WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT
REPUBLICAN Senator John Kennedy believes Nancy Pelosi is "foolish enough" to be one of those who ate Tide pods when the viral challenge was trending.
In an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity on Tuesday night, the Louisiana Senator referenced the dangerous internet craze from several years ago.
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"Sean, with respect, there are times, particularly recently, when I think Speaker Pelosi is one of those people who tried Tide pods," Kennedy said.
"I want you to think about what she proposed today, this is what the speaker is threatening to do."
The "Tide Pod Challenge" emerged after The Onion, an American satirical news website, submitted a story in 2015 about .
Two years later in March 2017, US humour website College Humor uploaded a YouTube video called "Don't Eat The Laundry Pods."
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Tide Pods are a brand of detergent that is best known for the colorful liquids inside each pod.
They definitely should not be eaten - worried doctors, parents and even manufacturers are pleading with impressionable youngsters to stop eating the laundry liquid.
The substances inside these pods are highly poisonous and pose serious health risks if they are ingested.
Kennedy's comments come as Pelosi and House Democrats are expected to vote on a $1.5 trillion proposed by a bi-partisan group of lawmakers.
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they are expected to vote against the bill.
"She is threatening to keep the House Democrats in session and prevent them from going home and running for reelection unless the Senate Republicans agree to the speaker's $3.4 trillion coroanvrius bill," Kennedy added.
"On the one hand we can vote for Pelosi's $3.4 trillion bill or we can agree to allow her to put the House Democratic majority into jeopardy. That's just bone deep down to the marrow foolish."
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The Senator said he believes that Pelosi and Senator Minority leader Chuck Schumer will not agree to anything unless it's $1 trillion "bailing out New York and California."
"And that's not going to happen in your or my natural life," he said.
On Sunday, economist and adviser to Stephen Moore criticized Pelosi and Schumer for
"Come on Nancy Pelosi," Moore told radio host John Catsimatidis on WABC 770AM.
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