Republicans vote against Mother’s Day.
On Wednesday, the House took up the seemingly uncontroversial H. Res. 1113, “Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day.” The resolution initially passed 412 to 0, until Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) rose in protest:
Mr. Speaker, I ask for a recorded vote because I’m sure every member wants their mother to know that they have supported the goals of Mother’s Day.
Tiahrt’s mother, however, may be disappointed to know that her son did not support Mother’s Day. He and 177 other Republicans decided to cast their vote against mothers. Watch it:
When asked why the GOP switched their votes, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said, “Oh, we just wanted to make sure that everyone was on record in support of Mother’s Day.” (Even though he also was actually on record against Mother’s Day.) The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank reports that this move was a procedural tactic to “bring the House to a standstill.”
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Seriously, you can’t make this crap up. Now the GOP is against mothers? HAHAHAHAHAHA…
May 9th, 2008 at 10:12 amThe GOP brings the time wasting resolution to the floor, then wastes more time voting against the idiotic resolution.
Meanwhile, troops continue to die in Iraq for the gutless GOP’s and their spineless chickenhawk supporter’s entertainment.
F***ing troop and mother hating cowards.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:16 amThey were for mothers before they were against them…
May 9th, 2008 at 10:20 amFritz Says:
They were for mothers before they were against them…
The again, maybe they always hated their mothers…
May 9th, 2008 at 10:21 amthey’re against nuns too.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:22 amWhat the hell does this resolution have to do with anything? What’s it’s purpose? We already have a day set aside to honor Mothers.
Don’t these people have better things to do with their time and our money?
Sheeeeshhhh
May 9th, 2008 at 10:23 amDamn those Mother Fcukers! Sure but we had time to waste with freedom fries
May 9th, 2008 at 10:24 amUnreal. Yet the drooling idiots who continue to support the obstructionist GOP claim that the problems faced by this country are the fault of the Democrats.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:24 amthey’re against nuns too.
They are only opposed to nuns who vote, although they would favor it if they knew that the nuns would vote the straight GOP/Jeebus ticket.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:26 amHow does any REAL American vote for anyone with a (R) behind their name???
May 9th, 2008 at 10:26 amAnd these jerk’s get paid for this….The public need’s to fire them all for their folly..Blessings
May 9th, 2008 at 10:27 amThey’re LUCKY Billy Tauzin is no longer in the House..
May 9th, 2008 at 10:28 amHow much press will this get from the supposed Liberal media?
May 9th, 2008 at 10:30 amHow much time will Fox News and Falafel boy spend on this?
And finally, why don’t the (R)’s support our mothers, as well as our troops?
What the — I never heard of “May Fools Day” before…
May 9th, 2008 at 10:33 am@ #6: it’s s/b its. Man, I guess my outrage-o-meter is spiking early this morning.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:36 amWhy those motherless…
May 9th, 2008 at 10:36 amWell, I guess they are just a bunch of sorry a$$ed motherfcukers afterall.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:38 amGOP: hate mothers/love “freedom” fries.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:40 amLook up Republican in the dictionary: noun. laughingstock.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:41 amPerhaps it’s because Republicans love War not Peace. Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the words to The Battle Hymn of the Republic, in 1870 wrote a Proclamation for Mother’s Peace Day. The following is an excerpt.
Arise then…women of this day!
May 9th, 2008 at 10:42 amArise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
“We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of this country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”
They vote to send mothers’ sons and daughters to fight and die in their immoral war, then they pile on with total stupidity with an insult like this.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:44 amHappy Mother’s day, unless your son is a GOP House member, then I say nice job raising that worthless excuse for a human.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:45 amDana Milbank reports that this move was a procedural tactic to “bring the House to a standstill.”
ok… but wouldn’t they get the same result but voting YES ???
i really don’t get this…
except to note that THIS is an excellent indication of the trials to come…
May 9th, 2008 at 10:48 amthe repugs wouldn’t even vote yes to mothers…
uoy…
I smell an en-masse “worst persons” award coming.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:49 amVoting against mothers is a way to get everyone on record? This will make a great ad for dems, show what the gop really stands for, these repugs get dumber by the minute.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:49 am“Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day.”
WTF? Is this necessary? I’ve sent flowers to my mom, is that supporting the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day? Could they specify exactly what the goals and ideals are? My bet is they can specify goals and ideals and, most importantly, it will involve god. Perhaps that what the R’s wanted. Tie Mother’s day directly to god in the national discourse and that way, if you don’t believe in the R’s god then you hate your mother.
I need them to have another resolution:
“Be it resolved that everybody poops.”
May 9th, 2008 at 10:50 amThis ultimately passed?
May 9th, 2008 at 10:51 amTodd Tiahrt circular logic is stunning. Maybe in Kansas Republicans confuse mothers, and sisters??
May 9th, 2008 at 10:51 amObstructionist Republicans
May 9th, 2008 at 10:54 am“Be it resolved that everybody poops.”
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except rupert murdoch.
he squeezes.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:55 amWHY would these Republicans do something this stupid in an election year? I can just see their Democratic challengers queueing up at the ad agencies now to exploit this.
“My opponent is not only a blatant obstructionist who wastes his time and your money, but he also hates mothers!”
May 9th, 2008 at 10:55 amYou would think that after all those years of being motherfckers, they would at least throw the old lady a different kind of bone.
Ingrates.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:57 amBarbra Bush: “Get George on phone RIGHT NOW!”
May 9th, 2008 at 10:59 am[…]
The United States celebrates Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May. In the United States, Mother’s Day was loosely inspired by the British day and was imported by social activist Julia Ward Howe after the American Civil War. However, it was intended as a call to unite women against war. In 1870, she wrote the Mother’s Day Proclamation as a call for peace and disarmament. Howe failed in her attempt to get formal recognition of a Mother’s Day for Peace. Her idea was influenced by Ann Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker who, starting in 1858, had attempted to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers’ Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors.
When Jarvis died in 1907, her daughter, named Anna Jarvis, started the crusade to found a memorial day for women. The first such Mother’s Day was celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia, on 10 May 1908, in the church where the elder Ann Jarvis had taught Sunday School. Originally the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, this building is now the International Mother’s Day Shrine (a National Historic Landmark). From there, the custom caught on — spreading eventually to 45 states. The holiday was declared officially by some states beginning in 1912. In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother’s Day, as a day for American citizens to show the flag in honor of those mothers whose sons had died in war.
Nine years after the first official Mother’s Day, commercialization of the U.S. holiday became so rampant that Anna Jarvis herself became a major opponent of what the holiday had become.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:59 am[…]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother’s_Day
for more: http://www.google.com/ search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=mother’s+day,+history&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
nanlichi Says:
You would think that after all those years of being motherfckers, they would at least throw the old lady a different kind of bone.
I have officially added this to “Mr.Jack’s Registry of Classic Posts” :)~
May 9th, 2008 at 11:02 amWow Rep. Jeff Fortenberry that makes you look like a total weirdo! And a complete waste of money!
May 9th, 2008 at 11:04 amThese little games are the epitome of Big Government. Just another Big Government loving confused Republican weirdo playing government games.
DRxJ; if the Rethugs support mothers like they support the troops, then mothers are in really deep doo-doo.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:04 amI just got off the phone with Mr. Tiahrt’s office in DC. Apparently, they are going to stop votes on EVERYTHING until they get what they want in the Emergency Supplemental Bill. The goopers will be doing Motions To Reconsider every bill presented until they get what they want in the supplemental.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:05 amGreat…thugs, thugs, and more thugs.
There has got to be something going on here that TP is obscuring, right?
I mean, not even the Boner and his House Republicans are this stupid.
It just doesn’t make sense.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:07 amMs_Joanne Says:
I just got off the phone with Mr. Tiahrt’s office in DC. Apparently, they are going to stop votes on EVERYTHING until they get what they want in the Emergency Supplemental Bill. The goopers will be doing Motions To Reconsider every bill presented until they get what they want in the supplemental.
I say bring it on. Perhaps more people will see them for the bullying, lying, inept, criminal thugs they really are.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:11 amHopefully the Republicans can work out their unresolved oedipal issues over the weekend so Congress can get back to business. Meanwhile, John Boehner’s skull is going to explode any minute now as he watches the Republican caucus gradually shrink into the Republican golf foursome. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:11 amgood job, ms joanne!
so, THAT’s what it’s all about…
but, still, wouldn’t they get the same result (stalling) by voting YES ???!
May 9th, 2008 at 11:13 amRumor: Obama to nominate HRC as supreme court justice if elected.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:15 amHEY, TP….NOTE WHY THEY ARE DOING THIS!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 11:15 amMs_Joanne Says:
The goopers will be doing Motions To Reconsider every bill presented until they get what they want in the supplemental.
katy Says:
but, still, wouldn’t they get the same result (stalling) by voting YES ???!
Perhaps their Moms are against what their criminal repulican sons/daughters want in the supplemental.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:18 amThe guy I talked with said that they are going to use this procedural motion to stop everything “to bring to light” what they want in the bill. This man said that they have no say in it. I asked if this was a war funding bill and he replied that it was war, medicare, science, etc. (That made me a bit afraid in that they probably want to further reduce everything but the war.)
He also said that Mr Tiahrt’s district fully supported the war.
Someone else can take that one on. Any stats someone wants to dig up would be dandy.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:18 amThese guys have the emotional IQ of a house fly.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:18 amAnd for anyone who thinks that this supplemental bill is about anything but the war, read this.
This is ALL about the war, no matter what this pr!cks say!
May 9th, 2008 at 11:20 amnellre,
These guys have a lot in common with a house fly. Diet, for example, nuisance factor is another.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:23 amralphie, I hate to burst your bubble, but Bonehead and his GOOPer colleagues REALLY ARE that stupid.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:27 amI hope the media consultants are busy with these videos. There will be some great advertising for Democrats challenging some of these Republicans in November.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:29 amEventually it will become clear to all that the only people Repukes care about is themselves.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:31 amWhat a sad gaggle of losers those GOP people truly are. Wow.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:49 amSince Mother’s Day is this Sunday, I take none of their mother’s will be getting flowers?
May 9th, 2008 at 11:50 am#49 Ms_Joanne Says:
And for anyone who thinks that this supplemental bill is about anything but the war, read this.
This is ALL about the war, no matter what this pr!cks say!
OMG, Thanks Ms. Joanne, great post, I read it. Thanks for the link also.. You are absolutely right it is about WAR.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:54 amGOPers I Admire you!!!
Today, I give the GOP my heart felt admiration. You’ll probably never hear this from me again, but hats of to you all. One party’s determination can bring the entire US House of Representatives to a stand still. OUTSTANDING !!!!
I’m NOT being cynical, I’m not kidding, and I truly admire this. Imagine what a proud feeling we’d all have if the Dems had done such a thing during the past 8 years when:
* Deficit budgets were adding trillions to our National Debt
May 9th, 2008 at 11:59 am* Katrina spending was being wasted
* Soldiers were being given contaminated water
* Soldiers didn’t have body armor
* Soldiers didn’t have armored vehicles
* KBR & State Department ignoring rapes
* Bush refused to create 911 commission
* Obscene tax $$$ Waste in Iraq
* Tax breaks to Oil Co, most profitable business on Earth
* Treatment of wounded soldiers
* Wire tapping Americans w/o a warrant.
* Torture
* Habeas Corpus
* US Attorney scandal
* Ignoring OBL and going into Iraq at all.
* Whatever today’s Bush crime is.
ScrewBush Says:
May 9th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Wow!! The Republicans really HAVE done a lot over the last eight years!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:05 pmI guess this goes a long way in proving my hypothesis that Republicans are not actually birthed by human women but actually the result of some evil genetic experiment gone horribly wrong. I’d bet if you could get close enough to Boehner and lifted up his shirt there would only be pale white pastey flesh where his belly button should be. Although you would probably be chocking back vomit while he would no doubt begin crying.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:07 pmPack of motherless scumbags all of them!
These people are cartoonishly evil
May 9th, 2008 at 12:11 pmHeaven forbid! Will the mothers march?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:11 pmSo I guess George will denounce the Republicans up on the Hill in this weeks radio address for their wantan do-nothingness and otherwise obstructionism! Oh yeah, IOKIYAR!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:11 pmIf I was Reed I would not hesitate to break out that nuclear option. It looks like the Dems will have a majority for the forseeable future so why not put these obstructionist pr1cks in their place, tell them to STFU and take care of business?
to repeat:
Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) rose in protest:
Mr. Speaker, I ask for a recorded vote because I’m sure every member wants their mother to know that they have supported the goals of Mother’s Day.
… curious, what ARE the “goals of Mother’s Day” that these gopers have then
May 9th, 2008 at 12:14 pmvoted against?
This is a silly post. I ask you SO WHAT? This is a ridiculous resolution and a waste of time. In the meantime an illegal occupation costing billions of dollars continues.
You know, I love my mother and she knows it. But I HATE HATE HATE Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day, etc etc etc are just monumental retail events that force people to think they HAVE to do something or they’re a loser. How many times do people have to hear, “If you loved me you would have (fill in the blank) for (fill in the blank forced event) anyway? I know, grumpy, so what? How many lame diamond, card, flower commericals and BIG SALES EVENTS can one person stand? And no, I’m not a repug, thank you very much. And I do love my mother, my children love me, we don’t have to prove it by some silly forced “love” day.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:15 pmWTF whatthemuck.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:16 pmThat proves it — Republicans don’t have mothers. They just emerge from the ground in little pods.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:18 pmOh, I forgot to mention, the Katrina Trailer scandal. The Bush Administration was actually housing Americans, on purpose, in contaminated trailers, leading to chronic diseases, miscarriages, organ failure, birth defects, etc.
I don’t recall Dems stopping the Merry-Go-Round of the House or Senate and screaming THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Nope, tell me did I miss the hearing? Did Waxman have one of those get togethers where they collective scribble some bad things into the Congressional record and sweep it all under the rug?
Both parties should be absolutely ashamed of the past 8 years.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:18 pm#57 ScrewBush Says:
And just imagine, in the MINORITY too!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pmHey, A Patriot Acting, you want to force the GOP to get down to business? If I understand the budget process correctly, the Dems ultimately control all earmarks. I hear they give the GOP like half of the earmark pie to do whatever they want. Well all Dems have to do is say STFU or no earmark dollars for you to the GOP. You know what, sadly, they don’t have the anatomy to do that.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pmI have a really crude friend (hard to believe I know) that comes out of the bathroom in the morning and announces that he just gave birth to another Republican.
All this time I thought he was kidding.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pmjoe cantwell Says:
“they’re against nuns too.”
Got that right!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pmIt was Reagan’s own Contras that murdered nuns in Nicaragua and we all know how much the repugnicans revere Ronnie.
nanlichi - that is extraordinarily RICH!
i have to remember that one… your friend is a gift!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:33 pmshaker o salt Says:
This is a silly post. I ask you SO WHAT? This is a ridiculous resolution and a waste of time. In the meantime an illegal occupation costing billions of dollars continues.
I can’t speak for TP, but I think the purpose of posting this thread was not to show how much the Republican Party hates the mothers of those who lost their lives in this illegal, immoral, unnecessary war, but to show how far the Republican Party will go to get their funding for this illegal, immoral, unnecessary war.
If that is the goal of this money-wasting, time-wasting, credibility-destroying tactic, then fine, let them do it. Just don’t ever bring any bill to the floor for a vote that includes any funding for the war in Iraq. Period. Blame the Republicans and say that the vote has to be rescheduled every time they pull one of these stunts.
Why do people vote to send Republicans to government, when they see their entire purpose in life as being to show that government doesn’t work? And why doesn’t it work? Because Republicans keep trying to thwart any good that it might be able to do. Then they pat themselves on the back and say, “See? We were right. Government doesn’t work.” Hypocritical asswipes.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:36 pmnanlichi — hilarious!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:37 pmthe best part is FLUSHING it away!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:45 pmHow much money was wasted with this effort? Ok, math is not my strong suit but this is what I calculated.
- Average Salary of a Congressperson: $160,000
- Average Days Worked: 150
- Average floor time for a bill (based on what my idiot Rep Kirk’s office told me and this is excluding time to write the bill): 5-15 minutes - I will use 10 minutes
- Number of bills affected this week (From the Library of Congress Thomas site): 37
Total wasted tax payer money: $357,666 in playing games to get their war funding.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:54 pmThey hate mothers, AND they’re anti-abortion.
They’re pro-life AND against medical care.
They’re pro-torture AND they want to make life on earth as miserable as possible for as many as possible (well, at least there’s some consistency here).
May 9th, 2008 at 12:55 pmThe GOP (gross old perverts) are obstructionist with even their own bills, now that’s a party the USA can be proud of…what a crock of sh!t.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:02 pmOpposed to several above comments, one part of the legislative process is to grant a moment of recognition to deserving groups (although I also add that many mothers are NOT the paragon of virtue).
What I don’t understand is why any Congress critter would vote against a simple bill that says Congress applauds your contribution to our society.
Well maybe a bill honoring Charles Manson ?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:22 pmUnbelieveable, who in where right mind would want these clowns in power anywhere to represent them. They are a disgrace to America. Yes, you GOP are a disgrace. Dems need to be writing all this stuff down as cannon foder for upcoming elections. Disgusting.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:26 pmHey, math really isn’t my strong suit! I only considered 10 minutes for tabling the bill, not the other 10 minutes for UNTABLING the bill.
This would bring the cost to a whopping THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS!
May 9th, 2008 at 1:29 pmFritz Says:
They were for mothers before they were against them…
The again, maybe they always hated their mothers
Yeah, I hate their mothers too Their mothers should have beat the arrogance out of them
May 9th, 2008 at 1:37 pmWhy do Republicans hate motherhood so much?
May 9th, 2008 at 2:20 pmAs examples of how to treat woman in America we have seen the Republicans/Democrats/Media/White House call woman and their daughters the B word. Americans have grown to lose respect for woman over the years and soon it will be lost. Very few men respect woman these days. Yes the word Christian Religious Family Moral Values is tossed around until a woman speaks up. Generations will grown learning from the adults that woman aren’t worth anything and then it will continue on to other groups. Every human being comes in to this world by way of their Mother. Every baby/child looks for protection and learning from their Mother. The Bible say Honor your Mother and Father. We are no longer a Christan nation by our actions and words. The Mothers Day and any in the Future will show our Hypocrisy and our Disrespect toward woman. If woman don’t stand up for themselves they will lose their rights as human beings as we have seen in the pass.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:56 pmrepugs dont actually have mothers. they are created in evil laboratories.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:06 pmWhat a waste of time and an insult to the taxpayers! A vote on Mother’s Day? We have much important issues in this country and bills to be paased than having many of the GOP nimrod lawmakers picked their noses all day on a ridiculous bill. And certainly these lawmakers have mothers or are they telling us that they were beamed down from aliens!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:03 pmBASTARDS!!!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:21 pmThe ~177 Republicans you’re referring to voted no on the motion to table the motion to reconsider the vote on this resolution. The resolution was passed unanimously. No one “changed their vote” or voted no against dear old mom. Your video also fails to show this vote at all.
Yes, Republicans are pulling all sorts of crap in the House right now, and deserve to be called out on it, but this post is flat out wrong.
Drill down into the transcripts if you want to better understand what’s going on: http://thomas.loc.gov/ cgi-bin/ query/ D?r110:6:./ temp/ ~r1105MXOOq::
We don’t know why the motion to reconsider was made in the first place because it’s not in your video.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:53 pm