McConnell Blames Impeachment for Slow Pandemic Action

[babylonsister]

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McConnell Blames Impeachment for Slow Pandemic Action
March 31, 2020 at 10:12 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told Hugh Hewitt that because the Senate was “tied down on the impeachment trial” during the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, “it diverted the attention of the government, because everything every day was all about impeachment.”

An alternative view from Joshua Geltzer: “Impeachment didn’t distract Trump. It revealed how he would handle coronavirus.”

[hangaleft]

1. What an utterly useless turd McTurtle is

[Uben]

2. Or it could be that....

...McConnell is just another incompetent and worthless piece of human excrement!

[spanone]

3. anything to allow the least qualified person on earth to escape any blame

[gibraltar72]

4. They are gonna try stuff until something works.

Don't think many are buying what they're selling.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. McConnell wanted a speedy trial.

And the Senate can't do two things at the same time?

[Volaris]

17. If the senate had removed him, the distraction would have been irrelevant

Fuck you mitch.

[Laelth]

6. Slimeball. n/t

-Laelth

[tavernier]

7. And the dog ate his homework.

[awesomerwb1]

8. Motherf*cker

decided to defend trump instead of saving lives.

[uponit7771]

9. McConnell will blame Clinton's emails next

[malaise]

10. That actually makes no sense -this from Chris Murphy

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 “didn’t 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]

11. He's running that up the flag pole to see if it gets any traction. FU Moscow Mitch

[ffr]

12. Then McConnell and his republican axis of evil are responsible for 9/11

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]

13. It wasn't the impeachment, you fucking prick.

It was Elvis.

[dalton99a]

14. I don't wish COVID-19 on that evil bastard

I wish him the most prolonged and excruciating disease known to science

[The Magistrate]

15. If You Gave The Freak An Enema, Ma'am, You Could Bury Him In a Matchbox

The undertaker of the Republic, the single worst legislative leader in our country's history.

[Mc Mike]

16. Funny how the repugs never pointed out that they needed to deal with covid, during the impeachment

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]

18. Neat, I blame Moscow Mitch!

[Mz Pip]

19. So he admits the response was slow.

These clowns need to be able to multitask. The world doesn’t just throw you one softball pitch at a time.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. Because you can only concentrate on one thing at a time, right Mitch?

Actually I think he's pandering to brain dead Republicans who can only concentrate on one item at a time.

[2naSalit]

21. wonder what took him so long to

puke that shit up? I saw this comment coming as soon as the timeline was revealed.

[LizBeth]

22. McConnell admitting Trump has failed with dealing with covid19

[EndlessWire]

23. That reminds me

I've got to send some money to McGrath.