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Nancy Pelosi: GOP more to blame than Democrats for harsh political discourse
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 6/15/17 | Al Weaver

Posted on 06/15/2017 9:18:13 AM PDT by ColdOne

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., argued Thursday that Republicans are more responsible for the downfall of political discourse than Democrats a day after House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., was shot during a practice ahead of the congressional charity baseball game.

At her weekly press conference, Pelosi was asked if she saw the "worsening in political behavior" equally in both Republicans and Democrats but she replied, "No, I do not."

She then listed out a series of examples of harsh political rhetoric from the right.

"We have a president who says, 'I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and nobody would care,'" she said, referring to President Trump's campaign. "When you have people saying, 'beat him up and I'll pay your legal fees.' When you have all of the assaults that were made on on Hillary Clinton."

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To: ColdOne

Pelosi is a nutcase radical leftist but she DOES KNOW she is lying with crap like this. All the left has for a base now is stupid enough to swallow this stuff.


21 posted on 06/15/2017 9:40:58 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: ColdOne

The real life Night of the Living Dead


22 posted on 06/15/2017 9:41:31 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudsl)
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To: Mr. Douglas
Just another example of the left projecting. It’s what they do.

It is an old Alinsky tactic - Accuse your opponent what you yourself are already doing that way your opponent will get the media hit and you will get off scot-free.

23 posted on 06/15/2017 9:42:21 AM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: EagleUSA

I’m surprised that Pelosi really wants to have a pissing contest about which side has poisoned the well more.

My God a man is fighting for his life, caused by a demented liberal, and all she has to say is how Republicans and Trump have said or done certain things.

In a true pissing contest, if we lay out all the examples of hate and violent rhetoric and actual violence, the Democrats and liberal radical types will lose.


24 posted on 06/15/2017 9:45:52 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Slyfox

Exactly right. The Rats know you must stay on offense. Never back down. Never recuse. Never give an inch.


25 posted on 06/15/2017 9:47:29 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“I’m surprised that Pelosi really wants to have a pissing contest”

Nancy doesn’t understand that it won’t be a pissing contest. She’s pretty dim that way. Her side already graduated from using piss to using bullets. That’s where the contest goes now.


26 posted on 06/15/2017 9:48:06 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: ColdOne
Pelosi is right.

The GOPe is to blame.

There are rules of behavior that congressional members are supposed to follow or they will be censured. For 8 years, the repubs were wimps. hey allowed Maxine Waters, Pelosi, Reid, Ellison, Boxer and many others to say things that were intended to inflame the nut cases in the dim party.

They should have been penalized for being somewhat less than decorous.

Just as several congress critters have been forced to leave for sexual misbehavior, they could have been penalized for their behavior.

DC has always had con men and other shady characters, but in the last 12 years it has descended in an abyss beyond recovery

27 posted on 06/15/2017 9:49:31 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: ColdOne

The Democrat Party - The Real Religion Of Peace !


28 posted on 06/15/2017 9:52:32 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best Long Term Prepper Tactic: Beat The Muslim Demographic Tsnami - Have Big Families)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

I remember when valjar said that. Obama statement too.


29 posted on 06/15/2017 10:03:22 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

... and then Person A will say “See? That’s why you shouldn’t oughta driven your car out there!”


30 posted on 06/15/2017 10:06:09 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: ColdOne
They shoot Republicans and call for unity.

Nice trick there...talking s#@t

they can GF themselves
31 posted on 06/15/2017 10:07:44 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: ColdOne

Well, Pelosi’s conciliatory rhetoric lasted almost twenty-four hours. Now back to the usual Dim talking points.


32 posted on 06/15/2017 10:18:56 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“..I’m surprised that Pelosi really wants to have a pissing contest about which side has poisoned the well more....”

It has always been my feeling that the 8 years of Obama and their outright lawlessness, their support of lawless, anti-American activity of the left, had the effect on stooges like Pelosi, of EXPECTING to be able to do ANYTHING they feel like doing, saying, etc. and getting away with it.

I certainly fault the complicit RINO Repubs that did NOTHING to put the left out of business with this type of stuff. It is no surprise that these reprobates are out to hurt Trump any way they can.


33 posted on 06/15/2017 10:57:46 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: ColdOne
“They say I have the most loyal people — did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.” he said. “It's like incredible.”

Pres. Trump was quoting someone. Anybody know who?

34 posted on 06/15/2017 11:08:58 AM PDT by donna (I want to live in a Judeo/Christian country where we know that, before God, men & women are equal.)
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To: Will88

Screw’em. Never trust a leftist...NEVER.


35 posted on 06/15/2017 11:10:59 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: jospehm20

Liberals are what is. What they believe is what is. Everything else is hateful rhetoric that must be opposed. Hence any action they take or words they speak pare fully justified.

That perspective is where Nancy and every other liberal is coming from. It starts with the every person gets a trophy culture and culminates in the re-education camps that our College campuses have become. By the time these snowflakes hit the world they believe that they are entitled to everything including always winning elections. When reality meets their expectations the reaction is violent.


36 posted on 06/15/2017 11:12:54 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: ColdOne

She has almost got a point for a change.

If it wasn’t for Trump and all the Republicans that voted for him, Hillary would have won and the democrats could sit around & smoke weed and wouldn’t have to worry about beating up (or shooting) the other side.


37 posted on 06/15/2017 11:17:05 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: ColdOne

This is a fake news story just created to let Nanzi spout out her socialist libtard vitriol.


38 posted on 06/15/2017 11:21:59 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ColdOne
Nancy, whatever drug you are taking, it must be awesome to live in a totally far out world all the time! Is it legal?

39 posted on 06/15/2017 12:25:40 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN, ESPN, NFL, NPR)
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To: novemberslady

“They shoot Republicans and call for unity.”

And gun control.
Brave men with handguns stopped this maniacal Democrat before he maimed and killed even more.
The stuff that drips from the `rats’ mouths could make a crow blush.


40 posted on 06/15/2017 12:35:10 PM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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