House Republican mocks congresswomans 'hysterics' after she attacks Trumpcare

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Source: thinkprogress



Rep. Jackson Lee gave a passionate speech about the Republican health care bill.





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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, holds up a printed article from The Washington Post, as she questions Secret Service Director Julia Pierson, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. CREDIT: AP/J. Scott Applewhite



After Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) gave a scathing critique of the Republican health care bill on the House floor before a vote on Thursday, a Republican colleague sneeringly described her remarks as hysterical.

Jackson Lee asked that Republicans have compassion for the people who would be most harmed by the bill: low-income people, people with preexisting conditions, and seniors.

Jackson Lee said:

God have mercy on your soul. I am a person living with a preexisting disease. I am a breast cancer survivor. And this heartless and callous bill, with 24 million plus people being thrown off of their health care, and reverse Robin Hood of stealing from the poor and the seniors laying in their bed where you’re doing an age tax that is five times more than any other young person has to pay, is disgraceful. And the pittance you’ve giving for preexisting conditions — $8 billion — they say you need $25 billion … I want to make sure that Medicaid is provided for working families … I don’t want the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg on the streets, to steal bread from the market because they can’t get any health insurance. God have mercy.”

After her time expired, Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) responded, “If I had to defend Obamacare, I'd go into hysterics too.”

“Hysterics” is a pretty loaded choice of word to use to describe Jackson Lee’s critique..................

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/trumpcare-hysteria-mockery-aefba2b3d92f

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Sexist pig

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[riversedge]

1. @RepDougCollins whow-rep Collins is a Pastor and more....

A pastor who does not care about health care for his flock. whow.


Rep. Doug CollinsVerified account
@RepDougCollins

Working for Georgia's 9th Congressional District. Pastor, Attorney, Military Chaplain. Find me @HouseJudiciary when in session, beautiful #GA09 all other times.
Gainesville, Georgia
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Joined January 2013

[IronLionZion]

2. Female hysteria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria

Women considered to have had it exhibited a wide array of symptoms, including faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, shortness of breath, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, and a "tendency to cause trouble".

In extreme cases, the woman may have been forced to enter an insane asylum or to have undergone surgical hysterectomy.

Physicians thought that the stress associated with the typical female life at the time caused civilized women to be both more susceptible to nervous disorders and to develop faulty reproductive tracts.

Dude is using loaded terms

[FairWinds]

3. As a Military Chaplain, Collins got . .

gold plated socialized health care.

[Orsino]

4. Please edit the subject line to include the quotes around "hysterics."

That choice of words was not ThinkProgress'.

[riversedge]

6. The quotation marks did not transfer with my cut and paste. done now. thanks

[Judi Lynn]

8. A lot of us learn through experience a lot of refinements don't come through in the subject line.

It takes someone "special" to notice the difference, apparently.

Here's a token of esteem, a photo of Rep. Doug Collins:

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[niyad]

5. women speaking truth to power are often called "hysterical"

[zentrum]

10. Or "nasty".

Yet, she persisted.

[riversedge]

7. Rec

[Judi Lynn]

9. Rep. Smug Doug Collins really proved he didn't bother to listen to what she said.

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Nothing Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has ever done in Congress could be remotely described as "hysterical." She always takes the time to consciously and conscientiously choose her words.

She doesn't give herself the liberty to gibber, mock, and attack others the way self-centered, superficial, spiteful a-holes like him do customarily.

[WinkyDink]

11. In my experience, emotionless people use, ironically, hyperbole to describe any emotion or

passion. It's always deemed "hysterics " or "being a Drama Queen."