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South Carolina Senate votes to remove Confederate flag from state house grounds, 37-3
Hot Air ^ | July 6, 2015 | Allahpundit

Posted on 07/06/2015 1:44:49 PM PDT by C19fan

“I don’t think that this is going to be easy. I don’t think that it’s going to be painless,” Nikki Haley told NBC this weekend. I dunno. Seems pretty easy and painless so far.

The S.C. Senate moved forward with plans Monday to lower the Confederate battle flag from the State House grounds and retire it to the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: confederate; flag; rino; southcarolina; surrender
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1 posted on 07/06/2015 1:44:49 PM PDT by C19fan
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Almost gua-ron-tee you that Lee Bright was one of the 3.


2 posted on 07/06/2015 1:46:12 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: C19fan

Memo: The South WON’T rise again.


3 posted on 07/06/2015 1:46:46 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: C19fan

Losers, all but three,


4 posted on 07/06/2015 1:47:45 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: C19fan

Old times are not forgotten .....by millions


5 posted on 07/06/2015 1:47:46 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: MeganC

I find no humor in that post.


6 posted on 07/06/2015 1:48:50 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (MARANATHA)
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As a FYI this was the vote for the 2nd reading. It needs a 2/3 vote on the 3rd reading for final approval by the SC Senate.


7 posted on 07/06/2015 1:49:13 PM PDT by C19fan
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Racism in SC has officially ended. Glad we got that done. Let’s now vote on eliminating cancer by closing the cancer hospitals.


8 posted on 07/06/2015 1:51:18 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: C19fan

Since this was part of a memorial, I gamble that the next move will be to remove the entire memorial.


9 posted on 07/06/2015 1:52:03 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: mulligan

Who were the Brave Three? My state has come to this.

Wade Hampton weeps in Heaven tonight.


10 posted on 07/06/2015 1:52:36 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: C19fan

The idea that we only get three votes in South Carolina of all places is incredibly disheartening. I’m glad my uncle isn’t here to see this. A damn shame.


11 posted on 07/06/2015 1:53:49 PM PDT by MarkRegal05
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to personally object to this outrage and affront to the good people of South Carolina in 3....2....1.....


12 posted on 07/06/2015 1:54:44 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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To: MarkRegal05

Voting for lesser evil republicanTs has a downside folks.


13 posted on 07/06/2015 1:56:24 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: MarkRegal05

As soon as the breathtakingly clueless libs in Georgia realize that the present state flag is based on the 1St National flag of the Confederacy we’ll hear their hypersensitive hissy fits here, too.


14 posted on 07/06/2015 2:02:15 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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Cowards - they think this is really gonna appease anyone? If the left can get them to blink on this, they're only gonna advance with even more demands for even bigger capitulations.
 
 

15 posted on 07/06/2015 2:02:33 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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16 posted on 07/06/2015 2:04:15 PM PDT by Zakeet (Obama won't release his birth certificate because he accidentally smoked it)
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To: MeganC

Yep. Sadly true.


17 posted on 07/06/2015 2:22:23 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Norm Lenhart

And yet ... they will keep doing it election after election after election after election ....


18 posted on 07/06/2015 2:24:43 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: RIghtwardHo

Because they are as liberal and as evil as the liberals they support.

People do not vote for those they fundamentally disagree with.


19 posted on 07/06/2015 2:26:41 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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No humor was intended.


20 posted on 07/06/2015 2:28:11 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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