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struggle4progress

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Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:03 PM Oct 2015

GOP's fracturing 'confederacy'

OCTOBER 23, 2015
John A. Tures

Whether it's the ousting of the House Speaker and his heir apparent, or witnessing Paul Ryan have to beg the Freedom Caucus to let him have the job, .. the process is almost hopelessly broken. It's not too different from the dysfunctional Confederate States of America that lost the Civil War ...

"The Confederate Congress gave Davis more trouble than the Congress in Washington gave Lincoln ... Almost all of its members carried horsewhips and heavy canes, and many were armed with guns and bowie knives. During stormy meetings they would wave these in the air, shouting angrily at one another. But they saved their bitterest words for President Davis" ...

The Confederacy wasn't even a system of states' rights. It was this mentality that .. each .. legislator was a king, and knew better than anyone else. Every other legislator was an opponent standing in the way ...


http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article41201355.html

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GOP's fracturing 'confederacy' (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2015 OP
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