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.
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Puerto Rico is a nation not a race.
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It is a territory of the United States, not a separate nation. Its inhabitants are American citizens.
Does PR get a vote?
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Not in Congress, nor any Federal election. They send delegates to conventions.
Then why would a puerto rican be on the floor of Congress?0
The Democrats will do anything to keep their brown people working for them.
TRIGGERING!
I love this!
They name all the rats that jumped up to object, BUT they don’t name the alledged “republican” that supposedly hollers an insult.
Odd, the “reporter” could identify all the rats objecting but not one word about the “alledged” republican.
My read this charge is baseless, made up and invented by the rats. You know, like nearly 100% of “hate crimes” are committed by the left.
Cardenas’ family hails from Mexico. He is not Puerto Rican. The reference was to the Democrat junket to Puerto Rico.
Not too long ago, just to mention “Chicago” was somehow racist.
Maybe a Congresscritter will come forward and admit he did it, butt will say he identified as a Democrat during the utterance.
You are correct, my bad..
been arguing with local leftists about the somali lady that let her kid fall out of the car and drive off..
they have been calling me racist all day for pointing out her nation of origin.
This is from the Washington Post.
BUMP
Tell this idiot. He wrote it. I dont know how stupid $h!t like this gets any traction at all. The stupidest, most outlandish crap is the only thing anyone listens to and then immediately accepts it as the conventional wisdom of the moment. Sick and tired of it.
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It’s going to be the lobbyists to tell the Dems to end the shutdown. They should go back to Puerto Rico.
Should have yelled when a White Rat took to the Podium.
Really?!
Telling someone to "Go back to West Virginia!" or "Go back to Wyoming!" is "controversial," and "potentially racially charged?!" (Both of those two states have a White majority.)
Then why should yelling "Go back to Puerto Rico!" be considered to be any different?
Regards,
Sheila Jackson Lee has her own problems right now. Congressperson Lee fired a staffer who sued her because she claimed she was raped by an employee at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
#8. They named part of the Capital after Sheila Jackson Lee. It’s called “The Rotunda”.
The same for a dance, “The Waddle”.
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