Hakeem Jeffries Offers Classless Reaction, Taunting Conservatives Over House Passing 'Clean CR'

As RedState reported earlier on Saturday, the U. S. House of Representatives managed to pass a trimmed-down version of Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy's stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown at midnight, with a tally of 335-91. That "clean CR" legislation now heads to the Senate.

But just minutes before the vote, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) decided to grandstand about the progressive goodies in the Democrats' version in the Senate -- for an excruciating two minutes:

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries calls on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans to bring the bipartisan Senate funding bill to a vote. Jeffries says Democrats will oppose efforts by MAGA Republicans to use a government shutdown threat to cut needed services. pic.twitter.com/CafZr4N5Yv
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) September 30, 2023

Then in the wake of the bill's passage, Rep. Jeffries tried to rub it in in a totally classless way, with both a post on X and in remarks at a press conference aimed at House conservatives. Calling them "MAGA Republicans," he said they "surrendered":

MAGA Republicans have surrendered.

All extreme right-wing policies have been removed from the House spending bill.

The American people have won.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) September 30, 2023

MAGA Republicans have surrendered. All extreme right-wing policies have been removed from the House spending bill. The American people have won.

He told reporters that the passing of the bill with both Democrat and Republican votes had stranded “extreme MAGA Republicans on an island all by themselves."

He continued:

The House, led by Democrats, were able to accomplish the right thing on behalf of the American people.
[...]
This spending bill was a complete and total victory for the American people. And a total defeat for the extreme MAGA Republicans.

But as the saying goes, the fish rots from the head. Jeffries' ugly rhetoric rang a bell for me, much closer to home. In a recent newsletter to his Arizona 3rd congressional district constituents (I happen to be one of them), which was titled "Poll: Keeping the government open," Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego warned that "[e]xtremist conservatives’ refusal to pass a government funding bill has brought us to the brink of a government shutdown."

Here was the unbiased poll question shared in the email, by the way:

Do you think extremist conservatives should put politics aside to advance a bipartisan bill and avoid a shutdown?

C'mon, really? Conservatives and anyone on the right is left with this basic question, in the face of this stuff: How exactly are we supposed to take anyone seriously who shows undisguised hatred for nearly half of the people they claim to represent? I don't have a good answer.

Update:

I nearly forgot. Rep. Gallego threw in "hostage taking" for good measure, in this recent X post, while feigning interest in bipartisanship and a "good-faith" effort:

The far-right's bill would defund federal law enforcement, cut funding for 150,000 teachers, slash wildfire suppression by 57%… and that’s just a few of the extreme measures.

We need to keep the gov open through good-faith, bipartisan negotiations - not this hostage taking.
— Ruben Gallego (@RepRubenGallego) September 29, 2023

Just incredible.

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