FOX News: Harry Reid is under mounting pressure to apologize for his remark comparing Republican opposition to health care reform to supporters of slavery.

In the comment, Reid argued that Republicans are using the same stalling tactics employed in the pre-Civil War era -- and during the women's suffrage and civil rights movements.
"Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, 'slow down, stop everything, let's start over.' If you think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right," Reid said Monday. "When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said 'slow down, it's too early, things aren't bad enough.'" 

The Republican party formed in 1854 in opposition to the expansion of slavery into the territories after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, sponsored by Stephen A. Douglas, a Democrat. Republicans also favored civil rights throughout their history. Later it was Democrats who created Jim Crow.

Democrats were slave owners, a Democrat shot Abraham Lincoln. Harry Reid needs a course in American history.