Surrendering without a fight?

Yesterday Congressman Gene Taylor (D-Miss) said this on the House floor, referring to an amendment offered by Tom Price (R-GA):

Mr. Price, I wish you'd have the decency, if you're going to do that to the people of south Mississippi, that maybe you ought to come visit south Mississippi, and see what has happened, before you hold them to a standard you would never hold your own people to, and that you fail to hold the Bush administration to.

Price demanded that Taylor be banned from speaking in the House for the remainder of the day, and the Democrats went along and banned him from speaking.

Can you imagine that happening if the Republicans controlled the House and a Republican had attacked a Democrat with those words?

I don't know. I tend to believe in comity, but this appears to me to be surrendering without a fight.