Republicans vote to rebuke Elizabeth Warren, saying she impugned Sessions's character

[Generic Other]

The Senate voted, 49 to 43, strictly on party lines, to uphold the ruling that Warren violated rules of debate. Pursuant to those rules, Warren is now forbidden from speaking during the remainder of the debate on the nomination of Sessions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/02/07/republicans-vote-to-rebuke-elizabeth-warren-for-impugning-sessionss-character/?pushid=breaking-news_1486539100&tid=notifi_push_breaking-news&utm_term=.2fbc4f45e419

[Dawson Leery]

1. Collins the "moderate"

Fuck her and get someone to kick her nazi ass to the curb in 2020.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. how can you impugn something that doesn't exist?

[Generic Other]

3. People need to go follow her on Twitter

Where she can't be silenced!

https://twitter.com/SenWarren

[benld74]

4. Sessions has no character to impugn

[MrPurple]

5. This is insane - after 8 years of category 5 Obama bashing

She wasn't impugning a Senator, she was speaking to the lack of qualifications of a cabinet appointee, as it is the Senate's responsibility to do.

[Foo Fighter]

10. Sorry, but that isn't allowed in a Bannon presidency.

Criticisms of previous presidents are allowed and encouraged.

Criticisms of President Bannon are not allowed.

We've always been at war with Eastasia.

[teezy]

6. Now Republicans want to use the rule book?

I can't wait to see a Democratic majority again. All these snakes will slither into the dark of nothingness, where they belong.

[flying_wahini]

7. Just finished my letter to my Senator Cornyn.....

It wasn't one of my nicer ones......

[madamesilverspurs]

8. I have this mental picture

of McConnell throwing a boomerang and realizing too late that he did it wrong . . .


.

[Cha]

9. Why because she wanted to read Coretta Scott King's Letter?

Anyway it's a Badge of Honor for her to be censored by frothing fascist racist morons.

[CousinIT]

11. SHE "impugned" him? He impugned HIMSELF - don't blame Warren because he's a racist. n/t

[zentrum]

13. That's it

He impugned himself.

[AgadorSparticus]

17. Yep. They are really protecting sessions and are over stepping.

[King_Klonopin]

12. It wasn't an opinion or a judgement or an insult; it was historical evidence

being introduced on the floor of the Senate. It puts Sessions in a bad light
because that is where he is standing -- that is the whole fucking point !

Am I in some kind of fugue state ? Have I lost my ability to reason ?

She can't call a racist a racist because it is an offensive word ?

Impugn This !!

[herding cats]

14. In today's America impugning equals presenting facts against someone?

Three quick thoughts, and one longer one.

1 - This is going to be a painfully long 4-years.

2 - Facts are not impugning someone.

3 - McConnell made this an issue, which was a political mistake.

Note number 3 as this empowers even more of the voices to be heard, because they (Republicans) will whine about how unfair any anger might be. This may be the worst strategic political move in decades.

We still outnumber them, we've just suffered from chronic apathy in the past. They're helping erase that issue for us now, and I thank them. Be drunk on your power Republicans, I encourage you to continue over reaching in your power drunken stupor. You're just helping to increase the medias attention on an issue previously not in the average voters outrage spectrum.

Educate the undereducated masses, GOP. Show them who you really are. Expose yourselves in your power drunk tirades and tantrums. Link yourselves, beyond a doubt, to Trump and his methodology. I dare you.

[Azathoth]

15. When the Senate and White House swing back our way, we need to erase these anti-democracy fuckers

Because they fully intend to do the same to us. Telling our representatives they're not allowed even to speak is just the beginning. The fascist, eliminationist, white nationalist rantings of talk radio -- the stuff the beltway establishment always assured us was just "entertainment" -- now wield the Presidential pen and the Senate gavel. This is Weimar politics circa 1931. If we manage to claw back power, our first and only priority needs to be erasing them and dismantling their power structure. Any talk of "bipartisanship" or "compromise" should be grounds for immediate expulsion from the party.

[Skittles]

16. WHAT A BUNCH OF FUCKING SNOWFLAKES

[deminks]

18. That impies that Jeff has a character to impugn.

I do not think that has been established.

[aikoaiko]

19. Unless 'impugn' has a different meaning in Congress, she did impugn his character and rightfully so.

Corretta Scott King's 1980's letter is devastating to Sessions.

The Republican Senators who did this are despicable.

[JHB]

20. According to Republican precedent, she'd have been in the clear if only...

...she'd told him to go fuck himself.

[yardwork]

22. Right, unbelievable isn't this.

[coco22]

21. At every protest put it on your signs..

These mfkers think they can shut everyone up..Start naming these people in every state and what they do and have done write it MAKE PLAIN!