House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced on Saturday that they would not accept the Trump administration’s offer to send members of Congress quick Abbott tests for COVID-19.
“Now this special Abbot test requires we slice open the neck to the cartoid artery…”
Trump.Just.Doesn’t.Get.It!!!
He doesn’t get the optics which is what matters to him the most in these times.
His staff can’t get him to give it the old college try in pretending.
And why should we care if Trump keeps shooting himself in the dick?
What is going on with McConnell? All the sudden he is agreeing with Pelosi? Has he seen his party slipping into the abyss and decided to try to hang on? Something is fishy here.
I think it’s obvious. They’re declining the Abbott test because it has a relatively high 15% false negative rate. They want the more accurate tests even if they take longer. Of course this will piss off the Orange Menace because he’s been touting the Abbott test as a yet another WH success story.
Yep, tremendous opportunities for Congress to be tested, but the millions of others in the country, why would he be concerned about us. Somehow he thinks if tests are available to Congress we’ll all applaud and think all is right within the country. I think he’s short more than one screw.
My first thought was exactly this about McConnell. He may have had a noble motive here but he’s simply not to be trusted.
I’m going to take this at face value (especially with Pelosi) and say it’s great that politicians are keeping in mind (at least in this case) that they’re there to serve their constituents, and not to put themselves at the head of the line. It’s a lesson Trump will never ever absorb. The King of the Bone Spurs who sends others to fight his battles. The fact that McConnell rejected the tests as well makes it all the more humiliating for him.
There may be some method to trumps madness.
Maybe by giving these bad tests to Congress he can eliminate most of them and rule by fiat or by default.
I’m sorry, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
Where was Steven Miller when this offer was made or thought of?
Meanwhile, in other news, Americans seem to be realizing they need government. The kind of good government that helps people. If this kind of sentiment holds or, even better holds and grows, we may have the chance for some great changes – providing of course we take the Senate back too which is also beginning to seem possible.
“There is tremendous CoronaVirus testing capacity in Washington for the Senators returning to Capital [sic] Hill on Monday. Likewise the House, which should return but isn’t because of Crazy Nancy P,” he tweeted. “The 5 minute Abbott Test will be used.”
“But, I’d like you to do me a favor, though.”
Perfect call. 10/10. Even from the Russian judge.
I sincerely wish that Trump could wind up one of the Abbott false negatives.
I’m not sure that even an expert marksman could accomplish that feat. Even at close range. It would require pindi…—I mean pinpoint—accuracy.
Someone is reading public sentiment about testing accurately, and it’s not Trump.
When there is a functioning government with competent leaders, the people do what is asked of them. The Kiwis are at stage 3 of reopening already. Testing, case tracing, and sheltering at home made all the difference.
New Zealand cases
Updated May 2 at 3:45 PM local
Confirmed 1,485 +6
Deaths 19
Recovered 1,252
My goodness, Putin’s Bitch being all reasonable and issuing a joint statement with the hated Nancy Pelosi and one that pisses all over Trumpy?
It’s Trump’s nature not just to be personally corrupt, but to encourage others to also be corrupt so as to give him leverage. Individual members of Congress realize they would be held accountable by their constituents, even as Trump may not be, and, moreover, Trump would hypocritically be the first to throw them under the bus with their voters.
Pro tip Christina. House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is really Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
Mother fucker is insane. Everything is “tremendous” because…nothing is tremendous.
From a sheer functioning human being standpoint, why would he not check with McConnell and Pelosi before putting himself out on a limb like this? Now he just looks foolish. Again.