Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC): I'd Arrest Dems Who Held Sit-In On House Floor

[DonViejo]

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said Thursday that if it was up to him, the Democratic lawmakers who held a day-long sit-in on the House floor to push votes for gun control measures would be forcibly removed—and even arrested.

“The business of the House is more important than the antics that we see going on there, and if it were my chamber, it would be cleared and people would be arrested, if that's what's necessary to get us back to the task at hand,” the North Carolina lawmaker said on the Senate floor. The protest, which prompted House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to begin the body’s scheduled recess early, came to an end Thursday afternoon after 25 hours.

“Why people would use the pulpit of the House floor of the House chamber to advance their political agenda, to advance their fund-raising—go out to their political web sites and see how many of them have sent out an e-mail over the past week exploiting a political tragedy for their political purposes?” Tillis charged, shortly before the sit-in ended. “I think it is disgusting.”

The Republican senator said that the focus on tightening access to firearms was misguided and that Congress instead needed to focus on eradicating the threat of terrorist attacks.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/thom-tillis-arrest-house-democrats-sit-in

[librarylu]

1. I'm sure they were prepared

to go limp if that happened. Perhaps my senator from North Carolina would have had dogs and fire hoses at the ready.

[gratuitous]

2. "The business of the House" Bwahahahahaha!!

Good one, Sen. Tillis. Did those mean old Democrats get in the way of another vote to "repeal" "Obamacare"? Or were your House colleagues going to finally introduce one of those phantom jobs bills you campaigned about six years ago? Maybe the vital business of naming a post office?

What was the House about to do that was so crucial to the governance of the Republic? Oh, I see; a vote to override President Obama's veto of your attempt to let retirement advisers go back to screwing over their clients in favor of steering investments to funds that provided those advisers a nicer kickback, rather than a better return for the investor.

Why don't you mind your own beeswax, Senator, and let the House deal with its own procedures?

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Where was he when the GOP/Tea Party shut down the US

government?

[gwheezie]

4. Next time he should make a citizens arrest

People always talk a big game when they have no intention of actually doing something.

[Lee-Lee]

5. He's a real bag of shit

One of many reasons my horn state makes me ashamed.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. After that comment,

you just seen any cross Aisle cooperation go out the window for some time to come. Got a hunch this Guy just committed Political Suicide with that statement.

[Zippyzagnut]

7. It's not up to him

and I am pretty, darn glad about that. Even Asparagus boy made an ass of himself, "Radical Islam"! lmao

[SwankyXomb]

8. He's got 4.4 million reasons

to do exactly what the NRA tells him.

[NYC Liberal]

9. "House floor of the House chamber to advance their political agenda"

How dare there be politics in Congress! This is unprecedented!

[NYC Liberal]

10. "Tillis has benefited from the NRA's deep pockets more than all NC members of Congress combined."

http://linkis.com/abc11.com/politics/i/KQpNY

An I-Team investigation revealed U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, has benefited from the NRA's deep pockets more than all North Carolina members of Congress - combined.

The revelation comes in the wake of four controversial votes on gun control measures. Sen. Tillis and Sen. Richard Burr, R-NC, voted for two Republican amendments and against two Democratic amendments.

The NRA has spent $4.4 million on Tillis; almost $10,000 in direct contributions, the rest through indirect expenditures. The gun lobby spent nearly $2 million on pro-Tillis ads and almost $2.5 million on ads against his opponent in 2014, former Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan.

By comparison, the NRA spent the next most money on Sen. Burr ($805,219) and then District 3 Rep. Walter Jones ($55,655), also a Republican.

[11 Bravo]

11. If Thom Tillis and Sarah Palin were to conceive a child ...

said offspring would be slightly less sentient than the average garden gnome.

[BlueStater]

12. Tillis should be arrested for signing Cotton's treasonous Iran letter. n/t

[mnhtnbb]

13. From an NC resident to the Senator: how about we arrest you for being a disgusting $hit bag?

[baldguy]

14. Typical jack-booted fascist response. No surprises here.