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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongressman vows to boycott "moment of silence" on House floor
"I will not attend one more"Moment of Silence" on the Floor. Our silence does not honor the victims, it mocks them."
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/13/1538083/-Congressman-vows-to-boycott-moments-of-silence-that-have-become-an-abomination
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)and then go back to business as usual and do nothing about why a ceremony was necessary in the first place.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Saved you a click.
840high
(17,196 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)...to prevent the next one.
nilram
(2,893 posts)George Eliot
(701 posts)Wouldn't it be great if the people for reform would carry pickets outside while the gun protectors had their moments of silence? I wonder if that would even get carried on msm?
babylonsister
(171,091 posts)Cosmocat
(14,572 posts)all this $hit does is enable the pretense ...
Moostache
(9,897 posts)63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)Repugs are always big on putting a hypocritical front up so they will be outraged by this demonstration of actual principle. They are all out resupplying their lipstick supply.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)Will anybody notice. Seems like moments of silence is business as usual.