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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts) Sat Nov 23, 2013, 03:28 PM Nov 2013

Remember when...

Last edited Sat Nov 23, 2013, 04:21 PM - Edit history (3)

This was a tea party

Now this is a tea party

Remember the old Republican Party?

Remember when this was good journalism

Now this..

Remember when the Speaker of the House was dignified...

Sam Rayburn (D) Speaker of the House under Eisenhower and Kennedy

Now look at the office of Speaker...

remember dignified Presidential debates..

Now this..

A dignified Congress..

Shameful Congress today..

Respectful leaders from afar....

Disrespectful leaders at home...