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max
09-09-2009, 09:43 PM
When men were men!

1902 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9904E0D81530E733A25750C2A9649C94 6397D6CF

1922 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C01E5DB1439EF3ABC4A53DFB0668389 639EDE

Dionysus
09-09-2009, 09:46 PM
True, and Rahm Emmanuel claimed, "This has never happened to any president. Ever."
O RLY?

Matt Collins
09-09-2009, 10:18 PM
We need more of this.

In fact I say bring back the duel. Those elected officials who exercise their individual rights to bear arms more often will be better prepared in this type of situation ;-)

tonesforjonesbones
09-09-2009, 10:29 PM
well those founders fought with their canes in congress...they all had canes and would thump them on the floor when they agreed with something...but they beat each other with them too. tones

LittleLightShining
09-10-2009, 07:04 AM
Matthew Lyon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Lyon)


Lyon resigned from the Army in 1778 and became a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1779-1783. He founded the town of Fair Haven, Vermont in 1779 and returned to the state House of Representatives for ten years during the period 1783-1796. He built and operated various kinds of mills, including one for the manufacture of paper, established a printing office in 1793 and published the Farmers' Library, afterward the Fair Haven Gazette. Lyon was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Second and Third Congresses, and unsuccessfully contested the election of Israel Smith to the Fourth Congress. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses (March 4, 1797 - March 3, 1801); he was not a candidate for renomination in 1800. Lyon had the distinction of being the first member to have an ethics violation charge filed against him when he was accused of "gross indecency" for spitting on Roger Griswold of Connecticut after an exchange of insults on January 30, 1798; although the Ethics Committee recommended censure, the House as a whole rejected the motion to censure him.

Lyon also has the distinction of being the only person to be elected to Congress while in jail. In 1798, Lyon was found guilty of violating the Alien and Sedition Acts, which prohibited malicious writing of the American government or its officials. Lyon was the first person to be put to trial for violating the acts on charges of criticizing Federalist president John Adams and disagreeing with Adams' decision to go to war against France. Lyon was sentenced to four months in jail and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and court costs. While in jail, Lyon won election to the Sixth Congress. In the election of 1800 Matthew Lyon cast the deciding vote for Jefferson after the election went to the House of Representatives because of an electoral tie.

Aratus
09-10-2009, 08:04 AM
if TR's war spending upping of the tariffs in 1902 sets off a S.C debate that went fisticuff
quicker than you can say ole andy jackson, this way long AFTER reconstruction, and decidedly
after senator preston brooks presumes himself a man of honor as he repeatedly horridly canes
charles sumner in the auld senate chamber, is mr. wilson trying to be astroturf and grassroots
BOTH as mitch mcconnell was trying to sub one of his THREE bills for our potus's ObamaCare own???
sanford could cling to the S.C governor's mansion, and if this is mr. wilson's entry onto the national stage ...?

Aratus
09-10-2009, 08:08 AM
like who else is gonna fistfight over the vast neo-con astroturf? if not pull at and sub-divide the same?
keep in mind that when Mr. Strom Thurmond went G.O.P in the late 60s, early 70s so did Mr. Joe Wilson.
he was once an aide to the high ranking senator who reached the century mark while he was in the senate.
methinks the odds are very high that Mr. Wilson as a very young aide once sat in on Philip Corso's debrieffings...

Aratus
09-10-2009, 08:13 AM
correct me if i am wrong ...i thought i saw mitch mcconnell walking into the chamber with our potus
rather than simply standing at the door waiting to greet our hardworking potus.
so is the ObamaCare bill to be slightly or somewhat
or very cautiously watered down???

Matt Collins
09-10-2009, 08:58 AM
YouTube - South Korean parliament (12/2007) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9AQiQRt5tM&feature=player_embedded)

revolutionisnow
09-10-2009, 09:14 AM
This happens in Taiwan all the time

YouTube - 總統大選2008 Greatest Parliamentary Fights of all time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ-hNVfTZqw&)

Isaac Bickerstaff
09-11-2009, 09:45 AM
Wouldn't it be great to tie their hands behind their backs and tape razor blades to their noses, turning the houses of congress into a giant cock-fight melee? C-SPAN would be downright entertaining!