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https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/31/mcconnell-blames-impeachment-for-slow-action-on-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR35NaVjyanKSTN-vQMxeqPw6czAFL-WDHswLsMvR4zCkfwXZgnASmkZI8U
McConnell Blames Impeachment for Slow Pandemic Action
March 31, 2020 at 10:12 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
An alternative view from Joshua Geltzer: Impeachment didnt distract Trump. It revealed how he would handle coronavirus.
hangaleft
(649 posts)Uben
(7,719 posts)...McConnell is just another incompetent and worthless piece of human excrement!
spanone
(135,795 posts)gibraltar72
(7,499 posts)Don't think many are buying what they're selling.
no_hypocrisy
(46,028 posts)And the Senate can't do two things at the same time?
Volaris
(10,266 posts)Fuck you mitch.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
tavernier
(12,369 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,265 posts)decided to defend trump instead of saving lives.
uponit7771
(90,304 posts)malaise
(268,715 posts)Senator says White House turned down emergency coronavirus funding in early February
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/senator-says-white-house-turned-down-emergency-coronavirus-funding-in-early-february/ar-BB11OvE1
Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, says that Trump administration officials declined an offer of early congressional funding assistance that he and other senators made on Feb. 5 during a meeting to discuss the coronavirus.
The officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, said they didnt need emergency funding, that they would be able to handle it within existing appropriations, Murphy recalled in an interview with Yahoo News Skullduggery podcast.
What an awful, horrible catastrophic mistake that was, Murphy said.
On Feb. 5, Murphy tweeted: Just left the Administration briefing on Coronavirus. Bottom line: they aren't taking this seriously enough. Notably, no request for ANY emergency funding, which is a big mistake. Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff etc. And they need it now.
Murphy told Yahoo News that the funding he and other congressional leaders wanted to allocate nearly two months ago would have paid for essential preventative measures, including hiring local screening and testing staff, researching a vaccine and treatments and the stockpiling of needed medical supplies.
captain queeg
(10,100 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)It was his impeachment of Clinton that overshadowed government efforts to go after Bin Laden in 1998. What were the words that right-wingers were using then? Oh yeah, 'wagging the dog,' was their phrase used when calling out Bill Clinton's efforts to kill Bin Laden.
Mitch McConnell, you just admitted you are responsible for the deaths of over three thousand innocent American civilians in distracting Bill Clinton's efforts to kill the world's #1 terrorist!
grumpyduck
(6,224 posts)It was Elvis.
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)I wish him the most prolonged and excruciating disease known to science
The Magistrate
(95,243 posts)The undertaker of the Republic, the single worst legislative leader in our country's history.
Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)hearings.
You can tell they just thought up this nifty talking point.
What have you swine repugs been doing the last 2 months, since impeachment ended, you chinless weaselly cockroach?
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Mz Pip
(27,432 posts)These clowns need to be able to multitask. The world doesnt just throw you one softball pitch at a time.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,757 posts)Actually I think he's pandering to brain dead Republicans who can only concentrate on one item at a time.
2naSalit
(86,332 posts)puke that shit up? I saw this comment coming as soon as the timeline was revealed.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)EndlessWire
(6,460 posts)I've got to send some money to McGrath.