Posted on 02/01/2018 6:12:20 PM PST by markomalley
House Republicans will lean heavily on Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her comment that the GOP tax cut amounts to just "crumbs" for people in their quest to retain the majority this year.
In an interview with reporters on Thursday, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, who runs the House campaign arm, said the top Democrat is helping Republicans politically with her own well-publicized criticisms of the GOP.
Most recently, she called the Republican tax reform plan “Armageddon,” and said the $1,000 bonuses some companies awarded as a result of corporate tax cuts are “crumbs.”
“Her crumbs comment,” Stivers said. “That’s something I think we can use pretty effectively.”
Stivers echoed President Trump, who talked about Pelosi when he addressed the Republicans at the Greenbrier Resort Thursday during their annual retreat.
Trump told Republicans Thursday that the “crumbs” comment could hurt Democrats in the same way many believe Hillary Clinton by saying, during a campaign speech, that Trump supporters belong in “a basket of deplorables.”
“And then we got hit with these corporations giving tremendous bonuses to everybody, that Nancy Pelosi called crumbs,” Trump said to the GOP crowd. “That was a bad — that could be like deplorable. Does that make sense? Deplorable and crumbs?”
Republicans face a formidable challenge in November. Dozens of GOP lawmakers are retiring, including some in districts vulnerable to takeovers by Democrats.
Some generic ballot surveys have recently showed a significant advantage for House Democrats, but their lead was substantially cut after Republicans passed the tax bill.
Pelosi is sticking by the “crumbs” comment. She repeated it Thursday at an event in Massachusetts, according to the Daily Caller.
“There is a tax advantage in the beginning for workers, and that’s their enticement,” Pelosi said at a tax reform event in Cambridge. “While they give banquets to … the high end, to corporate America, and I say ‘crumbs,’ they mock me in ads for saying that, compared to what they get at the high end.”
Stivers said the recently passed tax reform plan can help the GOP hold onto the majority if they can effectively promote it to voters.
“I feel good about our chances,” Stivers said.
Pelosi sounds like Marie Antoinette: “Let them eat crumbs.”
That makes the Democrats look like they care about average Americans.
If it’s just crumbs, she’s free to propose a larger tax cut
I hope they put her in charge of everything. She can even design their new costumes.
She may have already done enough.
Pelosi is a total wreck. She is so incoherent that no one has a clue what the hell she’s talking about most of the time. Trump Derangement Syndrome has pushed her over the edge with Mad Maxine. Lunatics on the hill.
Just wait until Schieff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s) gets on TV ads
Americans dont need no stinking thousand dollars..that’s chump change to elected Democrats....
In the Senate, the Democrats appear to be slightly wealthier, with a median net worth in 2010 of $2.69 million compared to $2.43 million for Republicans.
I think so, we have the tape, all those condescending remarks are going to make great soundbites for people who don’t pay attention to politics til the week before the election. She’ll be the gift that keeps on giving.
Bat crap crazy Nancy and Mad Maxine need to tour the country promoting the Democrat party.
And BOTH will be re-elected, again...
Exactly what I was thinking,would be wonderful for us.
San Fran Nan is the gift that keeps on giving.
Excellent point.
I suggest Trump’s people put out the word that he wanted to give companies an even larger tax break so they would be able to give $5000 bonuses but Nancy and the Dems wouldn’t allow it.
Play her ugly mug sitting there while Trump is explaining that Black and Hispanic unemployment is lower than at any time since recording began.
Let the Left get fill of that.
Remember when the left rubbed their hands in sheer delight just thinking about their planned “October Surprise”?
DNC Doomage
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