Some Things Never Change

At a time when the financial markets of the United States were crumbling, the government was going deeper in debt to try to prop up the economy and fund it's military, and America was at war with the fate of freedom hanging in the balance, here's what the politicians in Washington were saying:

In the US House of Representatives, Democrats railed against the Republican President and his policies. In a series of violent anti-war speeches, they cried out, "Ought this war to continue? No! Not a day, not another hour. The time has come for the soldiers to come home."

Things may have been even worse in the Senate, where the attacks against the President and his administration were vindictive and personal. Democratic Senators in speeches on the floor called the Republican President "an imbecile," and claimed he was "the weakest man ever placed into high office in this country."


While this may sound like Washington in 2008, it's not. This was Washington in 1862. And the Republican President who was the target of such vitriol? It was Abraham Lincoln.

Some things never change.