Posted on 07/29/2021 10:54:18 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck
If Kevin McCarthy understood Pelosi's game, he would call Pelosi’s bluff on arresting unmasked representatives. If nearly all Republican representatives show up on the same day without masks will Pelosi have the courage to arrest nearly half of the House? If Pelosi carries out mass-arrests of elected officials it will expose her for the tyrant that she is. If Pelosi backs down she will lose face and lose political power. Conversely, McCarthy and Republican representatives would gain political power.
Too bad that McCarthy is probably too cowardly, compromised, or moronic to seize the opportunity. He looks good on TV though……
Yep.
She’d be happy to put the GOP in the clinker, then pass some *really* crazy bills.
They should be careful. They’ll wind up in the American Gulag with the Jan 6 people.
In the Rules of the House of Representatives, the word "arrest" only appears three times in regards to quorum and voting.
A search for 'Sergeant-at-Arms" returns rules on maintaining floor privileges, impose fines for recording the proceedings on smartphones, and report ethics violations to members.
Conversely, the Constitution explicitly gives Congress immunity from arrest.
Article I Section 6:
They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.The Speaker's powers are not superior to the Constitution. I don't think she has the power to order the arrest of members who refuse to wear a mask. Congressmen have immunity from arrest on the House floor.
McCarthy should defiantly cite the Constitution and dare Pelosi to violate it.
-PJ
I'll bet sleepy Joe is glad he kept Gitmo open, he can transfer those insurrectionists down there.
Won’t happen. There is not one functioning testicle in the entire Republican House.
Kevin McCarthy is a gutless, ball-less wonder.
Of course he understands Pelosi’s game. All the RINOs do, and they play along gleefully. Their role is to merely pose as the opposition.
Don’t put this in FR ... put it on every critter’s desk !
She wouldn’t have a quorum, and there is no precedent or power for the House Speaker to imprison other House members.
She can babble all she wants about that but we aren’t in Papal Italy...yet. Her Inquisitions are nothing but hot air for the moment.
She’s out of control.
Everything he has showed me, he is one of the elites. He is not for the American citizen. Did call his office yesterday to have him take ACTION to have Pelosi Republicans removed from the caucus, but I bet he won’t do that either even though Pelosi would have done it to a Democrat who crossed her.
Just so long as the pantless representatives can still be arrested ...
So, how much room do you figure is still available in that D.C. facility for political prisoners? Can they put in the congressional suite of 6X8’s?
Completely.
>>>I don’t think the Speaker has the authority to issue these kinds of arrests.<<<
Things are a little different in Amerika . . . Nanzi can do anything that she can find a judge that will allow it and ignore the rest.
That time the Black Caucus led by John Lewis staged a sit-in on the House floor and refused to leave as a protest to slow down and stop legislation (June 22, 2016) they didn’t go to jail in a paddy wagon. Just to a 5 star restaurant later.
They were again trying to inflame emotions to pass ridiculous and anti-Constitutional rights gun grabbing laws.
Quote:
“I am prepared to stay here until hell freezes over,’’ Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said. “We’re here because we can’t take it anymore … We can’t take burying our young people.”
Sheila Jackson Lee was there with her sequined cowboy hat.
Republicans took back control of the floor at 10 p.m. amid Democrat chants, nearly 11 hours after the sit-in began. Democrats shouted “Shame! Shame!” as House business proceeded and members cast votes on measures unrelated to guns. (news story).
He doesn’t want to piss off his boss Nazi Pelousi.
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