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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas there ever in American history, been and U.S. Senator with less honor than Mitch McConnell
That is all.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)Words like despicable, evil and reprehensible come to mind, but they are so very inadequate to describe Moscow Mitch.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)I do get your point, though. Moscow Mitch is really horrible and soulless, with no honor I can see.
Brainstormy
(2,381 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,444 posts)"I'm a total a--hole with no integrity, values, or honor. And I say it with pride."
Thekaspervote
(32,793 posts)And has to sit back and watch as Dems pass the some 400 great bills the house passed, that now sit on his desk collecting dust. I hope that bastard has a stroke!!
Golden Raisin
(4,613 posts)Repeatedly!
Volaris
(10,274 posts)That re passes EVERYTHING from the last year, that he stuck on his chair and used as a pad for his decrepit rotting turtle-ass.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)JanMichael
(24,890 posts)You can't just go back to post WWII.
He isn't a special ray of hate.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Preston Brooks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks
snip
Brooks, a Democrat, was a strong advocate of slavery and states' rights. He is most remembered for his May 22, 1856, attack upon abolitionist and Republican Senator Charles Sumner, whom he beat nearly to death; Brooks beat Sumner with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate in retaliation for an anti-slavery speech in which Sumner verbally attacked Brooks's first cousin once removed
JanMichael
(24,890 posts)So since we are googling (No senate canes. There was a house caning):
15 February 1798
Federalist Congressman Roger Griswold of Connecticut attacked Vermont Representative Matthew Lyon with a hickory walking stick in the chambers of the United States House of Representatives. Griswold struck Lyon repeatedly about the head, shoulders and arms, while Lyon attempted to shield himself from the blows. Lyon then turned and ran to the fireplace, took up a pair of metal tongs, and having armed himself thus returned to the engagement. Griswold then tripped Lyon and struck him in the face while he lay on the ground, at which point the two were separated. After a break of several minutes, however, Lyon unexpectedly pursued Griswold again with the tongs, and the brawl was re-ignited.
The two men had a prior history of conflict. On 30 January of that year, Griswold had publicly insulted Lyon by calling him a coward, and Lyon had retaliated by spitting in Griswold's face. As a result of Lyon's actions in that case, he became the first Congressman to have charges filed against him with that body's ethics committee, although he escaped censure through a vote in the House.
Senate fight:
20 February 1902
During a debate on a bill dealing with the Philippine Islands, Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina accused Senator John L. McLaurin of South Carolina of "treachery" for siding with the Republicans in support of Philippine annexation, and alleged that McLaurin had been granted control of government patronage in South Carolina. Upon receiving word of this statement, McLaurin entered the Senate Chamber and denounced Tillman, upon which Tillman attacked him. During the fight, other senators were hit by the punches. As a result, the Senate went into closed session to debate the matter. Both senators apologized to the Senate, but almost came to blows immediately thereafter. On 28 February, the Senate voted 54 to 12, with 22 abstentions, to censure both Tillman and McLaurin. McLaurin did not seek reelection, while Tillman served in the Senate until 1918.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)moondust
(20,006 posts)Not in recent memory but there may have been some vile scoundrels during the Civil War or Jim Crow eras.
Celerity
(43,499 posts)There is no use to equivocate or lie about the matter.... Mississippi's constitutional convention of 1890 was held for no other purpose than to eliminate the nigger from politics. Not the 'ignorant and vicious', as some of the apologists would have you believe, but the nigger.... Let the world know it just as it is.... In Mississippi we have in our constitution legislated against the racial peculiarities of the Negro.... When that device fails, we will resort to something else.
In reference to the education of black children, he remarked, "The only effect of Negro education is to spoil a good field hand and make an insolent cook." "The knowledge of books does not seem to produce any good substantial result with the Negro, but serves to sharpen his cunning, breeds hopes that cannot be fulfilled, creates an inclination to avoid labor, promotes indolence, and in turn leads to crime."
Referring to Washington's role in politics, Vardaman said: "I am opposed to the niggers voting, it matters not what his advertised moral and mental qualifications may be. I am just as much opposed to Booker Washington, with all his Anglo-Saxon reenforcement, voting, as I am to voting by the cocoanut-headed, chocolate-colored typical little coon, Andy Dotson, who blacks my shoes every morning. Neither one is fit to perform the supreme functions of citizenship."
steve2470
(37,457 posts)CanonRay
(14,113 posts)however, he was honest in his racism.
hardluck
(640 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,448 posts)Otherwise itll smell like a human cat box.