One of the benefits of watching an important bill get debated in the House is the inevitable speeches by Rep. Ken Kennedy at the podium. Thursday’s debate over Democratic representation on the TRAC commission was no exception.

• This place is so polarized, it’s unbelievable. You know, I watch television constantly, from CNN to MSNBC to…I don’t watch Fox because I think those people are crazy. I think Fox News is crazy. They shouldn’t allow Fox News to be on television.
• North Carolina saw the light. North Carolina turned blue. Right now, nationally, the Republican Party is from the Southern states. Nationally, they have lost their hoopsa. Hoopspah. I think that is a Jewish word, isn’t it? What is it? Husspah? Chutzpah? Is that right, Mr. Kirsh? Chutzpah? Yeah, OK.
• Ms. Allison, you know that it’s right to give us a place on this commission. You know that’s the right thing to do. But, you’re not afraid, because that seat that you run in, up in Greenville, you win it all the time. In fact, you just let Mr. Mahaffey use it for two years, while you were up here doing other things, then once you got finished doing what you were doing, you told him he had to leave. So, he left. You know, I love you, but I thought that you should have let Mr. Mahaffey serve at least another two years.
• I also realize that a lot of us in these Southern states are still fighting the Civil War. Let it go! Let that war go. Let it be bygones. My God! That war is over with, 200 years ago. Let’s come into the 21st Century and let’s do things together.