Having to drag out the VP just to get your ass over the line? Now that’s a ringing endorsement.
With EVERYTHING this administration has done so far, only the Collins and Murkowski votes against DeVos are apparent. Otherwise the party is fine with every nominee almost to a man (and woman)…and fine with everything Trump is doing and has no problems with clear violations of the law and Constitution already evident.
I will be gobsmacked if ANY other Senator balks at DeVos. She will get the nod. They are all too afraid of Trump or worse yet think he is doing a great job. Will any of them turn on him ever?..I am afraid that may only happen after he gets us into an unnecessary war, and even then I can’t be confident of that.
i read someplace that if sessons gets confirmed first he is out of the senate and can not vote .
then this horror losses 50-49…assuming everything holds as is.
interesting maneuvering possible if true…though i haven’t seen it repeated in other stories…on the other hand rushing the racist through …hardly is appealing.( though most likely inevitable)
Dumb Fuck Racist Lamar Smith says:
“Teachers have more freedom and parents have more choices, to not send their kids to school that admit NI(CLANG!)S, FAGS, RAG-HEADS, and HELMET-HEADS” but only good White Christian Normal Kids like themselves."
This is what DeVos stands for: Christian Indoctrination funded by the Government with none of those pesky “special needs” kids to mess up the GPA of the School.
Fuck Her the the Unicorn she rode in on.
Are there any #NeverTrumpers left? Isn’t it Christmas for the far Right? Who says Trump isn’t one of them.
Party Trumps Country with Republicans (and MONEY Trumps Party.)
Putin has a docile Duma, dominated by his party United Russia. His upper-house Federation Council is even more docile. As a result, what Vladimir Vladimirovich wants, Vladimir Vladimirovich gets. Rubber. Stamped. It’s a great model for autocracy, with the ruler able to act above the law. King Donald the First should find similar arrangements in Moscow West well to his liking.
With the ever-so-brief committee hearing and little or no floor debate, this has been a fascinating display of “Hide the Nominee.”
Despite their best efforts, it’s still manifestly evident that she is ignorant of policy ABC’s and will be harmful to public schools.
And yet it appears enough Republicans will vote for her to drag her across the finish line.
“We will be swapping a national school board for what she believes in, which is a local school board,”
This is a lie. There will absolutely be strict guidance from the religious right Betsy DeVos on how these schools should be run, on how to defund and kill public education and how to force poor kids into schools their parents can’t afford even with the minimal vouchers they’ll receive.
Part of the DNC’s plans for more Democrats, should focus on getting Democrats on local school boards as well.
What the hell is it going to take for Dems to realize that the GOP has never been interested in anything remotely described as compromise, the greater good or good faith; the GOP is a thinly disguised totalitarian cabal of ravenous beasts bent on destroying government, the social safety net and the Constitution. Dems need to take off the gloves and beat the holy shit out of these misanthropic maniacs. Dems really are Charlie Brown to the GOP’s Lucy.
The silver lining here might be that she will hopefully end up having little influence in Washington as opposed to Michigan where she did real damage and they probably are delighted to see the back of her.
My idiot senator Toomey will never stand up to trump.
DeVos, 59, is the wife of Dick DeVos, heir to the Amway marketing fortune. It is called Scamway
I thought that with the two Republican ladies the vote was sitting at 50-50. That’s why they couldn’t vote Sessions until after the DeVos vote. Who moved? How 'bout a vote count? Finish the story.