Republicans bravely defend the confederate flag

[struggle4progress]

U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Ala. (AL-04) today released the following statement regarding a push by Democrats to make it illegal to display the Confederate flag in national cemeteries. “What we are seeing is a politically charged symbol being used to divide people along racial lines,” said Aderholt. “But the truth of the matter is that the only people that are doing that today are the proponents of this amendment to remove flags from cemetery property ...
http://cullmansense.com/articles/2016/05/20/opinion-aderholt-statement-confederate-flags-national-cemeteries

... Ahead of yesterday’s (May 19) vote, Pete Sanborn, legislative director for Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.), emailed a message meant to discourage support for the amendment. In it, he wrote that people who want to remove the flag are equivalent to ISIL ...
http://www.colorlines.com/articles/congressional-staffer-says-people-who-dont-support-confederate-flag-are-basically

[underpants]

1. That's some kind of powerful stupid

“What we are seeing is a politically charged symbol being used to divide people along racial lines,”

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Lynn Westmoreland is an absolute dumbass. Couldn't name ONE of the 10 commandments

he tried to push down (to use their terminology) everyone's throats.

[SCantiGOP]

4. Isn't the 5th commandment

The one about capital gains taxes?

Of course everyone knows the 2nd is the right to keep and bear arms.

[struggle4progress]

3. "Stupid" is among the most enduring of America's political moods

[SwankyXomb]

5. That last picture says it all