Blame Boehner for GOP's Confederate flag fiasco

[struggle4progress]

... It was 8:30 Wednesday night, and the House was plodding toward its 20th hour of debate on a little-watched appropriations bill, when Rep. Ken Calvert of California, who had been leading the Republican side of the debate, rose. "I have an amendment at the desk," he said.

Yes he did: A proposal to protect the sale and display of the Confederate flag at national parks and cemeteries.

Democrats couldn't believe what they were hearing: Just as South Carolina legislators were finally voting to remove the symbol of hatred from their capitol grounds, Republicans in the U.S. Capitol were proposing to restore the Confederate flag. And they were scheduling the vote for July 9, the anniversary of the adoption of the 14th Amendment promising equal protection under law.

The maneuver provoked a fusillade of outraged speeches on the House floor, culminating in an emotional plea Thursday afternoon by Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., the civil-rights icon. "When I was marching across that bridge in Selma in 1965, I saw some of the law officers, sheriff's deputies, wearing on their helmet the Confederate flag," he said. "I don't want to go back, and as a country we cannot go back. ... We all live in the same house, the American house" ...

http://herald-review.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/blame-boehner-for-gop-s-confederate-flag-fiasco/article_c4ab6e72-71b3-520e-8286-039df806423f.html

[Angry Dragon]

1. the weeping boner is just a poor leader

[justhanginon]

2. By his actions, I would judge him a poor human being. N/T