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After the Senate suffered a crushing setback on efforts to pass a $1.6 trillion coronavirus rescue bill Sunday, Republicans reached for a familiar foe to blame: Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Shes the speaker of the House, not the speaker of the Senate. We dont have one, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said angrily after a key procedural vote failed due to Democratic opposition. We were doing just fine until that intervention.
As Senate leaders struggled to reach a deal Monday morning, Republicans continued to scapegoat Pelosi, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) blasting the speaker during an early appearance on Fox News and accusing Pelosi of trying to blackmail Republicans with a wish-list of demands. Senior GOP aides were also shopping around Pelosi attack lines under the cloak of anonymity Monday morning.
For most congressional Republicans, the blame-Pelosi playbook is a familiar comfort an easy go-to as party leaders wrestle for the upper hand in negotiations. For over a decade, the GOP has poured millions of dollars into campaign ads decrying the California Democrat and her San Francisco values as all thats wrong in America. And the coronavirus crisis has proved no exception.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/23/republicans-anti-nancy-pelosi-playbook-coronavirus-negotiations-144037
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)and come away with all your body parts in place.
Initech
(99,914 posts)Good day to stay off, or block and report accounts. I've added tons of accounts to my block list today.
dweller
(23,561 posts)f'n snowflakes
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Turbineguy
(37,208 posts)and 100 billion in walking money.
Otherwise, They destroy the country.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)ahead of them all the time. It's apparent that it's a daily, hour by hour and minute by minute crisis for them. Go Nancy and the Dems!
malaise
(267,813 posts)to beg for the corporations while dissing the Speaker.