White House: GOP Keeping Scalise 'Says A Lot About Who They Are'
BySahil KapurPublishedJanuary 5, 2015, 2:35 PM EST 1473 views
The White House said on Monday that it's up to Republicans to decide whether to keep House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) in the leadership team, but argued that their decision "says a lot about who they are."
"There's no arguing that who Republicans decide to elevate into a leadership position says a lot about what the conference's priorities and values are," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. "Mr. Scalise reportedly described himself as David Duke without the baggage. So it'll be up to Republicans to decide what that says about their conference."
Earnest declined to call on House Republicans to remove Scalise from his position as the No. 3 leader in the conference, after the congressman admitted last week that he spoke to a white supremacist group in 2002. Other House Republican leaders, including Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), are standing by Scalise, while acknowledging that he made a mistake.
"It is the responsibility of members of the House Republican conference to choose their leaders," Earnest said. "Who they choose to serve in their leadership says a lot about who they are, what their values are and what the priorities of the conference should be."
There have always been common folk who have fought for the right of Barons to rule over them.
Things have not changed in the United States in that regard...except that "Barons" are called "the 1%" and the common folk are called Republicans or conservatives.
@parados,
Its not a meaningless number and I understand why the founding fathers incorporated the Senate that way(to account for differences in popuations between states). What it shows is that Teapublicans do not have the popular support they claim. Very important number.
@Frank Apisa,
But then you are a polite and reasoned person, Frank. Meanwhile the intemperate firebrand I am has a more ..... colorful way of verbalizing it.
Lawyer: Cops Break Woman’s Ribs for ‘Disrespect’ Over Incident Involving a Truck
By David Edwards / Raw Story
January 5, 2015
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A Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against three police officers in Victoria, claiming that they brutally beat her and broke her ribs without a good reason.
Mary Frances Jones told the Victoria Advocate that the three police officers woke her up early in the morning on Dec. 22, 2013 over reports that a truck that she had purchased the day before had been seen driving in a local creek.
Jones said that she had been unaware at the time that her sons borrowed the truck while she was sleeping. After officers claimed that she was lying about owning the truck, Jones said she tried to go back inside her home, and that’s when they forced her to the ground.
“One of them had his foot on my arm, and the other kicked me and broke my ribs,” she recalled. “They hurt me. They hurt me bad, and they know they did.”
According to Jones, she had to plead no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct-vulgar language so that she could go to the hospital. Her fiance, 50-year-old Mathew Milberger and two sons, William and Danny Wallace, were also arrested and charged with disorderly conduct-vulgar language.
A police report filed by Officer D. Stone accused Jones and her family of yelling, “F*ck the police, f*ck yall, and various other profanities.” The report noted that Jones’ son was shocked with a Taser, but it did not mention that she suffered broken ribs, black eyes and other injuries.
Jones said the broken ribs eventually resulted in pneumonia, which left her on a ventilator. In all, she had been in the hospital six times because of the beating, she said.
Attorney Christopher J. Gale, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of Jones, said that police had made her pay for showing “disrespect.”
“I think the police, while they’re trained in the concepts of law enforcement, they are not trained in regards to the application of them,” Gale explained. “When you express your opinion in any form or fashion with any kind of words and walk away from them, that’s a sign of disrespect.”
“It’s completely and utterly constitutional to walk away from somebody,” he added. “They’re just going to make you pay the price. That’s concerning. This is not a police state.”
The lawsuit accuses the officers of false arrest and imprisonment. And it asserts that Jones’ constitutional rights were violated because officers went beyond the “reasonableness” standard set by the Fourth Amendment. Jones is seeking $1 million in damages.
The Texas Rangers recently launched an investigation after another officer with the Victoria Police Department used a Taser on a 76-year-old man while he was already on the ground.
@coldjoint,
As a Republican, I wouldn't know. Now the Tea Party? Overarmed, undertrained, under educated, overly opinionated, mouth breathing knuckle dragging, racist, Isalmophobic troglodytes - mirror images of you!
@bobsal u1553115,
You really need to stop calling yourself a Republican. By the way, you never did say what makes you a Republican? You just try to turn it around every-time to avoid the question.
@Frank Apisa,
That's a weak response. A scene written by a liberal is your definition of a Republican? The first part of his response was ok, but the rest was just pure BS from a liberal perspective.
Bob on the other had doesn't even support the first part of the characters claims of why he is a Republican. He doesn't support market solutions to problems, he supports govt solutions to problems. He doesn't believe in protecting ourselves against a dangerous world as he has said we need a cut in defense spending. These are views he has stated here on A2K. Common sense realities? You mean like the supposed war on women?
@Baldimo,
Who the **** are you? We've been through this before, but I'll flog that dead horse one more time with the question I'll ask you again, for the hundredth time: Name one Republican principle I don't adhere to. One.
John Boehner kicking Teapublican ass today in the House must really, REALLY piss you off. I'm going to enjoy it as my beloved GOP kicks you Republican hating teabillies out of the Republican Party these next two years.
Keep your goofy **** up. We'll get Hillary Clinton in the White House. She's not my first choice, either.
