New Rules Bite Brass in the Backside

PJ Media ^ | 9/6/23 | Athena Thorne

[CFW]

At long last, Republicans have begun to embrace the New Rules bestowed upon our society by the Marxist Left. Just yesterday, my colleague Chris Queen reported on Georgia’s Attorney General Chris Carr following the example recently set by Fulton County DA Fani Willis and wielding the state’s RICO laws. But unlike Willis’s acrobatic interpretation of the statutes to go after Orange Man Bad, Carr is using them to bust up the passel of actual domestic terrorists who have been terrorizing Atlanta over its plans to build a public safety training center.

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When the Bad Orange Man won the White House in 2016, Democrats torched that civility. Suddenly, resistance was all the rage, and all of Washington, D.C., applied itself to resisting the will of the people as embodied in President Trump.

One way they did this was to “slow walk” the new administration’s nominees for federal posts. Senior legal fellow with The Heritage Foundation Thomas Jipping explained the process to The Western Journal back in 2019:

[CFW]

The left once again made new rules and thought only the GOP would have to play by those rules.

Surprise! They are upset to find that they are having to play by the same rules they used against President Trump.

[glorgau]

Maybe the military posts should be on a permanent hold. There are WAY too many 4 star Generals in today’s military.

[AndyJackson]

Sounds like this Chris Carr has escaped from the RINO sanctuary, and is showing a spine and a pair. Can we please get him back behind the fence before he hurts someon in the deep state who just wants to collect his payoff for being a good ol boy and doesn’t want any fuss and bother or anything that might look like work.

[stylin19a]

The Repubs had Schumer do this to them when in the minority:

...once nominees clear the committee, they must be scheduled for a full Senate confirmation vote, but Schumer is refusing to cooperate with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to do so.

When the minority party does not cooperate, it requires a cloture vote by the Senate to end debate on each nominee, which, if successful, still triggers 30 additional hours for deliberations before the full vote can be held.

so why are Pres. Biden's nominees not accorded the same dis-courtesy?

when do repubs start playing hardball?

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you for posting this satisfying article.

[Billthedrill]

The WaPo article quoted contains this howler:

general and flag officer nominees, who as apolitical officials...

Apolitical? In these days of top-down DEI propagandizing, open support of sexual deviancy, racial pigeon-holing, mandatory social justice struggle sessions, race- and sex-sensitive promotion policies, and plummeting physical and mental standards in the name of diversity? That apolitical? And we're supposed to confirm them uncritically?

[CFW]

It was a rather satisfying read, wasn’t it?

Why aren’t more GOP members joining Tuberville in his objections to the nominees? Or maybe they will as the primaries approach. They will need those campaign ad sound-bites to present to the voters. “Campaign conservatives” who only advocate for conservative policies for a few months every four to six years need to be shown the door. Romney is exhibit A in examples.