GOP Silences Female Lawmakers

[Arainach]

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMdlcnK_MI4&feature=player_embedded

Normally I try to avoid making generalizations or harsh statements. But this isn't a few bad egg GOP supporters. This is multiple GOP Representatives, in official debates, acting like a bunch of 8 year olds and abusing parliamentary procedure - not to achieve any definite goal, not to stop passage of a bill they consider hideous, just to prevent a few women from speaking their minds about the benefits of a bill. Is this the party's best face? Their representation in their most professional context?

Democrats aren't perfect, but they're not this childish, this bad, or this flat-out evil. This much is perfectly clear.

[Killer_Man_]

No wonder they can't get anything done.

[Sunflower]

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMdlcnK_MI4&feature=player_embedded

Normally I try to avoid making generalizations or harsh statements.

like "Republicans and Neoconservatism are the single greatest threat facing this nation - its freedoms, its economy, its very way of life - and priority numero uno is getting them out of office regardless of who the hell replaces them" =P


But this isn't a few bad egg GOP supporters. This is multiple GOP Representatives, in official debates, acting like a bunch of 8 year olds and abusing parliamentary procedure - not to achieve any definite goal, not to stop passage of a bill they consider hideous, just to prevent a few women from speaking their minds about the benefits of a bill. Is this the party's best face? Their representation in their most professional context?file:///C:/Users/Ana/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg

Democrats aren't perfect, but they're not this childish, this bad, or this flat-out evil. This much is perfectly clear.Republicans would say the same thing about democrats, and believe it just as much that their party is better, and the other one is evil.

[deathofcheese]

That's pretty ridiculous, but I'd be surprised if both parties weren't guilty of it themselves at various times and various administrations.

[Arainach]

like "Republicans and Neoconservatism are the single greatest threat facing this nation - its freedoms, its economy, its very way of life - and priority numero uno is getting them out of office regardless of who the hell replaces them"I'm not a congressman. I'm also not addressing Congress. Thus, I'm allowed to maake such statements. Expectations are different in a professional context.That's pretty ridiculous, but I'd be surprised if both parties weren't guilty of it themselves at various times and various administrations. I'd love to see examples. I'm not talking about Filibusters - while ugly, I understand their purpose, and both parties have been guilty of them over the years. This is well beyond a filibuster, it's just childishness.

[reginacroft]

Arainach I object. I object.

Oh grah that was infuriating listening to that. I am definitely not in Congress because I would have gone and punched one of them, or called the woman who just kept saying, "I object" over and over a dog-faced harpy.

[Killer_Man_]

Actually, one should be glad some of us weren't there. Cause even if I was on the GOP side, I would have tapped his shoulder and either said STFU Donny or if I was on the other side, I'd be like, you know what? I object to your object and fuck you!

To be honest, I was spreading this video to spite some of my more conseritive friends and the one friend I showed it to(The whiney idiot who I still play video games with and worships Rush Limbaugh[cause he's always right], he said they kept saying that because their side wasn't being heard.

I told him, hey dick chin, when they have a meeting like that. One side says one thing, the other side says theirs and it keeps going back and forth.

You don't keep saying I object over and over like a little cry baby.

[reginacroft]

This was supposed to be less like a debate and more of a turn- based system.
Why do I feel like I just refined what you just said K_M_ lol.
Having been a part of debates similar to this it is very hard when people just talk over you when it should be more of a structured system.

[chefTENGU]

What bothers me is that there's no way to enforce a rule that people involved shouldn't act like utter jackasses.

You can bet that any move made to tell the Republican congressmen that they should abide by the rules and wait their turn would have ended up on Fox News and spun as the evil, vile Democrats clamping down on the GOP for no good reason.

Sadly, from what KM is saying, it appears that even the polite (though lame) repeated requests that the Republicans not act like douche bags was still spun that way, at least by Rush Limbaugh.

[Killer_Man_]

How badly was it spun by Rush? I didn't hear anything about that.

[chefTENGU]

How badly was it spun by Rush? I didn't hear anything about that.
To be honest, I was spreading this video to spite some of my more conseritive friends and the one friend I showed it to(The whiney idiot who I still play video games with and worships Rush Limbaugh[cause he's always right], he said they kept saying that because their side wasn't being heard.

Also, Ana, you don't have to be afraid to post your political beliefs. I would like to see someone represent the other side in an honest way (because Lord knows they're certainly not doing it themselves).