And they should.
Neither Sessions nor Carson should receive Senate approval. Most of Trump’s picks are terrible, but those two are the most important to block.
Alas, National Security Advisors can skate by without Senate confirmation.
And Devos needs to be exposed for the batsh!t crazy wingnut enemy of public education that she is.
If Trump had a weak, cat’s-paw type at Justice that’d be a big piece of the autocracy puzzle right there.
I’m OK with the slowdown, provided that they’re all confirmed no later than January 19, 2021.
Trump plans on running everything out of the White House anyway
Drumpf’s picks are so manifestly incompetent and/or inexperienced that Democrats may well have to pick their spots. It may well be that every one of the nominees for cabinet posts lacks qualifications, but if Democrats insist on going into details on all of them, Republicans will charge that the Dems are obstructing the new administration. Yes, I know that Republicans were constantly obstructionist during the Obama administration, but Democrats are the party that believes that government can work, and Republicans the party that opposes government, so the two are not in the same place. Besides, Republicans have a louder echo chamber.
I don’t want threats, I want them to actually do it.
This is purely anecdotal and there could be a bunch of reasons for it, but my Twitter feed is full of Justin Amash and Evan McMullin going straight at Trump and calling him out. Stein is simultaneously going after Trump and building a war chest off of Dem donors that she can use to screw over Dems in 2020. I don’t hear that combatitiveness from the Dems.
I think it’s time that the opposition party became the voice of the opposition.
Give them nothing…
Re: the echo chamber… I’m not so sure it’s louder anymore. Still full of crazy and froth? Yeah, but I think the groundswell of resistance that’s been happening since Nov. 9 is beginning to reduce its impact.
I hope the Dems slow roll Trump’s picks for the next 4 years like the repubs did with Obama. Since the majority of the country did not vote for Trump, it should be welcomed by the majority.
I likely will get hit over this but…
I see a lot of talk and hot air, but not a lot of action.
If the Democrats let this nomination whole process go by without drawing some blood, considering the seditious acts of the republicans over the last eight years, and especially the decision to rob Obama of a Supreme court appointment, it just proves again and again how feckless they are.
I do understand offering the other face to someone who slaps you but when that is done repeatedly and then said person proceeds to poke you in the eye, there has to be some push back.
Just refuse to work with these guys in anyway possible as they have done over the last eight years. Let them experience dealing with a backstabbing, obstinate person who refuses to budge even to the most commonsensical legislation as the repubs have done the last eight years. Each time the country has been brought to its knees, it has been the brainchild of the republicans. The Dems should start taking credit for some of these too.
Let the republicans fume that they cannot get things done for once. If need be obfuscate the facts as the republicans have always done. Make governing hard for assholes McConnell and Ryan. Give them both a taste of their own medicine for once.
Leave not one rock unflung. Fight these fascists.
I’m on pins and needles awaiting Trump’s, guaranteed to be unusual, Inaugural speech (see either RoboCop movie) and the attendant riots and protesting.
And the state of the union?
Rake them over the coals. Make sure the fact that these folks are really swine should be winning the daily news cycle for many, many months. Donny will appreciate that.
I don’t think they have any choice. After the years of rolling Obama and the Democrats on so many issues, to not play the same game with Trump and the Republican party now would be their death knell among the faithful.
One wishes that the Democrats would either boycott the SOTU or stand and turn their backs on That Man.
But it won’t happen.
Democrats should make it clear that, because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote overwhelmingly, Trump Cabinet picks should really be a decision made by the NEXT President in 2020.