West Wing - Do You Know When We Lost Texas?

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[MrGrinningManiac]

0:42 - Bartlett takes off his glasses

0:44 - Glasses are on face

0:46 - Glasses are off face and nowhere to be seen

[4thepeeps1]

"CJ on your tombstone it's gonna read 'Post Hoc Ergo, Proctor Hoc'"

"Okay but none of my visitors are going to understand my tombstone"

LOL, gets me everytime.

[ferd617]

@bornbillsmith Almost. You're partly correct, but you're confusing forms of direct _address_ vs. descriptive terms at some points.

It's absolutely true that, in current convention, Senators are addressed as "Senator Blank" while Representatives are addressed as "Congressman So-and-so". However, when speaking descriptively, saying someone is "a Congressman" is ambiguous — it doesn't imply the House, and "a Congressman and a Senator" does appear redundant. (Not that it's a BFD.)

[bornbillsmith]

@timmyhkvt

Look it up.

A Senator can also be called a representative as they are elected to represent you..

So you have proved nothing.

A Congressman if you take the time to look it up is a member of congress but it especially applies to the House of Representatives and therefore when it is used it is understood that way..

I don't remember where I know it from.

I'll try to find something but it was a long time ago and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't even know where to start.

[timmyhkvt]

@bornbillsmith No. A person elected to the Senate is a Senator. A person elected to the House of Representatives is a Representative. Either can accurately be called a Congressman, since both the House and the Senate are part of Congress. You are utterly and completely incorrect. Also, please cite your claim about Kennedy, because I have never heard of this before.

[bornbillsmith]

@bornbillsmith I believe because he didn't want to look chicken riding in his own country he decided to ride in an open car instead of one with a top,

Amazing how a little decision like that one actually changed world history.

If he was in a closed car with a bullet proof roof he would not have been hit

and would have been a great President.

[bornbillsmith]

@timmyhkvt

A person elected to the Senate is a Senator

A person elected to the House of Representatives is a Congressman.

I can't believe you would be so asinine to correct me on something so trivial and on top of that be so wrong.

I was 12 and I remember where I was and what I was doing.

JFK was afraid that the KKK and the JBS would demonstrate against him and embarrass him and the country.

I

[timmyhkvt]

@KJamesB It had Democratic majorities in the legislature and House delegation until 2003, yes, but Carter was the last Democrat to win it in a presidential election.

[timmyhkvt]

@bornbillsmith Since when was Kennedy afraid of being heckled? You do remember he was shot in Dallas, right? Also, the Senate is part of Congress, so saying someone was both a Congressman and a Senator is redundant. Even in all caps.

[KJamesB]

@mitchellfamilyof4 And they're proud of it. When you thought Bush was the worst, they give you Rick Perry. The Evangelical redistricting is a killer for that state.

[KJamesB]

@timmyhkvt Texas was Democratic for a long time - then the Republicans Redistricted to favor them.

[bornbillsmith]

@timmyhkvt Kennedy didn't want to go to Texas because he was afraid of being heckled.

This was before LBJ WHO BY THE WAY WAS BOTH A CONGRESSMAN AND SENATOR from the state of Texas signed the Civil Rights Acts.