Discussion: Cruz, Lee Already Prepping To Delay AG Nominee Over 'Executive Amnesty'

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I was thinking the consulate in Sierra Leone.

jw1

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Not-- Condoleeza Rice.

jw1

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How deft, and subtle and brilliant and everything
Cruz should consider running for Majority Leader and President.

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OK Dems stand up for your President’s nominee. A chocolate Ă©clair is a desert, not the basis for a political backbone.

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President Obama needs to quit fucking around and understand who and what he is dealing with. The GOP is their current composition exists only to thwart him at every turn. There is no rational or strategy other than hate. President Obama needs the current lame duck senate to confirm the AG nominee and immediately after sign the immigration executive order. Who cares about “poisoning the well.” It’s been poisoned for a long, long time. JUST DO IT!

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Obama and the Democrats lost the election.

It’s time to shelve this talk of unilateral executive action, worthy of a junta or banana republic leader.

Reach out to Republicans and compromise.

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I’ll repeat what I said earlier. President Obama should have found the most progressive old white man in America, and nominated him to be AG. Then Senate Republicans would be in a lose-lose situation. Either they approve someone who’s more liberal than Holder, or they upset their racist base by allowing a black man to remain as AG.

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Horseshit, dear.

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“President Obama’s Attorney General nominee deserves fair and full consideration of the United States Senate, which is precisely why she should not be confirmed in the lame duck session of Congress by senators who just lost their seats and are no longer accountable to the voters,” the senators said in a Saturday statement.

Why are we paying them? Should they not do their jobs in their remanning time? What if there is an emergency? Should they wait until the new Senate is sworn in?

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Reach out to people like Ted Cruz, really? Why would anyone want to do that?

I look forward to an intelligent and reasonable answer.

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I think Lynch’s (or any new attorney general’s) confirmation should be contingent their willingness to enforce federal immigration law, and on appointing a special prosecutor for the IRS scandal. If they are not willing to do this, their confirmation should be refused.

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The bellowing of this buffoon provides a compelling argument for pushing through Senate approval of this nomination before the recess.

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What an idiot! How very Republican. They are NOT going to change. The Republicans are still determined to destroy our country!

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President Obama reached out to the Republicans time and time again only to have them slap him in the face over and over again. He tried calling them, but they wanted him to actively woo and fete them. He tried offering things the GOP wanted, but they demanded that he abandon his whole platform and give them everything.

Back in 2010, Mitch McConnell stated that the one and only job of the GOP was to stall everything that Obama wanted, refuse any offer and make Obama a one term President.

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Immigration is a smoke screen. They want to sink this nominee but immigration is a red herring.

Republicans are scared to death because she is a civil rights attorney, She would be a thorn in their quest to disenfranchise minorities.

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You can’t find your rock can you?

jw1

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Democrats will push the nominee through during the next session. Reid is going to spit in Cruz’s eye and confirm her before January. F U Cruz.

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Federal immigration law is being enforced now, Cupcake.

And there is no IRS scandal.
There never was.

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While we’re at it?
Prosecuting Wall Street banksters and Bush-era war criminals and profiteers.

Oh, wait. That would’ve been Alberto Gonzales and John Yoo’s responsibility.
And just what was it that both of them did regarding existing immigration laws?
Not a damn thing.

(R)s. Amnesic since 2009.

jw1

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Multiple Republican senators have already expressed the same view that the Senate should wait to confirm the attorney general until the newly-elected senators take office in January.

Hot damn, another two months off! These Repugs simply don’t want to work. They haven’t done a thing for 8 years, so they need a couple months to gear up before actually having to govern the country. They want to collect their checks for the next 2 months and sit around picking their noses and contemplating the artistic profundity of their boogers.

The GOP thought a lame duck session was just fine for impeaching Bill Clinton, but now Cruz and Lee think it’s wrong to conduct Congressional business between now and January.

Don’t you wish your employer gave you the next two months off?

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