The House today voted to remove the busts of Confederates and white supremacists now displayed within the Capitol building. The vote was 285 to 120, with those 120 being all Republicans.
Right away, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy started in with a loony-tunes spin. “I applaud the Democrats for standing up, removing Democrat statues from Democrat-controlled majorities sent to a Democrat-majority House who accepted them,” said McCarthy, who also pointed out that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
Never mind that the Republicans became the party of money during the late 19th century, or that President Theodore Roosevelt, who called himself a Republican, was effectively a modern-day Democrat.
“Each of the statues in question represents a known racist who was a Democrat from the past,” added Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), serving as McCarthy's sidekick. “The majority party is anxious to erase their discriminatory history from the Capitol with this action.”
The same sort of bill got stepped on in the Senate last year, which said that the states, who choose two honchos apiece to honor in the Capitol, would have to make the decisions first. This time, the bill will remove the statues and let the states respond at their leisure.
In case you were wondering, the Confederates leaving the Capitol are joined by four others: John C. Calhoun (a dour man whom you would avoid sitting next to at the dinner table); Justice Roger B. Taney, who wrote the Dred Scott decision, and who will be replaced by Thurgood Marshall; Charles Aycock; and James P. Clarke. We presume the latter two are well known to our readers.
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