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Kelly has used the term "empty barrel" before..... to describe another member of Congress
who happens to be a minority..... Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL).
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has escalated an unusually personal fight with a prominent Democratic Congress member, publicly accusing him of being “irresponsible.”
The comments from Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, came less than a week after Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said he was a “disgrace to the uniform he used to wear” because of Kelly’s role in advising President Donald Trump to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which has protected nearly 800,000 young adult unauthorized immigrants from deportation and allowed them to work legally since 2012.
Kelly, who has earned a reputation for bluntness, didn’t wait long to respond.
“As far as the congressman and other irresponsible members of congress are concerned, they have the luxury of saying what they want as they do nothing and have almost no responsibility,” Kelly wrote in an email last night to Fox News. “They can call people liars but it would be inappropriate for me to say the same thing back at them. As my blessed mother used to say ‘empty barrels make the most noise.’”
The comments from Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, came less than a week after Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said he was a “disgrace to the uniform he used to wear” because of Kelly’s role in advising President Donald Trump to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which has protected nearly 800,000 young adult unauthorized immigrants from deportation and allowed them to work legally since 2012.
Kelly, who has earned a reputation for bluntness, didn’t wait long to respond.
“As far as the congressman and other irresponsible members of congress are concerned, they have the luxury of saying what they want as they do nothing and have almost no responsibility,” Kelly wrote in an email last night to Fox News. “They can call people liars but it would be inappropriate for me to say the same thing back at them. As my blessed mother used to say ‘empty barrels make the most noise.’”
https://www.vox.com/2017/9/11/16290240/john-kelly-luis-guiterrez-disgrace-to-the-uniform-daca
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