U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) (TOP R) holds a sleeping child as the U.S. House of Representatives meets for the start of the 116th Congress inside the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that while would not use Rep. Tlaib’s language, and she didn’t like the profanity, what the congresswoman said was no worse than what Trump says.
Pelosi said during a town hall with MSNBC’s Joy Reid, “I probably have a generational reaction to it. But in any event, I’m not in the censorship business. I don’t think, and I don’t like that language. I wouldn’t use that language. I don’t, again, establish any language standard or for my colleagues, but I don’t think it is anything worse than the president has said.”
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Speaker Pelosi went on to say that she didn’t think Tlaib’s comment was a big deal, or that a big deal shouldn’t be made of it.
Rep. Tlaib may not have known that her comments would end up taped and tweeted, which is a new congressperson mistake, but she hasn’t backed down from what she said.
Here was the statement from her office:
There are a whole lot of people in Detroit and across America who agree with Rep. Tlaib. While it might be premature to discuss impeachment, the kneejerk freakout of Republicans over the idea of impeachment suggests that it is a touchy subject that they don’t want to go near.
The new class of Democrats is here to take on Trump. They aren’t going to back down, and the old days of Republicans clutching their pearls over bad language went out the window when they sold their souls to Donald Trump.
Republicans better get used to hearing anger and impeachment, because a majority of the country is angry, and many are ready to impeach this president.
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