Mitch McConnell is no Henry Clay

[kentuck]

http://www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article142579929.html#storylink=hpdigest

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Remember when President Obama joked that advisers urged him to have a drink with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to improve relations between them? “Really?” quipped Obama, “why don’t you have a drink with Mitch McConnell?”

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In the audience sat a newly elected congressman from Illinois who regarded Clay as “my beau ideal of a statesman” and shared Clay’s hatred of slavery. A month later Abraham Lincoln introduced the historic “Spot Resolution” asking Polk to show on the map, as Polk had falsely claimed, where “American blood had been shed on American soil.”

Like Clay, Lincoln pursued the truth.

Imagine what the Great Emancipator would say if he heard McConnell comparing himself to Henry Clay.

“Senator, I knew Henry Clay. Sir, you are no Henry Clay.”

[DonCoquixote]

1. Oddly enought, this may also be an attempt by Mitch

to mess with Trump.

Trump compares himself to Andrew Jackson. When Jackson was asked if he had any regrets:

" When asked if he had any regrets about the last eight years, this was his response: “[That] I didn’t shoot Henry Clay and I didn’t hang John C. Calhoun.”

http://mentalfloss.com/article/57837/quotable-andrew-jackson-12-old-hickorys-best-lines