Posted on 12/06/2022 5:35:11 PM PST by RandFan
A Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Tuesday honoring Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was not without awkwardness.
Honorees visibly avoided handshakes with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy during a receiving line, after exchanging warm greetings with Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer.
McCarthy, R-Calif., who is expected to be the next speaker of the House, praised the actions of law enforcement on Jan. 6. “These brave men and women are heroes, heroes who protected so many from harm on that day,” he said. “Days like today force us to realize how much we owe that thin blue line.”
Gladys Sicknick, mother of the late Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, was among those to decline to shake hands with the top House and Senate Republicans.
“I’m just tired of them standing there and saying how wonderful the Capitol Police is and then they turn around and … go down to Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring,” Sicknick told CNN, referring to former President Donald Trump.
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Can do better, surely...
Only if we get rid of Deep State.
Just think how Ashli Babbit’s parents feel …
A glutton for punishment.
Kids today will think people who sacrificed so much in wars to protect our country including Sgt. York, Audie Murphy and the heroes at Iwo Jima or those who went down at Pearl Harbor and many other places of combat are on the same plane as the DC cops who “saved” the US on January 6th?
Blasphemy and disrespect for real heroes.
better...with who
“ Honorees visibly avoided handshakes with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy”
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IDIOTS… Charlie Brown SUCKERED yet again by Lucy (aka Schumer) pulling the football away.
McCarthy is TOO STUPID and TOO GULLIBLE to be Speaker.
No kidding.
Were ANY of her family even represented???
Did they award Lt. Michael Byrd the Congressional Medal of Honor. What a farce.
Uniparty gonna uniparty, no surprise
Frankly, I told you so.
This is not a good look.
(Though it was still the lamest “riot” ever.)
Yeah..da next 2 years in da House gonna be great...
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Mitch McConnell gave a speech and said the award winners SAVED THE COUNTRY!
WTF
Biden’s handlers wrote it for him. No other way to explain it.
This is disgusting behavior by Groveling RINOs.
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I was talking about the protestors.
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I’m with you.
I didn’t intend to reply specifically to you.
Apologies
Even if Republicans praise the Capital Police and try to get along with them, they still wish us dead or in concentration camps. They are the Brown shirts for the Democrats in D.C. and it is best for those of us on the right to recognize and accept this before it is too late. Bennie Thompson and his minions used the Jan 6 Hearings to further establish and reinforce their power.
Gladys, sorry for your loss, but your hate betrays you.
I wonder how much the Democrats paid one of these guys who participated in a prearranged photoshoot, provable by how they left a night stick for him to use where the cameramen were at the ready, to ruin lives?
I’m furious about it, and I’m not a family member, friend,
or a business associate.
and ONLY Trump could or would do that... any other “politician” will just re-arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.....
the Swamp and Deep State are so entrenched under 8 yrs of Obama that I'm afraid they have “Fundamentally Changed America" ...forever ..” ..
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