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Posted on 03/28/2012 8:26:53 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Dem kicked off House floor for 'hoodie' in Trayvon Martin protest By Pete Kasperowicz - 03/28/12 10:45 AM ET
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) on Wednesday morning was asked to leave the House floor after removing his suit jacket to reveal a "hoodie," then putting the hood of his sweatshirt on his head to protest the Trayvon Martin killing in Florida.
"Racial profiling has to stop," Rush said. "Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum." Rush also put on sunglasses.
Rush quoted the Bible while presiding officer Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) repeatedly interrupted him, then asked the Sergeant at Arms to enforce the House prohibition on hats in the chamber.
"The chair must remind members that clause 5 of rule 17 prohibits the wearing of hats in the chamber when the House is in session," Harper said after Rush left. "The chair finds that the donning of a hood is not consistent with this rule. Members need to remove their hoods or leave the floor."
Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus have taken to the House floor for the last week to call for the arrest of George Zimmerman, who allegedly shot Martin in Florida in April. While these calls have escalated, Florida police have said some witnesses saw Martin beat Zimmerman before the shooting, and Zimmerman's lawyers have said he acted in self-defense.
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It is a shame that Bobby Rush is politicizing the tragedy of the young man’s death like this. He shames his office. |
Wow, if THIS is what we have in Congress nowadays, we ARE in big trouble.
I think we’re past the time of watering the tree.
Racial intimidation on the Minister of Defense’s part, good for the Republican speaker.
” “Racial profiling has to stop,” Rush said. “Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum “
Right......time to question all Amish people vigorously!
Leave no stone unturned!
Morons..
So...he’s convicting Zimmerman before an arrest has even been made?
What a pathetic P.O.S.
Expected though.
Looks like he and Santorum have something in common.
Bobbie Rush is not just from Illinois,,give you one guess which city he is from? Just one guess is all you get.
What an asshole.
Uh...Chicago?
Yep, Santorum has been wrong on the Trayvon Martin/ George Zimmerman issue, but I’d rather have someone who is wrong on that issue, than someone who is wrong on issues as fundamental as universal healthcare, and the EPA and the economy.
The EPA and Cap and trade are tied to the economy as intricately as the healthcare law.
Newt Gingrich cannot win and Santorum is our single best hope in defeating Obamacare.
Sorry, Santorum is a useless tool, he is a gafftastic moron.
Ain’t gonna forgive him on this one when he says yet again perhaps I wasn’t as articulate as I could have been.
Last chance spent.
I guess you support either someone who cannot win, or someone who will bring us socialized medicine, in the form of Romneycare.
What is going to happen is that as soon as Romney secures the nomination, Obama is going to back off the federal mandate and call for states to enact a state mandate, similar to the Romneycare mandate. He will tie the enactment of the state mandate to federal funds, necessary to implement the rest of the Obamacare law, and we will have Obamneycare.
Before that happens, though, Romney needs to secure the nomination, because once he does, the Republicans will be doomed to accepting Obamneycare and will not show up at the polls.
Is that what you want?
The best possible scenario is to drag this primary out to the convention and not leave Obama any time for his etch-a-sketch moment, because when Romney clinches it early, Obama will have won the election.
Obamacare is a more serious concern than the economy and Romney flunks on that issue too, because he supported CAP and TRADE and his advisors are now implementing his CAP and TRADE policy for the Obama administration.
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