Posted on 05/14/2026 5:15:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In a refreshing display of backbone, Tennessee House speaker Cameron Sexton delivered a clear message to the Democrat caucus: Political terrorism will not be tolerated in the Volunteer State. As Sean Davis of The Federalist reported Tuesday, every single member of the House Democratic Caucus has been stripped of all standing committee and subcommittee assignments following their disgraceful conduct during last week’s special session on congressional redistricting. The offenses? Coordinated disruptions inside the Capitol, including setting fires, attacking law enforcement officers, and turning the legislative chamber into a circus.
Tennessee Republicans, wielding their well earned supermajority, moved swiftly after the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling against racial gerrymandering to pass a new congressional map. The map eliminates the state’s lone majority-black district in Memphis, carved out under decades of race-based mapmaking, and redraws lines to better reflect Tennessee’s overwhelmingly conservative electorate. The result could deliver a clean 9-0 Republican delegation in November’s midterms. Democrats, predictably, lost their minds.
The actual outrageous acts are worth cataloging in detail because the corporate media won’t.
Elected Democrat representatives, including the usual suspects Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, locked arms in the well of the House chamber, physically blocking proceedings and refusing to yield. They coordinated with raucous protesters packed into the gallery, who blasted air horns and noisemakers in an orchestrated attempt to drown out the vote. When troopers moved to enforce order and clear the chamber, confrontations escalated — pushing, shoving, and outright resistance that led to arrests, including of Pearson’s brother. And in a moment of pure symbolism that perfectly captured the left’s priorities, Rep. Jones burned a Confederate flag replica inside the Capitol building itself, later railing against Republicans as a “white sheet caucus.”
These were sitting legislators and their allies hijacking the people’s House,
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These democRAT legislators act just like their constituents.
Just ask Algore.
Conservatives in Tennessee despise Al Gore.
Someone should tell this nagger that it was the demonRAT party that founded and continued on with the KKK, the "white sheet caucus".
Senator Robert KKK Byrd of WV, was a Grand Kleagle of the Klan, and was still a member while in congress.
I wish the US Senate would wake up.
Unfortunately, a true representative government.
If those so-called “lawmakers” can act like that and get away with it, then their followers figure they can too!
The two Justins are going “Just-Us.”
In D.C., that's all republican'ts know how to do. I'll believe their era of rolling over is over, when and if it actually happens.
Republicans must respond with strength, not lectures, seminars on “democracy,” and “strongly worded letters” in the form of impotent pleas to mainstream media outlets.
Paging Trey Goudy and Jim Jordan, among many others. (and yes, I know Goudy is no longer a Congressman).
“The offenses? Coordinated disruptions inside the Capitol, including setting fires, attacking law enforcement officers, and turning the legislative chamber into a circus.“
This nonsense started in 1968 with taking over the Deans office and has been going full tilt ever since.
I don’t know why Republicans think they need to be respectful of Democrat clown shows. Actually, I do. Most of them are conducted by black Democrats under the guise of “activism” and Republicans are scared to death of being accused of racism. So the white Republicans sit there respectfully as black Democrats conduct sit-ins or scream profanities through megaphones in the legislative chambers to disrupt the sessions. At a certain point, Republicans need to grow a pair and call the Dems’ bluff. They will see what a paper tiger it all is.
The US Senate is direct-elected, not elected by the much more conservative state legislatures. This is because of the abominable 17th Amendment.
Because of this 17th Amendment, US Senators are mostly showboats, always leaning more leftward than common sense would dictate.
In the State legislatures, reality and common sense prevail, and showboats don't thrive. Showboats are too in love with demagogery and would not be respected enough to be elected by a state legislature.
Indeed this is the flaw of Democracy, and it is why we originally had a Bicameral Legislature for the US.
Or more specifically we DID, until the 17th Amendment.
Let's repeal the 17th Amendment. Also the 22nd.
Let's fix this huge mistake, and start to repair the damage of a century of progressive mob rule.
Evidence of what I am saying: any major US city.
Tennessee House speaker Cameron Sexton delivered a clear message to the Democrat caucus:
<><>every member of the Dem House Caucus is stripped of all standing committee
<><>and stripped of subcommittee assignments
<><>this follows Dems conduct at a special session on congressional redistricting.
<><>Dems incited disruptions inside the Capitol,
<><>Dems set fires, attacked l/e law enforcement officers,
<><>and turned the legislative chamber into a circus.
<><>Sexton said, “Dems political terrorism will not be tolerated in the State.”
“Political terrorism will not be tolerated in the Volunteer State.”
Excellent! The spirit of the South lives on!
Tennessee is undergoing massive change.
Lots of Conservative folks escaping Blue States and moving in.
Demographic/Political changes will follow.
Yet another reason that I am thrilled that I fled the formerly great Commonwealth of Virginia for beautiful, deep-red Tennessee. Freedom lives here.
state’s lone majority-black district in Memphis that hasn’t elected a black in almost 20 years.
Giving women the right to vote is worse. We have shifted leftward ever since.
And 2 half blacks before him.
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