Thread: Steele suggests Reid lose his post over slavery remarks

Steele suggests Reid lose his post over slavery remarks
By Eric Zimmermann - 12/07/09 03:51 PM ET

RNC chairman Michaele Steele said today that Democrats should strip Harry Reid of his leadership position if he does not apologize for remarks comparing healthcare reform to the abolition of slavery.

Here are Reid's remarks from earlier today:

"Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, 'slow down, stop everything, let's start over.' If you think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right...When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said 'slow down, it's too early, things aren't bad enough.'

Steele said Reid should apologize immediately or lose his position as Majority Leader.

"Having made this disgraceful statement on the floor of the United States Senate, Mr. Reid should immediately apologize on the Senate floor to his colleagues, to his constituents, and to the American people," Steel said. "If he is going to stand by these statements, the Democrats must immediately reconsider his fitness to lead them."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... ry-remarks

Here are Reid's remarks from earlier today:

"Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, 'slow down, stop everything, let's start over.' If you think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right...When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said 'slow down, it's too early, things aren't bad enough.'

WOW!!! UNREAL!!!! I guess Reid and the other idiots with him are so desperate for the Republicans to join in shoving this health care crap down our throat THAT he lost his mind for a bit !!!

He should BUT we now live in the land of the cheat and home of the pushover. And people are oppressed over all of the corruption in Washington and they don't care or listen to the people anymore!!

so he wants us to think that the Dems were wanting to free the slaves and the GOP was wanting to do the opposite?

was Lincoln a dem? did i miss something here
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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president

If you watched Glenn Beck today you would see that they are desperate and will pass health care come hell and high water.

Originally Posted by jamesw62

so he wants us to think that the Dems were wanting to free the slaves and the GOP was wanting to do the opposite?

was Lincoln a dem? did i miss something here
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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president

Not only was Lincoln President, it was primarily Republicans who fought the Civil War for the Union, 98% of the some 2 million Union Soldiers who fought that war were volunteers who signed up to free the slaves, not "save the union", who marched to the John Brown song which became the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Silent Heroes of Freedom, Liberty and Equality, each and every one of them, whose faces we'll never see and whose names we'll never know, who fought and many gave their lives so the slaves would be free and the abomination of slavery eradicated from our country.

In addition, the vast majority of the members of Congress during the Civil War and years following were Republicans which is why we have the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, and the 1866 US Civil Rights Act and the 1875 US Civil Rights Act that was regrettably overturned by the US Supreme Court in 1883, but which laid the bedrock for the subsequent US Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1964, 1965 and 1968.

Harry Reid shouldn't only resign as Senate Majority Leader, he should resign from Congress for such an erroneous and despicable statement.