Lawrence O’Donnell happily laughs at the republicans of the house on error in the bill

Lawrence O’Donnell made fun of the Républicains de la Chambre for having put forward the great and beautiful bill of President Donald Trump with an error, an error that was pulled in the foot.

“There is an error,” said O’Donnell in the episode of Wednesday evening of “The Last Word”. “They all know that the real leading expert on the rules of the Chamber is the Democrat Jim McGovern, the Democratic Chief of the Rules of the Chamber. They know that the republican president of the Chamber’s rules committee, Virginia Foxx, is completely and permanent incompetent – has always been – entirely with his staff. ”

The host of MSNBC then explained the difference between the way in which the legislation is elected between the Senate and the Chamber. For example, in the Senate, the rules do not change but in the House, the rules committee – controlled by the ruling party – writes the rule for each bill. It is standard for the rule to say that no amendment will be authorized once the bill will reach the soil.

“The incompetent republicans have done such a bad job in this very simple rule and a paragraph according to which Jim McGovern was able to stop everything in the House of Representatives today by announcing:” There is a “”, “said O’Donnell, in disbelief.

“We have never seen anything like it in the house-not something so stupid,” he continued. “During the following 11 hours, the house under republican control was paralyzed by this error. Usually, in the House, no one in the Republican Party listens to everything that says by Democrats on the ground. But this time, everyone heard what the member of the Jim McGovern congress said when he started a drama as we had never seen before.

The host explained in simple terms that the Republicans advanced the bill and did not include exit for themselves. So, if they started to debate, and the GOP realized that they did not have the votes, they should still take the vote. O’Donnell reprimanded President Mike Johnson not to know anything about the government procedure and that he quickly became clear that they did not have the votes.

“Panic sets up among the republicans of the room and in the White House of Trump,” said O’Donnell. “While Republicans can now try to correct the error with an amendment, McGovern asked a critical question:” If this republican direction cannot obtain a paragraph rule, can we really trust them to obtain a bill of 870 pages? “”

The error allowed the Democrats to go to the microphone and to ask for changes to the cuts in Snap and Medicaid, a main decline on the bill on both sides of the aisle. Despite the Democrat attempts, the Republicans blocked each request for a change in the room floor.

O’Donnell also took a moment to explode some of the GOP members who capitulated Trump’s requests, notably Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin who said: “We are not a bunch of small female dogs” to abandon all its objections prior to the bill.

“Ok. Nobody said you were,” said O’Donnell, calling the defense of Van Orden “breathtaking.” “I mean, we have said negative things about what you vote and what you are ready to do, and many of us have said negative things about the cruelty that you are ready to inflict on people here and in the world. But the small sluts ” are your term, the member of the Derrick Van Orden congress – not mine. “

You can watch the full “The Last Word” segment of the video above.