The House stages “sit in”
3E9 sends a link to the news that, frustrated by the failure of Senate Democrats to pass any gun control legislation, John Lewis staged a sit in on the House floor today;
“Sometimes you have to do something out of the ordinary. Sometimes you have to make a way out of no way. We have been too quiet for too long,” the Democratic civil rights leader said, as nearly 30 of his colleagues came to join him on the floor. “There comes a time when you have to say something, when you have to make a little noise, when you have to move your feet. This is the time. Now is the time to get in the way. The time to act is now. We will be silent no more.”
The group the[n] chanted from the floor: “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired!” and “No bill, no break!” while the House remained in recess as of 1 p.m. ET.
Good for them – it worked so well for them in the 60s, they should try it again. It might be harder for them to get up off the floor now than it did 50 years ago, though. I know it is for me.
And former President Bill Clinton tweeted his encouragement, writing, “This is leadership” and linking to Lewis’ tweet about the sit-in.
Yeah, leadership. A bunch of old farts sitting on the floor (probably for the first time in their lives) is going to change the world. They should just sit there for the next two years, too – think how much that would change stuff!!! Better yet, they can all go on strike – just go home and don’t collect their pay and benefits for a couple of years, that would teach us a lesson, let me tell you! And they’d be doing a better service for their country than when they sit in chairs in the House.
Category: Politics
In other news, Sen Chris Murphy (D. CT) insists that it’s not fair to judge gun control based on whether or not it works. (from the 19 June airing of ABC’s “This Week”)
That noise you hear is me trying not to choke while I’m laughing.
The brains are DEAD with Murphy!
“There has to be some form of filtration system to stop the maniacs getting their hands on wepons with which they can murder inocent citizens, as well as our children, woman and friends.”
That comment from FB well illustrates the situation faced by pols and their silly, asinine responses by passing meaningless laws that do nothing to stop bad people from doing bad things with firearms. The pols aren’t all so stupid as to think that laws actually stop crims. But by passing more laws they are doing something, and that’s the important thing, not desired results. What can be done? A good start would be to have minimum sentencing that is truly mandatory, that is not subject to early release or reduction by a judge. I would be happy to work up a schedule but–and here’s the big ole butt–it would have to be enacted by the feds and all 50 states. Short of that, the only effective way to stop the maniacs is to either destroy all firearms (poof!) or kill everyone, with the last guy promising to kill himself when everyone else is gone.
So ‘our children, women and friends’ are not innocent citizens? Not citizens at all?
One alternative is mandatory firearms training in school, starting in grade 4 up through 12, and in college, and show proof in order to be eligible to vote. But that wouldn’t make the paranoids happy, would it? It would stop them from feeling good about themselves.