The congress and the word "vagina"

hat a prude , old fashioned attitude for congress to forbid the use of the word:vagina: used on the floor of Congress. As if vagina would be a dirty word.!
First of all all human beings enters and comes out of it
2. All those hypocrite congressmen kiss caress lick and enjoy frequently the vagina.
3 it is an anatmically acturate name for a body part

In any case, she was was only barred from speaking on the floor for a single day. Hardly a big deal.

She was bared from speaking on the floor of the State Legislature, a place she was elected by the people to speak for them.
That, in a democratic republic, is a big deal.

And, the weasels who bared her now say that is wasn't the word 'vagina' that upset them, it was the 'no means no.' Sure. Yeah.....whatever.

To make matters worse, if they could be, they did reveal just how little respect they have for the women legislators involved. They say now the women were having 'temper tantrums' and that baring them was akin to giving a kid a 'time-out.' A kid. "Go away little girl, you bother me."

oralloy wrote:

In any case, she was was only barred from speaking on the floor for a single day. Hardly a big deal.

Considering she was barred from speaking on the only day they could speak about the bill prior to the vote, it was a big deal.

It's as if the GOP doesn't understand what participatory democracy is.

Nationally, they have lost the concept of compromise.

The Speaker of the House can't even bring himself to say the word. He will say "Find common ground." but then doesn't offer anything that could be construed as a good faith effort to do so.

They have become increasingly odd. They were FOR the Individual Mandate for Healthcare as opposed to the Single Payer System offered by the Democrats UNTIL the Democrats, sensing no movement from the GOP, adopted the Individual Mandate into their bill, THEN the GOP was opposed to it.
And they still are.
And they are still against a single payer system.
What are they for?
hmmm.
Repeal and replace.
Goodie.
Replace with what?

<crickets>
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Immigration: all they know is they are against whatever the Democrats propose. Their own plan, long term, as Romney put it the other day is completely undefined.
It's like getting a promise to pay from a drunk.
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Cap and Trade: It was McCain's idea!!! Now that it's been accepted as workable by the Democrats, he opposed. And so it the rest of the GOP.

Joe(Ppphfftttt)Nation

2. All those hypocrite congressmen kiss caress lick and enjoy frequently the vagina.

They were a lot more diplomatic about it than I'd have been.

oralloy wrote:

They were a lot more diplomatic about it than I'd have been.

I am curious. What would you have done that would have been less diplomatic?

Last week, during a debate over a proposed law that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks with no exceptions for the woman’s health, State Representative Lisa Brown (Dem.-West Bloomfield) concluded her impassioned floor speech against the bill by saying, “Finally, Mr. Speaker, I'm flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, but ‘no’ means ‘no.’”

Supposedly terribly offended, Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas (Rep.-Midland) decided that Brown’s word choice violated the decorum of the House and banned her from speaking on the floor until further notice. Although Stamas has avoided commenting publicly on the incident, State Representative Mike Callton (Rep.-Nashville) claimed that “It was so offensive, I don't even want to say it in front of women. I would not say that in mixed company.”

As Brown and others have pointed out, however, “vagina” is the medically correct term; all other alternatives—and there are many—are necessarily less proper, and most are considered obscene. As Brown later asked rhetorically, “What word should I have said?”

The word “vagina” is now regularly used on broadcast television, and online searches of the Congressional Record for the past five sessions reveal that the word was used at least 29 times on the floor of the House or Senate over past ten years. No one objected in any of these cases, and the ability of Congress to do its job was not affected.

The bill itself is offensive.

I see nothing to indicate she was anywhere near as offensive as is the concept of censoring people who object to a really stupid law.

Good to see it's still a sensible place, as opposed to what large swathes of Michigan seem to have become.

She was censured for the way she made it sound like her political opponents were making untoward sexual advances.

oralloy wrote:

She was censured for the way she made it sound like her political opponents were making untoward sexual advances.

From what was reported, if you actually think that,. or if they actually thought that, you people really have sick fantasies/imaginations.

It was a political hack job on her, pure and simple

I was right. You really are sick. Had nothing to do with "untoward sexual advances". Exactly the opposite, in fact. She was saying, stay OUT of other people's sex lives and lives in general.

State Representative Mike Callton (Rep.-Nashville) claimed that “It was so offensive, I don't even want to say it in front of women. I would not say that in mixed company.”