A great Carol Moseley-Braun moment I had almost forgotten...

[phillybri]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57814-2003Dec11.html

In Braun-Helms Fight, Senate Searched Soul

By Helen Dewar
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 12, 2003; Page A08

At first, many senators failed to see the trouble ahead, figuring they were just doing a harmless favor for a colleague and one of his favorite groups. But, for then-Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.), renewal of a federal patent for the insignia of the United Daughters of the Confederacy -- which featured the first national flag of the Confederacy encased in a wreath -- was anything but a harmless exercise.

The result was one of the Senate's most dramatic days in years, including a rare burst of soul-searching rhetoric about how black and white Americans view their history and an equally rare defeat for a powerful senior senator -- Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) -- at the hands of a freshman who had been sworn in only six months before.

By day's end, the Senate voted 75 to 25 to reject the patent it had approved, 52 to 48, a few hours before.

Well done, CMB...
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[impeach the gop]

1. She's great

Hope she continues to speak up. And hope she returns to public service, house or senate, whatever, she's one of us.

[toddzilla]

2. it's a shame..

Integrity is no longer an electable trait as far as the presidency goes.


here's to the candidates that SHOULD have a shot, but don't.


:toast:

[sandnsea]

3. Really gutsy lady

"She recalled that Confederate symbols figured prominently in more recent resistance to civil rights in the South and added, "Now, in this time, in 1993, when we see the Confederate symbols hauled out, everybody knows what that means."

"If I have to stand here until this room freezes over . . . I am going to do so," she said. "Because I will tell you, this is something that has no place in our modern times. It has no place in this body. . . . It has no place in our society."

[phillybri]

4. Serious guts....

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[phillybri]

5. This is a good positive article, and it deserves one more kick....

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[slinkerwink]

6. kick for a classy lady

[diamondsoul]

7. Kick cuz dammit she's a Kick arse candidate! n/t