Reid: GOP Would've Defended Slavery
Senate majority leader likens Republicans who oppose health reform to those who clung to slavery(...)
The Nevada Democrat, in a sweeping set of accusations on the Senate floor, also compared health care foes to those who opposed women's suffrage and the civil rights movement -- even though it was Sen. Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat, who unsuccessfully tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and it was Republicans who led the charge against slavery.
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With all due respect, Senator (and that ain't much), it was YOUR party that tried to keep the Civil Rights Act from passing. And it was YOUR party and YOUR candidate that were cravenly ready to let the South secede rather than to prosecute a war to keep the country in one piece (and, oh, by the way, free the slaves).
Is there a Godwin's Law for "first person to invoke not wanting to free the slaves"? If so, Harry Reid has just triggered it.
Oh, and Senator? You don't need any Republicans to pass your health care debacle. So quit blaming your inadequacies on Republicans, please.
Or there is my favorite Civil Rights trivia question. Which 1960 Presidential candidate voted for the 1957 Civil Rights Act when he was in the Senate, and which one voted against it?