The House chamber is currently undergoing renovations that include the addition of bulletproof doors to provide a safe room for lawmakers after the deadly Capitol insurrection earlier this year, Axios reported on Thursday.
the addition of bulletproof doors
Now if only they could do idiotproof doors too. I’d love to see Louie Gohmert walk into one of those.
Glad they put a rush on that. Now how about rep Pressley’s panic buttons?
Automatic doors that won’t open unless one walks through without setting off the detector.
Even the Great Wall was breached in the end. The gatekeepers are always the weak point. Almost anyone can brought or snookered. Or fooled.
Step in the right direction, but hardly the final answer.
" House Chamber Is Being Fortified With Bulletproof Doors After Capitol Breach" WOW !
Amazing isn’t it ?
“The year was 2001, but the clash 20 years ago over the creation of an independent commission to investigate the Sept. 11 attacks bears unmistakable parallels to the one that is now raging in Congress over forming a similar panel to look into the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.”
House Chamber Is Being Fortified With Bulletproof Doors After Capitol Breach
Doesn’t help when the bullets are coming from inside the chamber.
Before 1/6, I had just assumed that the Capitol buildings and offices already had bulletproof doors and windows. Silly me.
Should install them to only open from the right to the left. Just to see if they catch on.
(When I think about it, most do anyway. Just need to point it out to them then.)
((Thinking it over, now I am confused. Good going me! Not sure if I can get back in the house now.))
No doubt we will soon hear howls of protest from the likes of Mo Brooks, Gym Jordan. Devin Nunes, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Kelly Loefler, and of course, Kevin McCarthy. All calling for the immediate expulsion of Speaker Nancy Pelosi for this outrageous offense against RethugliQanon Congresscritters.
Not the Infrastructure Week project I was hoping for.
Thanks T****.
However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) spokesperson Drew Hammill told Axios that the addition of bulletproof doors in the chamber was a decision made prior to the Capitol insurrection.
Even if this is true, much of the hardening of the infrastructure of the Capitol that is now being done is a direct result of Trump’s attempt to overthrow the government and potentially kill legislators in the process. That should never be forgotten. That the executive branch of the government declared war on the legislative branch to prevent it from doing its Constitutionally derived duties.
Good!!!
Amen.
OT: wish I had a better understanding of the current SC, and the implications of these rulings. Interesting article though.
That was interesting - thanks. I don’t know that two opinions can tell us a whole lot but it is worth watching.
Yes. the exact definition of sedition. Twenty years to life.
All I’d say to that is +1. I’m glad the bastard is wandering around his tawdry castle like a moron version of Charles Foster Kane and as far as the public is concerned mostly keeping his idiot mouth shut for once, but he incited a once-unthinkable assault on everything and I can only hope we can sew this torn-apart society back together in some semblance of integration. I doubt that he and Gingrich and Murdoch and the rest will ever be punished the way they deserve. Certainly there’s no justice in the way those of us who care a little will have to shoulder that knowledge as one more of our burdens. So long story short, yeah, thanks, Mr. Former Guy. Say hello to your moron oldest spawn and tell him no, in fact we do not miss you yet.
We know this to be true, in retrospect, even with the relatively limited information in our possession. We know that since our military leaders would not go along with attempted sedition, he used his private militias, who have admitted to heeding his word. We also know the National Guard, in the control of Trump’s Executive Branch, failed to protect the Capitol in a timely manner. And we also know some of the highest ranking and worst people in DoJ (Barr in particular) couldn’t wait to resign fast enough, as if they knew what was coming. Trump also played musical chairs in installing cronies at the all-important DoD, various intelligence agencies, and DoJ. It’s clear this was a premeditated assault on our country by the former guy because he wanted to be the current guy…for life.
However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) spokesperson Drew Hammill told Axios that the addition of bulletproof doors in the chamber was a decision made prior to the Capitol insurrection.
Yeah. That decision was made on Jan 20th, 2017.
On the bright side Mexico is paying for them