Some much needed context:

(AP) WASHINGTON — Show me some civility, Republicans cried Friday after a Missouri congressman speaking on the House floor was caught on microphone apparently cussing out a fellow Missourian.

Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton, D-Mo., had just finished addressing his Republican colleague Todd Akin Thursday.

Skelton then turned to the side and muttered "stick it up your ass."

The comment was just audible on the C-SPAN tape of the proceedings and was not included in the Congressional Record, the official record of speeches on the House and Senate floor.

Skelton's spokeswoman, Jennifer Kohl, said the comment was not intended to be broadcast and was "said out of frustration in the heat of debate." She said Skelton, a veteran lawmaker known for working well with Republicans, planned to apologize to Akin.

The dispute arose over opposition from Akin and other Republicans to inclusion in a major defense policy bill of a provision extending federal hate crimes law to include violence against gays.

Akin, a member of the Armed Services Committee, had spoken before Skelton, saying the hate crimes measure was "poisonous enough in fact that we refuse to be blackmailed into voting for a piece of social agenda that has no place in this bill."

Skelton, in his on-mike reply, said he wanted "to remind my fellow Missourian" that the Senate had voted for the defense bill, with the hate crimes provision, by a vote of 87-7.

Akin's spokesman, Steve Taylor, said the remark was "shocking and not characteristic of Skelton's behavior." He said Akin, who has a son going to Afghanistan in three weeks and is normally a strong supporter of defense legislation, was "very disappointed in the personal digression."

National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Tom Erickson issued a statement that "Skelton needs to apologize, not only to his colleagues in the House, but also to his constituents who shouldn't have to put up with this sort of behavior from their elected representatives."

Both parties have complained recently about the lack of civility in the House, the Democrats after Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., yelled out "you lie" during a speech by President Barack Obama on health care legislation, and Republicans after Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., said on the House floor that the GOP approach to health care reform was telling sick people to "die quickly."

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/rep-skelton-to-rep-akin-s_n_315821.html

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^shuac:
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
I enjoyed him grilling Bernanke , but this just seemed like self congratulatory non-sense, I thought I was watching Micheal Moore. Anyone else get the same sentiment?

Nonsense? Really, nonsense?
You remain true to your namesake. Well done.

What a rude comment when I was asking for others opinions, not slander. Give the man with pork flu a break.


You had to bring SWINES into this!

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>> ^shuac:
And who'd ever ask for slander? I'll tell you who: ME!
Slander me! Do it! Do it now! I'm right here! What are you waiting for?


America doesn't CARE about your feelings, shuac.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^shuac:
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
I enjoyed him grilling Bernanke , but this just seemed like self congratulatory non-sense, I thought I was watching Micheal Moore. Anyone else get the same sentiment?

Nonsense? Really, nonsense?
You remain true to your namesake. Well done.

What a rude comment when I was asking for others opinions, not slander. Give the man with pork flu a break.


What a bunch of poppycock, sir! POPPYCOCK! <removes glove and slaps gsf across the face>

And who'd ever ask for slander? I'll tell you who: ME!

Slander me! Do it! Do it now! I'm right here! What are you waiting for?

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
As a fascinating and entertaining exercise, do this substitution...
1. Every time he says "Obama" - replace it with "Bush".
2. Every time he says "Republicans" - replace it with "Democrats".


So, you're saying, every time he says 'health care' replace it with 'terrorism'?

Every time he says '44,000 dead' replace it with '9/11'?

Replace 'Olympia Snow' with 'Osama bin Laden'?

Replace 'Republicans' with 'appeasers' or 'defeatists' or 'terrorist sympathizers'?

You have the gall to argue equivalency between the two examples?

>> ^blankfist:
I never know what I want until a politician tells me what I want.


That explains a lot. Kudos for honesty.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
Both sides of the aisle have been knee-jerk oppositionists for decades.


This is what Alan Grayson is talking about by the way...

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/31/republican-filibusters-skyrocket/

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^blankfist:
I never know what I want until a politician tells me what I want.

I. Speaking for all of us when he isn't saying what I would, or saying it how I would.


Thank Geesuss for that!

>> ^reiwan:
THEY BETTER NOT TOUCH THE BACON!


I came here to say this.

Start another war, bail out Wall Street -- Whatever they do, they had best leave the bacon alone.

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>> ^blankfist:
I never know what I want until a politician tells me what I want.


That was the point I was trying to make Blank, you did so better than I. Speaking for all of us when he isn't saying what I would, or saying it how I would.

>> ^shuac:
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
I enjoyed him grilling Bernanke , but this just seemed like self congratulatory non-sense, I thought I was watching Micheal Moore. Anyone else get the same sentiment?

Nonsense? Really, nonsense?
You remain true to your namesake. Well done.


What a rude comment when I was asking for others opinions, not slander. Give the man with pork flu a break.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
I enjoyed him grilling Bernanke , but this just seemed like self congratulatory non-sense, I thought I was watching Micheal Moore. Anyone else get the same sentiment?


Not in the least.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
I enjoyed him grilling Bernanke , but this just seemed like self congratulatory non-sense, I thought I was watching Micheal Moore. Anyone else get the same sentiment?


Nonsense? Really, nonsense?

You remain true to your namesake. Well done.