Hardball: McConnell Changes Rule to Overcome Obstruction of Trump's Judicial Picks, Dems Fume

Townhall.com ^ | October 11, 2017 | Guy Benson

[wiseprince]

Good, now we can see very Conservative judges in Cali. That’s immensely important.

[pas]

Things are so partisan anymore because stupid Senate rules allow the minority to have total veto power if there isn’t 60 votes. So presidents are taking more and more power for themselves. Simple majority to get things through is all it should take.

[Parley Baer]

Took him long enough. I would guess he is taking a beating from the voters.

[MinuteGal]

The RINOS and GOPe are now feeling the first tsunami of The Bannon Effect...and watch their cooperation multiply.

Leni

[exit82]

Dole,Lott,Frist,McConnell.

What a waste of 25 years.

[Innovative]

“I will take a WIN anyway I get one.”

I agree. I think this is the right attitude.

[Innovative]

Better late, than never.

Don’t beat him up now, when he finally does the right thing.

[Bigg Red]

McConnell playing hard ball? It is to laugh....

[Bigg Red]

Exactly.

[Kalamata]

OK

[Bigg Red]

I doubt it. Look at post #13.

Talk is cheap.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Finally! But almost a year was wasted. He should have done it an hour after Trump was sworn in.

[beergarden]

He did this because Trump warned M/Bitch that Bannon has him on his sights.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I’m not praising him for doing his job. And particularly for doing it years late.

It needed to be done, but he deserves no special notation for doing it long past due.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

I second that reckon, bigtime.

 

 

[Dick Bachert]

FINALLY, he reached down and found that they were actually there!

[mewzilla]

OK, who put the pods in McConnell’s cellar?!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Yes, these wingnut courts like the Ninth Circus will never be cleaned-up if blue state Senators can continue to blue slip.

[pgkdan]

ABOUT DAMN TIME!! What the hell took you nearly a YEAR!! WTF!!

The big dollar donors and bundlers started griping in public last week. See how fast the GOPe can move when the money's threatened?

[Tucker39]

I guess when the big donors and others took Turtle to the woodshed the other night, it was a real come-to-Jesus moment.

The fact that Bannon has announced that all senators running for re-up will be primaried, except Cruz, may jerk the slack out of some other of these laggards, too.