Video: Maxine Waters goes upside the head of Michele Bachmann
Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 1:43 pm
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In this video excerpt of a US House floor debate from Tuesday, Rep. Michele Bachmann spends nearly five minutes discoursing on the Second Amendment. The occasion was a bill that included the prohibition of guns in facilities owned by the federal Public Housing Authority. With Bachmann playing point, GOP firearm enthusiasts forced Democratic leaders to pull the entire bill over the gun provision.
The fireworks commence around the 4:45 mark, when California Rep. Maxine Waters fires a fusillade of her own in response to Bachmann’s speech.
Excerpt:
“Madame Speaker, I rise almost in disbelief that my friends on the opposite side of the aisle, led by Ms. Bachmann, would dare bring to this floor a motion that basically would say to us that the federal government cannot direct this issue on federal property. We own these public housing authorities… We are confronted with a problem in America. And that problem is, unfortunately and painfully, we have poor people who are isolated and they find their power and their strength in the gun. There are far too many guns raging every night in America in public housing authorities.”
4 Comments
Comment posted February 28, 2008 @ 4:21 pm
What the world needs now is guns, sweet guns The answer to violence in public housing is more guns, according to Saint Michele. And the answer to our economic problems here at home is more guns too, according to Saint George:
Does anyone know if Bachmann packs heat on the mean streets of D.C., maybe a pearl-handled revolver?
Comment posted March 3, 2008 @ 8:49 am
Disarm the law abiding? Wow, Maxine Waters couldn’t be more backwards in her logic. She said there were gangs shooting up the place and poor who decide the gun is their power. Now if I were to find myself living in the situation Ms. Waters just described, I’m fairly certain I would like some kind of protection for me and my family. Since the Feds don’t seem to take care of the problem on their own property, as Waters calls it, then who is, if not me. I’m sure the gangs and thugs are cheering her on. It would be nice to know the apartment you are planning to rob and the woman you intend to rape are law abiding and therefore defenseless.
Comment posted February 28, 2008 @ 10:21 am
What the world needs now is guns, sweet guns The answer to violence in public housing is more guns, according to Saint Michele. And the answer to our economic problems here at home is more guns too, according to Saint George:
Does anyone know if Bachmann packs heat on the mean streets of D.C., maybe a pearl-handled revolver?
Comment posted March 3, 2008 @ 2:49 am
Disarm the law abiding? Wow, Maxine Waters couldn't be more backwards in her logic. She said there were gangs shooting up the place and poor who decide the gun is their power. Now if I were to find myself living in the situation Ms. Waters just described, I'm fairly certain I would like some kind of protection for me and my family. Since the Feds don't seem to take care of the problem on their own property, as Waters calls it, then who is, if not me. I'm sure the gangs and thugs are cheering her on. It would be nice to know the apartment you are planning to rob and the woman you intend to rape are law abiding and therefore defenseless.
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