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This morning, the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled a limited-edition bobblehead of President Millard Fillmore. This marks the first bobblehead featuring Millard Fillmore and is one of 18 “Neglected Presidents” bobbleheads that the Hall of Fame and Museum is releasing.
Standing in a presidential pose, the Fillmore bobblehead is wearing a black suit and bow tie. The bobblehead includes Fillmore’s name on the base. Each bobblehead is individually numbered to 500, and they are only available through the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum’s Online Store. The bobbleheads, which just arrived and ship now, are $30 each plus a flat-rate shipping charge of $8 per order. A set of 18 is also available for a discounted price of $500.
There’s a certain awful symmetry in politics. For the Republican Party, that symmetry appears to be violence in the Capitol on one end of history, marking the party’s national ascendancy and on the other, signifying its present unraveling.
On May 22, 1856, pro-slavery, Democratic Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina attacked Republican Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in the Senate chamber. Pummeling Sumner with his cane, Brooks was livid that Sumner had decried the efforts of Brooks’s relative, South Carolina Sen. Andrew Butler, to admit the Kansas territory into the union as a slave state.
In the wake of the caning, public opinion divided along sectional lines. While the House of Representatives eventually would censure him, Brooks was unrepentant and his fellow southerners believed he had done “exactly right,” as Stephen Puleo recounted in “The Caning: The Assault The Drove America to Civil War.” Horrified and dismayed, northerners thought Brooks a “
It will not be easy to eliminate treachery or improve judgment in the GOP. But, as we approach Donald Trump
Beinart has a good, if pretty obvious, point. The desire for reelection is a strong incentive to adhere to the party line, and office holders are more inclined toward independence when they “worry more about how they will be judged by history than by their peers.” Beinart offers Thomas Hart Benton and Sam Houston as historical examples of senior senators who risked their careers to oppose slavery and reject secession, but he closes his essay very oddly with this quote from Massachusetts’s Daniel Webster
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