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Speaker Pelosi: Leader McCarthy Is 'Such a Moron' Over Opposing Mask Mandate

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The issue of mask guidelines and mandates has become such a hot-button issue that one member of leadership is calling one another names over differing opinions as if this were junior high or high school and not the U.S. House of Representatives. 

On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued new guidelines about masks when it comes to K-12 teachers, staff, and students wearing masks, regardless of vaccination status. Guidelines also say for certain areas that even those who are vaccinated should wear masks indoors. 

As a result, the Capitol Attending Physician Brian P. Monahan announced an immediate mask mandate on the House floor and in buildings. Carson and I have covered some reactions, but perhaps none is more newsworthy than Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) calling House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) "such a moron."

The House Minority Leader had made his views quite clear on Tuesday and into Wednesday as well. Leader McCarthy is not merely against mask mandates, though, but in his reasoning, he also promoted the efficacy of vaccines in that they "work."

Not only does it sound like Pelosi called McCarthy "such a moron" when asked by reporters to respond to the minority leader saying it's "against science," her deputy chief of staff confirmed that is her response regardless.

When asked by another reported, Pelosi had a similarly snappish response. "Science, science, science, and science," she said.  "To say that wearing a mask is not based on science, I think is not wise, and that was my comment."

McCarthy, however, was not finished.

"Well, if she's so brilliant. Can she tell me where the science in the building changes between the House and the Senate?" McCarthy asked, going on to cite data about infections in D.C. "Can she explained to me when the CDC says only vaccinated people need to wear a mask in hotspots," pointing out that D.C. "is not with more than 86% of vaccination within here. Can she explain to me the less than 1% affected there? So it’s a lot of questions if she knows so much science explain to me where the science changes in the rotunda."

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) similarly used such language when using his time on the House floor to criticize McCarthy. 

The speaker tried to avoid the blame, and instead blamed it on Dr. Monahan. "That’s the purview of the capitol physician,” Pelosi said, “a mandate from him. I have nothing to say about that except we honor it with our masks." However, Speaker Pelosi was the one responsible for not relenting on a mask mandate back in May. 

Bess Levin, writing for Vanity Fair, had quite the particular take on the exchange, writing "Nancy Pelosi, Done F--king Around, Calls Kevin McCarthy a 'Moron' For Opposing Mask Mandates." 

It appears that Republicans are forming a unified message in opposition to these guidelines and the mask mandates which follow. 

Hours after Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), tweeted such a curious point about justifications for masks, Leader McCarthy tweeted that same message.

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