They occupied the House Chamber so that none of the 'peoples' business' could be carried on. Of course, if it had been members of the Republican Caucus when they were in the minority the same media would have been beside themselves in heaping scathing criticism on the participants for "blocking the work of the people".
During the course of the 'occupation', which reminded me of the Soros financed "occupy Wall Street" movement a year or two ago except for the lack of trashing the location, it seemed that Rep. John Lewis, D - (somewhere) was trying to imitate the style of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his famous "I have a dream" speech, complete with all the voice effects.
Unfortunately, in my opinion, Speaker Ryan chose to call a recess instead of treating the participants like the 'thugs' they were emulating. This then brought the business of the Congress to a halt, but did not 'shut down the Government'.
The stated purpose of the 'occupation' was their demand to have a floor vote on four "gun control" bills. Such would have been a total waste of time (money) since the Senate had already voted all four down, so a vote would have been meaningless. In other words, they were saying to the effect: "we don't care about the Constitution (Second Amendment) we want our way cleared towards 'gun confiscation'."
I recall (yes, I am admitting my age) quite clearly the goings on when the Nazi Party came to power in Germany in the 1930s. They required the registration of all gun. This was shortly followed by the confiscation of all those registered, except for the privileged insiders of the Party. Following that the orders were issued to round up all Jewish people, and also Christian clergy and Freemasons.
In any event, it seems to me that the whole stupid display of petulant childishness put on by the members of the House Democrat Caucus is a strong indication that they feel "if we can't get our way we well demonstrate, even if we lost the elections". I hope that their constituents wake up and decide to be represented by more mature and civil minded individuals.
By the same token, much the same could be said about some of those in the Republican Caucuses in Congress, and in the State Legislatures, who seem to forget or ignore that they have sworn to support and protect the Constitutions and Laws of the land each time they have been elected.
We in the First Congressional District of Oklahoma are truly blessed to have one of the all too few exceptions in Jim Bridenstine who I consider to be a true stand-out and patriot. Wish there were 240 members of Congress with his integrity. If so, our REPUBLIC would be in a much safer position to last another 100 or so years after the 240 just completed. It is up to us, the voters to see that this situation is attained with the help of GOD!
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Robert "Bob" McDowell, Jr. is a retired Professional Engineer and Geologist with over 50 years experience in creating drilling prospects, supervising drilling, well completion, production operation, and pipeline design for oil and gas including repair of problem wells. McDowell is a conservative activist and member of the Oklahoma Republican Assembly. He Contributes opinion and commentary articles to the ARRA News Service.
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