Power to the People! Right On!

[Tecumsehsbones]

Republicans adjourn House as Democrats pledge not to give up gun control fight

By Karoun Demirjian and Kelsey Snell June 23

Republicans voted early Thursday morning to adjourn the House until after the July 4th recess in an attempt to quash a dramatic, 16-hour sit-in by their Democratic colleagues seeking a vote on gun control measures in the wake of the Orlando massacre.

House Democrats, led by civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), were still giving speeches even after the adjournment vote, but activity seemed to winding down just after 3 a.m. on Thursday morning. About 25 members remained on the House floor, wrapped in blankets, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) joined them.

Lewis and other leaders of the protest vowed to continue their movement in one form or another when Congress returns on July 5.
“We will continue to fight. … When we come back in July, we’ll start all over again,” Lewis said.

Added Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), who is credited with coming up with the idea and helping to recruit Lewis, the Georgia Democrat “gave us all the resolve an the grit and determination to see this through when we are back in July.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...top-table-main_dem-sitin-100pm:homepage/story

Wait. . . Representatives are staging a sit-in? Isn't that a bit like a company's board of directors picketing the company?

Oh, well. Old dogs, new tricks.

 

[Serryah]

Even if the sit in did nothing inside the walls of Government, it made a lot of people sit up and notice, and actually be proud of the Dems for finally 'doing something', even if the result is nothing.

Well, nothing other than making the GOP look like the gun-fanatic, ammosexuals they are with NO regard to anyone or anything but they're money pockets.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Even if the sit in did nothing inside the walls of Government, it made a lot of people sit up and notice, and actually be proud of the Dems for finally 'doing something', even if the result is nothing.

Yes, well, people do tend to notice temper tantrums.

Well, nothing other than making the GOP look like the gun-fanatic, ammosexuals they are with NO regard to anyone or anything but they're money pockets.

Yes, I'm sure it will come as a major eye-opener to the tens of millions of Americans who aren't familiar with the Republican position on guns.

 

[mentalfloss]

I'm sure they didn't lose many votes over it and likely made a net gain.

Mission accomplished.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I'm sure they didn't lose many votes over it and likely made a net gain.

Mission accomplished.

Next step. . . violence on the floor. It's happened before. And it fits the Zeitgeist.

 

[Danbones]

scary
BRB
I have to go chew a pop tart into the shape of a gun

 

[EagleSmack]

Yes, I'm sure it will come as a major eye-opener to the tens of millions of Americans who aren't familiar with the Republican position on guns.

I'm shocked! I had... I had no idea!

Next step. . . violence on the floor. It's happened before. And it fits the Zeitgeist.

Oh the Democrats did that years ago.

Here is a sketch of a Democrat Senator beating the snot out of a Republican Senator after his anti-slavery speech.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I'm shocked! I had... I had no idea!



Oh the Democrats did that years ago.

Here is a sketch of a Democrat Senator beating the snot out of a Republican Senator after his anti-slavery speech.

Yep. The Senator, by the way, is regarded by history to be one of the leading lights of American statesmanship. The Democratic Representative was a slaver, and became a traitor by Constitutional definition.

 

[Corduroy]

That there is a truly inspirational portrait of a brave patriotic senator valiantly exercising his right to bear arms in the protection of state's rights.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

That there is a truly inspirational portrait of a brave patriotic senator valiantly exercising his right to bear arms in the protection of state's rights.

Representative. He crossed over to the other chamber to attack Senator Sumner.

And due to our Constitutional rules, he was never punished for it.

 

[EagleSmack]

That there is a truly inspirational portrait of a brave patriotic senator valiantly exercising his right to bear arms in the protection of state's rights.

Especially the right to own slaves. Democrats simply loved owning slaves. In fact they loved owning slaves so much they went to war over it.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Especially the right to own slaves. Democrats simply loved owning slaves. In fact they loved owning slaves so much they went to war over it.

And after they lost the war, passed laws to systematically discriminate against the former slaves and their descendants for a century.

 

[Corduroy]

Representative. He crossed over to the other chamber to attack Senator Sumner.

And due to our Constitutional rules, he was never punished for it.

Which constitutional rules allow representatives to beat senators with canes?

 

[EagleSmack]

And after they lost the war, passed laws to systematically discriminate against the former slaves and their descendants for a century.

And to add insult to injury they declared that the Civil War was never about slavery but about State's Rights.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Which constitutional rules allow representatives to beat senators with canes?

The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

U.S. Const., Art. I, sec. 6, cl. 1 (emphasis mine).

And to add insult to injury they declared that the Civil War was never about slavery but about State's Rights.

First among those rights the right to hold slaves.

 

[EagleSmack]

First among those rights the right to hold slaves.

That is exactly what my Marine buddy said. He's a cop in Virginia, an African-American cop. He told me he walked into a conference room where some other cops were talking about the Civil War. One of them turned to him and said...

"You know, the Civil War was never about slavery. It was about State's Rights."

To which my buddy responded...

"Yeah, the right to own F*ing slaves."

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

That is exactly what my Marine buddy said. He's a cop in Virginia, an African-American cop. He told me he walked into a conference room where some other cops were talking about the Civil War. One of them turned to him and said...

"You know, the Civil War was never about slavery. It was about State's Rights."

To which my buddy responded...

"Yeah, the right to own F*ing slaves."

Yeah, well, he could. No way one of those cowardly thugs is gonna take a swing at a former Marine.

Sorry your buddy has to share space with that scum.

 

[Corduroy]

The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

U.S. Const., Art. I, sec. 6, cl. 1 (emphasis mine).

So is "Breach of the Peace" defined to not include beating someone over the head with a cane?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

So is "Breach of the Peace" defined to not include beating someone over the head with a cane?

So it would seem. Leastways when you're in Congress.

 

[Corduroy]

I think the most important question is do these rules still apply?? Can congress beat each other with impunity today?

"I got your gun control right here"