Kevin McCarthy Blasts Nancy Pelosi After Democratic Freshman Lawmaker Makes Vulgar Comment
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy criticized speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Friday for not adequately reprimanding a freshman member of her caucus who vulgarly referenced President Donald Trump.
“(Pelosi) is the speaker of the House. She is also the head of the Democratic Party. She has a new freshman incoming individual that uses that type of language that has a determination of what she’s going to do with no facts in the basis,” McCarthy told reporters.
“I think this is a role as a leader and the speaker to have a conversation with this member on whether she approves of this or not,” he said.
Just hours after Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib was sworn into Congress on Thursday, she voted to go after Trump, telling a crowd of her progressive supporters that she would help Democrats “impeach the motherf—er.”
Pelosi responded to the vulgarity by noting that, while she doesn’t prefer the language that Tlaib used, she is “not in the censorship business.”
TLAIB (D-MI) Kevin McCarthy (R-CA} How do you work with her? You get rid of her. She is unfit to serve in any capacity on Capitol Hill. Nancy Pelosi, wow, just wow lady.. pic.twitter.com/95iMZoUXlQ
— BibleBeltMomma⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@BibleBeltDarlin) January 4, 2019
“We watched a new freshman stand up, use this language, get cheered by their base and we watched a brand new Speaker say nothing to her. That is not the body of what we serve in and that action should not stand,” McCarthy continued.
“Somebody should stand up to it. She’s the Speaker. That individual serves in her caucus. I would hope if she wouldn’t others in her caucus would.”
The minority leader also lamented the lack of decorum and commitment to the American within the new House majority.
“Are the House majority going to be serious about anything? I sat up on the diocese, provided the gavel to the new speaker, talked about ways we can work together, laid out firm core principles that we would not compromise on, and then we see this language going forward,” McCarthy said.
“They go down into a place that they have a MoveOn that they think others aren’t watching, using foul language, they introduce that they just want to impeach the president over what basis?”
“You know what happened in the last Congress when Republicans were in the majority?” McCarthy continued. “They put a resolution together to actually work with one another. To not use foul language, and they got almost every single freshman to sign on to it.
“This is the difference with this new Congress and it’s wrong,” he said.
Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.
A version of this article appeared on The Daily Caller News Foundation website.
Truth and Accuracy
We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Read our editorial standards.
Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. Advertise Today.
