Sen. Murphy’s ‘I’m Not a Hostage-Taker (But Really I Am)’ Act

The Senator Who Never Met a Mirror He Didn’t Argue With

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), never known for self-awareness, set a new standard for political double-talk during his latest interview on Face the Nation when he insisted Democrats aren’t “holding federal workers hostage” despite the government being shut down for twelve days and counting.

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It doesn’t matter that he once condemned similar tactics in 2018, when he called it immoral. Now, however, he says it’s an “emergency.”

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Murphy grew defensive when CBS’s Margaret Brennan asked if he was being hypercritical by “doing today what he criticized then.”

No. That was a fight over sort of the long-term structure of the American healthcare system. This is an emergency. In about

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