Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Loretta Lynch nomination gathering GOP support
Newsday ^ | January 29, 2015 | Tom Brune

Posted on 01/30/2015 5:30:41 AM PST by Zakeet

Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch won the backing of a senior Republican senator during the second day of her Senate hearings Thursday, a big step on her path to be confirmed as the first black woman to lead the Justice Department.

[Snip]

"I'm going to be a strong supporter of her nomination," Hatch told the witnesses. "And I believe she's not only qualified, but exceptionally well qualified, and a very good person, to boot."

Two other committee Republicans, Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona, have indicated they'll support her nomination, which would give her the three GOP votes she needs to be approved by the committee and be sent to the full Senate for a final vote. The panel's Democrats back President Barack Obama's nominee.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; attorneygeneral; democrat; jeffflake; lindseygraham; lorettalynch; lynch; orrinhatch
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-60 last
To: Zakeet; All
Unfreakinbelievable! To hell with the Constitution! Traitors!

And we know that they are just totally outraged.......at Cruz, Lee, and the rest, for trying to stop the lawlessness.

Ughhhhhh God help us.

41 posted on 01/30/2015 7:58:28 AM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Zakeet

Hatch and everyone else who votes for this racist Communist demon is worthless, and every bit as much an enemy of the republic as Barack Obama.


42 posted on 01/30/2015 8:01:17 AM PST by alstewartfan ((He's) nostalgic for something intangible. A time that never was. Al Stewart)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Zakeet

I watched the hearings yesterday and the day before....Ms. Lynch may have, as repeated by the left and recognized by the right...an impeccable record...FINE...However, the woman does not accept laws from our Constitution nor ever mentions that document....she is another Social Justice devotee who looks at American Jurisprudence as theory, not as law. Apparently sees no harm in those silly borders among other very liberal views.....NO to this Lawless double for Eric Holder.


43 posted on 01/30/2015 8:01:32 AM PST by yoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Zakeet

based on her bio I can understand some Republicans bending.

based on her testimony she should not receive a single Republican vote


44 posted on 01/30/2015 8:04:18 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Zakeet

Of course the other faction of the Uniparty falls into line.


45 posted on 01/30/2015 8:05:36 AM PST by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Arthur McGowan

Make Hatch a senator from California today, and he’ll announce his unity with the baby butchers tomorrow. Hatch, like most RINO’s, is a fraud who cares only about what the Washington establishment internationalist think of him. I don’t even call such a man a fellow American. Hatch is a citizen of the world.


46 posted on 01/30/2015 8:06:29 AM PST by alstewartfan ((He's) nostalgic for something intangible. A time that never was. Al Stewart)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Flintlock
RINO support.

RINO? This IS the Republican Party. Reagan was the one who was the RINO.

47 posted on 01/30/2015 8:07:02 AM PST by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Zakeet

Just another reason the GOP is dead to me. I’d rather fight the enemy I know than be stabbed in the back by a Benedict Arnold.

Sadly both my wife and I will be changing our registered status from Independent to Republican in order to be able to vote in state primaries. We feel this is the only way we can hope to influence opposition to progressives. Financial support will still be directed to individuals, not the party.


48 posted on 01/30/2015 8:19:00 AM PST by Boomer One ( ToUse)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: alstewartfan

Even though Hatch is a Mormon, he shares in what a friend of mine calls “the Episcopalian dream.” I.e., Can’t We All Get Along?

I don’t know how many times I heard the Bushes say: “There are good people on both sides of this issue.”

Think of that. The Bushes’ position is: Abortion is the killing of a baby. Abortion is the killing of 57 million babies in America alone. People who are passionately in favor of killing even MORE babies are GOOD PEOPLE.

Of course, the reality is that when people claim to take some position (Abortion is murder.), but refuse to draw obvious logical conclusions from that position (People who promote murder are evil.), they don’t really hold that position.


49 posted on 01/30/2015 8:23:58 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: Zakeet

Why?


50 posted on 01/30/2015 8:24:51 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Arthur McGowan

Some people who support legal abortion are good people. They are brainwashed people, just as are the vast majority of Obama drones.


51 posted on 01/30/2015 8:29:03 AM PST by alstewartfan ((He's) nostalgic for something intangible. A time that never was. Al Stewart)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: Boomer One

It’s likely that I will vote for Cruz in Pa., whether or not he runs. I’m not enthused about anyone else. Sarah’s not running, BTW, but I think she lost her chance when she declined to run in 2012.


52 posted on 01/30/2015 8:32:59 AM PST by alstewartfan ((He's) nostalgic for something intangible. A time that never was. Al Stewart)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: txrefugee

The RINO establishment machine supports those they know can be counted on to vote as they’re told , or whoever can be blackmailed down the line. I’d say there are few exceptions.


53 posted on 01/30/2015 9:20:16 AM PST by subterfuge (Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: alstewartfan

No. There are no “good people” who support abortion. There are some subjectively well-intentioned people, but no one who is that deluded is “good.”

Pro-abortion people can become good people, but only if they become pro-life.


54 posted on 01/30/2015 9:22:59 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Honorary Serb

Amen, brother.


55 posted on 01/30/2015 9:26:36 AM PST by 383rr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: Zakeet

Uniparty Republicans would confirm Qunell X to not look racist.


56 posted on 01/30/2015 9:48:42 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Arthur McGowan

Sorry Arthur. Alot of people aren’t as reflective or knowledgeable about abortion as you and I are. Best, Bob


57 posted on 01/30/2015 10:51:22 AM PST by alstewartfan ((He's) nostalgic for something intangible. A time that never was. Al Stewart)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: originalbuckeye

Why we were assured by the FR Republican boot-lickers the GOP would hold obama to the Constitution. Why just wait until he sends up his nominations to the senate, then will see the Republicans put a stop to his treachery! I heard that from the GOP drones until I was sick of it and had to imagine what world they wake up in each day believing the utter fantasy they were spouting.

I am waiting now for the next slew of obama judicial nominations, which will result in some kabuki theater puffery and then surrender as me and many more on FR predicted. And still the drones will be back here in 2016 telling us we have to vote for their Masters choice or the world will end.


58 posted on 01/30/2015 11:25:26 AM PST by sarge83
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: all the best
back in November.

Back in November was when I voted the Libertarian Party candidate for US Senate.

The Democrat was a marxist, abortionist, gun-control freak.

The Constitution Party guy was a nut.

The Republican was Shelley Moore Capito ...

What a piss-poor set of choices.

59 posted on 01/30/2015 11:29:45 AM PST by NorthMountain
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Renegade

The only way to do that is by amending the constitution and state and federal politicians get to vote on constitutional amendments. So they are not about to limit themselves.


60 posted on 01/30/2015 10:07:01 PM PST by Nero Germanicus (PALIN/CRUZ: 2016)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-60 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson