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Analysis: Forget the Warren Slap-Down, Does 'Rule 19' Hold the Key to...?
Townhall.com ^ | February 8, 2017 | Guy Benson

Posted on 02/08/2017 3:16:38 PM PST by Kaslin

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The rest of the title is Does 'Rule 19' Hold the Key to Overcoming a SCOTUS Filibuster?
1 posted on 02/08/2017 3:16:38 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
The optics aren't good.

What absolute horsecrap.

Women in the Senate are old hat, from Mikulski to Kassebaum to - yes - Clinton.

Why would anyone voluntarily perpetuate the double standard of don't-hit-the-girls?

Warren is an irritant. A harpy. A loudmouth. A demagogue. She is no better and in many ways worse than Harry Reid with his Droopy Dog mumbling. They are all cowards, relying on Senate parliamentary protections to slander any member of the body or any citizen.

She was made to look a fool and a bully who had her bluff called. Those are the only relevant optics and ones worth celebrating.

2 posted on 02/08/2017 3:22:37 PM PST by relictele (`)
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To: Kaslin

>>Forget the Warren Slap-Down,

Uhuh.

Forget...

“The defendants initially requested the judge acquit them and then later offered to plead guilty to the election crimes—facts Adams notes were omitted in Patrick’s written statement and severely undercut the claim that Sessions should not be trusted, given his record of bringing the unnecessary case
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/06/naacp-sessions-voter-fraud-prosecutions-intimidating-voters/

..the FACTS in that case.




3 posted on 02/08/2017 3:23:34 PM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Kaslin

“... to effectively call Sessions a racist who’s sought to disenfranchise black voters, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell intervened.”

He invoked Rule 19, which prohibits any member from taking to the floor and “directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator.

Wow, so much fun! I watched the video and was struck (first time ever) that McConnell finally seemed to be worthy of his position.

TEAM TRUMP = MAGA...


4 posted on 02/08/2017 3:33:02 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: relictele

Benson is a never trumper.


5 posted on 02/08/2017 3:35:08 PM PST by dforest
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To: relictele

We have a winner!!!


6 posted on 02/08/2017 3:36:14 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: Kaslin
NEW HEADLINE:

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Disciplined For Disrepecting The Memory Of Martin Luther King Jr.

Warren was criticized for using a Coretta King letter in a clumsy fund raising scheme.

This is not the first time Warren has been called out for racist insensitivity and using race to advance her own personal fortunes.

The Senator is also known as Lyin' Lizzie, Fauxahontis and Lie-A-Watha for falsely claiming Native American heritage as a way to scam her former employer and others.


7 posted on 02/08/2017 3:37:03 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Iron Munro
The Senator is also known as Lyin' Lizzie, Fauxahontis and Lie-A-Watha for falsely claiming Native American heritage as a way to scam her former employer and others.

Don't forget "Crockajawea."

8 posted on 02/08/2017 3:38:21 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: Publius
Don't forget "Crockajawea."

Thank You.

Reader input is always welcome.

We'll try to get that in the Late Edition.


9 posted on 02/08/2017 3:46:47 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Iron Munro

Excellent headline


10 posted on 02/08/2017 4:04:42 PM PST by Kaslin ( Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible)
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To: Kaslin
The optics aren't good.

They must have been. I laughed my ass off!

11 posted on 02/08/2017 4:14:13 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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Jeff Session broke the back of the KKK in Alabama. Bad people went to jail because of this. How many KKK members has Elizabeth Warren put in jail!

See link below for what Jeff Sessions did. He is a damn good man.

http://yellowhammernews.com/politics-2/sessions-broke-back-kkk-alabama-now-media-wants-think-hes-racist/


12 posted on 02/08/2017 4:14:47 PM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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To: Kaslin
I share Republicans' contempt for Warren's poisonous race-baiting (especially coming from a disgraceful racial impostor), but I'm not persuaded that quoting other people's recycled attacks on Sessions rises to the level of triggering this procedural reprimand. Separately, I lean toward favoring free-wheeling debate over presidential appointments in general; the selection of a Senator should not insulate that person from intense, or even unfair, criticism.

She knew what she was doing. She had the option of alluding to or describing what was in the letter. It could have been damning to Sessions but still within the rules, and she didn't take that option. She understood what the consequences would be and can't pretend that it was a surprise to her.

The optics aren't good. Telling a woman to effectively 'sit down and shut up' as she quotes Coretta Scott King isn't a great look, regardless of the context (and I concede that the context matters here, just as I acknowledge that a great many voters will never hear it). Also, it makes Warren into a martyr, breathing life into her obnoxious heroine complex.

Maybe McConnell wanted to feed her martyr complex. Maybe it's part of a strategy to make the Democrats even crazier than they've been. It could have been part of a strategy to boost her as a possible presidential candidate -- a candidate who would be easy to beat in 2020.

13 posted on 02/08/2017 4:29:24 PM PST by x
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Am I the only getting tired of treating women with chivalry? I’m 46 and my whole life I’ve heard women can do ANYTHING a man can do, and maybe better. They compete with men for jobs and so many of them point out that they are strong and independent.

So the fake Indian can go take a long walk off a short pier if she tries to play the poor little woman card. In fact she can just go F herself for being a worthless libtard!


14 posted on 02/08/2017 4:46:29 PM PST by BJ1
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Tiresome double standard that is invoked by RINO squishes more often than even Dems.

If she is going to be the face of the loony left I don’t care if she’s male, female or other.


15 posted on 02/08/2017 4:54:28 PM PST by relictele (`)
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To: Kaslin

This Guy Benson is in need of a pussyhat. What a total wuss to cave like an establishment repub once the Senate finally does something right.
I can barely find an article these days that doesn’t piss me off in one way or another.


16 posted on 02/08/2017 5:33:43 PM PST by JerseyDvl (PRESIDENT TRUMP trumps hate and racism! Put some ice on it Hitlery ;-)
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To: Publius

You forgot “sitting Bulls***”!


17 posted on 02/08/2017 5:54:32 PM PST by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: Iron Munro

Excellent sessions fauxahontis headline


18 posted on 02/08/2017 6:55:36 PM PST by Luigi Vasellini (End the political class.......TERM LIMITS NOW!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: cpdiii

excellent sessions so called racism link


19 posted on 02/08/2017 6:56:46 PM PST by Luigi Vasellini (End the political class.......TERM LIMITS NOW!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: x; stephenjohnbanker; GOPJ
Maybe McConnell wanted to feed her martyr complex. Maybe it's part of a strategy to make the Democrats even crazier than they've been. It could have been part of a strategy to boost her as a possible presidential candidate -- a candidate who would be easy to beat in 2020.

That might be it. It's hard to imagine a worse leader than "centrist" Hillary though. Many Dems believe that a younger version of Bernie would have beaten Trump.

20 posted on 02/08/2017 7:02:02 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)
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