ZRX1200 wrote:AL the rule is the rule, but honestly doesn't bother me when it's in party bickering instead of political grandstanding.
First I've heard of anyone from the left isle caring about Republicant bickering.
Rule 19 was implemented in 1902 to ensure civility on the Senate floor after two senators got into a fist fight after an argument. Both men were from the same party. I don't care about people from either aisle bickering among or between themselves. I brought up the previous uncivil incidents as examples of past, and more egregious, behavior that didn't cause a 19 violation. Just pointing out apparent inconsistencies. BTW, four male Dems finished reading the King letter after Warren was ejected, without objections or invocation of 19.
Some of the guys have mentioned that Warren may run for President during the next cycle. She may, and is considered by some to be a front-runner. These attacks on her by the right are reminiscent of the way they went after Clinton and demonized her relentlessly when she was obviously the Dems' choice to be the next candidate after Obama.
The right ran a long negative, exhaustive and persistent campaign (multiple Benghazi investigations, paid speeches, then email scandal) to cast Clinton in a negative light in the national media, doing much to raise her unfavorabilities in the years leading up to the election... Now, same playbook, different person with a target on her back. You can bet the right will make numerous and repeated negative pronouncements about Warren in the next few years.