Posted on 11/15/2016 1:36:56 PM PST by GilGil
Why has Rudy Giuliani emerged as President-elect Donald Trump's prospect for State, the most coveted job in the administration?
Though Giuliani has little foreign policy experience, Trump insiders say Giuliani had few other options, and that Trump had to reward his most loyal, high-level supporter.
Trump transition officials and Giuliani himself has confided to friends there was little chance he could be confirmed by the Senate, which, under cloture rules, would still require Democratic support.
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The cloture rules can be nuked. The dems under Harry Reid did it. Time to go big or go home.
Rudy would be an excellent Attorney General. What possible objection could the Senate have to him? That he’s divorced and remarried?
They are worried he would put a whole lotta democrats in jail. Giuliani has his flaws but he hates corruption, and that is why he would make a great AG.
A president deserves to nominate whomever he wants.
Cut the democrats off at the knees. Give them no power, no say, nothing.
No one cares about them.
So do what Obama did... make him a “czar” (executive advisor) which does not need Senate approval. Put him in charge of managing/directing all the inspector generals of all the departments. He’d inspect every part of the swamp and drain it!
Confused. We have a Republican majority. Why would he be denied?
I just want an AG who’ll open up a can of RICO on the Clinton Foundation. Is that too much to ask?
Yeah, like the Demon party wouldn’t get who they wanted in period. Sigh...
Who is going to be attorney general? Judge Jeanine Pirro would be OK with me.
You mean like that other member of the club, John Tower, sailed through his confirmation hearing?
Maybe because some of those ‘republican’ senators are really ‘rat infiltrators?
The Turtle says: whaaaat?
Jeanine would be great. Does she want to give up her TV show?
My wife thinks the two Senators form New York ought to be Jeanine Pirro and Elizabeth McCaughey.
As anyone who has had to deal with State at a policy level will attest..., the vast majority of the State Department seems to owe their allegiance to the ephemeral "New World Order" and not the USA! It has been that way for 100 years or more!
Rudy would jail too many Democrats, so they would filibuster his nomination.
The Senate should do what Harry Reid did and make it a simple majority vote.
Cabinet appointments only need a simple majority. This doesn’t make sense.
The cloture rules can be nuked. The dems under Harry Reid did it. Time to go big or go home.
Yes, Harry Reid and Democrats did the nuclear option on cloture on presidential nominees.
That rule change is still in place, isn’t it. Unless the Republicans changed it back? Did they??
I thought that rule change was still in effect, so that a Republican majority could shove things back down the Democrats throats.
But why does Rudy think it would be hard for him to get Senate confirmation? I don’t see that he has ever had such universal strong condemnation from Democrats.
Well, if they are going to play by those rules, Trump won’t be able to get any of his appointees approved or a USSC justice either.
Agreed. Perhaps this is another feint.
I think Trump will not allow himself to be outmaneuvered.
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