So, it basically started when Governor Dick Perry called a special legislative session and gave them last-minute instructions to pass an anti-abortion bill that would shut down all but five clinics in a state that's close to 800 miles across in both directions.
Here's what the bill looked like:
Here's what the bill looked like:
So Senator Wendy Davis announced that she intended to filibuster:
They told her that meant that she had to speak—without stopping—for 13 hours, and couldn't sit, lean, eat, take a drink of water, go to the bathroom, or stray from the topic:
She was eventually told to sit down after 11 hours because talking about sonograms (which are required to have an abortion in Texas) wasn't "germane to the discussion":
Every major news outlet while all this was happening:
Except CNN, who were all:
MUFFINS! |
"At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues?" |
But the entire gallery was like:
They tried to vote on it anyway:
The vote was too late to be legal, so they tried to change the journal to say it happened before midnight:
Just kidding. Those assholes aren't nearly cool enough to be the Doctor. |
So they had to concede:
The End.
P.S. I'm sorry for all of this.
haha PERFECT explanation!! :)
ReplyDeleteThat was the most beautiful thing I've ever read/watched. Well played, sir.
ReplyDeleteAw, thanks!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant and spot on!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chuckles in this otherwise GOP sham.
ReplyDeleteThis is perfect. Except now you have to add something about Dick Perry calling a secondary session. Oh, and Wendy apparently not "learning her lesson" from being a teen mother. God, he makes me ashamed to be a Texan.
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ReplyDeleteStand AGAIN with Wendy. All the way to the Governor's mansion.
ReplyDeleteJust the most awesomest of awesome things I've seen today - including the boot-and-kilt-wearing flaming-bagpipes player's take on AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" - and THAT was EPIC.
ReplyDeleteThanks from a Texas woman for this bit of humor for a truly draconian issue.
ReplyDeleteRobert Downey Jr. in drag. Their argument is thus invalid.
ReplyDeleteThanks for breaking it all down in such an entertainingly wonderful way. Ending with Downey in drag is always epic.
ReplyDeletewow, we are still second class citizens, thanks for the very creative e enactment of this fancy political footwork ...love it
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