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(79,623 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(32,528 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Matt Gaetz and Pvt. Leonard 'Gomer Pyle' Lawrence (Separated at Birth?)
bluestarone
(18,091 posts)montanacowboy
(6,286 posts)Shut the Bastard off. Gaetz is scum of the earth
FoxNewsSucks
(10,761 posts)While that piece of human waste Gaetz deserves to be cut off, that sounded like it was either the pool feed ending or one of Fox "News" famous edits. All sound was cut off, not just asshole Gaetz.
But I'm sure all the fox shows will play that and tell their sheep how "rude" Nadler was to poor widdle Matt
CatWoman
(79,623 posts)albacore
(2,573 posts)It's a bitch being in the minority, isn't it? Imagine how the Repubs would have killed this investigation if they had the majority in the House.
GoCubsGo
(32,937 posts)At least not those of us who remember 2001-2006, when the republicans held the White House and both houses of Congress. We saw how they behaved back then. This is nothing compared to that.
dmr
(28,639 posts)I forget to whom, and what it was about, but I can still see it in my mind's eye.
Sensenbrenner and his cohorts were being horrible assholes.
Not only were the mikes turned off, he had the lights turned off, as well.
Yeah, I was yelling at my TV that day.
orleans
(34,877 posts)but i can't remember what the meeting was about...
maybe i'll google ...
i don't think this was time with the lights but i found this on bradblog
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=1453
or maybe it was?? (from rolling stone)
"The GOPs take that, bitch approach to governing has been taken to the greatest heights by the House Judiciary Committee. The committee is chaired by the legendary Republican monster James Sensenbrenner Jr., an ever-sweating, fat-fingered beast who wields his gavel in a way that makes you think he might have used one before in some other arena, perhaps to beat prostitutes to death. Last year, Sensenbrenner became apoplectic when Democrats who wanted to hold a hearing on the Patriot Act invoked a little-known rule that required him to let them have one.
Naturally, he scheduled it for something like 9 a.m. on a Friday when Congress wasnt in session, hoping that no one would show, recalls a Democratic staffer who attended the hearing. But we got a pretty good turnout anyway.
"Sensenbrenner kept trying to gavel the hearing to a close, but Democrats again pointed to the rules, which said they had a certain amount of time to examine their witnesses. When they refused to stop the proceedings, the chairman did something unprecedented: He simply picked up his gavel and walked out.
He was like a kid at the playground, the staffer says. And just in case anyone missed the point, Sensenbrenner shut off the lights and cut the microphones on his way out of the room."
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/the-worst-congress-ever-161304/
NewJeffCT
(56,834 posts)that can't watch video at work?
CatWoman
(79,623 posts)Nadler was trying to adjourn and Gaetz started whining about "parlimentary issues"
So Nadler had his mic cut, got up and left the room.
Tanuki
(15,278 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,011 posts)It was all over and done with before I got online.
Sugarcoated
(8,089 posts)FUCK those LYING NAZIS
mountain grammy
(27,199 posts)Shut down the KGOP.
trueblue2007
(18,018 posts)calimary
(84,128 posts)I heard you had six... or was it seven?
Control-Z
(15,684 posts)That's like a pre-1990s thing. Since then it's been straight to jail for a DUI, first time. He doesn't look old enough to have gotten away with more than one.
Grammy23
(5,898 posts)He deserved to get his mic cut off. The look on his face was priceless. What happened to him needs to happen to the rest of those worms working for tRump. Cut em off.
Duppers
(28,243 posts)A taste of their own tactics.
murielm99
(31,411 posts)This is a start. Subpoena Barr. Throw him in jail if he does not comply with the subpoena.
DinahMoeHum
(22,480 posts). . .just sayin'
Paladin
(28,724 posts)Gaetz is yet another radical conservative who is one step away from wearing an SS uniform in public.
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Clarity2
(1,009 posts)Its these kinds of moments that oddly keep me sane.
SunSeeker
(53,549 posts)The GOP can go fuck themselves.
yaesu
(8,147 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)I don't know maybe there is another one who we haven't heard, although if we have not heard of him/her that makes him/her more intelligent than this guy. He just likes to be seen on TV, he has no substance and when confronted his lips go into contortions...Why Floridians vote for that guy is a mystery, although how Floridians vote is a mystery anyway. Talk about a State that likes to shoot its foot every election period.
sop
(11,083 posts)Without a doubt Gaetz is a goober, and that's why he was elected to represent his fellow goobers in Florida's 1st Congressional district, the armpit of Florida. But Gohmert is the dumbest human being in Congress.
RVN VET71
(2,767 posts)But Gaetz is more deplorably sickening than Gohmert who is so dumb he's clownish. Gaetz is an arrogant sociopath, IMHO, and deserves as much humiliation as the Dems can dump on him.
Afromania
(2,785 posts)Its time, republicans add nothing to these proceedings. They offer no facts, points of interest, or relevant insights to the matter at hand. Its either grandstanding, stonewalling or licking each other asses. We should no longer humor these human jackals when they set up to do nothing except kill reasonable discussion.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)sop
(11,083 posts)Last edited Thu May 2, 2019, 06:10 PM - Edit history (1)
Jordan's constituents really should create a GoFundMe site to buy the guy a couple of cheap off-the-rack blazers, maybe even a new suit for special occasions.
samnsara
(18,281 posts)..these had their own come to Jesus moment
Hulk
(6,699 posts)This cheesy piece of rotten shit is embarrassing to Florida and to the entire country.
Way to handle this little butt licking bitch....no acknowledgement, no contention.
Tarc
(10,575 posts)I can't find any sources discussing it past early March.
SergeStorms
(19,312 posts)Matt Gaetz's district is where you'd stick the tube. Actually, the tube would be placed firmly in Gaetz's big, stupid mouth.
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)Owl
(3,703 posts)BigOleDummy
(2,274 posts)We need MORE of this to happen. Rep. Nadler has just gotten my whole hearted respect and hopefully many more than me. We HAVE to start standing up to these assholes. We cannot keep playing defense, the stakes are too high.
prodigitalson
(2,830 posts)Fuck that guy
drmeow
(5,256 posts)The GOP have treated the Dems with mind numbing disrespect - they deserve to be silenced
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,530 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)This clown is entitled trash, and a Roger Stone protege. He should go to jail.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Just looking at him makes me want to
tavernier
(13,258 posts)on the IQ scale.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)He was seething and that makes this PRICELESS.
to Nadler
northoftheborder
(7,606 posts).....doesn't say much for the rest of their side of committee