{"id":1212260,"date":"2022-01-12T19:19:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T00:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1212260"},"modified":"2022-01-12T19:19:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T00:19:25","slug":"white-house-senate-criticism-of-joe-biden-speech-hilarious-on-many-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-senate-criticism-of-joe-biden-speech-hilarious-on-many-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"White House: Senate Criticism of Joe Biden Speech &#039;Hilarious on Many Levels&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-senate-criticism-of-joe-biden-speech-hilarious-on-many-levels%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1212260&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/joe-biden-point-and-yell-november-6-2021-ap-photo-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The White House scoffed at Congressional Republicans on Wednesday who criticized President Joe Biden\u2019s speech slamming the Senate for blocking bills that would federalize state and local elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that there has been a lot of claim of the offensive nature of the speech yesterday, which is hilarious on many levels,\u201d White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, pointing to Republican silence during former President Donald Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>During his speech on Wednesday, Biden, a former senator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/01\/11\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-protecting-the-right-to-vote\/\">accused<\/a> Republican and even some Democrat senators of siding with racists by refusing to vote for Democrat-led bills that would federalize election laws.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sen. Mitt Romney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/romney-rips-bidens-speech-defends-filibuster\/\">complained<\/a>&nbsp;Wednesday that Biden \u201caccused a number of my good and principled colleagues in the Senate of having sinister, even racist inclinations\u201d and said the president was not interested in \u201cunifying the country\u201d with that kind of rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Romney said Biden was traveling \u201cthe same tragic road taken by President Trump, casting doubt on the reliability of American elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/mcconnell-biden-voting-rights-filibuster-07015c5f-e66f-4ec6-a400-8e8d5f90a886.html\">described<\/a> Biden\u2019s speech as a \u201crant\u201d that was \u201cincorrect, incoherent, and beneath his office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis institution was constructed as a firewall against exactly this kind of rage and false hysteria,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cIt falls to the Senate to put America on a better track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki admitted that Biden\u2019s speech \u201cclearly struck a nerve\u201d but pointed to Republican support for election integrity laws as evidence that they were opposed to voting rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo us, and to the president what is more irresponsible, unbecoming, and divisive is the coordinated effort by far too many Republicans is to perpetuate the big lie and make it more difficult to vote,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House scoffed at Congressional Republicans on Wednesday who criticized President Joe Biden\u2019s speech slamming the Senate for blocking bills that would federalize state and local elections. \u201cI know &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}