Obtuse doesn’t begin to describe the lead Fox News White House correspondent, but constructing cognitively dissonant questions is their mission.
During a press briefing, Doocy attempted to compare President Joe Biden to Texas lawmakers who recently fled their state to prevent Republicans in the legislature from restricting voting rights.
"Do you know of any examples from his 36 years in the Senate that Joe Biden just hopped on a train and left town to avoid a vote that he knew he was going to lose?" Doocy asked.
"Welcome back," Psaki replied. "I think the president's view is that these Texas legislators were making a statement through actions in opposition to efforts in their state to oppose restrictions on people's fundamental rights and their rights to vote in their state."
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The vast majority of Democrats in the Texas House on Monday got on a plane and flew to Washington, D.C. to try to block the House from forming a quorum in a last-ditch effort to kill Governor Greg Abbott's extreme voter suppression bill. They now face arrest after their colleagues voted to invoke an option in the House rules that allows law enforcement to literally hunt them down, capture them, and force their attendance in the House chamber.
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- Texas Democratic Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (@TMFtx) on risking arrest in fleeing the state to avoid debating new voting laws: "We are not property. We are elected officials. But this is the risk that we take to stand up for democracy."
- "More than half of Texans (54%) said they do not support members staging walkouts that would deny the Legislature the quorum it needs in order to hold votes. Just 27% of Texans say they support the moves"
- Rep. Fischer on chartering a private plane to D.C.: "Everybody wants to see" us; we "need to fly privately"
- Texas Dem Rep. Senfronia Thompson (@Senfronia4Texas) on her refusal to work: "I’m not going to be a hostage.”
- After CNN's @AlisynCamerota calls out Texas Dems for not having an actual plan, Rep. Michelle Beckley (@BeckleyforTX) replies: "We do have plans. You know, it is not something we are at liberty to tell you today."
- "I know it's painful to hear": MSNBC's @clairecmc admits that while Democrats are calling for repealing the filibuster, Texas Democrats are employing filibuster-type tactics to block passage of a voter reform bill