http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/mourdock-obamas-chrysler-bankruptcy-deal-same-tyrannical-principle-as-1858.phpIndiana GOP Senate nominee Richard Mourdock fired up a Tea Party crowd last week, by comparing the perhaps dry subject of his lawsuit against the Obama administration over the Chrysler bankruptcy to an older, more emotional struggle: Abraham Lincoln’s orations against slavery.
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“He’s a man who does not understand this country. Because I don’t think anyone who truly understands those types of American who sacrifice, would ever be ripping away their assets, to take them from one group to give to another.
“You see, my friends, it is once again that message coming from Washington, D.C., that even people like those pensioners I represent can work and sweat and toil and earn and save, so that someone else can be given their assets.
“It is the same tyrannical principle as in 1858 — but now it’s 2012.”
