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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Warren slams Mitch McConnell for handling of coronavirus aid bill: 'Absolutely irresponsible'
Amid the growing coronavirus pandemic, Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined All In With Chris Hayes Monday night where she slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his actions during the crisis. While the House passed a bipartisan coronavirus relief bill last week, McConnell gave senators a three-day weekend and left town. Warren believes that delaying the passing of the relief bill was irresponsible.
I think that it was absolutely irresponsible of the Senate leader to do that. He ultimately called everyone in for a vote tonight, a vote that did not occur, because he worked out a deal, he had a problem in his own party, a deal that could have been worked out last week, Warren said. And we have still not moved forward on the coronavirus bill. This makes no sense at all. Its as if he has no sense of emergency about this problem and no sense of what to do.
McConnell and other republicans criticized the original bill, and the House voted Monday night to pass an amended version that will likely face opposition in the Senate. The bill is designed to aid Americans not only with medical expenses, but also economic fallout caused by the coronavirus, and Warren cautioned that steps need to be taken before its too late.
Its time to act, Warren said. We should have been acting months ago. And if that message still has not arrived with the president or with Mitch McConnell, then were in real trouble.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elizabeth-warren-slams-mcconnell-handling-coronavirus-aid-bill-absolutely-irresponsible-052208470.html
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)What do you want from a self-proclaimed Grim Reaper? Toast with butter and jelly? He's the bringer of death. You have to stay consistent and on message in that industry.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)My guess is that McConnell feels that he is rich enough to escape the covid 19 pandemic. McConnell is equally as repulsive as Trump.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)hangaleft
(649 posts)With a hefty sprinkling of Nunes, Jordan, Gaitz, King and the mighty concerned one et al.
live love laugh
(13,124 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Durbin accused Mitch of not telling the truth. Several other Senators joined Sherrod, including Manchin.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Democrats had his head handed to him by Democrats this morning for leaving town, then lying they could not do anything until they received the bill! I have never heard soft spoken Durbin do that before.
Mitch tried to laugh his way through his PC.
crickets
(25,982 posts)jpak
(41,758 posts)Doing his job
Yup
lame54
(35,315 posts)Oldem
(833 posts)It's time for Bitch to go home--to Moscow.
bdamomma
(63,918 posts)fucking Mitch, I am giving a donation to Amy.
OverBurn
(956 posts)mjvpi
(1,389 posts)I still find her to be the sharpest, most empathetic and inspirational person in the 2020 election cycle. In terms of being a public servant, how can McConnell etc look at themselves in the mirror when they are supposed to be doing the same job as Senator Warren.
hangaleft
(649 posts)And I doubt well see the likes of her for another handful of decades.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)Fucking Moscow Mitch!
Warpy
(111,329 posts)and a character named Oleg Deripaska. That's why we call him that.
Don't expect an ounce of prudence or compassion or even common sense from that quarter. He won't even respond to shame, not while his real bosses are happy.
The Senate needs to censure and remove him. Republican's won't do that, of course, not even the ones most at risk from his inaction.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Spreading a pandemic which affects old people the worst is rather short-sighted.
Always look on the bright side of life!
calimary
(81,440 posts)Anyone who saw it - did you notice how often he repeated various versions of the Senate is NOT. GOING. ANYWHERE. Til we blah-blah-blah... and thats usually referred to a follow-up bill to deal with whatever some Senate nitpicker wanted to add or change from what the House sent over. (The House acting WHILE the Senate was out on what McConnell originally considered a vacation.)
The way he put it was most informative.
My advice is to tell them to gag and vote for it anyway. He said theyd take up a new bill, then, to fix what the nitpickers and other assorted partisan (or cheapskate) nitpickers didnt like about the previous one they were forced to pass.
What that strongly suggests, to me:
He is getting SHIT, SHIT, AND MORE SHIT. More of the Same, Piled Higher and Deeper. WAY deeper - from the folks at home. Im sure its a freakin category 50 hurricane. Its the Olympus Mons of more-of-the-same AND piled-higher-and-deeper. I bet its flooding in from all across the country. But hed only care about people in Kentucky. So Im guessing its a freakin tsunami. He wouldnt be pushing that were not leaving til we deal with this so deliberately, forcefully, and repeatedly. Hes getting some serious shit from the folks back home.
Amy McGrath must be doing well in the polls (and in fundraising)!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)Traildogbob
(8,791 posts)All those MAGAs in Kentucky that keep voting for him have black lung and many respiratory ailments. No extended Medicare, and that Blue Kentucky Health care gone. Good luck with that, Mitch got your back. A disease attacking your lungs, no big deal, just a flu.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)LudwigPastorius
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The GOP is scum...at all levels of government.