Sen. Warren slams Mitch McConnell for handling of coronavirus aid bill: 'Absolutely irresponsible'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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. It’s 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 it’s too late.

“It’s 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 we’re in real trouble.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elizabeth-warren-slams-mcconnell-handling-coronavirus-aid-bill-absolutely-irresponsible-052208470.html

[Newest Reality]

1. What do you want...

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]

2. Recommended.

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]

21. Agreed. McConnell and Trump are cut from the same grimy cloth.

[hangaleft]

28. The repulsive triumvirate of Trump, McConnell and Barr

With a hefty sprinkling of Nunes, Jordan, Gaitz, King and the mighty “concerned one” et al.

[live love laugh]

31. All REPUBLICANS are cut from the same cloth. We musnt forget. nt

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Glad somebody's slamming him.

[True Blue American]

4. You should have heard Sherrod Brown. He was furious!

[TreasonousBastard]

5. And well he should be. (I'm looking for a link

[True Blue American]

7. I tried so I could post it.

Durbin accused Mitch of not telling the truth. Several other Senators joined Sherrod, including Manchin.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Found this-- he's pissed!

https://www.c-span.org/video/?470271-10/senator-brown-coronavirus-outbreak

[True Blue American]

11. Mitch is signing the House bill with no changes!

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]

16. +1

[jpak]

6. Moscow Mitch

Doing his job

Yup

[lame54]

9. Persist Persist

[Oldem]

10. Go Amy McGrath!!!!

It's time for Bitch to go home--to Moscow.

[bdamomma]

12. I am furious

fucking Mitch, I am giving a donation to Amy.

[OverBurn]

13. I Really Love Sen. Elizabeth Warren!

[mjvpi]

18. I'm blue no matter who.

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]

29. Elizabeth Warren was our greatest missed opportunity in decades

And I doubt we’ll see the likes of her for another handful of decades.

[fleur-de-lisa]

30. So true.

[ffr]

14. Whose side is he on? Because he's definitely out of touch with Americans.

Fucking Moscow Mitch!

[Warpy]

15. Uh, Liz? Moscow Mitch doesn't work for us, he works for Putin

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]

17. I'll be glad when the real Reaper comes for the turtle.

[lagomorph777]

24. Which he has likely hastened with his own inaction.

Spreading a pandemic which affects old people the worst is rather short-sighted.

Always look on the bright side of life!

[calimary]

19. Btw - his news conference today was telling as all hell.

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 that’s 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 they’d take up a new bill, then, to fix what the nitpickers and other assorted partisan (or cheapskate) nitpickers didn’t 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. I’m sure it’s a freakin’ category 50 hurricane. It’s the Olympus Mons of more-of-the-same AND piled-higher-and-deeper. I bet it’s flooding in from all across the country. But he’d only care about people in Kentucky. So I’m guessing it’s a freakin’ tsunami. He wouldn’t be pushing that “we’re not leaving til we deal with this” so deliberately, forcefully, and repeatedly. He’s getting some serious shit from the folks back home.

Amy McGrath must be doing well in the polls (and in fundraising)!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. Time to ditch rich Moscow Mitch. I'm sick of that parasite.

[Traildogbob]

22. His base

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]

23. She's way too charitable. Not "irresponsible" but mass murder.

[LudwigPastorius]

25. Hold those little turtle feet to the fire, Liz.

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The GOP is scum...at all levels of government.

[still_one]

26. Bravo Senator Warren

[Pepsidog]

27. All Dems should be screaming RESIGN! It won't happen but let's start the thought.