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Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw gave House Speaker and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi the verbal the smackdown she deserves and it was beautiful to watch.

It was last Friday when Speaker Pelosi admitted what many of us had suspect for a long time. She held up a coronavirus relief package and is now willing to pass a cheaper on because, she said, there is a new president.

“It’s what we had on our bills. It’s for a shorter period of time but that’s OK now because we have a new president,” the Speaker said. “A president that recognizes that we need to depend on science to stop the virus.”

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“President-elect Biden has said this package would be at best just a start,” she said. “That’s how we see it, as well.”

That made many conservatives, and even some liberals, furious. Chief among them Rep. Crenshaw who tore into her on Wednesday.

“But we now have a full admission. She said the quiet part out loud. This was never about what was best for the American people, never about honest policy disagreement. It was about preventing President Trump from getting any credit. It was about politics.

“Speaker Pelosi made a simple calculation: She bet that if she could keep Congress from reaching a deal on COVID relief, that it would hurt Trump and Republicans, and give her more power. Even when members of her own party asked her to bring common sense stand-alone bipartisan relief measures to the House floor that would easily become law, she refused…,” he said.

“She believed that nothing was better than something for her and her party. It’s hard to imagine a more awful and heartless strategy.

“What’s worse, Speaker Pelosi does all of this while people in her home state suffer from unscientific, unconstitutional lockdowns that Democrat leaders in California are forcing upon their citizens. These lockdowns are not based in science, they never have been, Rep. Crenshaw said.

The representative then shredded the lockdowns being imposed by liberals like Pelosi, while taking a swipe at her getting her hair done in a locked hair salon.

“Study after study shows that they yield little if any benefits, but they impose extreme costs on the small businesses suffering under them.

“You know what else? Democrat leaders making these executive orders – they know this, too, because they’re violating their own guidelines. The Speaker of the House couldn’t even let a pesky little lockdown get in the way of a haircut appointment. Even though those same lockdowns destroy the lives of her constituents,” he said.