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maxrandb

(17,303 posts)
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 06:29 AM Feb 2021

If any of the Traitorous 43 try to read Washington's Farewell Address on Monday, Dems should object

No Senate tradition has been more steadfastly maintained than the annual reading of President George Washington’s 1796 Farewell Address. In this letter to “Friends and Citizens,” Washington warned that the forces of geographical sectionalism, political factionalism, and interference by foreign powers in the nation's domestic affairs threatened the stability of the Republic. He urged Americans to subordinate sectional jealousies to common national interests.

The Senate tradition began on February 22, 1862, as a morale-boosting gesture during the darkest days of the Civil War. Citizens of Philadelphia had petitioned Congress to commemorate the forthcoming 130th anniversary of Washington's birth by reading the Address at a joint meeting of both houses.


https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Washingtons_Farewell_Address.htm

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If any of the Traitorous 43 try to read Washington's Farewell Address on Monday, Dems should object (Original Post) maxrandb Feb 2021 OP
Rob Portman is scheduled to do the reading. badhair77 Feb 2021 #1
That's why Dems need to object. maxrandb Feb 2021 #2
Haha hahaha! blueinredohio Feb 2021 #3

maxrandb

(17,303 posts)
2. That's why Dems need to object.
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 07:22 AM
Feb 2021

He doesn't deserve to carry Washington's jockstrap...and I'd word my objection exactly like that.

"I object on the grounds that the Senator from Ohio doesn't even deserve to carry President Washington's jockstrap.

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