Posted on 01/17/2019 5:00:45 PM PST by tcrlaf
The House floor erupted Thursday after Congress adjourned for the week when an unidentified Republican congressman yelled a controversial and potentially racially charged remark across the aisle as Democratic Rep. Tony Cárdenas was at the podium.
“Go back to Puerto Rico!” the lawmaker shouted, punctuating a stream of Republican whooping and hollering at the Democratic majority for holding a voice vote — instead of the normal roll call vote — to pass a continuing resolution that would reopen nine Cabinet departments through Feb. 28.
Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and other Democrats in the chamber shot out of their seats demanding to know who shouted the comment.
Cárdenas walked over to the Republican side of the aisle and huddled with some GOP lawmakers, but none stepped forward to admit they had shouted the remark.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
I expect to see AOC in the middle of such a melee.
The Washington Examiner -
BOLD PAC, the political arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, chartered a 737 for members, their families, and chiefs of staff to attend the weekend. The memo said the weather will be a balmy 80 degrees. The dress code is “resort casual.” This year’s winter retreat promises to be our most widely attended yet with over 220 guests, including 39 Members of Congress and CHC BOLD PAC supporters expected to attend and participate!”
The event is taking place in a seaside resort where rooms go for $429 a night. Food is being provided...Some 109 lobbyists and corporate executives are named in the memo, a rate of 3.6 lobbyists for every member. They include those from several big K Street firms, R.J. Reynolds, Facebook, Comcast, Amazon, PhRMA, Microsoft, Intel, Verizon, and unions such as the National Education Association.
full news article here:
https://washex.am/2M9FLO3
What does they Whip do?
Kramer: You better vote the way we want or we’ll whip you!
There will be no reconciliation for this. There is a psychosis sweeping the land. The cure is going to kill a lot of people.
He didn't own up to it? So what? Do the dems always own up to everything they say? I don't think so.
Incompetence? Ineptness? The House is going to see a new leader soon, this one cannot hold on much longer. During a historic government shutdown her response is to take her second vacation since the Christmas? WTF?
Some House Republicans seem to finally be growing balls.
The 2001-2009 House was ALL Rats, as complicit as their god the Fraud in crimes against America.
You, too, All Ass and No Cattle TreyG, for six of those years!
With the commie dem rats making everything about race; can a race war be expected at some point?
Human nature is when someone is accused of a crime or moral wrongdoing they didn’t do and they keep being accused of it; at some point the accused will decide to go ahead do the crime or immoral thing since they are already being accused of it.
Tell SJL to quit her rape club.
I think it’s time to bring back dueling to settle disagreements.
then again, we know what happened to Steve King, right? One wrong remark, and you’re labeled and blacklisted asap. I can see the good and bad sides to it..
“Congressman Smith’s comment was directed at all the Democrats who were vacationing down in Puerto Rico last weekend during the government shutdown, not towards any individual member,” Smith’s communications director, Joey Brown, said in an email.
By the way, the guy at the podium at the time represents California, and has a Mexican background.
What a difference a little CONTEXT makes...
how did she lift all that junk at one time?
This was about the location of the Rat retreat, wasn’t it? Good grief.
Maybe he was referring to a demonrat who went on the Puerto Rico boondoggle with the lobbyists last week.
The trip was disgusting in so many ways.
This certainly sounds like the context here.
How do we know it was “potentially racially charged remark?” Because a Republican said it. At some point, people have to stop capitulating to this claim.
They got nothing compared to senator Preston Brooks beating senator Charles Sumner with cane. Almost killed him
1856
We are just about there.
How is it racist is what I am trying to figure out.
I have a different place I would tell them to : “GO TO...”
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