To solve mamporros Differences are typical bar fightsrelated to fights between bandits and now too Republicans inside congress UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Conservatives took center stage in the House on Tuesday two fight a more typical school playground or fight Club A sad sight from where the legislative power sits banditry This confirms the bellicose tendencies of some conservatives and It accelerated the erosion of etiquette in American politics.
The chamber where the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a hearing titled “Revolting against corporate greed: how unions are improving the lives of working-class families” was close to turning into a rectangular structure. When senator Oklahoma Markwayne Mullin Union leader challenges Sean O’Brien to physical confrontation person who appears as a witness. prevented this Bernie Sanders, who chaired the committee that intervened to prevent events from escalating. However, the 6-minute tension is now history. C-SPAN camerasThe network livestreamed the event on Capitol Hill.
Fight
Bad blood between Mullin 46 yearsand O’Brien 51It’s from a long time ago, and the senator quoted several messages the union member had sent on find me months ago. Cowboy wherever you want, whenever you want”.
Mullin, who was mixed martial arts fighter, took these words literally and began to challenge. “This is a place and a time,” he said. “We can be two consenting adults And end this here”.
The transition escalated (“perfect” “do you want to do it now?” “I would love to.” “get off your ass That’s why”. “You take it, big man.”) Mullin stood up and pretended to take off his wedding ring. And there Sanders intervened, trying to restore order with mace blows and words.’He’s a US senator, sit down!”Mullin recalled. “God knows the American people have enough disdain for Congress, let’s not make it worsehe begged.
efforts sanding machineswhat happened next”patheticThey prevented fists from coming to blows, but they did not prevent the senator and the union member from crossing paths. abuse. In various statements to the media, Mullin reiterated his belief that some things should be resolved with fists or others. duels He argued, as before, that his voters wanted him to be a tough guy. “I only represent Oklahoma values” he assured.
Elbow to the kidneys?
The other discussion of the day was not recorded on camera, but took place in front of journalists. And in this case the heroes two republican congressmenAlso with this bad blood It accumulates in between.
Tim Burchett, A representative from Tennessee and one of eight congressmen who voted to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the Lower House was being interviewed on public radio as he passed behind her. McCarthy. Burchett felt a blow to his back and ran after McCarthy, accusing him of hitting him. elbow in kidneys. “Why did you elbow me? Have bravery? What kind of movement is this chicken? really? pathetic“It’s so pathetic,” he shouted.
Already on various occasions and by different colleagues “rowdy”He denied deliberately attacking his fellow member, but admitted that he may have unknowingly hit him as he passed them in the hallway. “I imagine our shoulders colliding,” he said, then smug tone of voice to ensure: “If I hit someone, that person will know, if I hit someone in the kidneys I would be on the floor”.
decline in behavior
Although Burchett declined to file a complaint, Matt Gaetz did so before the Ethics Committee; the very man who started the rebellion against McCarthy that resulted in his impeachment, and who was himself nearly attacked by a fellow member in January while leading the resistance. I will choose McCarthy for this position. “This Congress saw a significant increase. violations of etiquette like we don’t see Since the Civil War era“Province,” said the representative of the far right (who is being investigated by the same Ethics committee for other reasons).
Although there was not a shred of irony in Gaetz’s words. radical wing which has contributed most to the deterioration of forms in recent years, Tea Party representative: “‘You’re lying!’” with When Barack Obama gave a speech about the state of the nation, ultra Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted at Joe Biden in her solemn speech this year.
The truth is that experts like Joanne Freeman, professor of history at Yale and author of a book on political violence in Congress, use the following information to find precedents for the level of aggression experienced in the House: Mid-nineteenth century. The most serious incident at the time occurred when Preston Brooks, a congressman from South Carolina, brutally beat the abolitionist Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner with his cane until he was nearly dead.