GOP-led Senate Armed Services Cmte has adopted an amendment to remove Confederate names from bases

[Dennis Donovan]

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Jim Sciutto ✔@jimsciutto

Breaking this hour: GOP-led Senate Armed Services Committee has adopted an amendment behind closed doors for Pentagon to remove the names of Confederate generals from military assets within three years, @mkraju @tedbarrettcnn reporting

9:07 AM - Jun 11, 2020

This is interesting as fuck since Orange Julius vowed to preserve the names of the bases. Is the GOP Senate *finally* turning on him?

of course not.

[soothsayer]

1. So what's the play?

Look as though they’re doing the right thing, then shoot it down?

[Cirque du So-What]

4. As I see it

Shooting it down is worse than doing nothing - especially for the loudmouths who insist the confederate names remain.

[SharonClark]

5. The play? Maybe Camp Reagan and Camp Cheney.

[soothsayer]

7. Ugh. Or Camp Trump?

Since it’s not happening in Poland

[dewsgirl]

2. K and R

[DinahMoeHum]

3. It still has to go thru the rest of the Senate. . .

. . .you can guess who will lead the charge to kill it.




#newrostrong

[Dennis Donovan]

6. The guy whose neighbor stopped too soon?