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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
It's an apology for "failure to act".
How many times has the Senate (or Congress as a whole) "failed" to act - whether through the defeat of bills, the reluctance to act, or filibuster hijack of the system.
You really want to start the precedent of publicly apologizing for everything the Senate didn't do?
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According to Senator Landrieu, the Senate was the roadblock for the anti-lynching stuff. I didn't know that, but don't have any reason to disagree. Pro-segregation Southerners knew how to use the Senate, notwithstanding that Byrd's filibuster ultimately failed.
And I think that the Senate can apologize for lynching without being drawn down the slippery slope that you're concerned about.
At any rate, none of the Southern Republicans I was talking about had the
cojones to come out in opposition to the apology on the sort of principled grounds you've articulated. They just didn't want to have to go on the record as voting for it.
