Posted on 12/02/2021 10:55:01 AM PST by RandFan
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday ripped into the Republican lawmakers threatening a government shutdown over President Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandate, accusing them of promoting a dual crisis of the economy and public health.
"It is, yet again, a double sense of irresponsibility: First of all, they'd shut down government, and then they'd shut down science," Pelosi said during a press briefing in the Capitol.
A spirited Pelosi then rejected the suggestion that Democrats share responsibility for the impasse, arguing that the burden should fall on Republicans to justify their blockade over the vaccine requirements.
"How do they explain to the public that they're shutting down government because they don't want people to get vaccinated?" she said.
"This is so silly that we have people who are anti-science, anti-vaccination saying they're going to shut down government over that. And you're asking me what's our message? Our message is that we have to respect governance, and we have to respect science, and that's what we are doing and we will pass this legislation," she added.
"We're not going to go for their anti-vaxxing, OK? So if you think that's how we're going to keep government open, forget that."
The comments came shortly after bipartisan leaders in both chambers struck an eleventh-hour deal on a stopgap bill to fund the government through Feb. 18. Without congressional action, large parts of the government are scheduled to shut down after midnight on Friday.
With Democrats controlling the House, where just a simple majority is needed to move legislation, the stopgap funding bill, known as a continuing resolution, is expected to move quickly through the lower chamber on Thursday afternoon.
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Again, the lie that being vaccinated means you can’t transmit or contract Covid.
The vaccinated can - and do - contract and transmit Covid. How many, fully vaxed NFL player and coached are out because they contracted Covid?
The lie that keeps going unchallenged.
Funny how White House & Congress are still exempt from VAX...
Which ones are threatening shutdown? We need names.
EVERY TIME there is a government shutdown, or the threat of one, the MSM ALWAYS blame it on the Republicans, as if only the Republicans are expected to give in. There is an assumption that the Republicans must give in, never the Democrats. I’ve noticed this since the 90s.
Pee-Louse’s third freezer is full of Ivermectin...
THE.WORST.SPEAKER.OF.THE.HOUSE.EVER
She too is totally gorged and inebriated with her power. She needs to be cast down for the sake of the nation.
My Body, My Choice?
They did not say they don’t want people to get vaccinated. They don’t want the federal government illegally mandating vaccinations.
The clinical trials had vaccination failure rates of 6% or higher.
This was established before the first jab was ever given outside of a clinical trial.
Vaccination doesn’t always work.
Vaccination is a tool.
Every American city of substantial size has a police department, and crime.
Vaccination has a substantial effect on infection rates, infection seriousness and infection death rates.
Almost everybody over 50 and most adults under a doctor’s continuing care should try to get fully vaccinated. There are exceptions, but relatively few.
Pelosi’s face was created in a lab.
My wife is an exception, doctor says she can’t take Covid vax, shingles or pneumonia.
Since I live with her I can’t get vaxxed either as I will spread the spikes to her.
21 months and so far so good.
I am a heart patient. I took the J&J. I had COVID, I beat it and the severe case/ death rate is very low. Israel with high vaccination rates, has high and growing infection rate. DeSantis in Florida, with one of the lowest infection/ death rates in the US, is showing that conventional wisdom on COVID is horse manure With all the negative findings on blood clots and myocarditis,the risk is no longer worth it, especially for people like me.
You mean Maskless Nancy?
Which came first, the J&J or the COVID?
COVID. Looking back, probably was a mistake to take it
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