Still think we should trust them

[Gonz]

“It is... the duty of the House to require its Members in speech or debate to preserve that proper restraint which will permit the House to conduct its business in an orderly manner and without unnecessarily and unduly exciting animosity among its Members or antagonism from those other branches of the Government with which the House is correlated.”

Decorum in the House

So, as a represtsentative of the American people, this 1909 House rule, set into motion the trimming of the Bill of Rights. After all, after 120 years of service, Congress is to be no longer allowed to follow the 1st Amendment (which its members have been sworn to uphold). Fair enough, they are allowed, under Section 8 of the Constitution, to set their own rules. It's just worth noting that it took progressivism to clamp down on those pseky rights.

So, let's continue.

Under section 370 of the House Rules and Manual it has been held that a Member could:


refer to the government as “something hated, something oppressive.”
refer to the President as “using legislative or judicial pork.”
refer to a Presidential message as a “disgrace to the country.”
refer to unnamed officials as “our half-baked nitwits handling foreign affairs.”

OK, so not only are they being orderly, they are giving written permission.

Not so fast kimosabe...

Likewise, it has been held that a member could not:


call the President a “liar.”
call the President a “hypocrite.”
describe the President’s veto of a bill as “cowardly.”
charge that the President has been “intellectually dishonest.”
refer to the President as “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.”
refer to alleged “sexual misconduct on the President’s part.”

Wow, call a spade a Democrat & you can't talk no more.

Rules for half-baked nitwits using legislative pork to become disgraces to the country as well as hated & oppressive.

Damn that Wilson guy.

 

[spike]

Yeah, he's a nutbag.