Babies, students, and teachers. Mothers and fathers. Sisters and brothers. Daughters and sons. Friends and neighbors.
Democrats did a sit-in for gun control, so Republicans turned the cameras off.
Led by civil rights [giant] Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), Democratic members of Congress literally sat on the House floor on Monday to demand action on gun control. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) responded by ordering the cameras off and abruptly ending the session.
“We have lost hundreds of thousands of innocent people to gun violence,” Lewis said on the House floor during Wednesday’s morning session. Dozens of Democratic members of Congress stood beside him, before they all took a seat on the floor.
Was this Monday or Wednesday? Today, apparently, so I guess the “Monday” in the first paragraph is a typo.
Anyway – there is John Lewis, who is a hero of mine.
On Monday, after Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) led a 15-hour filibuster, the Senate rejected four gun control measures that would have expanded background checks to all gun sales and made it more difficult for people on the terror watch list to purchase firearms. The Republican-led House is also unlikely to pass gun reform after the Orlando shooting — a fact that Lewis noted on Wednesday.
“We have turned deaf ears to the blood of the innocent and the concern of our nation,” Lewis said. “We are blind to a crisis. Mr. Speaker, where is the heart of this body? Where is our soul?”
“Give us a vote!” he demanded, echoing rhetoric he used to demand the passage of the Voting Rights Act decades ago. “Let us have a vote.”
Republicans are so bizarre.
big nasty babies stomping their tiny feet.
The current edition of the Republican Party is hands down the most revolting excuse for an American political party in the entire history of this country.
Is there anything short of an unprecedented landslide electoral crushing that could once and for all eliminate this disease-ridden organization that bears so massive a portion of the blame for our nation’s steadily and sadly declining moral and intellectual standing?
But…they got one of these via Barry Goldwater, which certainly looked like their coup de grace when it happened. Then came Nixon, Saint Reagan, and the et als that refuse to let up.
So maybe the disease that infects them is and will remain incurable.
A dire thought, but one that is increasingly difficult not to believe will bring down the USA one day.