I don't think the majority whip is in the line of succession.

I don't think the majority whip is in the line of succession.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Stat...e_of_succession

Yeah, you're right...someone reported he had his own protection duty...private contractors? Guess we will find out soon enough.

 

#3/5 are scary.

Edited June 14, 20178 yr by caulfield12

There is no justification for this. They are using political means and it should be met with political means. Violence has no place there.

 

I am by no means condoning this action. I am just not surprised by someone doing something desperate in a desperate situation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Stat...e_of_succession

Yeah, you're right...someone reported he had his own protection duty...private contractors? Guess we will find out soon enough.

 

#3/5 are scary.

 

I would be v surprised if congress did not have allocated protection for themselves. But i suppose I have never heard anything concrete there.

I would be v surprised if congress did not have allocated protection for themselves. But i suppose I have never heard anything concrete there.

 

Jake Sherman @JakeSherman

5m

Replying to @JakeSherman

Per several sources at the game the only cops present were Scalise's detail. he he has security bc he’s no. 3 House R.

 

Jake Sherman @JakeSherman

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Replying to @JakeSherman

what many don’t understand is the vast majority of members of the House and Senate walk around with no security. just the leadership.

Surprises me after gabby giffords, but I guess they would just reach out to local police then.

The Washington Capitol police were the first responders on the scene...apparently they are charged with protecting members of Congress.

 

Aide to Rep Williams from Texas shot. Scalise. 1-2 Capitol officers. Possibly another aide.

Edited June 14, 20178 yr by caulfield12

Rep Barton's 10 year old son was there. Very sad.

No ties to terrorism/intl/immigration...

This is horrible, but thankfully he is insured.

There is no justification for this. They are using political means and it should be met with political means. Violence has no place there.

 

Agreed. Both sides of the aisle should strongly condemn events like these.

This is horrible, but thankfully he is insured.

 

Now this comment is the epitome of savage.

I'm going to speculate this can be traced back to the health care debate....

 

I expect more of this as Trump and his Republican ilk continue to try to cater this country to a select few people.

 

These posts make me ill. Can we maybe, for a day, blame the lunatic who did the shooting? And not create a link that can never be proven just to score political points?

 

Come on.

 

These posts make me ill. Can we maybe, for a day, blame the lunatic who did the shooting? And not create a link that can never be proven just to score political points?

 

Come on.

 

My intention wasn't to condone the actions. I was simply trying to state that desperate people do desperate things in desperate situations.

 

I would never resort to violence with someone who I disagreed with vehemently. What this guy did was wrong and he'll face the consequences for his actions.

Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush

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FBI agent:

"No, it's not an assassination attempt"

Dismisses account that shooter asked for party IDs "not aware of that at all"

 

The shooter at the GOP congressional baseball practice this morning is James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Ill., according to law enforcement officials. Hodgkinson, 66, owns a home inspection business. His home inspection license expired in November 2016 and was not renewed, state records show.

 

Hodgkinson was charged in April 2006 with battery and aiding damage to a motor vehicle, according to online records in St. Clair County, Illinois. The charges were dismissed, records show.

Edited June 14, 20178 yr by StrangeSox

These posts make me ill. Can we maybe, for a day, blame the lunatic who did the shooting? And not create a link that can never be proven just to score political points?

 

Come on.

 

We shall see...since there were at least twenty Reps and Senators there, it's less likely that Scalise was the specific target.

 

That said, the story has been out there for hours about him specifically targeting them for political reasons (and hopefully that turns out to be true, in the sense it would be terrible if someone, including Congressmen...made that up.)

 

Scalise has been very high profile in the AHCA bill passage in the House. That's an incontrovertible fact.

 

 

And we should hold everyone in Congress to that same standard...about not scoring political points.

Edited June 14, 20178 yr by caulfield12

That seems random that someone from Belleville would try and take out a congressman from Louisiana.

Has to just be an angry nut job.

https://www.facebook.com/jthodgkinson

 

Seems quite the Democrat follower and perhaps a BernieBro, at least according to his Facebook page. And now a bunch of people are lambasting him on his own page. Wonder how ling until it is taken down.

That seems random that someone from Belleville would try and take out a congressman from Louisiana.

Has to just be an angry nut job.

I assume we won't be banning white Christians from Illinois from flying around, eh?

Here we go...enter that name at FB and you get a big Bernie Sanders pic in background.

 

Change.org, etc. Democratic socialism, we the people, etc.

 

https://www.facebook.com/jthodgkinson

Edited June 14, 20178 yr by caulfield12

https://www.facebook.com/jthodgkinson

 

Seems quite the Democrat follower and perhaps a BernieBro, at least according to his Facebook page. And now a bunch of people are lambasting him on his own page. Wonder how ling until it is taken down.

 

Posts like these are also in bad taste right now. I'm just saying.

 

Dems own this, like it or not. poor taste or not.

https://www.facebook.com/jthodgkinson

 

Seems quite the Democrat follower and perhaps a BernieBro, at least according to his Facebook page. And now a bunch of people are lambasting him on his own page. Wonder how ling until it is taken down.

 

 

And how long until the next Pizza Gate from someone on the conservative side leads to a revenge shooting?

 

Can't imagine Alex Jones or Breitbart or Drudge right now.

Jesus

 

I'll bet a million dollars that's not from today...it is from the idea that everyone needs to participate and have their voices heard, protest, Kaine is not speaking literally. Probably during the general election campaign or just after Nov. 8.

 

Edit: It has to be from that weekend when Trump first announced the original immigration ban.. People were literally at every airport in the country protesting that weekend. So far, the people have been proven right on that one.

 

Or what about Trump saying everyone in the audience should exercise their Second Amendment rights on Hillary last year?

Edited June 14, 20178 yr by caulfield12

I'm surprised it took Alpha so long.