I Didn’t Realize Democrat Women Were Such Hot House Flowers
Posted on November 7, 2009
I guess this is the point where I have to sound a bit misogynist, but, seriously, for elected Representatives, they sure sound like those 40’s women who are delicate and have to be protected by their men folk. Of course, we are talking about Lefty men folk, so, that makes these Democrat women even more shrinking hollyhocks. Think Progress is having a total meltdown (shocker!)
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?
You sure do, Mary Jo, but, hey, I wonder what was really going on?
Update 11:06am Eastern. A parade of female Democrats are using the House resolution process to play the gender card on Pelosicare and eat into general debate time through unanimous consent requests. GOP Reps are objecting. Chair John Dingell shutting up GOP reps. Repubs want an extension of an hour on debate to balance the female Dem circus.
A female Republican rep is objecting. Dingell is ignoring her.
Update 1130am Eastern. The female Democrat parade continues. Dingell finally, lamely, chides Dem Rep Slaughter that her parade needs to limit its unanimous consent request embellishments. They ignore him. He will now charge Slaughter time.
Female Dems end their parade with a Democrat screeching about domestic violence. Finally ruled out of order.
Dingell had to protect all these shrinking shrieking Milkweeds as they went about their Kabuki theater. Sheesh, I thought the Dem women had worked so hard to get that title. It’s just a thing.
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Women are strong and equal until it comes to Democrat politics when both they and what passes for their menfolk must shield the weakness of their arguments behind their quivering [edited].
Eve Ensler must have been substituted in place of their Braveheart speech.
What are you babbling about? The time for debate is equal for both sides no matter how long that time is. The “unanimous consent” requests were nothing more than a request to “revise and extend remarks” (i.e., put a written statement in the Congressional Record rather than read it entirely on the House floor) – a perfectly ordinary move in these “debates” that allows each member to have their statement recorded while the debate itself takes less time. (Only a fraction of what appears in the Record was actually stated live in the House.) Each member makes a brief statement of her position and then asks consent to have the rest of the remarks printed. It’s not much of a “debate”, but it’s how things are done on every single bill every single day. It’s perfectly ordinary, and it does nothing to delay anything.
The Republicans were the ones seeking to delay the vote, by continually interrupting the normal business of the House. They were also seeking to shut down women’s voices speaking in favor of abortion rights. Their substantive point was trivial – they claimed they wanted to extend the debate from 30 minutes for each side to 60 minutes – a meaningless change they were using only to disrupt the proceedings. And it was also out of order – the rule for the debate was already established, and it is not part of parliamentary procedure to interrupt a speaker to ask to change the rule. The Republicans were using “points of order” – a parliamentary privilege – to disrupt on false grounds (which is why the Chair kept ruling them out of order – and they kept doing it).
In other words, the Republicans deliberately and systematically broke the rules of their own body to prevent the women in the House from stating their position. They were using the tools of debate to prevent debate. They were using democracy to shut down democracy, while the Democrats continued to attempt to act within the rules. And it is not an accident that this was overwhelmingly male Republicans acting specifically against female Democrats on an issue that only affects women.
You insist that actually following the rules of a democratic body is somehow a sign of weakness, and that women seeking to assert their own rights – democratic, and human – to act to protect their own bodies are somehow worthy of ridicule. I suppose that is not the most contemptible thing your kind has done this vicious day, but it’s all too telling of how unfit for a civilized society you actually are.
I give up. What’s a “Kibuki theater”?
Those Republicans acted like a bunch of jerks. Can’t even allow others to speak? What a bunch of thugs.
These rude, wimpy right-wingers must be feeling quite manly today.
Female Democrats turn House resolution process into circus; GOP responds
Michelle Malkin’s inertpretation.
She’s a liar.
Kibuki is a misspelling. My bad. Spelled correctly, Kabuki, is a type of Japanese puppet show.
Hmm, Dems trot up their women folk to make a spectacle, playing the female card, lying, and we are the bad guys? LOL!
Can you prove Michelle is a liar?