His treatment of Senator Warren still sticks in my memory. “Nevertheless she persisted.” Little did he know it’d become a battle cry, a meme and a t-shirt.
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Neither, it’s just packed full with __________
But
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McConnell said Tuesday he’s taking action in response to “systematic obstruction, not targeted, thoughtful opposition to a few marquee nominations or rare circumstances, but a grinding, across-the-board effort to delay and obstruct the people this president puts up.”
Karma is a Mitch.
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The sad thing is that they are likely the only ones who’d be willing to resign without being impeached, out of a residual sense of honor…
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Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead. Love it
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Which Democrat do you foresee taking the lead in this mission?
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AOC can be the background whip.
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It’s time to get out the canes.
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I’m there in spirit, but in practice this runs into the same little insurmountable problem as impeaching Trump: you can’t get enough R votes in the Senate to convict.
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Pot, meet Kettle.
It’s not that he couldn’t find them. He’s just not as ruthless and totally devoid of integrity as McConnell…and was laboring under the quaint impression that rules and norms that had preserved comity (sorry @meri) for generations would continue to be honored.
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Look at it this way: Trump and his cronies are so incompetent, and they are nominating so many incompetents for federal judgeships, that there will be a bunch of them who can be forced off the bench when Democrats take over the White House and Senate (i.e., 1/21/21). Then the new rules can be used to steamroller a group of better–and better vetted and qualified–judges through.
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Yes…sanctimonious evil pit bull.
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The good news is that the statue of limitations for the crimes the GOP is now committing does not run out until after 2020, so with a Democratic House, Senate and White House it will be possible to restore the rule of law and justice in America. Dems can do it under the banner of “making America great again”.
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This is probably the worst AP article since, uh, yesterday, when they claimed Spanish was Beto’s native language.
WTF is going on over there at AP?
“And Obama benefited from abbreviated debate times for most nominations under a temporary arrangement over 2013-14 that suited Democrats just fine back then.”
Really? Suited those pesky Dems just fine, huh?
In 2013, then-Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., moved to effectively eliminate filibusters on most judicial nominees and those named to subcabinet posts. In 2017, Republicans lowered the filibuster threshold for Supreme Court posts as well. (WaPo)
A temporary change in 2013 to approve a huge backlog of largely judicial noms in Obama’s 2nd term is completely different that a permanent change for Trump’s lack of nominations (and certainly lack of quality noms). Dems got burned on SCOTUS. Not again, turtlehead.
oh, this is rich:
Sen Richard Shelby (R-Ala.): “Admittedly, I did not support this change in the 113th Congress [2013]. I was concerned that once the Senate altered the rules there would be no turning back. I worried that the changes proposed at the time would limit each Senator’s voice and power, traits I believe we have always tried to protect in this great, deliberative institution."
Guess what? He now supports it.
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As always, IOKIYAAR applies. (It’s OK If You Are A Republican.) When Democrats do it, it’s “unprecedented obstruction.”
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Well, in that case, Heckuva Job, Harry.
In the foreground would be better where GOOPs could be invited to watch and be warned.
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Shelby. He was a Democrat who won a seat in AL a long time ago and immediately became a repub because obviously he saw his future in that party. Everything he says on anything is suspect.
Because the better half is a Civil War history buff and shares almost everything he’s learned with me, I get the reference, and bravo to you for using it👏.