re: #7 teleskiguy

They want to kill the hostage.

Absolutely right.

Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech ( the one that propelled him to national notice and led to his Presidency) is one of the great speeches in American history. It is amazing to see the parallels to today, only with the parties reversed. It includes this telling paragraph:

“Under all these circumstances, do you really feel yourselves justified to break up this Government unless such a court decision [Dred Scott] as yours is, shall be at once submitted to as a conclusive and final rule of political action? But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, “Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!”“

Conservatives hold us hostage once again, with a pistol to the ear. Their tactics have not changed at all.