Is the health-care fight making some Republicans nostalgic for the Civil War? Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) spoke of the Civil War as “the Great War of Yankee Aggression” on Friday while denouncing health-care reform on the House floor. “If Obamacare passes, that free insurance card that’s in people’s pockets is gonna be as worthless as a Confederate dollar after the War Between the States—the Great War of Yankee Aggression,” he said.
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