Oh look, this African American Congressman from Illinois, Bobby Rush, would like to make a speech for the House commending the young people for speaking out against racial profiling in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s shooting while donning a hood himself, to show solidarity: “I applaud the young people, all across the land who are making a statement about hoodies, about the real hoodlums in this nation, specifically those who tread on our law wearing official or quasi-official cloaks.” Very good. Now, is there a white Mississippi Republican around to order him thrown out of the chamber? There is? Great!
Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) had Rush escorted from the chamber, because “no hats allowed in Congress.” Of course, a hoodie is not so much as a “hat” as a “head covering,” and know what else is a head covering? A toupee! Are those banned from Congress? Not that anyone needed to, since of course no one in Congress wears a toupee. What if it were a yarmulke? Can you wear a yarmulke in Congress? Probably, right, because First Amendment? (Not just for K-Lo anymore!) Anyway, good job, Gregg Harper, worrying about the decorum of the House (hoodies) as the Republic burns.
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Didn't Vinegar Joe appear on the floor of the Senate wearing a hat? I'm sure he was also frogmarched out the door.
Good thing Zimmerman wasn't in attendance or Rush would've been shot.
The rules prevent me from commenting on this.
No, he was safe. He wasn't armed with Skittles.
He's also not a child, so no surveyor's marks for him!
let's see. black panther, six years in jail, present at fred hampton's death, walked into a police station with a gun.
my money's on bobby.
And he's the only one ever to beat Obama. So…
But KKK hoodies are okay?
Only in the Senate (Robert Byrd) and the Supreme Court (Hugo Black).
States rights!
I'm sure it's still fine to bring in babies as a prop for some stupid argument about health care and Social Security. No breech of decorum here!
Only jarred babies.
(dontshakeababy.org)
Didn't the hood hide his "uppityness" well enough?
It makes it hard to see he's not a porter.
This is why D.C. needs a Florida-inspired Stand Your Ground law.
Sharight! No Dem would ever cross that line…
Seriously, what would you actually have to do on the House floor to draw Congress into deeper disrepute? I'm not sure, but you'd probably have to start with a two hundred gallon tub of santorum and a specially modified pressure washer.
Would CPAC be willing to lend theirs?
"Hello, thank you for calling CPAC– …. Yes. … Yes. … Let me see if Speaker Gingrich has any prior commitments that day…"
Good thing the Pope doesn't visit the House…
… or Batman.
Or Pope Batman, cuz that would be cool…
OK, so there IS one thing that would get me to go to church, then….
NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-ABSOLUTION!
Fighting sin with the Holy Batarang! POW! BIFF! KATHUNK!
In the name of the Father (BANG!) and the Son (THUD!) and the Holy Spirit (ZAM! PIFF!)
"Holy Batman, Batman!"
– Arch Bishop Robin
BATPOPE
Did somebody say…
POPE HAT???
~
Batman can afford to lobby Congress without having to attend personally.
That hoodie wasn't white and pointy enough for a Mississippi Republican.
~
White Hoods only!!! U! S! EHHHHHHYYYY!!!
SHANIA LAW!
"Whose boots have your neck been under?………………."
Aaaaaand we wonder why this august body has an 8 percent approval rating.
8 percent? What's less popular than that? Hemorrhoids?
Hey, I am sure that hemorrhoids have some redeeming qualities that the House sure as shit lacks.
Seems to me that the more screwed up the country is, the less Congress seems to be able to do to address the issues in any way at all.
When the hell did the Unabomber get elected to Congress?
And congrats to Bobby Rush for surviving this provovation.
Is tin foil considered a hat?
No, it's a security device.
Rep. Harper, it is the Senate that has decorum. In the House, members throw their feces at distinguished colleagues from the opposing party.
YOU LIE!
Nicely played!
*polite golf clap*
Martini?
Hey everybody. Look at how good MissTaken's snark is.
Everybody send your gifts of canes and dueling pistols
Preston Brooks libel!
The chair recognizes the Gentlechimp from the state of Georgia…uh…the one not throwing feces. Fuck that, you all lose your turn.
Rush is RIGHT! Megadittos, Bobby!!
ISWYDT.
We're all doin' what we can.
Megadittos…Is that how you order your 4th margarita?
No, that would be "Megadittoes!"
Thank GOD he forgot the Skittles at home…
yeah but did he bring the mothereffing Iced Tea?
Hey, wait! So Joe Lieberman can't wear a yarmulke in session?
Or the Sopratutto he wanted to wear to the Kentucky Derby this year????
Rules…like windows and hymens were made to be broken.
Nothing racial about this. The Honorable Gentleman in the chair thought Rep. Rush just looked a little too… Sith, I guess.
Harper sees Sith everywhere. He's just full of Sith.
Harper sure has an interesting wiki bio. LMAO. It open with "Gregory "Gregg" Harper (born June 1, 1956) is a douchbag, racisit prick, not to mention the U.S. Representative for Mississippi's 3rd congressional district…"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Harper
I'd love to add to that, but Wiki has my IP….
That's what it read this morning. Check the link, may be changed but my quote is straight from the page.
It hasn't!
It's reasons like that Wiki doesn't let me troll them anymore. I've been banned from editing Wiki forever and forever and fore…
It's killing me, I want to add "and part time tree stump" something awful…
Splendid. Editor loses points for spelling, though.
My thoughts exactitly.
Correcting a misspelling in a vandalized wiki page would be meta-trolling, wouldn't it?
EDIT: I see that, in the 20 minutes before the vandalism was reverted, someone did exactly that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gregg_H…
Before someone changes it:
Gregory "Gregg" Harper (born June 1, 1956) is a douchbag, racisit prick, not to mention the U.S. Representative for Mississippi's 3rd congressional district, serving since 2009.
Damn. Looks like someone "fixed" it already.
D'Oh! That was fast.
I refreshed it twice, then *boom* back to normal.
Memo to self: GET A SCREEN SHOT NEXT TIME!!!
No need, thanks to the history feature. Unless you just want to grab it fresh or something.
Anyone who has the birthname of Gregory, and than adds and extra "g" to the diminutive is, indeed, a grade A douchebag.
He would've preferred Rush to be wearing a red cap — "bring me some ice tea, boy!"
Preferably some muthafuckin' iced tea.
I must say, the GOP is doing a spectacular job of reaching out to attract minority voters.
This is the most outrageous breach of decency and American Values by leftists since whatever the last thing was that wingers went apeshit over, 5 minutes ago.
Asshats are, of course, always welcome on the House floor.
Shit, all you would hear would be crickets otherwise…
Congress without asshats would be a terrible band name.
In my eyes that should be comment of the day.
I am humbled to my core.
Indeed.
Welcome? They're mandatory.
Comment of the day.
Well played, widestance; well played, indeed.
Guns=(soon to be) ok
Lobbyists writing legislation for you=ok
Taking bribes on the floor of Congress=ok
Sexually assulting a page=ok
A Hoodrow=faux pas
Got that people.
This is just black-person hijab, and everyone knows it.
The terrorists are winning!
Rep. Rush should have "stood his ground" when Rep. Harper escorted him from the chamber.
That would have made Rep. Harper "piss his pants".
And of course by "stood his ground" you mean "chase the guy until he collapses"…
Wait, are you implying that a Mississippi Republican using an obscure House rule to kick out a black representative protesting against a
racist murder and the police letting the killer gocontroversial shooting might have something to do with race? That makes you the real racist!I have been told shit like that to my face. How I am bigoted because I do not accept as an equal viewpoint -homophobia or that talking about the legal racism in the South until the laws changed(although practice didn't) is racist and creating class warfare. After a brief discussion, I tend to just say- you know, you are a bigot and dumb, too. I'm not going to convince them of my point so I feel better just telling them off.
You're getting good at this, sb.
mississippi also picked santorum and gringrich in the primary.
You sound surprised.
Can you wear a yarmulke in Congress? Probably, right, because First Amendment?
See, here I thought the First Amendment also had some business about "Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech" which includes symbolic speech. Guess I was mistaken.
If only Bobby Rush had added, "… and by the way, no birth control!" the situation would have been a lot more clear-cut.
"No hats allowed in Congress"
But shat is still okay, right?
One assumes sharts are a daily event among those corpulent geezers.
My hat's off to Congressman Bobby Rush.
Are dreadlocks permitted?
Nope. But flintlocks are just dandy, especially if you have a tricorner hat…oh, damn. I got treaded on.
“The chair will ask the Sargent of Arms to enforce the prohibition on decorum." ~Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS)
English? Mississippi doesn't comprehend it.
"Enforce the prohibition on decorum"…..that's a lot harder to fit on a button than an anarchy sign.
So, decorum is prohibited? That's like a double negative or something.
It explains all of the bathroom stall antics and page fucking, though.
I thought that meant he was wearing the wrong kind of hoodie.
And sure…..you can't wear a hoodie……but a $5 toupee that looks like a dead squirrel? No problem. Fucking white guys.
I like the prissy little eyeroll that we get out of Gggregg at 2:02 or so. JUST SO FRUSTRATED WITH THIS NEAR.
"Mah great-grandaddy owned yur peeple!!"
He must know Romney.
If the purpose of this exhibition had been to monitor the hoodie's heartbeat, the democrats would have freaked out.
Because wardrobe violations are so much more serious than calling the President a liar, amirite?
btw is the Miss. GOPer your rep?
Nope. This moron is from one of the few monied pockets in the state (the 1000% white suburbs outside Jackson, the state capital). If you're familiar with the book/movie "The Help," this guy was probably one of the ones who still thinks that having outhouses for the maids was a good idea.
Hey Harper, FUCK YOU!
Rush is from Illinois AND formed a branch of the Black Panther party. That moisture you feel hitting your cheek is the collective jism eminating from Fox Newsies right now.
Ah, you're right. That's how this will spin. I was thinking initially, what Republican tool would be so thick-headed that he'd bite on this? But naturally it'll be easy to make this look like an uppity old Black Panther instigating on the hallowed floor of the House (THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE!!!!).
And they'll turn him into a RADICAL LEFTIST RACIALIST WHO HATES WHITE PEOPLE, while claiming that because they're both from Chicago they're best buddies and agree on everything, ignoring that Obama tried to unseat Rush in the 2000 primaries.
I heard Bill Ayers wrote that speech for him!
…copied from the Saul Alinsky playbook.
…which was published with money laundered by Tony Rezko.
…Hitler…
Using Reverend Wright as a courier.
No wonder he looked so scary in that hoodie. Also brown. And sinister. Where's my gun?
This could get interesting. Bobby Seale used to remind me of Shaft on crystal meth.
That gavel would fit nicely into one of Harper's orifices.
Who's to say that it hasn't already?
I think he's got a few up there.
Word? Harper's a prick but who made him King Prick? Did Cheney pass along the title while he's trying to adjust to the human heart? What gives this streak on the toilet tissue of humanity the authority to have another representative escorted out? And who are the fucknuts who actually took those marching orders?
I say after everyone has mailed their bag of skittles to Sanford, we bombard Harper's office with hoodies. The white pointy kind referenced above.
Escorted? What a pussy. I want to see the water cannons!
Attack dogs or GTFO.
"The Gentleman will yield the floor to the Honorable Bull Conner."
Now if he'd worn one of these babies:
http://www.nrastore.com/nrastore/ProductDetail.as…
Gawd, the PRODUCT DESCRIPTION alone is intimidating.
Cotton polyester blend (shudder)
I bet it is machine washable but only on the “delicate, with safety on” setting.
Unbelievable…
If everybody wore those, nobody would ever be shot, at least that's what I gather from the web site.
Well, of course they make a tactical hoodie, of course!
So the New Old South isn't racist anymore, it's just terribly concerned about decorum? That's why they "forget" to put polling places in the black parts of town, as the folks get all riled up whenever they get an opportunity to vote, and that just causes riots and other indecorousness when they find out nobody counted 'em.
Yes, and that's why there's now "whites only" waterfountains decorumrating soda fountains and bus stations.
Miss Manners has much to say on the proper way to beat your Congressional colleague nearly to death, how to properly hold your cane and maintain decorum throughout the process.
/ wipes away nostalgic tear
Back in the day, Bobby Rush was a founding member of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panthers, while this picture of Huey Newton in all hiz blahness was causing your average melanin-impaired conservative to pee down both legs.
I would hit that.
Not that he'd have me.
LOL, great photo. He was bit of a drama queen, wasn't he?
Yeah, just a bit. lol
Looks like your typical NRA promotional flyer to me.
If I was a black man, those White dudes in the Chicago Merc ripping us off for gasoline would look threatening to me…
Excerpted from the AP wire story on this:
"After the day's work was adjourned in Congress, Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) was quizzed by reporters about the flap, to which Harper responded, "Niggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggernigger."
Didn't George Wallace complain that you couldn't say that any more?
It used to be "no pants in Congress" until they started letting women and Negroes in.
A man with a gun shot an unarmed child. Why is this so difficult for the authorities to understand?
Jesus H. Christ.
(I know I should have said this a lot earlier in the news cycle, I am just still shocked and saddened).
Don't be silly–black people don't have "children," they have young offenders.
In most states, you can be tried as an adult for the crime of being a black child. How is that unfair?
Chet, that just makes me sadder. Stop the world, I wanna get off!
It's not so shocking really. America is racist. We always have been. We occasionally like to pretend otherwise but the facts speak for themselves. No black male escapes unscathed. It doesn't matter where you live or your social strata. Eventually, you will have the pleasure of being harassed, arrested or sometimes shot for the crime of being a black man. Those are the facts and the evidence is irrefutable. Why pretend it's a surprise when this kind of shit happens? It happens all the time.
Because Florida.
mumble mumble . . . black is always dangerous . . .
In defense of the rules of decorum, NOBODY looks good in a hoodie.
Except maybe high school girls basketball and volleyball players.
But perhaps I've said too much.
Decorum, santorum, whatever.
What this country needs is an honest to goodness real life American hero. Someone like W Tecumseh Sherman.
Yeah, but the cleansing fires of freedom don't light well in the waterlogged south. Time to get out the saw:
http://gifs.gifbin.com/florida.gif
He did always know how to get those southern folks attention. I have it on reliable sources that nobody in Georgia has been named William since somewhere around 1864 or so.
Is everyone else just as proud to be an american as I am right now? Damn straight. Yee haw. Fuckin-A (thats yankee for "yee-haw.")
yee. haw.
Not since ' Freedom Fries' have I been this proud.
Damn straight. I actually *chose* to be an American citizen, and it was totally because stuff like this happens here.
Shit. I missed six threads. That's what I get for taking a cue from chascates and trying out this 'doin stuff''. Never again!!
He can wear knickers, right? Knickers.
I hope Nancy Pelosi shows up on the floor tomorrow wearing a hoodie. That would be awesome.
The whole damn Democratic caucus should wear them.
SInce they're all probably targets of right wing gun freaks anyway, they might as well.
They should all show up with sombrero's . For the religious freedumz.
Didn't Mr. Obama lose a Chicago election to Bobby Rush (of the Old Black Panthers)?
Oh yes. Rush kicked his ass in 2000 in Illinois 1st district. O man showed some guts just running against Rush, who was not only in the Black Panthers, but was their defense minister and did time on a weapons charge. I always knew back then that there were real good reasons to stay out of Chicago's south side.
OT: Wisconsin recall cam turned off
It must kill that fat, baby-raping drug addict that this guy's name is Rush.
Republicans announce winners for the first annual Zimmerman Public Service Award in 3… 2… 1…
Bobby Rush is the guy who trounced Barack Obama back in 2000.
Wait… didn't he just say "The chair will ask the Sergent at Arms to enforce the prohibition on decorum."? They have a prohibition on decorum that needs to be enforced? Daebak!!
So … does this mean we can finally get rid of Seersucker Thursday, when all members of the Senate go around looking like tragic Southern writers ready to throw down three quarts of bourbon?
Them black folks have got to be learned some rules. Har har har. Dern in Mizzersippy we doan cotton much ter der mer gerb ber her dern niggroes.
Poor fashion challenged Rightards. They were supposed to go to Cox's and get Seersucker Suits; naturally they all go to Sears…..
Whatever happened to the days when fine Southern gentlemen in Congress could enforce the "prohibition on decorum" with a sturdy cane? Well, anyway, we should be grateful to Rep. Harper–for a second there, the House was in danger of looking undignified.
what about rugs and hair plugs? aren't those kinda like hats?
"The Chair finds that there is a negro in the chamber, negros not being allowed in the chamber…no wait, that's in Mississippi, Damn…WAIT he's got a HAT on, yeah, that's the ticket. No hats! Yeah."
But, cowboy hats are still totally cool on the House floor, right?
BTW: Don't fuck with Bobby Rush. Bobby Rush'll cut a bitch; just ask Barack Obama.
BTW x 2: Bobby Rush is the Gentleman Congressman from Chicago. Chicagoans know that their city is not a part of Illinois. Some of them don't even know where this "Illinois" is beyond the fact that it's somewhere vaguely outside of Chicagoland.
Yes, you are the expert on Chicago!
Thanks and God bless!
In Harper's defense, Rush was pushing the envelope with this little performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jBdnV1Xz_c
How much is a delicate, white Southern flower supposed to take?!
Wasn't a Florida congress-critter available to shoot the offending hooded Illinois member?
Are condoms on the house floor prohibited under the "no hats" policy???
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