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ck4829

(35,081 posts)
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 08:39 PM Jan 2020

Blast from the past: Martha McSally calls for more... wait for it... "civility"

As members of Congress gathered to pray earlier Wednesday following the shooting that wounded Majority Whip Steve Scalise and four others, U.S. Rep. Martha McSally took a moment to talk to her Democratic colleague Tom O'Halleran.

It was a brief talk, but McSally said she wanted to reach out to the newest member of the Arizona delegation — he represents District 1 — in the aftermath of the shooting. "Our district knows better than any what these things are like," McSally told the Arizona Daily Star.

Both parties, she said, need to lower the temperature of the rhetoric. "We are all responsible for bringing the temperature down," she said. "The enemy is not each other, we have real enemies out there."

https://tucson.com/news/government-and-politics/mcsally-we-are-all-responsible-for-bringing-the-temperature-down/article_17d03aea-5131-11e7-92a9-a7dade0fa18c.html

Hmm, I guess "civility" stops being so important for Republicans when they no longer have control over both the White House and both chambers of Congress.

I think I prefer nasty Martha McSally to "Let's have civility" Martha McSally forever then.

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Blast from the past: Martha McSally calls for more... wait for it... "civility" (Original Post) ck4829 Jan 2020 OP
Nastiness and lawlessness IOKIYAR. alwaysinasnit Jan 2020 #1
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Jan 2020 #2
She means 'your' civility, not 'my' civility. keithbvadu2 Jan 2020 #3
I've look at politics from both sides now... Wounded Bear Jan 2020 #4
Trump did too, in one of his SOTU speeches. Then he attacked people on Twitter within one day. NCLefty Jan 2020 #5

NCLefty

(3,678 posts)
5. Trump did too, in one of his SOTU speeches. Then he attacked people on Twitter within one day.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 05:32 AM
Jan 2020

Republicans don't want civility. See: Obama administration.

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