Posted on 02/05/2021 9:44:13 AM PST by USA Conservative
A proposal from Florida Republican Matt Gaetz that every meeting of the House Judiciary Committee begin with a recital of the Pledge of Allegiance was given short shrift by his Democratic colleague in a video that has been viewed nearly a million times.
Gaetz, who has served as the U.S. representative for Florida’s 1st congressional district since 2017, shared a clip of the exchange on his Twitter account. In it, the Trump-supporting GOP congressman asked that the Pledge of Allegiance be recited at the start of each committee session.
Gaetz suggested it would be a “great, unifying patriotic moment.” But the committee chair, New York Democrat Jerry Nadler, explained that the pledge is already taken at the start of the day in the House and that a second pledge before the committee would be “unnecessary.”
The Daily Caller obtained a video file from the hearing which included audio of a group of Democrats joking about Republicans’ request to have the pledge of allegiance recited before committee hearings.
In the video, you can hear Tennessee Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen and an unidentified House Democrat appearing to joke about the request.
They were reminded by a staffer that their microphones were hot, according to the audio.
Click the video below to hear what they said!
(Don't know how to get the link from the video)
Gaetz and Nadler have butted heads on the committee numerous times, from the Mueller investigation to matters of President Trump’s impeachment.
Some took Gaetz’s request as “virtue signaling,” while others thought Nadler’s response made the pledge seem like an obligation.
What a bunch of scumbags.
Fing traitors
They should recite the loyalty oath to the Chinese government before each Congressional event.
“All this for a pledge?” A little moochie paraphrase.
These reprobates have self-identified. We need to give them to Jesus. Let Him take control. We have to ask the Lord what our every move should be in life. JESUS is our ONLY answer. JESUS is our ONLY hope.
Truly disgusting people. The Bible calls them “mockers” and that is all they are. Self-indulgence narcissists!
Gaetz likes to get attention. Wore a gas mask on House floor last year. Offered to resign to help Trump. Hope he doesn’t disappoint in the end.
Biblically speaking, they be a loathsome bunch, them Dems.
They feeeel no so shame, no blame, their only agenda is complete and total control over every facet of our lives, and in some cases, demanding the lives&fortunes of those who don’t goosestep to their waltz of death&destruction.
Hell has a special place reserved for all of them.
Biblically speaking, they be a loathsome bunch, them Dems.
They feeeel no so shame, no blame, their only agenda is complete and total control over every facet of our lives, and in some cases, demanding the lives&fortunes of those who don’t goosestep to their waltz of death&destruction.
Hell has a special place reserved for all of them.
Am I deaf or just didn’t hear what the big deal was on this call.
“Duck and Cover” Hell, I would laugh at that because it shows your age...
that cohen, what a dipshit...hard to believe he is a representative from tennessee...
Put the Chinese flag up in the House and all of them will stand up and recite the Pledge.
The Democrats have been laughing at the GOP since Clinton.
People need to realize these morons are communists now....and they installed a communist dictator.
We remember that!! It didn’t stop her from going to Arlington National Cemetery on inauguration day with her hubby and all the other hypocrites, did it? What a pathetic sight that was.. She still doesn’t get it - never will!
Nadler has a point, if the pledge has already been recited on any given day prior to a committee being gaveled to order, it’s unnecessary to recite it again. But since Dems have a long and ignoble history of brazenly both proclaiming their disdain for American ideals and a demonstrated disloyalty to the US Constitution (in addition to an outright hostility to the sovereignty of the American people) it wouldn’t be entirely out of character for the most arrogant among them to mock the Pledge of Allegiance if their insults would go unrecorded.
I don’t understand, either, unless I’m missing something, too. They all recite the Pledge at the beginning of the day. Why recite it at the beginning of each committee meeting, too?
These clowns will make fun of someone one too many times! Just a prediction!
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