House votes to kill Gohmert-sponsored resolution to ban Democratic Party

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Washington Post

WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Tuesday killed a Republican resolution that would have effectively banned the Democratic Party or any political organization for its past history of supporting slavery and the Confederacy.

The House voted 223-to-176 to table the resolution sponsored by Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, who introduced it in July as a counter to the overwhelming, bipartisan House vote to remove statues of Confederate leaders from the Capitol.

Gohmert reintroduced the privileged resolution last week, forcing a swift procedural vote in the House that fell along near-party lines

The resolution from Gohmert also would have directed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to remove "any item that names, symbolizes, or mentions any political organization or party that has ever held a public position that supported slavery or the Confederacy, from any area within the House.

Read more: https://www.news-journal.com/news/local/house-votes-to-kill-gohmert-sponsored-resolution-to-ban-democratic-party/article_4f03d544-0321-11eb-b4ec-e33a58fb4216.html

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Link is to the Longview News-Journal.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Just the first five words of that title caught my eye...

[yesphan]

5. Good one

[Tess49]

22. Okay, that made me laugh!

[2naSalit]

25. That's what made me click on it!

[lagomorph777]

2. Gomer is a Pile of shit.

[jayfish]

20. ...

[CincyDem]

3. That someone would propose to ban on political party is deplorable but...

...the fact that 176 members were in agreement...I don't even have a work for that.

[TwilightZone]

6. That was my first thought.

[Ohiogal]

31. My first thought, as well.

[marble falls]

8. How about a three word phrase ...

Basket of Deplorables?

[yuiyoshida]

4. The Republican party ...the ANTI SCIENCE AND ANTI EDUCATION party...

If they had their choice they would ban SCIENCE... and take us back to the 1600 where they burned women they didn't care for , by calling them witches.

[marble falls]

9. Anti history party, too?

[yuiyoshida]

14. Well they CERTAINLY are ANIT DEMOCRATIC...

The Republican SENATE HATES THE Democratic Party and will keep their power even if it means supporting a dictator.

[tanyev]

7. Oh. Guess he recovered from the coronavirus.

[marble falls]

10. but not without further brain damage.

[BainsBane]

11. From the party that supports slavery TODAY.

[House of Roberts]

12. Running out of time to pass a continuing resolution

to let Trump keep destroying the country, er, fund the government.

[Historic NY]

13. Lets just ban Screwy Louie

[roamer65]

19. THIS.

[beachbumbob]

15. turn around is fair play, so how about a vote to ban the republican party as they no longer support

America, but Putin

[moonseller66]

16. Just another pot of...

republican Donorrhea!

[mdbl]

17. So Goomert thinks nothing has changed in the repuglican party since Lincoln was in office?

[Initech]

18. So I guess conservatives flying Nazi and Confederate flags would be exempt then?

[IrishEyes]

21. 220 democrats voted kill the resolution as well as 2 republicans and 1 independent.

Here are the non democrats who voted to kill the resolution

Republican
Trey Hollingsworth Indiana 9th
Adam Kinzinger Illinois 16th

Independent
Justin Amash Michigan 3rd

Also, 11 democrats and 20 republicans did not vote.

[keithbvadu2]

23. Hey, Gohmert: Thank God you republicans won that war back in the 1860s.

Hey, Gohmert: Thank God you republicans won that war back in the 1860s.

A democrat should introduce that resolution.

Surely the republicans would vote in favor.

[nykym]

24. I am guessing Louie didn't think this one out.

to remove "any item that names, symbolizes, or mentions any
political organization or party that has ever held a public position
that supported slavery or the Confederacy,
from any area within the House.

Which would include himself!

[lutherj]

26. So the southern racists who abandoned the Democratic Party after LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act put

forward a pathetic and likely unconstitutional resolution to try to counter the fact that their president, who is a blatant racist, is going down in flames. Got it. That will probably work.

[Paladin]

27. Fuck you dead, Louie. (nt)

[cstanleytech]

28. Except for the tiny tidbit that the people that would have been in a pro slavery party are now

almost all Republican.

[mainer]

29. Maybe he should have sponsored a resolution to ban white guys from office

because they were the slaveholders.

[steve2470]

30. July 14, 1933: Hitler bans all other political parties

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/law-against-the-founding-of-new-parties

You really want to go down this path, Louie ?

[rickyhall]

32. The Democratic Party has & continues to evolve. More than I can say for the Neanderthal Party.

[chwaliszewski]

33. Not this flaming turd of a twisted view of history again.......oy!

https://www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-parties-switch-platforms.html