McConnell Won’t Delay Barrett Hearing Even After 3 GOP Senators Test Positive For COVID | Talking Points Memo

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday said that he will seek to obtain a consent agreement only to delay the return of Senate’s floor proceedings scheduled to begin on Monday, meanwhile pushing ahead with the Senate Judiciary Committee’s original timeline set for the confirmation hearing of a conservative judge to the Supreme Court.


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“historically supported confirmation”

COVID is coming for you, you lizard eyed raisin hearted traitor.

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Consent denied, mthrfckr.

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“McConnell on Saturday said that he will seek to obtain a consent agreement…”

Dems: (Uncontrollable laughter)

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The national government is in a crisis like we’ve seen only a few times in our history and this disgrace of a Senate majority leader is going after one of his judges with the single-mindedness of a truffle pig. Way to serve the nation, you reanimated corpse.

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Well, it never hurts to ask. But he really doesn’t have a lot of favors to call in at that.

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If the Dems don’t show and the sick Repubs stay away as they should, then there’s no quorum on the committee (and in the Senate), is that correct?

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The scene will be quite different by the time we reach the 12th.

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Will Schumer actually withhold consent? Doesn’t seem to me that he’s ever ready or willing to REALLY monkey-wrench McConnell’s plans.

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GFY, Moscow Mitch.

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McConnell’s luck might just have run out. He’s trying to selvage this, but I get the feeling that chaos will loom large throughout all Republican circles over the next few weeks and derail all his attempts do anything.

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got to have at least 1 dem there to actually demand a quorum call, right?

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From your keyboard to god’s ears. Let the chaos they have rained down on America pour over them in a 40-year flood.

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“Consent Agreement”. Who says he won’t come up with some creative form of bullshit to proceed somehow? I just stopped by again to say…“told ya so…na-na-na-boo-boo.” He’s gonna wedge this baby in no matter what.

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Give it another few days. I suspect the total damage to the Senate coterie isn’t yet fully realized. By Wednesday, he may be down a dozen or more.

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Honestly, it still won’t stop him to come up with something. He’ll change the proceedings to remote votes if he has to. He’s not gonna let this go. He doesn’t care how contemptible he is in the eyes of anyone anymore. People could be dying at his feet and he’d still try to proceed and drag them in by their hair to make them vote on his side of the aisle, clothed in hazmat suits if he has to.

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He has three senators down with Covid. One more and he can’t muster a majority. What if Pence tests positive. He was at the Rose Garden event.

Turtle the GOP is in crisis and you are still worrying about your judge? Wow you are single minded.

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God: “What about lightning? If I just struck him with lightning, do you think that would work?”

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Fuck you turtle.

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Putin packs then unpacks then packs.
If has to unpack one more time Moscow Mitch is in trouble.

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