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applegrove

(128,589 posts)
Wed Dec 21, 2022, 11:00 PM Dec 2022

Gaetz and Boebert Blew Past Security for Zelensky Speech

Gaetz and Boebert Blew Past Security for Zelensky Speech

December 21, 2022 at 8:40 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 81 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/12/21/gaetz-and-boebert-blew-past-security-for-zelensky-speech/

"SNIP.........

Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Lauren Boehbert (R-CO) “were spotted blowing straight past a security checkpoint outside the House floor on Wednesday evening as they headed in to attend a surprise address to Congress from Ukraine’s president,” The Independent reports.

........SNIP"

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applegrove

(128,589 posts)
3. Remember when Gaetz wore a gas mask to a session of Congress
Wed Dec 21, 2022, 11:03 PM
Dec 2022

just as the covid pandemic was starting. Then 1 Milliion dead. Good times.

Deuxcents

(24,294 posts)
2. What good is security? Is it in name only? Is it a mockery and they know it? Are they flaunting?
Wed Dec 21, 2022, 11:03 PM
Dec 2022

Way past time here.

mahina

(20,085 posts)
4. And then Beavis ( or is it Butthead?) frikking blocked the access
Wed Dec 21, 2022, 11:19 PM
Dec 2022

And planted his singularly ugly mug right smack in frame. I’d give anything for a lip reader.

Deuxcents

(24,294 posts)
10. Aggggg.. it frustrates me that all we can do is bitch about it.
Thu Dec 22, 2022, 12:18 AM
Dec 2022

Are we are are we
Not a nation of laws?

Initech

(106,485 posts)
14. They won't pay them. They revel in their assholery.
Thu Dec 22, 2022, 01:43 AM
Dec 2022

They're the spoiled kid in Target who screams at his parents to buy him a toy until they cave in and do.

Alice Kramden

(2,798 posts)
13. Arrogant pricks
Thu Dec 22, 2022, 01:11 AM
Dec 2022

They know in January that the R majority in the House intend to remove the metal detectors

bottomofthehill

(9,270 posts)
16. There goes that pesky Constitution again
Thu Dec 22, 2022, 02:10 AM
Dec 2022

Members can be fined for violation House Rules but they can not be stopped from attending a Joint Meeting of Congress

Article I, Section 6, Clause 1:

The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

Raine

(30,967 posts)
19. Doesn't sound like security was tight enough...
Thu Dec 22, 2022, 08:01 AM
Dec 2022

I shudder to think of what could've happened if someone with evil violent intentions had done the same as those two nitwits.

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