Birther Disrupts Congress

Zandar's Thought Of The Day
If this is the new normal for the Tea Party right (and every indication that these inmates are indeed well ensconced in administration and day-to-day affairs of the asylum) then the next two years are going to be awesome. An apparent member of the Birther Movement seated in the gallery of the House of Representatives on Thursday interrupted a reading of the Constitution. The woman yelled out "Except Obama, except Obama, help us Jesus!" as Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) read the "natural born citizen"...

Heckling birther disrupts Congress
Stumble This! WASHINGTON — A woman screaming that President Barack Obama was not legitimately elected to the White House disrupted a symbolic reading of the US Constitution in the House of Representatives on Thursday. Capitol police removed the Protester, who shouted "Except Obama! Except Obama! Help us Jesus!" as Democratic Representative Frank Pallone read the passage that spells out the requirements for becoming president. Some of Obama's arch-conservative opponents have leveled the un...

No More Mister Nice Blog
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW, WingnutS "Bummer," whined A -list right-wing blogger Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit after the House Republicans' Constitution-reading stunt was crashed by a birther. Well, boo-hoo, Jim -- your side enables these people, so you get what you deserve: An apparent member of the Birther Movement seated in the gallery of the House of Representatives on Thursday interrupted a reading of the Constitution. The woman yelled out "Except Obama, except Obama, help us Jesus!" as Rep. Frank...

'Birther' disrupts Constitution reading
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A woman was arrested in the U.S. House gallery Thursday after shouting she believed President Obama wasn't a natural-born U.S. citizen. The woman shouted, "Except Obama" as Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., read the section of the Constitution mandating only a "natural-born citizen" may be president, Politico reported. After being ordered removed by Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, who was sitting in the speaker's chair, the woman yelled, "My name is Theresa," as an officer led ...

Birther outburst during Pallone's reading of the U.S. Constitution
As designated by the House GOP majority, Thursday morning was set aside for a full reading of the U.S. Constitution. During one part of it, a spectator in the gallery exercised her First Amendment right of Freedom of Speech. What set her off? No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to th...

A Progressive Call To Arms
Comrades! As I write, the RethugliKKKans are reading the United States Constitution in the well of the House! This has never been done before and is a horrible precedent--the United States Constitution is the biggest threat to the progressive dream of the complete and total evisceration of what it means to be a responsible human being and as such it must be undermined, scoffed at, mocked, ridiculed and trashed as much as possible. Why would anyone want a document which outlines basic freedoms? I...

Birther Interrupts Reading Of Constitution
As New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone read the “natural born citizen” clause of the Constitution, a birther shouted from the gallery, “Except Obama, except Obama, help us Jesus!” He was, in particular, a great source to the late Robert Novak, who outed Daley in his memoir (page 451) as the anonymous Midwestern Democratic source of an incendiary remark on Michael Dukakis’s failed attempt to keep Jesse Jackson’s profile low at the 1988 Democratic convention. &...

Conflict Constitutionalists
As promised, the very reverent reading of the Constitution was staged in the hallowed halls of Congress today. The tragicomedic production was not without its moments of high drama. When they got to the "President shall be a natural born citizen" clause, a Birther in the audience burst out in an anguished solliloquy. Help us Jesus indeed. But the drama wasn't entirely confined to the gallery. The GOP went all PC on the script and decided on an abridged version of the Sacred Document, leaving ...

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Exclusive Video: Our Lost Interview of Birther Who Interrupted Congress Reading Of Constitution
The woman who interrupted the reading of the US Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday to shout “birther” protestations has now been identified, by Capitol Police, as Theresa Cao , a colorful DC resident who often haunts the sidewalks of Pennsylvania ave outside the White House. As it turns out, I knew her when. Almost exactly a year ago, I ran into TC, and videotaped a brief interview that I never ended up using. Here, for the first time, is that intervie...

Video: Democrat Congressman Protests Reading Constitution On House Floor
Of course he does. These Congresscritters take an oath to uphold a document that they detest and pass laws that violate it on a regular basis. So why the heck not just object to even reading it? The other Democrats didn't notice the objection. They were too busy doing this: Another event occurred during the reading of the US Constitution on the House floor yesterday - a Heckler yelled "except Obama!" when the part of the Constitution was read that stipulated that a President had to be a natural...

Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea-Party Style.
If the Constitution is sacred, why read the short version? Rep. Goodlatte R-Virginia Paul Harvey runs the blog "Religion in American History," and teaches history at the University of Colorado. No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due. As the 112th Congre...

Birther interrupts reading of Constitution
Our new Congress dealt with exercised free Speech at its finest today. The House of Representatives' reading of the Constitution was rudely interrupted by a woman questioning President Obama's eligibility to be president. She shouted, "except Obama, except Obama," as Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., read, “no person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States is eligible for the presidency.” Obviously this was a violation of House rules, and as a result Capitol polic...

They're ba-a-a-ck
An apparent member of the Birther Movement seated in the gallery of the House of Representatives on Thursday interrupted a reading of the Constitution. The woman yelled out "Except Obama, except Obama, help us Jesus!" as Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) read the "natural born citizen" clause of the Constitution. ...TPM ...

Woman Disrupts Congress During Reading of Constitution
At the "natural born" passage, a Heckler apparently yelled: "Except Obama, except Obama. Help us Jesus." See ABC News, "Constitution Reading on House Floor Mired by Yelling, Objections." (And more at Memeorandum.) ...

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Birther Reportedly Arrested After Interrupting House Constitution Reading (VIDEO)
A supposed birther spectator interrupted the House's reading of the Constitution Thursday, as a representative read the natural born Citizenship clause mandating that only Candidates born in the United States are eligible to serve in the Office of President. "Except Obama, except Obama, help us Jesus!" the woman interjected over Rep. Frank Pallone's (D-N.J.) recitation of the Second Article clause. Politico reports that the woman was arrested by the sergeant at arms after being scolded by Rep....

Video: Birther Interrupts Reading of Constitution on House Floor
As the newly installed 112th Congress began its session by reading the entire U.S. Constitution, a woman in attendance interrupted by loudly questioning Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as president. As Rep. Frank Pallone, D-NJ, read Article 2, Section 1 — which declares “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States…shall be eligible to the Office of President” — the woman yelled, “Except Obama! Except Obama!” She...

Meet the House party crasher, the U.S. House, that is
The woman who burst out with "except Obama" when New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone today read on the floor of the U.S. House the Constitution's requirements for the president, including that he be a "natural born Citizen," says she felt compelled to let representatives know of the absence of proof for Barack Obama's eligibility. Theresa Cao, who was arrested by Capitol police, given a court date and then released, told WND in a telephone interview after her release, while she was standing in fr...

Birther Interrupts Constitution Reading
As Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) read the Constitution's stipulation that the president must be a natural-born citizen, a woman in the gallery of the U.S. House shouted, "Except for Obama! Except for Obama! Help us Jesus!" She was immediately removed. So much for the sanctity of our nation's most-revered document. Labels: birthers, Mental Illness, Racism, U.S. Constitution, U.S. House New! Share this on Facebook: Share ...

Moths to the Flame
While Reps were reading the portion of the Constitution covering presidential eligibility ("natural born citizen", a feral birther disrupted the proceedings from the Gallery, yelling "except obama, except obama. Help us Jesus." ...

Birther Chickens Come Home to Roost
Crazed birther disrupts Constitution reading in House when "natural born citizen" passage is read on the floor. ...

And on the second day, they read
Day Two of Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives was highlighted with a reading of the 223-year-old Constitution — the document that formed the American government and guides it to this day. It’s often a raucous scene on the House floor. Today, it was raucous in the visitors’ gallery, when a woman calling herself “Theresa” disrupted the recitation of the Constitution at the exact point in which a lawmaker read that the president must be a “na...

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Did you hear the thunder yesterday? It was a distinctly American thunder. It was loud and proud and powerful. It was our Founding Fathers clapping from heaven as our representatives in the United States House read the United States Constitution. It was the first time the Constitution had been read aloud in Congress.  History was made and yet, it is astonishing to reflect upon the fact that it has taken 224 years to recite such an important document that is the heartbeat of our Republic. The...

Congress Recites the US Constitution
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