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Steve Scalise Calls Democrats ‘Disgraceful’ for Skipping Hearings, Warns Fentanyl Kills 300 a Day
New York Post ^ | March 1, 2023 | Caitlin Doornbos

Posted on 03/01/2023 5:14:25 PM PST by nickcarraway

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise called Democrats “disgraceful” Tuesday for skipping a series of hearings on the ongoing border crisis before warning that fentanyl overdoses are killing 300 Americans per day.

“As we all know, there is a crisis at our southern border. While the vice president, who was supposed to be the czar of the border, will not go down to the border, we’ve gone down multiple times,” Scalise (R-La.) told reporters.

“In just these last two weeks, we had a number of committees holding hearings at the border,” he went on. “Not only did they talk about the crisis at the border … the Energy and Commerce Committee had a hearing specifically on the fentanyl crisis.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; donatefreerepublic; fentany; stevescalise
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1 posted on 03/01/2023 5:14:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

“Steve Scalise Calls Democrats ‘Disgraceful’”

They’re still UNABLE to CALL THEM OUT for what they are - which are people who WANT the country overrun with Illegals and Drugs.

Again, as long as we don’t call out their motivations, THEY WIN. And yet we know that the Republicans are quite capable of stepping up their game - after all, they do it to Trump and Putin non-stop. But they simply WILL NOT do it to the Democrats, their ‘friends across the aisle’.


2 posted on 03/01/2023 5:19:59 PM PST by BobL
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To: BobL

On this we agree.


3 posted on 03/01/2023 5:24:32 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams

“On this we agree.”

Progress!!!


4 posted on 03/01/2023 5:29:12 PM PST by BobL
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To: nickcarraway

Democrats are on the drug cartels payroll.
No other explanation makes any sense.


5 posted on 03/01/2023 5:40:53 PM PST by sjmjax
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To: nickcarraway

Fentanyl doesn’t kill people in democrat districts else they’d be asking where it comes from and what they’re doing to stop it. They continue to reelect them so this must be true.


6 posted on 03/01/2023 5:47:34 PM PST by bigbob
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To: nickcarraway

When he calls republicans disgraceful too, then we’re getting somewhere.


7 posted on 03/01/2023 5:52:25 PM PST by logitech (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. )
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To: nickcarraway; All
Unfortunately, Republicans fail to get the right message out to the unwashed.

Everyone goes nuts when a plane goes down and 250 people die. Yet, we allow the equivalent of one planeload of Americans to die every day because of fentanyl.

Let”a take 9/11. 3,000 died. That’s the equivalent of 10 days of femtenal poisoning.

If the dopey Republicans should point this out on the House and Senate floors , and look to responses from Chuckie, Nadler. Schiff, Nancy, and the rest of those barbarians.

This ain’t rocket science messaging.

8 posted on 03/01/2023 5:53:52 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: nickcarraway

Funny how the Dems don’t seem to care about “blacks hardest hit” when it comes to opioid deaths:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/01/19/recent-surge-in-u-s-drug-overdose-deaths-has-hit-black-men-the-hardest/


9 posted on 03/01/2023 6:06:05 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Cobra64

I agree with you.


10 posted on 03/01/2023 6:10:05 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: sjmjax
Democrats are on the drug cartels payroll.

And so are a lot of Republicans. Mutual Assured Destruction keeps both sides quiet about it.

11 posted on 03/01/2023 6:12:50 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: BobL

That’s a great assessment, Bob. You are absolutely right.


12 posted on 03/01/2023 6:21:49 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)
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To: sjmjax

And probably a LOT of Republicans, too.

I agree nothing else makes any sense. Stopping the flow takes will power and clean politicians.

How do Clinton, Obama, Biden et al become worth HUNDREDS of millions of dollars?


13 posted on 03/01/2023 6:23:10 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thanks!


14 posted on 03/01/2023 6:24:31 PM PST by BobL
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To: BobL

He’s pulling his punches. We know it here.


15 posted on 03/01/2023 6:42:03 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: bigbob

Fentanyl doesn’t kill people in democrat districts else they’d be asking where it comes from and what they’re doing to stop it. They continue to reelect them so this must be true.”

But here in Seattle the morgue is overflowing with fentanyl deaths.


16 posted on 03/01/2023 6:51:14 PM PST by angry elephant (Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“He’s pulling his punches. We know it here.”

I’ve been waiting many DECADES to see the Republicans learn to fight like Democrats. Does Steve have any plans to NOT ‘pull his punches’.


17 posted on 03/01/2023 7:02:23 PM PST by BobL
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To: nickcarraway

How many people per day die in Mexico from fentanyl over doses?


18 posted on 03/01/2023 7:13:51 PM PST by Calamari
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To: BobL; Williams

well, we probably all agree on most things...they just aren’t the things we end up talking about with each other.


19 posted on 03/01/2023 7:24:57 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: nickcarraway

Fentanyl is doing a creditable job of weeding lawbreaking undesirables from the gene pool. Using recreational drugs is a CHOICE; bad choices have consequences.


20 posted on 03/01/2023 9:54:49 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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