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“I probably shouldn’t say this, but if my record was as bad as this White House’s record, I’d probably give my staff blow too.”
— Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), on Fox News.
“This is about the Democrats don’t believe that deficits matter anymore. They’ve got control, so they’re going to spend as much money as they can.”
— Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), suddenly concerned about deficits in an interview with The Hill.
“I apologize. I was searching for a word for extremist, which I think is more neutral. And I should have said extremist. I never should have said whack job.”
— Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) apologized for calling President Joe Biden’s embattled budget chief pick, Neera Tanden, a “whack job,” Politico reports.
Kennedy explained that he was searching for another word before calling her “a neo-socialist, left-of-Lenin whack job.”
“You know what these proceedings look to me like right now? They look like the Kavanaugh hearing without the vagina hats.”
— Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), quoted by Bloomberg, on the House impeachment inquiry.
“This is no country for creepy young men, creepy old men or creepy middle aged men. But this also no country to deny people due process.”
— Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), quoted by the Washington Post, saying that the third woman to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct has been invited to make a sworn statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
