House Votes to Purge Confederate Statues From the Capitol

New York Times ^ | June 29, 2021 | By Nicholas Fandos

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WASHINGTON — The House voted on Tuesday to remove statues honoring Confederate and other white supremacist leaders from public display at the United States Capitol, renewing an effort to rid the seat of American democracy of symbols of rebellion and racism.

The chamber voted 285 to 120 to approve the legislation, which aims to banish the likenesses of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, Jefferson Davis and roughly a dozen other figures associated with the Confederacy or white supremacist causes. Sixty-seven Republicans, including the party’s top leader, joined with every Democrat who voted to support the changes, but a majority of the party stood against it.

[Tell It Right]

Get rid of all the Democrat Confederate statues.

[no-to-illegals]

Oh well blame someone else if the fault lays with you ....

[BenLurkin]

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[Irish Eyes]

What is the matter with these “Republicans” .

[rktman]

History? Pffffttttt!

[qaz123]

Kevin McCarthy is such a scumbag.

At least he’s very much out now. Quite frankly, I know lots of folks think Jordan and a few others are some sort of Conservative saviors. Did any of them step up to challenge McCarthy? Did they all vote for him?

[Richard Axtell]

Eliminate the statues, and throw in the stiffs. Pelousy, Shumer, Leahy, Feintstein, Sanders, and of course Biden, all the Septuagenarian and Octogenarian Democrat frauds, should be wheeled out and melted down for cannons. We are going to need them. The cannons, I mean.

[lodi90]

They don’t call the GOP the Surrender Party (TM) for nothing. It is a well earned sobriquet.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...rid the seat of American democracy of symbols of rebellion

There goes all the heroes of the American Revolution and all the Founders.

[Paladin2]

Critical Marx Theory would lead to removing any and all statues of Woodrow Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Carter, Hussein and BiXiden.

[Tell It Right]

My point is that EVERY time the subject of the confederacy comes up the first thing and loudest thing that needs to be said is they were the Dims.

[mylife]

lemmings.

[ealgeone]

Wonder if the Senate will do the same with Byrd??

[ealgeone]

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[mosesdapoet]

Before Lincoln’s election was not Davis elected to a fed office ?

[centurion316]

They need to make room for the statues of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Kim Song Il, Ho Chi Minh, Adolf Hitler, and the rest of the heroes of the American Democrat Party. It’s only fair.

[ealgeone]

There goes all the heroes of the American Revolution and all the Founders.

Yep...that's the ultimate goal.

[EEGator]

I can’t wait for the new statues of Biggie and Tupac...