I blame me.
It’s a classic bully line:
“Well, I wouldn’t have had to punch him if he hadn’t been looking all weird and everything. It’s all his fault. Little weirdo.”
That’s the weird thing, though.
A Republican spazzed out at another Republican. The Republicans got all offended and insulted (rightly so, I think).
Other than the voting to allow the spaz Republican to make an apology, only Republicans were involved in every step of the way. But for some folks, it’s anathema to criticize their own side. So a random Republican who was not involved in the initial spaz-out made a snarky remark about Democrat partisanship during the voting.
Get this: he snarked the Democrats because it was Democratic lawmakers who defended the spazzing-out Republican’s right to say what he said:
In other words, the Democrats kept their panties sufficiently untwisted to vote against demanding a formal apology from the offending Republican before letting him back in the chamber, and the Republican party chairman decided to try to make that the focus of the outrage.
Not “One of our guys acted like a rude aggressive asshole to another one of our guys in a legislative session”. Not “Our guys couldn’t keep proper order in the session they were leading”.
But rather “Your guys were insufficiently angry and punitive about our guy being a rude aggressive asshole in a legislative session! You nasty PARTISANS you!!!”
ETA: Oh, and get this:
Nooooooo comment. :rolleyes:
Scott Fitzgerald, Republican - State Senate majority leader in Wisconsin aside from claiming the little woman opposing him in his recall election was the tool of her husband or the unions, decided the Drop Kick Murphys would be good walk up music to use at the state Republican convention.
Dropkicks’ main man Ken Casey said:
Why an extreme rightwing nut would use music from a truly lefty band is almost beyond comprehension.
Try this:
Back to Fitz’ comment on his opponent:
Here is Campas’s brilliant reply:
Aw, it was just “Shipping Up To Boston.” I was hoping he’d gone way back into the Dropkicks’ past and went for “Which Side Are You On?”
Never forget the first time I heard Reagan use Springsteen’s Born in the USA for inspirational music. Jaw dropped into lap.
OK, that is truly strange…
I’m wondering if the article got the parties reversed throughout, not just Vaillancourt. Then it would make more sense.
Well, it’s not as if these guys are difficult to look up.
Vaillancourt (the Sieg Heil dude): Republican
O’Brien (the guy who got Sieg Heiled): Republican
Kingsbury (the vet pissed off at the Sieg Heil): Republican
MacDonald (the one angry about partisanship): Republican
Norelli (the one blamed for being partisan): Democrat
I suppose it’s possible the actual players reported are wrong, but that’s going a little far, I think.
Okay, they kind of were difficult to look up. I had to cross-reference the Wikipedia list with the NH HoR website to make sure the info was accurate.
I tried to read between the lines, and this is what I came up with:
The Republicans were trying to push through another voter suppression law. This one originally allowed student ID to be used, but a committee had added an amendment further restricting the types of ID allowed.
Vaillancourt didn’t like something about what was being done. The article doesn’t go into what it was, but he wanted to talk about the whole committee discussion, not just what they put in their report. The Speaker, O’Brien, forbade him to talk about it, which pissed off Vaillancourt enough to say “Sieg Heil”; from the context, I would guess this was sarcasm, mocking O’Brien as a dictator crushing dissent. Since he wasn’t being a good little lockstep soldier, O’Brien kicked him out.
Debate broke out over O’Brien’s action, and over letting Vaillancourt back in. The Democrats came down on Vaillancourt’s side. Ostensibly, they did so on the (not unreasonable) grounds that O’Brien overreacted and violated Vaillancourt’s First Amendment rights; it’s also possible that Vaillancourt was actually on their side, or at least indirectly helping them, in fighting the amendment.
I could be completely off-base, of course, but it seems possible that the Republican who yelled “Sieg Heil” was trying to take a principled stand against his own caucus, and got frustrated enough at their obstructionism to express it in a politically foolish way, which they are using to smear him. Oh, and they’re taking a nonsensical swipe at the Democrats out of sheer reflex.
No fair using Google!:mad:
Access to the video appears to have been removed from Youtube. Can anyone post a brief description?
While I think the use of the phrase to poke fun at the speaker is amusing, I can’t really blame the other Pubs for kicking him out. I certainly can’t blame anyone for shitting on the Dem who said “he just used a German phrase.”
Or “Do or Die”.
Yeah, I’d probably want to shit on that Democrat myself.
But it ain’t “partisanship” that’s the problem there. It’s just plain old “idiotic to the point of offensiveness.”
IIRC that was the (literally) crazy Nebraska womanwho went on a creative rant about gay people at a council meeting.
The “He just used a german phrase” comment reminds me of Sideshow Bob’s parole hearing where it is revealed he has “Die Bart Die” tattooed on his chest. He claims it’s German, whereupon one person remarks “no one who speaks German could ever be evil”.
For a Republican candidate, Barroom Hero seems apropos.
Yeesh, it’s like somebody put Sarah Palin, Boomhauer from King of the Hill, and the South Park version of Johnnie Cochran and set it on “scramble”.
These are from Thisweek Flipbook (or something like that – I lost the link).