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(85,998 posts)
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 02:32 AM Nov 2021

Speaker Pelosi Outsmarts McCarthy - Will Hold BBB Vote On Friday

Sarah Reese Jones @PoliticusSarah 10m
"Kevin McCarthy spent hours on the House floor trying to force Democrats to pass Build Back Better in the dead of night, but Speaker Pelosi moved the vote." via @politicususa


Kevin McCarthy spent hours on the House floor trying to force Democrats to pass Build Back Better in the dead of night, but Speaker Pelosi moved the vote.

Kevin McCarthy’s poorly thought out plan was to force Democrats to vote on the bill in the dead of night so that Republicans could run on Build Back Better as something evil and hidden. Those dastardly Democrats voted to give you a tax cut and lower the price of your prescription drugs at 4 AM is the sort of ominous ad that Republicans would make based on McCarthy’s stall tactics.

Pelosi and the Democrats want Build Back Better to be the top news story of the day on Friday. Kevin McCarthy actually did Democrats a favor by making sure that the passage of Build Back Better will happen in front of the nation.

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/11/19/nancy-pelosi-outsmarts-kevin-mccarthy-and-will-hold-bbb-vote-on-friday.html

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/11/18/kevin-mccarthy-has-a-total-house-floor-meltdown-as-build-back-better-to-be-voted-on-tonight.html
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BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)
4. That fucking idiot is STILL yammering.
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 03:18 AM
Nov 2021

He started at 8:30 EST. I was watching Blazing Saddles and keep going back to see if he has collapsed yet. No such luck. He is more ludicrous than my movie. What the hell is he talking about? Lincoln?!?

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
5. Unfortunately, that's not the way it will be spun...
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 03:26 AM
Nov 2021

Instead, the lede everywhere will be that the Democrats (in disarray, as usual) once again failed to pass BBB when they said they were going to, and were sidetracked by McCarthy’s “star-making performance.”

Zorro

(15,740 posts)
10. Such a whiny voice
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 05:26 AM
Nov 2021

His strategy must be to grate on the nerves of every listener so much that the Democrats give up on BBB just to get him to shut up.

llmart

(15,540 posts)
13. I was just going to say something similar...
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 08:07 AM
Nov 2021

My cocker spaniel could outsmart him, and she's pretty goofy.

honest.abe

(8,678 posts)
14. When Nancy speaks today she should start off with this..
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 08:20 AM
Nov 2021

“I would first like to congratulate the minority leader on spewing the greatest number of lies in one speech in the the history of the House of Representatives. We should consider erecting a statue somewhere in honor of this historic absurd event”.

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