For many of us, Congress has become a circus like environment with two parties exercising a duopoly of power despite record levels of contempt from voters for their conduct and policies. For sane people, Congress simply could not get more bizarre. Think again. At the height of the vote to end the government shutdown, Dianne Reidy, an official reporter with the Office of the Clerk, took the mike and began to condemn Congress (starting out well) and then rave against Freemasons (ending not so well). The most troubling thing about the scene? For many voters, she still seemed the most sane and honest person in the chamber.
Reidy calmly took the rostrum and began shouting “the House is divided . . . He will not be mocked . . . This is not one nation under God. It never was. . . The greatest deception here is this is not one nation under god! It never was. Had it been, it would not have been! The Constitution would not have been written by Freemasons!”
Members immediately demanded that she be withdrawn. Only 435 unhinged individuals are allowed to scream uncontrollably in the chamber so Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen, R-Fla. ordered her removed. Besides any of the members could easily show that this was nearly the “greatest deception” in Congress.
Here it is with better audio:
Outhouses…. Houses of Congress…white house….. All places for the creation of Krap…..
SWM, that was an excellent Borowitz posting. He kind of nailed it. I typed ‘Borowitz satire’ first but changed it, because it wasn’t satire at all. Sadly.
I know dudes who would consider that alien chick, hot!
sb “coalition”, not “colition”.
Jake, If a collition of Senators and Representatives had this or the looming fight on a platform of stopping the war: get out of Afghanistan immediately, get our residual force out of Iran immediately, stop -just stop sending Karzi dufflel bags full of money monthly, stop buying weapons that no one wants and will never use, scrap the security state, cut defense spending by 50%, raise the taxes on the wealth class and their legal fictions etc. etc. I would have been praising them and saying it’s worth the brinkmanship. Worth burning down the house for instead of the slow-bleed that is killing us as a nation.
But it wasn’t. It was just mean spirited, withered soul teabag conservatism with a foundation of racism. Here’s what the Republicans wanted, read it and weep:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/rachel-maddow-shutdown-republican-chart_n_4114662.html
Just when you thought Congress could not get any more bizarre. Well, I don’t think they are bizarre. The Congress is representative of the people in the districts who elected them. So, by definition that is par for the course, not bizarre. Ted Cruz represents people in his state of Texas. Not all, but a close cigar– which is what Monica said but I am not going there. Congress has learned from the People. It was only 40 years ago that we the People went to Washington DC on May Day as a May Day Tribe to Shut Down The Government Until Government Shuts Down The War. Well, Congress learned to shut down the government and it did hurt the war effort in this war. By shutting down the government the people saw that money is short and the war in Afghanistan is expensive. All in all the Representatives in Congress were representing us by shutting down the government. If that lady was off her knoggin a bit then it is par for the course.
Juliet N, 🙂 Great quote.
Robin: I’ve always had my doubts about you, but the verdicts in. You’re a nut job.
Jean: I’m rubber; you’re glue; whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you. That’s the level on which your conversation is taking place. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
At least I didn’t call you a racist which was my first inclination, I was being nice.
Robin: “aka jewish cabalist bankers”
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You forgot ‘baby eating’ as in ‘Jewish, baby-eating, cabalist bankers’. All of the hate-filled, conspiracy literature I saw in the early 70’s made that point very clearly. And they use the mud-people and other flawed-by-birth peoples to advance their cause. In fact, the only people you can even begin to trust is white people, but you have to quiz them about their beliefs because so many of them, liberals and Democrats, have been brainwashed. The books always started with economic instability, moved to the Jewish banking conspiracy and ended up at white supremacy. As night follows day.
Srsly, you are spending too much time and energy taking the white-supremacist conspiracy arguments to heart. The conspiracies are bigger than that and the architects less obvious. Who, after all, do you think started the rumors about the Jewish banking conspiracy? You are operating at one of the lower levels of the conspiracy hierarchy, don’t get stuck there, it stigmatizes you even in the eyes of other conspiracists.
We no longer recognize the crazies from the zealots, that’s scary enough, but notice, there are both religious based.
funny that no matter how much people are shown absolute proof that the masons aka jewish cabalist bankers are the cause of whats happening to the world right now. they sit there and do all they can to deny it.. its no longer a myth they’ve been shown the proof over and over. so the only thing left to wonder is how many on here are masons? or eastern stars? the internet offers all the proof needed to accept the truth of the matter … lmao the writing is on the walls, in the hallways, in the court rooms, on the banks, on plagues sitting on desks ,on the paper money made out of air, even in the language like ex accreditation , polietricks,wall street, banks, internal revenue service, eminent domain, military etc … but hey lets sit around here calling those who are speaking the truth crazy. while we sit around being enslaved and thinking we are free and can do what we want. But hey tavistock has done their job well. they’ve given the people polls to change their behavior, a history of lies to make them feel superior, and brainwashed them into believing the lies as absolute truth
See, Robin, this kind of bigoted gibberish is exactly why you will not be taken seriously here. In the words of R.J. Eskow, “Talking with you guys is like being on a first date that’s going really well, until all of a sudden she starts talking about her alien abduction and how space people are speaking to her through her fillings.”
Regarding the stenographer, I’m with Gary T, she is the avatar for the mental and political disintegration in the house, and more largely the party. She’s the wildly spinning weather-vane on the barn as a massive, possibly tornadic storm system moves in.
Jean, people don’t like Ted Cruz because he’s a self-aggrandizing berzerker. He would crash the reserve currency for half the world and turn the US into the new Greece to fill his campaign coffers.
What exactly was a Senator doing mentoring and counseling members of the House? Bonner should have had his foot up Mitch McConnell’s azz for not having Cruse under control, or at least tied to a chair and gagged in some Senate closet somewhere. Ted Cruz pulled a coup on the historical division of the houses of Congress and the Speaker of the House and was a prime agitator for a coup against the will of the citizens and the democratic process.
He isn’t in the game for the party or the country, he’s in it for Ted Cruz and what Ted Cruz want’s. That’s why people don’t like Ted Cruz: he’s a dangerous sociopath and so are his devoted supporters.
To lattakatz I applauded Cruz as a breath of fresh air. We are spending our way to oblivion. You go hug Reid but not me…I can’t get up off my chair because I can no longer afford pants. If someone does not agree with you they are sociopath pleaaasee!
I have finally experienced the “WordPress Vortex of Doom”. Two of my attempts to post on the corrections thread disappeared. Could any guest blogger who sees them rescue one of them.
People don’t like Ted Cruz cause he’s white!
People who hate Ted Cruz are RACIST! 1, October 17, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Only racists do not like Ted Cruz
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Everyone is a racist then.
Only racists do not like Ted Cruz
“Does the number 17 trillion ring a bell?”
Yep, a great big dumb bell: Bush Tax Cuts
Oh, another one: War of Luxury
Cue the song; Dancing in the Street
nick,
I really liked Juliet N.’s “vortex of doom” characterization of wp’s filter