I just don't get it - Are Congressional Dems Stupid or what!!

Why, oh why do we believe we have the moral authority to make historical declarations of genocide?

When there is current genocide happening in Darfur, that we are doing nothing about and we have genocide in our own history that we have as a nation yet to recognize or apologized for? Yes, I know the Coulters and Limbaughs of the day called it Manifest Destiny (and yes I know the Democrats of the day were the culprits, it is not the party stupid it’s what they stand for at any given point in time) , but face it, it was genocide plain and simple.

Thus, according to Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, the reduction of the North American Indian population from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900 represents a "vast genocide . . . , the most sustained on record." By the end of the 19th century, writes David E. Stannard, a historian at the University of Hawaii, native Americans had undergone the "worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed, roaring across two continents non-stop for four centuries and consuming the lives of countless tens of millions of people." In the judgment of Lenore A. Stiffarm and Phil Lane, Jr., "there can be no more monumental example of sustained genocide—certainly none involving a 'race' of people as broad and complex as this—anywhere in the annals of human history."

When we have this type of baggage in our own past why are Democratic Congressional leaders allowing this to be such a distraction to the real issues we need to deal with.

Was the World War I-era killings of Armenians genocide? YES.

Does it make any sense to pass a congressional resolution on the topic ? NO.

This is a total distraction that we do not need!!

On Faux News this morning Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the measure was "irresponsible."

"Listen, there's no question that the suffering of the Armenian people some 90 years ago was extreme. But what happened 90 years ago ought to be a subject for historians to sort out, not politicians here in Washington."

Now you went and did it, you went and made me agree with John Boehner on a topic, and that pains me, not because he is a Republican, but because he is an Ass.