Calling Constituents "Children" Is A Most Heinous Of Insults. Another Time He Would Have Feathers

[TheMastersNemesis]

GOP reps response to these protests is so egregious. And it is so unAmerican. Such response if fighting words in many places.
Nothing could be more disrespectful. How do these evil pricks get voted in?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. This is exactly what women

(and I suppose African Americans also) have put up with forever: being patronized, being assumed to be less than intelligent. Sometimes it's a wonder the murder rate isn't far higher than it already is.

[latinaliberal]

2. I agree

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. I'm a woman and old enough to have

experienced a lot of patronizing, and a lot of not being taken seriously. I cannot begin to imagine what it's like for my African American sisters and brothers.

[Warpy]

4. Yeah, all I thought was "just who the hell do you think you are, asshole?

Just because a lot of people who weren't really paying attention voted for you because of either your party or your last name gives you absolutely no right to be a patronizing shithead. You work for US, buster, and it's high time you got reminded of that fact."

I just hope the people in his district remember this one really, really well 2 years from now.

[Aimee in OKC]

5. To be fair, it appears to not be the Rep himself, but a local GOP party official Akins ...

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