Silencing Elizabeth Warren backfires on Senate GOP

[Thage]

I don't understand why she was silenced when the others were allowed to read the letter. I'm normally not on the whole sjw "patriarchy" bullshit, but this really look suspicious.

I guess McConnel cowardly decided to not try to silence another Dem Senator after he did Warren?

But Elizabeth Warrern sure as hell is the wrong person to try and censor.

One way or another, McConnell just hurled napalm onto the fire. 2018 midterms are gonna be interesting considering the GOP seems determined to keep the Dem voter base chomping at the bit rather than encouraging voter apathy to keep them at home.

[Nadiru]

What did she say that was so out of bounds? Please tell me because that letter was something the senate received few decades ago.

She implied a letter received almost 30 years ago is relevant to the character of a man today, and wouldn't stop with this line of attack until footage of Coretta Scott King thanking Jeff Sessions emerged to repudiate the substance of the letter. I've said this before in this thread, but it bears repeating: By that rationale, Robert Byrd is still a hood-wearing KKK member because according to the Dems, or at least to Liz Warren, people can never ever change.

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One way or another, McConnell just hurled napalm onto the fire. 2018 midterms are gonna be interesting considering the GOP seems determined to keep the Dem voter base chomping at the bit rather than encouraging voter apathy to keep them at home.

McConnell is playing the long game, which is more far-sighted than I give him credit for being. By encouraging constant rage he's fostering emotional exhaustion amongst the voterbase and among independents. People are already pushing the Dems to find a way to work with Trump on week 3, how do you think this plays out in another hundred?

[ati87]

She implied a letter received almost 30 years ago is relevant to the character of a man today, and wouldn't stop with this line of attack until footage of Coretta Scott King thanking Jeff Sessions emerged to repudiate the substance of the letter. I've said this before in this thread, but it bears repeating: By that rationale, Robert Byrd is still a hood-wearing KKK member because according to the Dems, or at least to Liz Warren, people can never ever change.

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McConnell is playing the long game, which is more far-sighted than I give him credit for being. By encouraging constant rage he's fostering emotional exhaustion amongst the voterbase and among independents. People are already pushing the Dems to find a way to work with Trump on week 3, how do you think this plays out in another hundred?

So you can use the ''accomplishments'' of the same period but not the criticism of that period?

Pff get over it, Senator Warren wasn't reading Mein Kampf she was reading a non controversial letter that's still relevant today. The very fact that they tried to shut her up is borderline fascism

[KrazyK923]

People are already pushing the Dems to find a way to work with Trump on week 3, how do you think this plays out in another hundred?

lol they are? you mean trump supporters?

This is some nice delusion.

[alexw]

lol they are? you mean trump supporters?

This is some nice delusion.

Meanwhile back in reality....... (go to the 20 min mark for the crowds views on Trump) and this is in deep deep red Utah.....

[Elegiac]

McConnell is playing the long game, which is more far-sighted than I give him credit for being. By encouraging constant rage he's fostering emotional exhaustion amongst the voterbase and among independents. People are already pushing the Dems to find a way to work with Trump on week 3, how do you think this plays out in another hundred?

If by 'people' you mean 'Republicans crying about the Democrats doing what the GOP was doing for the past six years', sure.

There's not really any indication that the Leftbagger movement is going to go away. The call is overwhelmingly for a hardline stance of noncooperation and noncompliance.

[Espe]

ABernie supporters(of which I was one) were extremely disenfranchised

We get it, you're upset that you didn't get your way so now you're gleefully cheering on while right-wingers cause mass harm to US citizens.

How big of you.

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I thought it was #NeverRemember the Bowling Green Massacre.

They're generating hashtag like crazy. We have #ShePersisted from this. And now #LongOverdue. If you haven't seen that last one, it's from something Senator Graham said about this.

Yeah, telling a woman to shut up and then letting the men in the room say the exact same thing is straight out of the GOP playbook.

More and more women getting into politics now. Let's just hope it's not too late for this country.

[Berndorf]

We get it, you're upset that you didn't get your way so now you're gleefully cheering on while right-wingers cause mass harm to US citizens.

How big of you.

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Yeah, telling a woman to shut up and then letting the men in the room say the exact same thing is straight out of the GOP playbook.

More and more women getting into politics now. Let's just hope it's not too late for this country.

You actually don't get anything but don't let that get in the way of thinking you do. There is absolutely no mass harm going on right now either except the fragile egos of people who are part of the anti Trump hysteria wave sweeping the internet. People need to grow up and learn to stop allowing the media to control them like programmed drones.

[Espe]

People need to grow up and learn to stop allowing the media to control them like programmed drones.

Maybe you should take your own advice, champ?

I was referring to the GOP party platform that they are now forcing into legislation, that causes mass harm to US citizens several times over. We're talking about a party platform that compares gays to animals and wants to shove christianity into our public classrooms (if public schools even still exist), and that is just the tip of the iceberg.

You have to be obstinately, willfully ignorant of objective reality to be perfectly fine with what is happening in the US political system right now. Oh wait, I forgot who I was talking to for a moment

[Alydael]

Why do you need a safe space? And here I thought the right hated political correctness.

Get over it.........this just shows how extreme the right in the US has become when a a guy that wasn't suited for a job years ago because of his racist behavior now becomes the AG

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The idea behind that law wasn't that you could't criticize you're opponents, it's about treating them with respect.

https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...ml#document/p1

The only people that get offended by this are alt-right scum that never liked the fact they African-Americans should be treated equally.

Please, your whole party needs a "safe space," you are the ones crying in the street over your loss. You can throw Warren in there too, with all her crying.

The Dems/Libs don't get it- the rules apply to everyone. Even you, special snowflake!

As for the "not fit for the job." Who determined he was "not fit for the job?" The Dems/ Libs? Yeah, that carries a lot of weight.....

[stomination]

That seems fairly solid for a politician with a limited national profile.

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http://www.vox.com/2017/2/8/14546474...warren-merkley

And then u left out that he omitted the parts of the letter that broke the rules till his last 2 sentences of his "speech".

[BrerBear]

She implied a letter received almost 30 years ago is relevant to the character of a man today, and wouldn't stop with this line of attack until footage of Coretta Scott King thanking Jeff Sessions emerged to repudiate the substance of the letter. I've said this before in this thread, but it bears repeating: By that rationale, Robert Byrd is still a hood-wearing KKK member because according to the Dems, or at least to Liz Warren, people can never ever change.

Nope.

LIE LIE LIE.

Are you embarrassed yet for putting words in the mouth of a dead woman? Shameful.

[Vynestra]

People actually still care what Goofy Elizabeth "Dances with Donors" Warren has to say?

and they will when she's president.

Mitch McConnell just made it that much easier for her.