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The Fist Bump From Hell [1]
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Date: 2022-07-30
No, not the one between Biden and MBS. That was a diplomatic calculation (or miscalculation). This one was between Sens. Cruz and Daines as Republican senators celebrated on the floor of the Senate. And what were they celebrating?
Video Shows Republicans Fist Bumping After Blocking Veteran Healthcare Bill
Republican Senators have been criticized for fist bumping on the Senate floor after the GOP blocked a bill that would have expanded healthcare coverage for military veterans exposed to toxic burn pits during their service.
Newsweek has borrowed the British gift for understatement. HuffPost says it the American way:
Callous GOP Fist-Bump After Holding Up Aid For Burn-Pit Veterans Sparks Fury
Republican senators sparked outrage when they bumped fists after voting to hold up aid for military veterans suffering from burn-pit exposure. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was captured on video Thursday fist-bumping Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) shortly after Republicans managed to block the PACT Act, which would allow soldiers, sailors and airmen exposed to pits of smoldering waste in combat zones to be covered by the Veterans Affairs health care system for linked illnesses. Many are suffering from cancer.
As we all know by now, the PACT bill had previously passed the Senate with a lot of Republican support, but the Senate had to vote on it again because the House had made some technical corrections. What happened in the interim, of course, was that t he Democrats “out-McConnelled” McConnell by using his own tactics against the GOP: they got the Senate to pass the chips semiconductor bill and only afterwards announced a deal between Manchin and Schumer to save the planet from burning up — a deal that McConnell had been using the chips bill as a hostage against.
In their fury at Manchin, who is after all a Democrat, behaving like a Democrat, Republicans took their revenge out on the veterans. And then gloated about it with the cameras running.
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