{"id":2708,"date":"2024-11-20T19:37:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/steve-bannon-ally-reuses-vances-mouth-breathing-imbeciles-quip\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T19:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:37:44","slug":"steve-bannon-ally-reuses-vances-mouth-breathing-imbeciles-quip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/steve-bannon-ally-reuses-vances-mouth-breathing-imbeciles-quip\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Bannon ally reuses Vance\u2019s \u2018mouth breathing imbeciles\u2019 quip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Grace Chong, chief financial officer and chief operating officer for MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon\u2019s \u201cWar Room,\u201d called Republicans who missed the vote to confirm a judicial nominee Wednesday \u201cmouth breathing imbeciles!!!\u201d on X \u2014 a clapback to JD Vance\u2019s recent pointed remarks at her.<\/p>\n<p>Chong was commenting directly on the Senate confirming Rebecca Pennell as District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Washington by a vote of 50-48 on Wednesday. If GOP Sens. Mike Braun and Ted Cruz had been present and voted no, their two votes would have led to a tie that Vice President Kamala Harris would have to break.<\/p>\n<p>Chong reused the colorful phrase \u201cmouth breathing imbeciles\u201d just one day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/19\/congress\/jd-vance-grace-chong-bannon-00190484\" target=\"_blank\">JD Vance used it against her<\/a> when she criticized him for missing a previous Senate vote to confirm judicial nominees on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>She has been active on X, pushing Republicans to block all of President Joe Biden&#8217;s judicial picks for the federal bench after Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/trumpwarroom\/status\/1858947535156449446?s=46&amp;t=NM9fMTQGsmWHktew9qfesA\" target=\"_blank\">posted on Truth Social<\/a> that Republicans need to \u201cShow Up and Hold the Line\u201d to prevent the Democratic majority in the Senate from confirming any more \u201cRadical Left Judges\u201d before Inauguration Day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Chong, chief financial officer and chief operating officer for MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon\u2019s \u201cWar Room,\u201d called Republicans who missed the vote to confirm a judicial nominee Wednesday \u201cmouth breathing imbeciles!!!\u201d on X \u2014 a clapback to JD Vance\u2019s recent pointed remarks at her. Chong was commenting directly on the Senate confirming Rebecca Pennell as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}