Posted on 10/16/2007 2:33:12 PM PDT by mnehring
88 Democrats and Texas Republican Ron Paul
The left is returning to Cuba?
Imperial endeavor? How utterly cute. I guess these 89 moonbats forgot that their boy Slick Willy signed into U.S. Law the IRAQ LIBERATION ACT of 1998 making it official U.S. policy to overthrow the Saddam regime and replace it with a democratic form of government.
It' a bit scary when someone such as myself knows more about what is going on than those who are supposed to be leaders of the USA.
Imperial endeavor? How utterly cute. I guess these 89 moonbats forgot that their boy Slick Willy signed into U.S. Law the IRAQ LIBERATION ACT of 1998 making it official U.S. policy to overthrow the Saddam regime and replace it with a democratic form of government.
It' a bit scary when someone such as myself knows more about what is going on than those who are supposed to be leaders of the USA.
Next up, water is wet and fire is hot...
We need to clean our own house first.
Let’s get a real Conservative who supports our troops in Paul’s seat.
We need to clean our own house first.
Let’s get a real Conservative who supports our troops in Paul’s seat.
Looks like a DU thread over there.
Lincoln arrested a seditious congressman.
I haven't paid *any* attention to that race because I just assumed that Tsongas would win in a gallop.However I heard a news report yesterday on one of Boston's major radio stations that the race was "neck and neck" which stunned me.If he wins today no Freeper should count on seeing any more posts from me because I'm likely to die of a stroke or heart attack.
life is good when your on the soros payroll.
” Go pound sand.”
I’ll second that. The bigger the grains the better. Clean themselves out real good before they reinsert their heads.
I have been following it pretty closely...I gave him a donation and would have liked to help on the campaign, but...family illnesses and death made that out of the question.
A good sign: I drive through Concord, MA every day, and every so often I see the POS antiwar protesters...the other day, there were Ogonowski supporters and signs out, but now Tsongas signs. It was nice to see.
Ron Paul would rather find the money to fund shrimp projects
They're not men, and they don't belong in this country. But your right, they are trying to kill us from within.
He’s trying to bring them home. As a Congressman, he has no other way of doing so other than voting to cut funding. Also, before spouting the usual crap about Ron Paul “not supporting the troops”, consider that Ron Paul has raised more from the military then all of the other Republican candidates.
Lets de-fund the war on poverty.
And also arrested senators...here's one sent packing:
Vallandigham, the Notorious
Clement Vallandigham, a notorious anti-Union zealot from Ohio was banished from his own country by Abraham Lincoln. He would not go peacefully though, nor could he remain long away from the war that fueled his hatred. Eventually, he would die in as bizarre a fashion as he had lived.
Clement Laird Vallandigham, a former Ohio Congressman from Dayton, Ohio was largely responsible for a growing and vocal opposition to the Civil War. The reportedly handsome young lawyer, son of a Presbyterian minister, was the undisputed leader of the Copperheads ("Peace Democrats") in the Northwest. He was also a notorious, thinly-veiled, Southern sympathizer who made speeches, to anyone who would listen, calling the war, "wicked and cruel," and which was quite obvious to all. Then however, Vallandigham strayed beyond the realm of reality and suggested that the Republicans only wanted to end slavery to further their quest for a dictatorship. The government had little tolerance for such reckless and inflammatory remarks. Unfortunately for Vallandigham, "treason" was then a clay-like concept that would be molded to suit the needs of the war effort.
On May 5, 1863, a Company of the 115th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, dispatched to Dayton, Ohio by special train, broke into Vallandigham's house at 3:00 A.M. and arrested him. The former Congressman was taken from his home in a nightshirt and quickly transported to Cincinnati where he would be tried by a military commission the following day on charges of "treasonable utterances." Riots broke out in Dayton in response to the arrest, with fires destroying an entire city block. Troops from Columbus and and Cincinnati were brought in and martial law declared. Vallandigham was soon convicted of aiding the Confederates, and on May 19, 1863 President Lincoln ordered Secretary of War Stanton to see to it that Vallandigham was banished to "beyond the military lines of the United States and not be permitted to return, under threat of arrest."
Federal troops in Tennessee turned Vallandigham over to the Confederate Army on May 25, 1863. In June, President Davis of the Confederate States, having no use for Vallandigham, orders him to Wilmington, North Carolina to be guarded as an "alien enemy." That same month. Peace Democrats in Ohio nominate the the exiled and incarcerated Vallandigham for Governor. A committee of the Democratic convention demanded that President Lincoln reverse his ordered exile of Vallandigham. Lincoln refused. "Must I," Lincoln lamented, "shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wiley agitator who induces him to desert?" In October, Vallandigham, now exiled by the Confederate States to Canada, would be defeated for the Ohio Governorship by Democrat John Brough from Marietta.
On June 14, 1864, one year after being exiled, Clement Vallandigham slips back into the country and arrives in Ohio wearing a feeble disguise that fails to deceive the Federal agents watching him. Soon, he will be appointed National Commander of the radical "Sons of Liberty," a secret anti-war organization also known as the "Knights of the Golden Circle." Throughout the summer of 1864 Vallandigham will conspire with the Confederate agents in a bizarre plot to effect the release of 20,000 prisoners of war in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana.
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