GOP Rep Quotes KKK Founder On House Floor

GOP Rep Quotes KKK Founder On House Floor

Roll Call reports today that a House Republican delivered a foreign policy speech yesterday in which he quoted Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the KKK.

On Monday, Rep. Ted Poe took to the House floor to discuss foreign policy matters. To make a point, the Texas Republican invoked the words of Civil War Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest: "Git thar fustest with the mostest."

The quotation got some floor watchers' attention pretty quickly. Forrest is a controversial figure who was one of the Klan's first grand wizards. Although the Civil War hero (if you were a Confederate, that is) ultimately abandoned the Klan for its violent tactics, he continues to kick up dust.

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