of the beating and that Sumner’s desk did not survive the ordeal either; his size not permitting an easy escape, the desk was torn from the bolts holding it to the floor and it, along with Sumner, collapsed in a heap on the ground.
