Jack Kingston: “I just heard the Democrat Party say that the Republicans who freed the slaves in the Civil War were radical extremists.…”

“I just heard the Democrat Party say that the Republicans who freed the slaves in the Civil War were radical extremists. I just want to make sure we got that right in the Record. The Republicans who led the fight against slavery were radical extremists? Very interesting concept. I thought that that chapter of our Nation's history was a sad one, but unfortunately a necessary one. I think it is a real mischaracterization when you try to say because someone is saying the Government does not have all the answers, that you say that that means that they are extremist. Look at the Washington, DC, school system. Washington, DC, schools are not even open. In fact in our office, we have a student from Washington, DC, because she cannot go to her school because the inept, incompetent, overspending, potentially corrupt government system run by the U.S. Congress to a large degree in Washington, DC, cannot even open. I think you can balance out the best of government and the best of the private sector and do what is best not for political parties but for the children of America and education.”