House stenographer loses it during shutdown vote

[RandySF]

A stenographer for the House apparently lost it Wednesday night as lawmakers passed a government funding and debt limit deal, Roll Call reports. The stenographer began shouting about God and the Freemasons as the vote took place.

"He will not be mocked. He will not be mocked. Don't touch me. He will not be mocked," the stenographer shouted as she was taken away by U.S. Capitol Police. "The greatest deception here is not 'one nation under God.' It never was. Had it been, it would not have been."

She continued, "The Constitution would not have been written by Freemasons. They go against God."

She went on, "You cannot serve two masters. Praise be to God, Lord Jesus Christ."


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/16/house-stenographer-shutdown-vote/2998607/

[jberryhill]

1. She was reading notes for a Bachmann speech

She was just doing her job, helping one of the other stenographers compare the notes to the transcript.

[lpbk2713]

2. She was right about one thing ... you cannot serve two masters.

You can't claim to represent the people but only have the one percenters' interests at heart.

[OhioChick]

3. Fox News will pick her up as an analyst. n/t

[DURHAM D]

4. Someone should start a pool on which House Teabagger got her that job.

I bet on Cong. Huelskamp of Kansas.

[Brickbat]

5. Very, very sad. I hope she gets the help she needs. Mental illness is a terrible thing.

[bottomofthehill]

6. But it is so much more fun to laugh at the woman who just had a breakdown

Where is the compassion for this poor woman. I am with you, she is on the way to the hospital, and will get the help she needs, but the lasting embarrassment will stay with her for a long time.

[xfundy]

9. Who's laughing?

I've seen no one here laughing at this sick woman. Laughing at the ridiculous bullshit she swallowed? Yes, and for years. Because it is nonsense, and any repig in the house could have shouted out the same bullshit and no one would be surprised. They've stated their hateful "religious" views on the floor, before the press, etc., countless times.

If you choose to believe it, fine. Leave the rest of us out of it. Please stop looking for things to get outraged and "concerned" about.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. I'm sorry, I've been listening to people like Bachmann, or Dominionists- like Cruz- for a long time

and I'll be damned if I can figure out where the right-wing fundamentalism ends, and the mental illness begins.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/week-god-74

“What this says to me, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God’s end times history,” Bachmann said. “Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha Come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand. When we see up is down and right is called wrong, when this is happening, we were told this; these days would be as the days of Noah.”

[TeamPooka]

16. Religion is the disease. She's just a carrier. nt

[defacto7]

7. Another example of

religious extremism in America. This kind sits quietly in passive aggressive mode until the ecstatic trance is broken by reality. Being forced to face denial of her practiced ideology, out comes rage conjured by years of repetitive acts of unwaivering belief.

That, or she's off her meds.

[cali]

15. she had a break. odds are she's bipolar.

It's very sad.

[SummerSnow]

8. oh wow

[Warren DeMontague]

10. ... It's the "culture in crisis" kooks. For whatever reason, they're LOSING their shit

fully and completely.

Maybe they realize that they're never going to get the swear words off AMC or the smut off the intertubes. Maybe they finally figured out that no amount of trips to the Creation Museum are going to get public school children taught about how cavemen rode dinosaurs. The gays will continue to get married, and in 2 states they can celebrate their nuptuals by smoking legal weed.

And the Merkin people are just never going to rise up and demand the Barf Cartiprikit from the Kenyan Usurper in the White House.

It's the end of the world....

as we know it.

[Cha]

12. Wow.. just because we got our Debt Limit Raised and the Gov isn't Shutdown, anymore?

"U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, said the woman had a crazed look on her face, according to the Associated Press."

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. Sorensen did a toon yesterday ... I think it ffits

He did this before the incident.

[Hugin]

14. ...

'Jen' Sorensen is a 'she'.

[TeamPooka]

17. Listening to that amount of GOP BS all day long would drive anyone crazy. nt

[cali]

18. There is NOTHING remotely funny about this. the poor woman

had a very public break with reality.

I wish her the best and I wish DUers wouldn't mock someone who suffered a breakdown.

[annabanana]

19. How many like her are out there.. just imploding?

How many of them are armed? This will be the last straw, I fear, for a number of seriously unstable individuals.