Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten to dunk this clown:
U.S. Senate hopeful Corey R. Stewart attacked fellow Republicans on Tuesday as “flaccid, soft and weak” days after the GOP-controlled House of Delegates began to pursue Medicaid expansion after years of opposition.
Stewart, chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, is the most well known of five Republicans seeking the party’s nomination to challenge Sen. Tim Kaine. He gained a statewide following last year when he almost defeated Ed Gillespie for the Republican nomination for governor.
The other candidates are evangelical pastor E.W. Jackson; Bert Mizusawa, a retired major general in the U.S. Army Reserve and foreign policy adviser to Trump’s campaign; two-term state Del. Nicholas J. “Nick” Freitas (R-Culpepper); and political newcomer Ivan Raiklin.
After steadily rejecting Medicaid expansion, a House committee Sunday advanced a spending plan that would cover 300,000 low-income Virginians on the condition that recipients seek job training and pay into their coverage.
With the about-face, House Speaker M. Kirkland Cox (R-Colonial Heights) acknowledged the political reality in a chamber where Democrats flipped 15 seats last fall and reduced the GOP majority.
The subject line of a news release from Stewart’s campaign read, “Flaccid, Soft, Weak Republicans in House of Delegates Caved, Should Be Removed.”
“House Republicans are flimsier than toilet paper, except toilet paper actually has use,” Stewart said in a statement. “They’re so pathetic. It is time to get rough and remove these weak Republicans from office.”
Blue Virginia captured Stewart's press conference. Click here to watch it.
Virginia Republicans are so sick of his shit that they gave him a taste of his own medicine:
The day after GOP U.S. Senate hopeful Corey Stewart stood on the state Capitol grounds and said he felt bad for the wives of “flaccid” state House Republicans who voted to expand Medicaid, one of them fought back.
Del. Glenn Davis, a mild-mannered businessman from Virginia Beach, in a floor speech Friday slammed Stewart as a phoney and a charlatan who doesn’t deserve to the be the face of the Republican Party next year.
“I’m done with fake politicians,” Davis said as his stunned colleagues watched in delight. “I’m done with Minnesotans who pretend to be southern gentlemen. I’m done with phonies who think they’re Donald Trump because they can tweet.”
The display came as many Republicans are alarmed by the prospect of bombastic Stewart winning the party nomination in June and running as the GOP standard-bearer against Sen. Tim Kaine (D).
After nearly defeating Ed Gillespie for the gubernatorial nomination last year, Stewart has the highest name recognition, compared to the rest of the Republican field.
It’s always fun to watch Republicans tear each other apart. Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D. VA) has been hitting the Trump Administration on why they are keeping troops in Syria without new authorization:
American troops carried out strikes against forces loyal to President Bashar Assad of Syria several times in 2017 in the name of defending American-supported rebel groups.
Especially as a matter of international law, the administration’s theory for why the United States will have authority to keep carrying out such operations indefinitely amounts to “a tenuous legal justification atop of another tenuous legal justification,” said Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard Law School professor and former Justice Department lawyer in the Bush administration.
And in a statement addressing domestic law, Mr. Kaine said the executive branch was stretching its interpretation of its war authority too far. He called on the administration to seek new authorization for any continued, long-term mission in Syria and Iraq — especially “to strike pro-Assad forces in areas devoid of ISIS to protect our Syrian partners who seek Assad’s overthrow.”
He also criticized the basis on which the administration ordered strikes on a Syrian government air base last April as punishment for using chemical weapons. At the time, President Trump claimed powers as commander-in-chief to issue the strikes rather than on any theory of congressional authorization.
The senator accused Mr. Trump of “acting like a king by unilaterally starting a war.”
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