03-02-2023, 10:33 PM
Everybody loves a clown, so why don't you?
Everybody laughs at the things I say and do
They all laugh when they see me comin'
But you don't laugh, you just go home runnin'
Everybody loves a clown, so why can't you?
A clown has feelings, too - Gary Lewis the no-talent son of you-know-who
Rick Scott doubles down on McConnell feud in defiant CPAC speech
The Hill is a right wing web site https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/38...ac-speech/
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) ramped up his ongoing feud with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday, using a speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference to tear into an “old Republican establishment” that Scott said had capitulated to Democrats for years.
Speaking at the prominent conservative gathering outside of Washington, D.C., Scott cast his decision to challenge McConnell for Senate Republican leader as a righteous effort to oust an entrenched politician in the name of defending conservative values.
While he railed against Democrats, he claimed that “some politicians who say they’re on our side are also destroying our country.”
“It’s not just the Democrats in Washington who are destroying our country,” Scott said. “You have heard the famous quote: ‘We have met the enemy and he is us’.”
“Unfortunately, some of the leaders of our old Republican establishment have been in Washington way too long and forgotten why they came here,” he added. “They’ve gotten used to caving in to the Democrats. They do it over and over and over. Instead of the Democrats compromising their liberal principles, they roll over, and compromise our conservative principles.”
Scott, the former chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, ultimately failed in his bid to oust McConnell from Senate leadership. But speaking before a friendly audience on Thursday, he said that he felt no remorse for his decision and signaled that there would be more challenges to come.
“When I took on Sen. McConnell, I knew it would be hard, and I assumed I would have a hard time winning,” he said. “But we have to start somewhere. Everyone in Washington said I was nuts, and I might be. But we can’t put up with this BS any more.”
“My belief is that my challenge to Sen. McConnell was not the end of something, it was the beginning of something,” he added. At one point he loosely quoted mixed martial artist Conor McGregor, saying: “I’d like to apologize to absolutely nobody.”
Everybody laughs at the things I say and do
They all laugh when they see me comin'
But you don't laugh, you just go home runnin'
Everybody loves a clown, so why can't you?
A clown has feelings, too - Gary Lewis the no-talent son of you-know-who
Rick Scott doubles down on McConnell feud in defiant CPAC speech
The Hill is a right wing web site https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/38...ac-speech/
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) ramped up his ongoing feud with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday, using a speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference to tear into an “old Republican establishment” that Scott said had capitulated to Democrats for years.
Speaking at the prominent conservative gathering outside of Washington, D.C., Scott cast his decision to challenge McConnell for Senate Republican leader as a righteous effort to oust an entrenched politician in the name of defending conservative values.
While he railed against Democrats, he claimed that “some politicians who say they’re on our side are also destroying our country.”
“It’s not just the Democrats in Washington who are destroying our country,” Scott said. “You have heard the famous quote: ‘We have met the enemy and he is us’.”
“Unfortunately, some of the leaders of our old Republican establishment have been in Washington way too long and forgotten why they came here,” he added. “They’ve gotten used to caving in to the Democrats. They do it over and over and over. Instead of the Democrats compromising their liberal principles, they roll over, and compromise our conservative principles.”
Scott, the former chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, ultimately failed in his bid to oust McConnell from Senate leadership. But speaking before a friendly audience on Thursday, he said that he felt no remorse for his decision and signaled that there would be more challenges to come.
“When I took on Sen. McConnell, I knew it would be hard, and I assumed I would have a hard time winning,” he said. “But we have to start somewhere. Everyone in Washington said I was nuts, and I might be. But we can’t put up with this BS any more.”
“My belief is that my challenge to Sen. McConnell was not the end of something, it was the beginning of something,” he added. At one point he loosely quoted mixed martial artist Conor McGregor, saying: “I’d like to apologize to absolutely nobody.”
