I had one right winger say that Warren didn’t follow the rules and her big mouth got her in trouble. The person that said this to me was a woman.
Yup. This is how they view this. A mouthy woman thinking she had the right to speak.
Of course, when the men on her side of the aisle finished things, crickets. Not even an interruption.
Just a quick question. Did not Burnie Sanders change his party affiliation from independent to Democrat?
They ought to keep reading. Letter from a Birmingham jail. Voting rights act. Some Frederick Douglass.
You mean Pence “lets” his wife have her own iPad?
So… for Mitch is was because a woman was speaking !!!
So Mitch is a racist and a sexist- who knew (everyone?) !!!
Mitch is just one giant piece of dung!
This. So much. I hope that at least when merkely said “read it in a fashion appropriate under they rules” that he inflected his tone of voice with some serious sarcasm.
Can’t. I feel the same way. I know Senate mansplaining when I see it, but I have a hard time describing it without losing my shit. Its like Justice Potter’s description of hard-core pornography…“I know it when I see it”.
Best I can do.
Every single Dem Sen should stand and read the letter verbatim. Let Mitch try to shut them all down. That would be great optics for Mitch and the Reps on all of the real news shows.
48 of them one after another.
Although I think if they simply replaced the words “Sessions” with “the nominee” or, that “that racist fuckstick”. it would be fine.
Gore won in 2000. Rove masterminded bush’s win. SCOTUS gave W the election. It’s easy to say the Dems didn’t display backbone, but tell us your strategy for pushing back against the corruption that was the bushies. The rest of your speech was nice and clever though.
The GOP shut down Warren by stretching a bullshit decorum rule to cover the letter.
By reading the letter today without mention of Session’s name, the Dem Senators stayed clear of the rule. The GOP had no means to shut down the readings, regardless of the gender involved.
The treatment of Warren is what rubs me the wrong way. The actions of the Dem Senators today does not. Warren had been silenced. For the letter to be heard in the Senate, somebody else had to do the reading, and they skip over King’s use of Session’s name if they wanted to prevent the GOP from shutting them down, too. The GOP created the situation, so Dem Senators had to pick from the options available in the situation.
No kidding. Had he just let Warren read the letter it would have gone over as typical Senatorial stuff, but instead he drew attention to it and now he’s got people in his face. Typical GOP: they can’t even think a day ahead, let alone years ahead
Truly. The letter is everywhere on the tubes and cable today.
Huzzah!
We are not subject to the rules of the Senate, and are free to call the Majority Leader’s office (202-224-2541) and read the letter in full.
He has several local offices, too, but the one in Bowling Green (270-781-1673) might still be buried in rubble. You can find numbers for the rest of his Kentucky offices here.
agree wholeheartedly. By paraphrasing to keep it “within the rules” they basically imply that what she did was outside of the rules and her rebuke was warranted. I realize that’s not what these other Dems are trying to say, but that’s what it makes it look like.
Read the exact same statement, and oppose the rebuke for what it was: the silencing of dissent. If they all get rebuked and silenced, it just shows that even more. I mean, Sessions is going to get approved either way.
Back in the '70s, we started substituting the word “gonads” for “balls” when we were describing people like Elizabeth Warren. First, it’s factually correct, and second, we wanted to stop the use of a term meaning essentially “maleness” to describe brave, strong women.
It never really caught on, and I lament that. Because now, more than 40 years later, leaders in our institutions can still with impunity treat the best and brightest of us like schoolgirls.
we just need a monosyllabic version of it that rolls off the tongue and lets the younger generations be confusing to their parents. I like “gones” as an option.
…or the old tried and true…‘BALLS!’ said the Queen. 'If I had ‘em I’d be KING!’
I grew up in Southern California, among a lot of Mexican friends. Their term was “huevos” (Spanish for “eggs”) and we routinely used it in place of “balls”. It never occurred to me before, but ovaries produce huevos…
Call people, call. Mitch doesn’t care, but call anyway.