Pelosi Fires Back At 'Insecure' McConnell After He Derides 'Blue State Bailouts'

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By Cristina Cabrera
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April 23, 2020 11:41 a.m.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday after the senator’s office mocked so-called “blue state bailouts” as Congress hammers out another relief package during the COVID-19 outbreak.


“Look at the language of Mitch McConnell: ‘I’m not bailing out blue states, they should go bankrupt,'” Pelosi said in an interview with the Washington Post. “Really? Really? How insecure is he in his own race in Kentucky to have to resort to that pathetic language?”

Earlier on Wednesday, McConnell’s office had issued two press releases on his interviews on Fox News and Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. Both releases had sections on “Stopping Blue State Bailouts” and “Preventing Blue State Bailouts” that quoted the Republican leader’s complaints about assisting Democratic regions of the country amid the pandemic.

“We’re not interested in solving their pension problems for them, we’re not interested in rescuing them from bad decisions they’ve made in the past,” he told Fox News host Bill Hemmer. “We’re not going to let them take advantage of this pandemic to solve a lot of problems that they created for themselves, and bad decisions they made in the past.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pelosi-fire-back-mcconnell-insecure-pathetic-language-blue-state-bailouts

He's' really pathetic Madam Speaker...........you could have also mentioned to him that money he somehow secured from a Russian oligarch ..................and his wife handing out tax dollars like its candy.............

[DBoon]

1. I think it is frightening that they want to withold pandemic funding based on how states voted

Basically, if you live in a state that votes Democratic, you should die.

They really are trying to launch a new civil war.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. "They really are trying to launch a new civil war." Let's not fall for it this time

[TDale313]

5. That's been their attitude for quite a while.

It’s disgusting.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Has Moscow Mitch considered the fact that there are Republicans living in blue states

and Democrats living in red states? Is he just figuring that depriving the blue states of money to give it to the red states will cause the Democrats living in either such states to start voting GOP so their states will either not be punished or will be rewarded?

[Firestorm49]

4. Says the deficit hawk who's party has run up the debt beyond sustainability.

[crickets]

6. Good for Pelosi. Give him hell.

Also as Cuomo points out, McConnell may want to rethink his opinion on this.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213335551

[TDale313]

7. Fuck him!

We Blue States pay way more in Federal taxes than we get back. They steal our votes, and then try and use which party we support to fuck us over on Federal relief in an international crisis. Fucking over it. #NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation. You don’t get to take our money and the suppress and water down our votes. This minority party tyranny has got to fucking stop.

[demigoddess]

8. i have a daughter with an IQ of less than 10, and she's smarter than McCconnel

any day of the week.

[Cha]

9. Thank you, Nancy Pelosi.. ******* mcconnell Needs to be GONE

[Solomon]

10. The projection here is off the charts.

I thought Trump was the king of projection but here is turtle face accusing the democrats of doing what exactly what republicans do.