", the U.S. Senate left for a seven week summer recess "
Shameful on both sides D&R IMHO.
And it’s likely not a real recess or that lame duck of a President of ours could go and wreak havoc with recess appointments!
Shame on them. Continue to do nothing. What else is new?
Calendars are set by the leadership. Not sure how Dems can be at fault here.
They deserve the time off. It’s exhausting re-naming post offices day after day, week after week, year after year.
TURTLE … NEEDS … TO … GO … INTO … SHELL
Too much pressure on poor sensitive Turtle man.
SHAME ON THEM. They have left the country vulnerable while going home to support the biggest BUFFOON that ever ran for President. Honest to God.
Fah, we need to blame both sides because reasons.
“They are setting dubious records for the fewest working days and the fewest judges confirmed.”
Everyone knows a senator’s term is only five years.
They’re just leaving these unaddressed, critical issues for the next senate.
During recesses, these bloodsuckers should be paid nothing, just what they’re worth.
Disgusting! And now they are off to campaign and set their agenda on how to screw the American middle and lowers classes. Republicans own this.
I hope nobody the Republicans love (are they capable of that?) gets Zika.
and a Zika funding bill still undone,
The “greatest country in the world” would step up and do something about this. I’ll just check my schedule here…that’s right - nausea, then embarrassment, with an overriding feeling of anger.
Repubs intentionally grind everything to a halt, blame “both sides.”
Works like clockwork.
We’ll wait until after the Rio olympics to address Zika, 'cause freedom and constitution and liberals this and liberals that.
Many of them (honestly, mostly Rethugs) don’t know KNOW what their job actually is.
For ex., according to HuffPo, Dem. Senators Warren and Hirono tried to explain to Tillis how important it was to get judges confirmed. Tillis claimed that it’s not the job of the Senate to do such things. They have far more important things to attend to:
Democrats including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) made repeated requests Wednesday to confirm a batch of Obama’s judicial nominees who are ready for votes. Each time they tried, Tillis objected and suggested the Senate shouldn’t be spending time on judges.
“What we get are things that have nothing to do with doing our jobs,” he said. “I’m doing my job today and objecting to these measures so we can actually get back to pressing matters.”
Yep, this is what the people of NC voted for when they bothered to vote at all.
It’s Hillary’s fault. Or something.
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that Churchill was right.
Maybe the idea of intelligence tests for public office isn’t such a bad idea.