Chaos on House Floor

This is how our political system really works ... No "real rules" despite Speaker Ryan promising to return the House to order and follow "rules" such as the 2 min voting time... The GOP would have LOST this vote at 2 min so they kept voting open for over 7 minutes ...3X LONGER than the rules provide until they were able to strong arm casted votes to change... Traditionally AFTER you cast a vote and you desire to change said vote, you must walk to the front to the "well" to change so you are seen changing your vote...not today ..they just strong armed ppl. Left the electronic voting on till they got their way... Then ended voting. If you watch the clip, you will hear the chamber start chanting "SHAME".  #realpolitics ...

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/280542-dems-cry-foul-after-house-gop-votes-down-lgbt-measure

Jordan Letschert 

American Politics summed up

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/16/1527124/-Conservative-congressional-candidate-shares-screenshot-forgets-to-close-porn-windows?detail=facebook

Too funny.. 

Trans Gender Rights

There are times, in the course of history, that a speech changes a nation's trajectory. Whether it's a prepared speech, an off the cuff remark, or a formal address, these moments have the ability to create a movement. As in 1963 and 2012, today, a movement began, a movement for transgender rights across the country. 

This afternoon, from a podium within the Department of Justice, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced a counter lawsuit against the North Carolina Governor, the State Department of Safety, and the University of North Carolina, along with the stripping of federal funding to the State over the implementation of House Bill 2 (the Bathroom Bill). 

The statements made today by AG Loretta Lynch were calculated and poignant. In speaking against the bill, Lynch alluded to an era of Jim Crow laws, stating "It was not so very long ago that states, including North Carolina, had signs above restrooms, water fountains and on public accommodations keeping people out based upon a distinction without a difference.”

Not to be outdone, the head of DOJ Civil Rights Division, Vanita Gupta, was equally as unambiguous and uncompromising. Gupta stated, near the end of the conference, "It speaks to all of us who have ever been made to feel inferior – like somehow we just don’t belong in our community, like somehow we just don’t fit in. Let me reassure every transgender individual, right here in America, that you belong just as you are."

I'm rarely marveled by anything spoken at a government press conference, but today was an exception. Watching two minority women of color take a stand, with the full backing of the U.S. government, against a discriminatory bill was something to be witnessed, and not soon forgot. 

If you didn't see it live, I suggest you take a look.