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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn edit: Rick Scott's office is saying he misspoke and does not have coronavirus.
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Abby D. Phillip
@abbydphillip
Per @mkraju Sen. Rick Scott is NEGATIVE for COVID-19. He misspoke in an interview this morning, per his office.
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Amy Siskind
@Amy_Siskind
NEW: Sen Rick Scott has tested positive for the coronavirus, the fourth Republican Senator.
Sounds like we have a cluster.
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)samnsara
(17,650 posts)Claustrum
(4,846 posts)Nothing is bi-partisan.
But Dems still worked and interacted with these COVID spreaders in the following days.
CrispyQ
(36,533 posts)You know how bipartisan the pukes are.
central scrutinizer
(11,662 posts)Bwah hah hah
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)Claustrum
(4,846 posts)Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)Claustrum
(4,846 posts)We might actually be able to hold off the vote till after election. And try to use the election results to delay their votes. Still a long shot but much better odds than say a week ago.
Squinch
(51,025 posts)drray23
(7,637 posts)there is 53 gop senators. if 4 are out, its below 50 not even counting murkowsky and colins who said they will vote no.
Baitball Blogger
(46,761 posts)Mitch McConnell can go virtual with the vote.
Claustrum
(4,846 posts)Jersey Devil
(9,875 posts)He would have to change senate rules and that would require a quorum - 47 dems sit it out, 4 Repubs absent means only 49 Repubs remain, which is not a quorum. Senate shuts down.
Baitball Blogger
(46,761 posts)I can't imagine it could ever happen.
obnoxiousdrunk
(2,910 posts)have to be on the floor. No virtual votes...... MSNBC
Beachnutt
(7,345 posts)No hearing for supreme court nominee it looks like.
DFW
(54,446 posts)Two more, and that makes more than ten per cent of their caucus.
Still one must consider: these are REPUBLICAN Senators. Their consideration for their fellow humans is not at what you might call fever pitch (no pun intended). If they are at all functional, and want to demonstrate how faithful they are to their own nonsense, they could easily continue to show up, maskless, at their luncheons, even after their diagnosis. Like all games of Russian Roulette, some will sure get away with it, but if even a fifth of them get seriously ill over the next month, and Graham and McTurtle are NOT among them, they will be in some kind of pickle when their confirmation of Justice Lucretia Borgia comes up for a vote. Of course, if either McTurtle or Graham are incapacitated, they have their out and get a free ticket to call off the war they declared with her nomination.
Baitball Blogger
(46,761 posts)I have been good, for the most part, holding back for most of the bad news that Republicans are getting, based on their own bad choices. But, this one is coming across as a Divinely sent penance from God.
jcgoldie
(11,652 posts)🐢 🤞
OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)ETA: They've already appropriated the Notorious RBG meme and made a similar pic of ABC with the crown on her head. That could be improved by making it half of a coronavirus image on her head.
malaise
(269,195 posts)Rec
coeur_de_lion
(3,684 posts)cry baby
(6,682 posts)Im not surprised.
dixiechiken1
(2,113 posts)Tots & pears, Senator.
dalton99a
(81,626 posts)58Sunliner
(4,412 posts)progressive nobody
(816 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)Or RBG has God's ear.
Beachnutt
(7,345 posts)you low life...
Grammy23
(5,815 posts)This could be eye opening for some. Others like tRump will ask for and get the best treatment money (or position) can buy. It will be interesting to see which camp some of these people fall into depending, of course, if they survive. I dont expect miracles to happen. But maybe some will have their proverbial come to Jesus moment.
R. Scott was my governor.
They knew he was a crook when elected and then voted for him as Senator. Still shaking my head how folks can overlook his crooked past. And a poor sap who served time for stealing stuff still cant vote even after he has served his sentence if he has outstanding fines.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)He tested negative. What a dolt.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)destroy the republican party. Guess he was right -- just not in the way he envisioned.
That said, statistically, most, if not all of them, will survive.
Betcha folks like Grassley and Alexander are feeling a bit nervous right about now, though.
BumRushDaShow
(129,598 posts)Link to tweet
TEXT
@SenRickScott
I misspoke this morning in my @FoxNews interview. I was tested yesterday for COVID and tested NEGATIVE.
10:56 AM · Oct 3, 2020
So wonder what the REAL story is.
ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)oh brother. they cant even tell if they are lying anymore.
BumRushDaShow
(129,598 posts)along with someone like Greg Abbott.
lostnfound
(16,191 posts)That is all.
BumRushDaShow
(129,598 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)with serious aftereffects, enough so those eager to have been fooled by them can't miss it.
I'd wish for them all to die because I believe they fully, genuinely deserve it after creating what is, in fact, a holocaust. It'd be a way for them to finally, involuntarily, serve their nation by revealing their lies for what they are.
But, gotta be realistic.
likesmountains 52
(4,099 posts)malaise
(269,195 posts)Who misspeaks about anything like this?
dalton99a
(81,626 posts)Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,662 posts)Nfm
BootinUp
(47,197 posts)dalton99a
(81,626 posts)BootinUp
(47,197 posts)WSHazel
(159 posts)How do you "accidentally" announce that you have Covid when you don't? I don't believe the retraction at all. Rick Scott is the kind of person that would lie about not having Covid if he thought there was something in it for him, like a Supreme Court justice.
The Senate should do all the testing itself going forward. Anyone that refuses a test should be considered positive and have to quarantine.