Discussion: McConnell Dismisses Calls To Slow Confirmation Process: 'Grow Up'

Oh, FFS.

Pot, meet kettle.

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I think everyone will agree the quality of Comrade Coir Coif’s KKKabinet picks are comparable to Obama’s. (For example see: Perry, Rick.)

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Kentucky, Texas (save Austin), and N. Carolina should be flushed down the toilet.

When you wind up quickly confirming sketchy people who later turn out to be criminals, will you disembowel yourself on the mall?

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Why ah do declare ah believe I hate Mitch McConnell more than Trump or KellyAnn or Reince combined whom generate hate with the intensity of 1000 suns
He is a waste of oxygen and would benefit greatly from a smite by the superior being of your choice.

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That’s right progressives, grow up! Did you really expect so-called conservatives (i.e., reactionaries) to be consistent? Did you expect intellectual honesty? Did you expect any kind of honesty at all? What is it with you people?

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Biden said it better.

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Well, McConnell was singing a different tune in 2009. This is what he wrote to Harry Reid:

Mitch McConnell to Reid in 2009: nominee “financial disclosures must be complete… prior 2hearing being scheduled.”

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Pretty rich coming from a man who orchestrated an 8-year temper tantrum.

The Dems cannot let such attacks pass. The Republicans will ride thuggery as far as it will take them.

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We confirmed seven cabinet appointments the day President Obama was sworn in.

Well, yeah. Not a week and a half before he was sworn in.

And there is that matter of qualifications. And conflicts of interest come to mind.

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politifact

The Senate record books

Wiki

Fox News (they kept a hearings schedule)

Re: that Fox News schedule

The questions that needs to be answered is- ‘Did everyone on either the 13th or the 15th have their ethics paperwork in?’ and ‘Was that OGE paperwork completed on time?’

Out of the Trump picks with confirmation hearings scheduled, ethics forms have been submitted for attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson, defense secretary nominee James Mattis and transportation secretary nominee Elaine Chao, according to the Associated Press.

These three have hearings this week and Sessions has already been called out for omitting information.

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Grow up? I say throw up, Mitch. Remember Merrick Garland…why not refuse to consider ANY of Trump’s nominations for his entire first year (he needs some experience in governing after all…). Alternatively, we could just wait until after Trump’s impeachment - why not let Pence start with a clean slate?

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Translation: “PLEEEEEEASE!” Welcome to what happens when you’re on the receiving end. I’ll enjoy watching you age into dust.

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Yertle really is big on the double standard, isn’t he? He spent eight years in his shell, refusing to cooperate when in the minority and throwing up every conceivable road block (as well as inventing a couple of new ones) when in the majority. Now that he is in the majority with an incoming President who belongs to his Party he wants to restore everything to normal order.

It doesn’t work that way, Yertle. In government, informal understandings and norms are as important as written rules. When all that gets tossed out, there is a new normal. Welcome to the New Normal, Yertle.

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Trump’s globalist billionaires must have their paperwork in order, Senator McConnell. We need to ensure they are serving the American public and not lining their pockets by working for Russia. Are you afraid we will discover some of them really aren’t on our side?

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We’ll ‘grow up’ when you stop lying Mitch. ’ We confirmed seven cabinet appointments the day President Obama was sworn in. '…and how many of THOSE had all their papers in and approved? I guess you FORGOT that little nugget.

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I wish I could post what I would like to see happen to Turtle McConnell, but I’m sure it would get me in trouble. Scumbag.

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Nah. He’ll just contradict himself and lie in precisely the same monotonous deadpan that he always uses. This lead from a recent VOX profile on the Great Obstructionist:

A few things are curiously missing from the Mitch McConnell–Elaine Chao Archives at the University of Louisville. At an exhibit designed to celebrate the Senate majority leader and his wife, there’s almost no mention of any bills McConnell has authored in his 32 years in the Senate. There’s virtually nothing about the people he’s helped, nothing to highlight courageous speeches made on the Senate floor.

Instead, McConnell’s exhibit almost entirely pays homage to the elections he’s won — for high school student government; for Louisville county executive; for his first election to the Kentucky Senate; for his reelection bids to the US Senate.

I dislike the junior senator from Kentucky much less than the senior senator.

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Hey there are also a few places in NC that shouldn’t be flush and I’ll assume KY.