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Loud boos erupted Tuesday on the floor of the Republican National Convention as RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, ruled that a voice vote was sufficient to approve credentialing rules for delegates at future conventions.
Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
Delegates shout in protest over changes in Republican party rules that would restrict the impact of grassroots movements, before a vote to adopt the new rules during the second session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, August 28, 2012.
Chants that sounded like "Seat them now!" did battle with chants of "U-S-A" from supportive delegates seeking to shout the protestors down.
The rules change essentially tightens party control over the manner in which delegates are allocated and bound to candidates.
A delegate rule change by RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and House Speaker John Boehner was approved despite the vocal objections of conservatives and supporters of Texas Rep. Ron Paul at the Republican National Convention.
The proposal prompted frustration from some supporters of Paul, whose campaign was able to appeal to the somewhat arcane rules of delegate allocation to win a majority of four states' delegations, despite having failed to win a single nominating contest.
Other conservatives -- including 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin -- had protested the move as a power play to shut out grassroots conservatives.
As Priebus and Boehner brought up the controversial rules change for a voice vote, supporters replied with loud "ayes," and almost equally vocal "noes."
When Boehner determined, in his capacity as the convention's permanent chairman, that the ayes had won it, cheers and boos mixed together in the convention hall.
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Even the GOP Boehner is screwing his own party....lol you fools, you lost one of your own rights, and you let the most evil man steel them from you. lol I love it!!! FOOLS all of you keep drinking the kool aid they keep serving and one day you will wake up and say WFT
Welcome to the your new party, the voters will be their gate way into power after that if you do not make 7+ million you will be excluded, you will be in the same boat as the rest of us. Welcome.
Haven’t you figured it out yet with all the money billions and billions of dollars from rich people? The parties are for them, the awards are for them the special presentations will be for them. Enjoy your new found leaders. They will enforce their laws, bills and rules with or without you and your vote.
This is what has been happening in every GOP run state and in the House and Senate since 2010. All the bills that were passed in the States will become federal law; they have already tried to do it with women rights, immigration and also the voting laws
In case you missed it on Thursday May 10 2012 a republican tried to place an amendment on the floor to stop Section 5
Representative Paul Broun (R) Georgia (at 9:58:19 Pm), keep watching pass this time, this nut job talks twice to try to convince the others we do not need this
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/HouseSession5330
But Repersentative Lewis and others stopped it
Representative John Lewis (D) Georgia; Speaking at 10:12:11Pm
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/HouseSession5330
John Lewis already marched and was hurt for our voters rights
On March 7, 1965, Lewis and SCLC's Hosea Williams led the Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights. That day became known as "Bloody Sunday" after local authorities fractured Lewis' skull and beat other marchers as they crossed the Edmond Pettus Bridge. After a televised appeal by Lewis, President Lyndon Johnson urged Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act.
http://www.nps.gov/features/malu/feat0002/wof/John_Lewis.htm
About Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/about.php
We’ve been trying to warn you to no avail
Boehner is drunk and his speach is slurred and this fool is representing you!!! You are divided and you will fall or in this case FAIL as he is a drunk arse. He keeps talking about BARS, what a drunk OHIO vote this fool out!!
So, in one feld swoop, the Republican National Convention has disenfranchised all of the Ron Paul voters and delegates. I hope no one is surprised! Republicans ( Kathrine Harris) disenfranchised nearly 40,000 voters in FL 2000, purging them from the voting rolls. Not surprisingly, it was later found that most of them werent felons at all. But they WERE mostly black men who usually vote Democrat. ( Things that make you go HHHHMMMMMM)
And NOW they're trying to disenfranchise more FL voters with the Gov. Scott's attempted purge of Latino sounding names until they could prove they WERE citizens. WOW, Seems to me that Scott should do things the American way, prove that they were NOT legal voters.. What's truly frightening is the 95% error rate! Something tells me that Scott the crook is still purging voters and it's all being kept hush hush! I would put ANYTHING past ANY Republican. My hope is that the federal government is keeping a very close eye on the GOP in these swing states because the ONLY way they can win this thing is to steal it. And Americans know it.
In this election, PLEASE do NOT listen to anything any Republicans say!! Watch what they DO, HAVE DONE and PLAN TO DO!
Boehner cant even get appluase from his own party, the crickets are in this convention durring this drunks speach. No cheers as they are still spinning over loosing their power of the party as this drunk just f ed ya....lol Keep helpping the Dems by parading the fools of the gop who cant even get applause on key statement.ROFL keep the Rich going strong GOP keep the drinks flowing while those in New Orleans are getting their butt kicked by a hurricain.
If you watch the video clip, I'd say the nays are just as loud as the ayes, if not more so. If this doesn't graphically illustrate the complete disregard the GOP has for ANYONE, including members of their own party who disagrees with them, then nothing does. I predict by the time the GOP convention is concluded Obama will be 2 to 3 percentage points further ahead!!
What's new about the GOP changing rules in the middle of the game....and then holding up the mddle finger?
Does the GOP also eat it's young? What fun this was to watch.
the pachyderms learned a real good lesson from the communists
The gop is running another purge that no one is even covering. At least in the Southern evangelical churches the biggest givers nudge the paster to preach a pro gop message esp in election years. Some of course don't need proding being raised from birth to carry the party line. Bottom line for democrats is be like Christ and sit and take it or disagree and find another church. But those that use their brain will never drink the coolaid.
wow this is easy i don't have to say anything!!!!!!!!! the idiots are cutting their own throat..... thanks mitt and ryan way to goooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These guys just can't drop their big despotic government habits even when its not even the gov't they're dealing with.
Looks like some Feisty Redhead is beside herself, again . . . that funny!!! The joke is on all Lib-tards!!!
yeah the joke is running your Nazi Party
so the 1% are off and running between corporate purchasing of government officials super pacs they now are eliminating the naysayers in their own party. What a corrupt party . PEOPLE (warm HUMAN Beings) of the USA need to revolt and overthrow the government and bring it back to the PEOPLE.
THUGS! And you all talk about Chicago politics. I'm thinking Ron Paul may have it right. Time for another party to lead the way.
think you are right. How they treated the Ron Paul delegates is disgraceful
Not intimidated! We will have a Tea Party REPUBLIC by 2014. Boheoner will be gone and the new Leaders will have there place. We Will Survive and money will get more and more focused on true candidates with true intentions of preserving our Republic.
Why can't you people form your own party? No, you had to go in and ruin a perfectly good one. Your movement is corrupt and everybody knows it. You have been usurped by the ultra conservative Christian Taliban and you've done nothing to stop it.You will never have a seat at the table let alone one at the head of the table. Get used to it. You'll be relegated to suckling off of the GOP's hind teat.
The sooner you are gone the better for all involved, especially reasonable Republicans.
Bahahaha what a joke
CONservative governMENt
used to be a Republican, but I will be forced to vote for Obama.
Today Republican Party as gone NUTS!
The GOP wants to run the country... they can't even run their own Party.
See John Bonehead how POPULAR your exlax ETCH-A-SKETCH IS! Even your OWN PARTY IS SPLIT AND, JUST FOR SPITE WILL PROBABLY VOTE FOR OUR ILLUSTRIOUS PRESIDENT OBAMA who needs to put DUCT TAPE over your big mouth! Why don't you do something to EARN YOUR KEEP? You're a waste to the 99% American People's HARD-EARNED TAX DOLLARS! Your as popular as exlax ETCH-A-SKETCH is with the 99% American People! What a waste!!
Republicans or Democrats = Disaster
Who do you think got us into this mess? It wasn't one person or one party.
Repulicrats, they are two divisions of the same party and their goal is to keep us divided.
Go ahead, defend your team but it's only going to get worse no matter the party in power.
Hope you can live with that!
Your memory is realllly bad! Republicans are trying to dismantle the progress of the last sixty years. They want to push their warped since of morality on America at the cost of liberty and our pursuit of happiness. They want to dismantle a safety net that was established because they did not want to pay fair wages and created a world of working poor. Now they want to throw everyone under the bus. Hope you can live with not taking a stand!
No, my memory is good. The majority of my 51 years I've seen one group of corrupt individuals pose as two and do their best to destroy this county. Unfortunately people like you are the problem, you are either to stupid to realize what's going on or you are bought off by the same corrupt groups that own our politicians....... I'll give you some credit though, it's probably the latter.
Justanotherveteran...I am curious why you would support a candidate who would taken away and diminish your benefits and rights as a vet and turn against the candidate who would try to make the changes that would support you despite all the opposition from the party you seem willing to support. When I add up the positives and the negatives, I can not envision the republican party doing anything that is constructive for this nation, its infrastructure, its conservation, nor do I see them promoting education or equal rights, not even the safety and welfare of workers in the work place...they would end OSHA, the EPA, who knows what other harm they plan to do (Wall Street unleashed on an unsuspecting nation with no rules of engagement). Those are some of the ideals that I felt I was fighting for after 17 years in the US Army, if not for myself then for my family and friends. President Obama has accomplished, in my opinion, more than should have ever been expected of one man, and he did it in the face of hostile obstructionism from a party that have acted like the school yard bullies all around the world, their policies nearly destroyed our own economy as well as having devastating impacts on the economy of many other nations, many of which we are allied with. You do still have a choice on who you support, should the republican party be successful in this election I fear we shall lose even that right, only republican votes will count and I would live to see the end of democracy.
You are so right Voiceinmyhead! Anyone voting republican is either a racist, the one percent, or stupid; to vote against their own interest. But before my vote doesn't count I will dig out my uniform and put it on, once again, to defend American democracy, justice, and liberty! Don't mess with a vet!!!!!!!!!!
Suppression of the vote is standard procedure for this party! Why should they treat each other differently then they are trying to treat the rest of the nation?
If you don't have to depend on your Social Security and Medicare Insurance in your old age, then Romney and Clyde and the Republicans are for you!