Thomas Reed Quotes
To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
McCall, Samuel W. The Life of Thomas Brackett Reed. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914, p. 235.
At the time McCarthy made this statement he was suffering from an advanced state of alcoholism. He was censured. See {619921}.
The Republicans had been badly beaten in the 2012 Presidential Election. Many attributed the loss to the dissatisfaction of the electorate with the Republican ideas which had become more and more conservative in recent decades. Others, like Rubio, wanted to maintain the existing ideas which were very different from the Republican ideas earlier when they won more elections.
Thomas Brackett Reed, was an American politician from the state of Maine. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives 12 times, first in 1876, and served as Speaker of the House, from 1889 to 1891 and again from 1895 to 1899.