It was supposed to be a hearing about arms control.
Instead it was a demonstration on how Democrats need to fight and push back against the repressive, backward, and homophobic bigotry of MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives and in all the halls of government in Washington D.C. and across this country.
When Mr. Let’s bring America back to days when the KKK was respected Self introduced Sarah McBride, the first transgender Representative in Congress as “Mr,” the Delaware Congresswoman shot back with “Thank you Madame Chair.”
The introduction by Self of McBride infuriated Ranking Democratic Member and Massachusetts Representative Bill Keating who proclaimed that Self “Was out of order” and asked, like Army Council Joseph Welch is his famed rebuke to Senator Joe McCarthy in 1954, “Have you no decency…This is not decent.”
When Self tried to control the situation and continue the hearing, Keating replied “You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected Representative the right way.”
Rather than do the right and decent thing, Self, perhaps fearing blowback from his MAGA colleagues in the House and political base back home, cowardly adjourned the meeting.
BRAVO To McBride and Keating for pushing back against the bigoted gutter position of Mr. Self and his MAGA KKK aspiring bullying colleagues.
When confronted by bullies, one needs to stand up to them.
As Suri Crowe at Medias Touch said in a recent commentary presentation, this is what the people on the left and center-left want to see: “That is the message people need to see on the Pro-Democracy side…We want to see people fighting, standing up, fighting back…”
Later, according to ABC News reporting, Self cited his Duce, Donald Trump, in saying “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.”
Congresswoman McBride responded by releasing several posts after the hearing.
Representative McBride is right. Republicans, instead of their constant bullying warfare against who they perceive as the other and them, should worry about governing instead of discriminating.
Ponder on this post from Walter Kimbrough shared by Crowe at Medias Touch.
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