Posted on 10/30/2022 7:28:14 AM PDT by Drew68
“Oh, good Lord. What 82 year old man is even UP at two in the morning? This is just effing stupid.”
My 90 year old mother-in-law loves to stay up all night and sleep all day.
And she has done this for years.
Politico.com
Democrats lash out at GOP after Pelosi assault
Some are accusing Republican leaders of sidestepping the rising threat of political violence for years.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2022. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
By SARAH FERRIS
10/29/2022 12:02 PM EDT
Updated: 10/29/2022 05:10 PM EDT
A growing number of Democrats are openly blaming Republicans for failing to rein in a rise in violent rhetoric in the wake of an assault on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, who survived with serious injuries.
“A far right white nationalist tried to assassinate the Speaker of the House and almost killed her husband a year after violent insurrectionists tried to find her and kill her in the Capitol,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said on Saturday morning. “And the Republican Party’s response is to either ignore it or belittle it.”
As police continue to investigate the attack, several of Pelosi’s fellow Democrats are pointing fingers at their opponents in Congress — accusing Republican leaders of largely sidestepping the issue of political violence and rising threats for years. Some also called out what they saw as a lackluster public response to the assault, including from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
“Yesterday, a man sharing that member’s rhetoric tried to assassinate the Speaker and her spouse,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Saturday morning. Then, referring to McCarthy, she wrote: “What has @GOPLeader said? Nothing. This is who he is.”
In the hours after Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was assaulted, dozens of Republicans — from former Vice President Mike Pence to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — condemned the attack and wished him a quick recovery.
The response from McConnell’s House GOP counterpart was more muted. Rather than McCarthy issuing a statement himself, a spokesman for the GOP leader provided statements to reporters when asked, but none that have yet been posted to his social media accounts as other Republicans did. (A McCarthy spokesman said on Friday: “Leader McCarthy reached out to the Speaker to check in on Paul and said he’s praying for a full recovery and is thankful they caught the assailant.”)
On Saturday, McCarthy expanded on that statement in an interview with Breitbart radio, condemning the violence and saying what happened to Paul Pelosi was “wrong.”
Audio: McCarthy responds to Paul Pelosi attack: ‘This is wrong’
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“I reached out to the Speaker. I called her, I know she was on a plane to California, but I was able to text with her to tell her about our prayers for Paul. Thankfully he’s gonna be OK,” McCarthy said.
“But thankfully the attacker — he’s a deranged individual — but thankfully he is arrested,” he continued. “And we’ve watched this with Lee Zeldin, we’ve watched this with Supreme Court Justices, this is wrong — violence should not go. You watch what happened to Steve Scalise and others. This has got to stop.”
Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), the No. 2 House Republican, offered a more forceful response Friday, tweeting from his account: “Disgusted to hear about the horrific assault on Speaker Pelosi’s husband Paul” before adding: “Let’s be clear: Violence has no place in this country.”
Political violence is personal for Scalise. He suffered life-threatening injuries after a politically motivated gunman opened fire on Scalise and a group of other House Republicans who were practicing for the congressional baseball game in 2017. The third-ranking House Republican, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), also issued a statement, calling for the assailant to “be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Biden on Pelosi attack: ‘Enough is enough’
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Both Omar and Ocasio-Cortez are among the GOP’s most popular political targets, often appearing alongside Pelosi in attack ads against Democrats. All three women have spoken about the escalation of threats they’ve faced in the Donald Trump era.
For Ocasio-Cortez, that included an anime video created last year by a fellow member of Congress, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), that shows him killing her. Gosar was later censured by the House, and while McCarthy privately told members it was wrong, he did not vote to punish his colleague.
In her Saturday tweet, Ocasio-Cortez said: “@GOPLeader defended him.”
The blame didn’t stop at McCarthy. Another Democrat, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), started a Twitter spat with the firebrand GOP lawmaker, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), after he was unsatisfied with her condemnation of the Pelosi attack.
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“YOU called for Nancy Pelosi to be executed, @RepMTG,” an irate McGovern wrote. “YOU said she should be hung for treason.”
The attack comes in the final two weeks of a tense midterm election, where both Republicans and Democrats have vilified their opponents in campaign ads. And Democrats say it’s that rhetoric — the GOP’s demonization of Pelosi in decades of ads — that has escalated threats against her and her family.
For instance, the House GOP’s top super PAC has highlighted or mentioned Pelosi in at least 29 TV ads in the last week alone, according to Democrats tracking the issue. In all, Pelosi was mentioned in 860 ads since the start of this midterm cycle.
The accused assailant, a 42-year-old California man, had asked “Where is Nancy?” before his assault of her husband.
President Joe Biden on Friday evening directly tied those words to chants from pro-Trump rioters as they overran the Capitol complex on Jan. 6, 2021.
“We need to say it out loud,” said Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.). “Militia maniacs, and other rightwing domestic terrorists have exploded because Republicans have spent years winking, nodding, and endorsing their extremism.”
Olivia Beavers and Ally Mutnick contributed.
But does she go out carousing in bars, as this article claims he was doing?
The strange thing that makes no sense is if this David Depape is a nudist, why was he found wearing underwear?
Did Hillary respond?
Where was Nancy at 2am? Out trying to find Ben and Jerry’s ice cream?
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So the David DePape guy is a Castro nudist but his ex gf/wife is also a Castro nudist, but then he is also GAY? Too many questions here.
Good point.
Where do you go to see the meltdown? I want to see the thing that was wailing at the moon when Hillary lost in 2016
“I am thinking the ‘Where’s Nancy’ was really part of ‘I am telling your wife you’re gay, where’s Nancy’.”
That also makes sense if you consider maybe the perp didn’t know who he was going home with, but when he figured it out at the house he threatened outing him or blackmailing him. And that’s when Paul broke out the hammer, hoping to get him to back off and leave.
the ‘wheres nancy’ was inserted so they can say the real target was nancy
it makes it political which is what they want
put the gop on defense so there are no more questions
i think it is going to backfire cuz the accusations keep it on the frontpage
longer on the frontpage greater chance of losing the narrative
Could it be that Paul Pelosi has been blackmailing Nancy for years — which would account for the more than generous increase in his wealth? IOW, “Nancy, you throw me some morsels or I let the world know that I’m really a Nancy-boy and make a fool out of you.”
Very likely.
thats it!
he is undercover MAGA
Male prostitute or Aunt Nana? UGH, what a choice!
wrestling with hammers in their underwear
in a sane world this would be SNL material
Every mansion in Pelosi's neighborhood would have cameras aimed at the street - among other places...
“...who was in his underwear.”
Quit freakin repeating an unsubstantiated assertion as fact.....It makes us all on this forum look ignorant.
“...who was in his underwear.”
Quit freakin repeating an unsubstantiated assertion as fact.....It makes us all on this forum look ignorant.
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work on your reading comprehension, cuz.
it wasn’t me that said that
back off the caffine
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