House Majority Overrides Repubs Objections to Pelosi's Commemts!

[orangecrush]

UPDATE 5:35 p.m.:

The House voted along party lines to allow Speaker Nancy Pelosi to refer to President Donald Trump's tweets about minority Democratic lawmakers as "racist," overriding House rules and GOP objections.

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The nearly two-hour long delay threw the House into chaos and pushed back a final vote on a resolution condemning Trump's rhetoric. That vote is now expected late Tuesday night.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/07/16/pelosi-trump-racism-resolution-1417365

[orangecrush]

2. Every day we get closer

To kicking him out on his rump.

Patience?

Hell no.

I'm going to bitch, scream and push for it until it happens.

[warmfeet]

23. Thank you.

I will do the same.

[orangecrush]

29. ...

[Goodheart]

3. If the rule says the Leader can't call trump a racist.... CHANGE THE STUPID RULE.

[Thekaspervote]

5. I believe that's what they did

[True Blue American]

30. Nancy cleared her speech with

Before she gave it.

[gratuitous]

11. Those Republicans are just sticklers for rules and legislative customs, aren't they?

Any Republicans whining about how the House broke its own rules needs to have "Merrick Garland" dinned into their ears until they cry for mercy.

[marked50]

12. Absolutely--"Remember the Hypocrites" is the Refrain

[demosincebirth]

26. I'd refer to him as something else. I have a few choice ones.

[FirstLight]

4. fuck this dancing around bullshit.... nail his ass to the fucking wall! n/t

[Thekaspervote]

7. Frankly I'm glad we play by the rules, change them when needed, but we do not want to do what

The gopeeee is doing. We are the party of laws and rules. That’s what divides us and makes us better than them!!

[FirstLight]

13. yes, true.... BUT

even "playing by the rules" we could be doing so much MORE!

[DownriverDem]

17. Agree

In fact folks who keep yelling about getting what they want now and ignore the rules hurt us all.

[dem4decades]

6. She should have seen that coming and gotten the vote in before the 6PM news.

[Thekaspervote]

9. Now wait... she asked the parliamentarian ahead of her speech if it was correct and was told yes

She did what she had to and did it the right way. That’s what makes us better. I don’t want to be like them!!

[LiberalFighter]

15. Yep! I heard that too.

[DownriverDem]

18. Come on

Focus please.

[Hekate]

8. She persisted. When the final vote comes tomorrow, it wll pass along Party lines. It will pass...

...because Dems have a majority in one House of Congress. Imagine if we had a majority in two.

Bless Mme Speaker. I'm with her.

[Thekaspervote]

10. Yes.. hx will smile on madam speaker

[shanti]

14. The final vote is going on now

about 8 minutes left.

[LiberalFighter]

16. If I read the rules right. Pelosi did not call Trump a racist.

She called his statements racist.

[yaesu]

19. what is happening in the House tonight should have been happening months ago, every day,

every time the racist orange nazi said or tweeted something disgusting.

[True Blue American]

21. Vote passed

With 4 Republicans,1 independent saying yes.

Al Green just entered an Impeachment amendment.

[warmfeet]

24. I am with Al.

Make the repubs in the senate exonerate him. Make coward mitch not even take it up in the senate. Use it all to campaign for 2020. Expose every last sordid detail for the next 16 months - over, and over, and over.

[Thekaspervote]

20. Thank you madam speaker for holding their feet to the fire

[UTUSN]

22. K&R

[barbtries]

25. as far as i'm concerned she broke no rules.

she didn't say trump is a racist. she said his tweets were racist.

republicans sure showed their asses though, didn't they.

[calimary]

28. Right. She didn't. She's been rather fastidious about that, all along.

But that doesn’t mean we have to be...

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

27. Impeachment now!

Impeach the motherfucker. . .