Male GOP House members try to block women from speaking on health care

[kpete]

Run time: 01:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewafPV2brQA   Posted on YouTube: November 07, 2009 By YouTube Member: MediaMattersAction Views on YouTube: 141675   Posted on DU: November 07, 2009 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 644

 
The Republicans are trying to turn the House of Representatives into a zoo in an effort to impede debate over healthcare reform. At present, they are interrupting every short speech by a group of Democratic women legislators.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/11/7/111911/426

A group of male GOP House members, just tried to repeatedly block a group of female Democratic House members from speaking on the House floor. The Democrats wanted to speak about how Health Care Reform was important for women. The men would have nothing of it. Typical. Oh, did I just hear the "socialist" word?
http://www.americablog.com/2009/11/gop-house-members-tr...

[av8rdave]

1. Pardon my french, but...

what a fucking asshole!

[Demoiselle]

2. Who WAS that asshole, anyway?

I've seen him before. (Once is too many times, by the way.)

[av8rdave]

3. I have no idea, but it's pretty obvious what his marching orders were

[lumpy]

11. Sounds like Dan Burton. Again.

Fucking pigs

[Baltoman991]

4. As a male

this just disgusts me beyond words.

How any woman in this country can't see that to Republicans, they're nothing, is beyond me. These fucking idiots on the right have taken us further back into the cave man days.

Pardon my language but fuck every one of those assholes and fuck Foxx and any other female Republican congressperson for standing idly by why their "men", and I don't mean that they're real men because they're not, but while Republican congressmen try to shut down women from having a voice.

I have been watching this all morning and I am just livid. It's time for Democrats to tell the right and the fucking blue dogs to shut the fuck up and get out of the way.

[amb123]

5. Dean of the House John Dingell was in the chair and

I also think this was an attempt to rattle and confuse him because of his age (83) which makes this act even more despicable. But he was in command and didn't waiver.

[FarLeftFist]

6. Tom Price R-Georgia

He wrote the republican HC bill known as HR 3400

[lobodons]

7. Tom Price Georgia 6th District

What is it with the 6th district and wingnuttery?? (Bachmann MN 6th as well)

http://tom.house.gov /

I watched this live and my hats off to Congressman Dingell. If I had the gavel, this nutcase would have been thrown out on his arse.

[Grassy Knoll]

8. What a bunch of little kids.....

It's no surprise that Obama can't get a lot done with this shit in the house.

[Nostalgic]

9. It looks like the repugs are trying everything they can think of to delay the vote.

[Botany]

10. They have nothing so they just want to be a pain in the ass

If they can't follow the rules they need to be tossed out of the House chamber.

[Tx4obama]

12. K & R nt

[tomm2thumbs]

13. women in America take note of GOP bullies attacking women

seems to me they are going to have some fine footage for election races next year - the obstuctionists are not only game players, they are bullies to women

[ljm2002]

14. Infuriating...

...even if I do have qualms about the bill itself, it is absolutely unacceptable that they are allowed to use those tactics against the female Democratic members of the House who were exercising their rights as members of the House to make their statements.

How fucking dare they.

If I was there, I swear I would have charged one of those assholes. Fucking worms.