GOP: You wimmens need to sit down and shut up, or go bake some cookies.....

[marmar]

from thinkprogress:



GOP Gone Wild: Unruly Republicans Silence Women Lawmakers With Screams, Shouts, And Delay Tactics

This morning, the House began consideration of the rule for debate of the House health care bill. As the Democratic Women’s Caucus took to the microphone on the House floor to offer their arguments for how the bill would benefit women, House Republicans — led by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) — repeatedly talked over, screamed, and shouted objections. “I object, I object, I object, I object, I object,” Price interjected as Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) tried to hold the floor.

In an effort to delay and derail the proceedings, the Republicans continually talked over the Democratic women for half an hour. They sought to prevent the debate by calling for unnecessary “parliamentary inquiries” and requests for “expanding the debate” by an hour.

After being repeatedly interrupted by Republican shouts, Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-OH) observed:

Do I not have the right to be able to continue my sentence without objections that are trying to censor my remarks here on the floor that I have a right to make as a member of this House?

Watch a compilation: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/07/gop-gone-wild /


The presiding chair of the House, Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), tried to assuage the Republican ruckus, without much success. The debate must be conducted with “a measure of comity and grace and decency,” Dingell urged. “There’s no advantage to be achieved by making all this fuss,” he told the Republicans.

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Update: On The Wonk Room, Igor Volsky has coverage of the Stupak abortion amendment.

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Update: Media Matters Action Network has produced its own mash-up video highlighting the GOP's uncivilized tactics.


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/07/gop-gone-wild /

[Warpy]

1. Where the fuck was the Sergeant at Arms?

Why weren't these bastards THROWN OUT?

[Fuzz]

2. wtf

[aquart]

3. I'm a simple woman of my people.

I want the names of those poorly raised representatives. And I want shouting to drown out every word they say for the rest of their lives or until they do sincere acts of contrition.

Or simply cut out their tongues. Whichever. I'm flexible.

[Sal Minella]

6. If you're taking a vote,

I vote for cutting out their tongues.

[PeaceNikki]

4. Unreal.

Fucking pigs.

[glinda]

5. I kept thinking it was Bachmann and her big mouth.

[polly7]

7. This reminds me of a great commercial that shows up

here every now and then. Once women were declared 'persons under the law', I believe it was Agnes McPhail in parliament who was being treated more or less like the woman in this present day scenario. She shut them up by telling them their wives would here every word they uttering in trying to shut her up. Awesome commercial, my description doesn't do it justice ..... but that woman was seriously PO'd.

[ArbustoBuster]

8. Republicans these days are such degenerate cowards.

Back in the days before the Civil War, if a bigoted, sexist idiot wanted someone to shut up, he would beat the other member of Congress nearly to death with a walking stick. On the floor of the Senate.

(That really happened.)

[bumblebee1]

9. I wonder if Tom Price of Georgia would object to me baking him some chocolate chunk cookies.

Instead of chocolate chunks, I would use chopped up Ex-Lax.

A good STFU should have sufficed.

[Kievan Rus]

10. They hate anbody who isn't white, male, Protestant, hetero and rich