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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCassidy Agrees 'Wholeheartedly' With McConnell's Rebuke Of QAnon Rep.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cassidy-agrees-wholeheartedly-with-mcconnells-rebuke-of-qanon-repCassidy Agrees Wholeheartedly With McConnells Rebuke Of QAnon Rep.
By Zoe Richards
February 2, 2021 10:07 a.m.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said on Tuesday that he agreed wholeheartedly with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after the top Senate Republican condemned a conspiracy theorist lawmaker for embracing loony lies.
We have to move beyond what someone thinks might be true because its on the internet, into what is true as best as we can understand it, Cassidy said during a CBS interview early Tuesday.
We need to base things on facts, the Louisiana lawmaker added.
Link to tweet
The comments come after McConnell on Monday issued a blistering rebuke of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greenes (R-GA) affinity for falsehood, calling an increasingly entrenched penchant for pushing misinformation a cancer for the Republican Party and our country.
Somebody whos suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.s airplane is not living in reality, McConnell said in a statement that did not name Greene directly.
I agree wholeheartedly with what the leader has said, Cassidy declared on Tuesday, adding that he anticipated a lot of his colleagues in the Senate would come forward to agree with McConnells statements throughout the day.
It cant just be because you want something to be true, it has to be what you know to be true, as best as you can know it, he said.
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Cassidy Agrees 'Wholeheartedly' With McConnell's Rebuke Of QAnon Rep. (Original Post)
babylonsister
Feb 2021
OP
A moment of self-interested lucidity doesn't rate accolades. I hope they doen't sprain thier ...
marble falls
Feb 2021
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marble falls
(57,081 posts)1. A moment of self-interested lucidity doesn't rate accolades. I hope they doen't sprain thier ...
... arms patting themselves on the back.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. McConnell trash-talking a Representative
When does he get around to his own caucus in the Senate? Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Chip Roy could all stand a trip to the woodshed for their odious conduct. But McConnell doesn't say a word about those Senators. Does anyone wonder why?
Raven123
(4,838 posts)3. If Cassidy had taken this stance on Trump a long time ago, the Greens may not have been elected
The just because you want something to be true mentality didnt suddenly appear