FOX– WASHINGTON – Rebellious Democrats disrupted the House’s legislative work on Wednesday, staging a sit-in on the House floor and refusing to leave until they secured a vote on gun control measures. Exasperated Republicans were forced to recess while cutting off the C-Span cameras that showed the protest.
A group of about three dozen Democrats led by Georgia Rep. John Lewis demanded a vote on measures to expand background checks and block gun purchases by some suspected terrorists in the aftermath of last week’s massacre in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. It was the worst shooting in modern history.
“No bill, no break,” shouted Democrats, who demanded that House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., keep the House in session through its planned weeklong recess next week to debate and vote on gun legislation. more here
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Get your photoshop skills to work….http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6448613971_955f3b4dfc_z.jpg
#OccupyCongress – did they crap on the Speakers Podium? They’ve crapped all over the Constitution already.
“We demand that you listen to us, as we refuse to listen to you!”
It has been entertaining to see my Facebook feed about this, some lauding them for the sit-in and some blasting them for it.
If the speaker had a teensy set of stones, he would have Capitol PD remove the bastards and lock them out. They are damned traitors and deserve to be treated as such.
Fuck em. I’m not sure what the rules are but can’t the majority GOP just shut down the Senate (or leave it open but not bring any bills to the floor) and leave the children to play on the carpet? Hell, why wouldn’t they leave the cameras on but turn off the microphones. See how long the Dems last when they start missing meals at Ruths’ Cris or Mortons as well as the cocktail parties.
my god, they look like idiots
oh, that’s right, they are
wake me when we grow a pair
Let them sit there. Treat them like a tantrum-throwing children they behave like. So long as they’re being quiet with their sit-in, just work and walk around them. Who needs who more? They need the rest of Kongress, more than Kongress needs their sorry flabby lame brain-dead asses.
Full grown adults?…right?…right?…LOL
Yet one more reason to love IowaHawk:
http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2016/06/22/perfect-iowahawk-has-an-ironic-reminder-for-house-dems-staging-sit-in/
bring on da boom!!!
Yeah. This is the sort of debate that the Founders had in mind.
Are the lights still on?
Damn thy are going to soil their $1000+ suites.
Thank you dapenguin!
John Lewis is visual proof that outer space aliens live among us. Ugly ones.
SCREW “photoshopping” these bastards…ARREST THEM!
The republicans are worthless pussies.
Shall Not Be Infringed, Bitches, now go back to spending money we don’t have.
If they’ve been sitting there for any length of time, I imagine they’re beginning to smell pretty bad. Better hose ’em down.
You’ll have to wait until January when Trump is sworn in, you bint.
Diana DeGette D Colorado hits the floor to talk about guns again….https://youtu.be/Mxtu228bYFw?t=173
If too many of them sit on one side of the House floor…doesn’t it tip over?…
@eternal cracker p:
Or until she wraps her legs around Satan.
They’re soooo cute… just like “storytime” at pre-school!
The Democrat Party ( a known terrorist organization) is sitting down on the job again. Reminds them of their hateful, anti-American youth days!
What a bunch of goofs! My kids don’t even throw tantrums anymore.
Lock them in, chain the doors and go on summer recess.
I can get them to leave.
“Look – just outside the door! Lobbyists with pockets full of $100 bills and free plane tickets to Paris!”
Just don’t stand in the aisles when Waters and Conyers charge out.
There, there; I know it’s hard when your narrative falls apart. You’ll get over it some day.
Seriously, who votes for these ‘people’?! They look like a star wars bar scene of mental dimwits. Truly embarrassing and maddening that these bozos are stealing our freedom daily by regulating and taxing our existence to death. These people deserve to be mocked out of existence.
I agree with B Woodman, except I would order bouncy houses, nap blankets and sippy cups to get them through their stay.
Maybe we should get some chalk and really scare the piss out of them.
That fat ass commie rat bastard leaning against the chair will need a fucking crane to get him up.
Democrats doing what they do best, sitting on their ass and ignoring the problem….islamic terrorism and protecting the nation’s citizens.
Well, at least as long as they are sitting there like petulant flower children, they can’t do any legislative damage. Of course I wonder how many taxpayer dollars are being wasted by this silly stunt.
My advice to the spineless Republicans, leave them there, take your recess, and go home. But please make sure you suspend their pay for the duration.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. brings a bit of hell with her wherever she goes. How the heck will she get up?
Now, don’t you wish they’d take a page from their refugee allies in Germany and burn the place down? Oh how I’d love to see them go to jail for arson. Jackasses, braying as usual. Where’s that bitch, Pelosi?
Have the Sergeant-at-Arms bring in some badass Marines, arrest and cuff these assholes and then drag them out by their feet with cameras rolling to the local PD to be processed, charged, and to spend some quality time in the tank with Bubba, Darqueefus, and Shaniqua. Then, because of their arrest record, have them expelled from office with all benefits cut off.
“I wonder how many taxpayer dollars are being wasted by this silly stunt.”
None. If Democrats aren’t legislating, they are saving us money.
What’s with all the black ladies standing around? I Thought this was a sit-in.
Niggas gotta be different…
Some children never grow up. Instead, they get elected!
Time to introduce that bill making being a democrat a crime and take a vote.
Look at all those cockroaches on the floor! Quick someone call the exterminator!
@Plough Jogger — You’ve just hit on something. It would certainly be easy enough to fill a moving box full of thrift store baby stuff — rattles, blankies, bottles, sippy cups, diapers and so on — and mail it to the U.S. Congress. Would be best to tip off a media friend to it. It would be funny enough to go viral.
Does anyone have a friend in D.C. who could just take it over to the House? Just address it to the named Ds, c/o House Speaker.
If only they were this concerned about Savage Muslim Control.
Would that Andrew Jackson could come back for an hour to cane these miscreants out of the People’s house
A friend just nailed the reason why they are there.
Okay instead of the house during the sit-in why don’t they simply make laws that are already in existence work? These are all just political ploys to make us pay attention to one side or the other there are plenty of laws in place!!
Ask yourself what’s really in this new law or legislation that they want past because it has nothing to do with guns I guarantee it remember they write little things in every law they push to get it passed so they can sneak that particular item into law.
Bunch of fck’n children. They sit there in discomfort thinking that they will eventually get their way if they keep up the tantrums.
This is truly an embarrassing display of petulance and childishness. If the democrats wanted “common sense” gun control they should have done it when they had majorities in both legislative branches and the White House . Douchebags.
These twats never graduated from the 1960’s. Somebody needs to tell them that the hippie era of sit-ins and such is so last century.
Sitting targets.
Speaker Paul Ryan failed his constituents and the citizens of the united States by allowing this tragic display of spiteful children on the floor of the US House. He has the authority and the mandate to maintain order, and Ryan failed to do so.
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RULES
of the
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS
RULE XXIII
CODE OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT
There is hereby established by and
for the House the following code of conduct,
to be known as the ‘‘Code of Official
Conduct’’:
1. A Member, Delegate, Resident
Commissioner, officer, or employee
of the House shall behave at all times
in a manner that shall reflect
creditably on the House.
2. A Member, Delegate, Resident
Commissioner, officer, or employee
of the House shall adhere to the spirit
and the letter of the Rules of the
House and to the rules of duly constituted
committees thereof.
RULE II
OTHER OFFICERS AND OFFICIALS
Sergeant-at-Arms
3. (a) The Sergeant-at-Arms shall attend
the House during its sittings and
maintain order under the direction of
the Speaker or other presiding officer.
The Sergeant-at-Arms shall execute
the commands of the House, and all
processes issued by authority thereof,
directed to the Sergeant-at-Arms by
the Speaker.
(b) The symbol of the Office of the
Sergeant-at-Arms shall be the mace,
which shall be borne by the Sergeantat-
Arms while enforcing order on the
floor.
(c) The Sergeant-at-Arms shall enforce
strictly the rules relating to the
privileges of the Hall of the House and
be responsible to the House for the official
conduct of employees of the Office
of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
A local Tallahassee TV station was highlighting Gwen Graham, who stole the Second Congressional district by carrying the liberal vote in Tallahassee/Leon County by being “daddy’s girl (daughter of former Governor/former Senator Bob Graham). Senator Bill Nelson also was posing with her. As has as daddy’s girl is, the recent redistricting moves the boundary of Corene (“Go Gattas” ) Brown’s spaghetti district from Jacksonville to Tallahassee/Leon County instead of the current from Jacksonville to Orange County boundaries. So, as bad as it was to be misrepresented by daddy’s girl, it appears I’m now misrepresented by Ms. Go Gatas.
Apparently, daddy’s girl saw that splitting up Tallahassee/Leon County would break up her gravy train so she is hoping to follow in daddy’s footsteps by running for Governor. The must think this stunt will help her in the statewide race.