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GOP congressman tries to have Parkland dad ejected from hearing on gun violence
"If we really cared about safer streets, we would build a wall and secure the border."
FRANK DALE at Think Politics
https://thinkprogress.org/matt-gaetz-parkland-shooting-gun-violence-house-judiciary-committee-hearing-lucy-mcbath-jerry-nadler-5125202b1966/
"SNIP....
The House held its first hearing on gun violence in eight years on Wednesday, an emotional event that featured speeches from relatives of gun victims and school shooting survivors.
Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee could be seen wiping tears from their eyes during testimony. That was not the case, however, for Republicans at the hearing.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) tried to get the parent of a Parkland victim removed from the hearing room, then began ranting about illegal aliens and shouting if we really cared about safer streets, we would build a wall and secure the border.
......
Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was murdered in the Parkland school shooting last year, noted that most Republicans on the panel left the room roughly 15 minutes into the hearing.
.....SNIP"
SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)malaise
(269,187 posts)Get thee to the greatest page
kwolf68
(7,365 posts)Put carcinogens in our water and air, wage perpetual war, ignore parents who's children are gunned down because of your inability to promote sensible safeguards on these instruments of death.
You don't even have the stones to sit through a testimony. The Republicans are ignorant fascists, but maybe most importantly they are cowards.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Is the most deplorable of the deplorable. He is a true fucking idiot and he deserves the worst. This is the kind of politician the NRA loves.
ZapataViva
(60 posts)They do tend to whine, don't they? It's so refreshing seeing them in the MINORITY.
RockRaven
(15,013 posts)Or at least install a breathalyzer lock on his microphone like they do with drunks and car ignitions (Gaetz has got a DUI history).
sheshe2
(83,931 posts)I want to weep for America.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)But clearly some dead kids are "worth more" than others, to put it in terms the pro-forced childbirth brigade would understand.
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)NRA supporters would rather have dead children than gun control.
To the gun industry, dead children are merely collateral damage/acceptable losses for gun industry profits and political donations.
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Joe The Plumber: Your Dead Kids Dont Trump My Constitutional Rights To Have Guns
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/joe-the-plumber-guns_n_5397981.html
kacekwl
(7,022 posts)please use it for all it is worth . Talking to you Democratic leadership.
PSPS
(13,618 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,635 posts)I wouldn't drive theough his district, let alone ever live in a place who would elect such an ass. What is up with FL? Is it one step forward and two steps back for politicians in that state.
Chris Hayes just showed this on his show tonight. Good!
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)This is the jerk who used his father's influence to get out of a DUI and received 16 speeding tickets between 1999 and 2014. Last year he invited a white supremacist holocaust denier to the State of the Union address. He couldn't be much more worthless.
forgotmylogin
(7,533 posts)TNNurse
(6,929 posts)Did this father do or say something in particular that set this despicable person off???
onenote
(42,769 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 7, 2019, 12:09 PM - Edit history (1)
What Gaetz was saying. The Committee chair admonished them for doing so but a short while later one of the did it again
TNNurse
(6,929 posts)and they could no longer sit quietly and take it.
onenote
(42,769 posts)But I've attended hundreds of Congressional hearings, and have only seen someone speak out from the audience a couple of times and they've been admonished to stop and/or have been removed from the hearing.
Gaetz is a low life who is barely qualified to flip burgers, let alone serve as a member of Congress. But the story should have presented the context rather than ignoring it.
George II
(67,782 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)That really can't be emphasized enough.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Last edited Wed Feb 6, 2019, 11:45 PM - Edit history (1)
Find a rethug that's not "hateable" at some level.
I hate them all.
47of74
(18,470 posts)And I don't care what people think of me for doing so either.
Fuzzpope
(602 posts)That the Parkland shooter was an illegal immigrant.
Learn something new every day..
barbtries
(28,811 posts)but just in case, he isn't. he's homegrown.
Fuzzpope
(602 posts)PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)I've never seen a more disgusting excuse for a human in my life. He doesn't have one ounce of self respect. He'll say anything to become Faux News' hero.
nkpolitics1212
(8,617 posts)riversedge
(70,311 posts)Shame on them.
Vinca
(50,310 posts)it was his kid laying on the ground with his brains splayed around him. He might not even get it then.
Gothmog
(145,619 posts)This congressman is pond scum.
No parent should have to bury their child
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)... artificial "sound bite" time limitation. I, for one, was very impressed at his depth of knowledge and sticking to facts rather than histrionics!
kentuck
(111,110 posts)They will be lucky if they are not charged with breaking some law.