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Chuck Todd Bashes GOP Reluctance to Censure Marjorie Taylor Greene: They Held Steve King ‘More Accountable!’
By Ken MeyerFeb 3rd, 2021, 2:39 pm
Chuck Todd called out the Congressional GOP for their inaction on
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) particularly as compared to the manner in which they previously dealt with incendiary Congress members like
Steve King.
Brendan Buck on
Meet The Press Daily, and he reflected on how King was a “problem” for Buck when he used to work for former Republican House Speakers
Paul Ryan and
John Boehner.
“I can’t believe I’m saying this,” Todd said, “but I feel like Steve King was a more cooperative problem child compared to what we’re seeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
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Sen. Joe Manchin, the conservative West Virginia Democrat who is seen as crucial to passing President Biden s agenda, appears to have launched a feud with Vice President Kamala Harris. This came after Harris pushed both Manchin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, another centrist Democrat, to support the Biden administration s $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue plan.
Manchin and Sinema have emerged as potential foils to Biden s agenda, and potential allies to moderate Republicans eager to slow that agenda down in the name of bipartisan compromise. With the Senate split 50-50, the two hold serious leverage on any bill that Democrats may seek to pass along party lines, and both have already come out against scrapping the filibuster and expressed concerns about Biden s relief plan. Last Thursday, Harris gave interviews to local news outlets in West Virginia and Arizona, seemingly as a way of ramping up the pressure on the two lawmakers to back the proposal, which infuria
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Vice President Mike Pence drew President Donald Trump s fury for convening a joint session of Congress where Democrat Joe Biden formally was named the next president. Trump had implored Pence to somehow overturn the Electoral College votes, even though the vice president doesn t have that power.
In spite of the rift, it doesn t seem plausible Pence would unfollow Trump and change his banner photo on Twitter to honor the incoming administration of Biden and Kamala Harris.
But some social media users made that leap. Things get even more bananas as VP Mike Pence unfollows Trump and changes his Twitter banner photo to Biden and Harris, wrote a Facebook user who included a screenshot of the account that purportedly shows the president-elect and vice president-elect.