Ugh. Another good reason why I will NOT ever vote for a Republican. Cowards! 

Gawker

The whole mess started Tuesday, when Democrats successfully added amendments to a funding bill for the Department of the Interior that would have ended the practice of inviting Confederate fetishist groups to decorate Confederate soldiers’ graves with little Confederate flags on Lost Cause Day or whatever they call it, and would also have pulled Confederate flag-themed merch from gift shops at national parks. Angry southern Republicans threatened to pull their support for the Interior bill, which has some lovely giveaways to corporate polluters that are very dear to GOP leadership, and so Wednesday night, Republicans introduced a new amendment to strip out the previous amendments and go back to prior US Parks Service policy. By Wednesday morning, however, it looked like that amendment would fail — and Republicans would also have had to go on the record as being for or against the Confederate flag. So instead, the GOP leadership bravely turned around and ran, sending the Interior bill back to committee so nobody would have to say, “Yes, I think that flag should be displayed on Confederate soldiers’ graves on We Committed Treason And Lost Day.”