{"id":1581987,"date":"2022-08-01T07:17:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1581987"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:19:00","slug":"jon-stewart-calls-gop-sen-pat-toomey-fing-coward-toomey-mocks-him-pseudo-celebrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jon-stewart-calls-gop-sen-pat-toomey-fing-coward-toomey-mocks-him-pseudo-celebrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Calls GOP Sen. Pat Toomey \u2018F***ing Coward.\u2019 Toomey Mocks Him: \u2018Pseudo-Celebrity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fjon-stewart-calls-gop-sen-pat-toomey-fing-coward-toomey-mocks-him-pseudo-celebrity%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=1581987&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--><p>After comedian Jon Stewart <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1552688111347552256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1552688111347552256%7Ctwgr%5E9c21daeff6e7770e26ed9bcdbd7a65b8a62ddeb3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fpolitics%2Fpolitics-news%2Fjon-stewart-blasts-gop-over-vote-against-vets-1389372%2F\">ripped<\/a> Senate Republicans as \u201cmother***ers\u201d and singled out Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) as a \u201cf***ing coward\u201d for temporarily blocking a bill because Democrats wanted to sneak $400 billion in discretionary funding into the bill, Toomey responded on Sunday by pointedly targeting Stewart\u2019s sense of self-importance.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart had hysterically ranted against Toomey after he and other GOP senators temporarily blocked the passage of the PACT Act, which expands healthcare benefits for veterans and 9\/11 first responders who had been exposed to such as toxins found in burn pits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, this is the oldest trick in Washington,\u201d Toomey told CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper. \u201cPeople take a sympathetic group of Americans \u2014 and it could be children with an illness; it could be victims of crime; it could be veterans who\u2019ve been exposed to toxic chemicals \u2014 craft a bill to address their problems, and then sneak in something completely unrelated that they know could never pass on its own and dare Republicans to do anything about it, because they know they will unleash their allies in the media and maybe a pseudo-celebrity to make up false accusations to try to get us to just swallow what shouldn\u2019t be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stewart had also attacked Toomey by railing, \u201cGod knows what pot of gold he\u2019s stepping into to lobby this government to s*** on more people.\u201d He noted that the bill had been passed on June 14, then continued ranting of Toomey, \u201che is a f***ing coward,\u201d mocking him as \u201cPatriot Pat Toomey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the charge that the bill had been passed in mid-June, Toomey told Tapper how the Democrats were manipulating the situation: \u201cWe were promised that we\u2019d have an opportunity to offer an amendment to change this. And then, of course, that was reneged on, so people hadn\u2019t had a chance to be socialized about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be very clear,\u201d Toomey continued. \u201cRepublicans are not opposed to any of the substance of the PACT Act. \u2026 My honest Democratic colleagues will fully acknowledge that my objection, and if I get my way, I get my change, it will not change by one penny any spending on any veterans program. What I\u2019m trying to do is change a government accounting methodology that is designed to allow our Democratic colleagues to go on an unrelated $400 billion spending spree that has nothing to do with veterans and that won\u2019t be in the veterans space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can resolve this with an amendment vote,\u201d Toomey noted. \u201cBut some of the Democrats don\u2019t even want to have an amendment vote. \u2026 There\u2019s some Democrats that simply want to say, no, you don\u2019t get to change anything. We don\u2019t have any more debate. We don\u2019t have amendments. We\u2019re just going to jam this through. So that\u2019s the source of the tension.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why they do this sort of thing, Jake, because it gets very deep in the weeds and very confusing for people very quickly,\u201d Toomey pointed out. \u201cIt\u2019s not really about veterans spending. It\u2019s about what category of government bookkeeping they put the veterans spending in. \u2026 What I want to do is treat it for government accounting purposes the way we have always treated it for government accounting purposes, because, if we change it to the way that the Democrats want, it creates room in future budgets for $400 billion of totally unrelated extraneous spending on other matters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After comedian Jon Stewart ripped Senate Republicans as \u201cmother***ers\u201d and singled out Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) as a \u201cf***ing coward\u201d for temporarily blocking a bill because Democrats wanted to sneak $400 billion in discretionary funding into the bill, Toomey responded on Sunday by pointedly targeting Stewart\u2019s sense of self-importance. 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