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McConnell: Dems should 'grow up' and consider Trump nominees
Associated Press ^ | Jan 8, 2017 2:35 PM EST

Posted on 01/08/2017 5:27:57 PM PST by Olog-hai

Republicans on Sunday defended their party against Democratic complaints that Congress is being forced to consider nominees for Donald Trump’s administration without completed ethics reviews.

“All of these little procedural complaints are related to their frustration in having not only lost the White House, but having lost the Senate,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

“I understand that,” he added, “but we need to sort of grow up here and get past that.” …

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: appointees; cabinet; democrats; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; trump; trumpcabinet; trumptransition
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To: Jimmy The Snake

I wouldn’t say liberals have a short attention span as much as they have a selective attention span. One filtered by their agenda. If enough time goes by where they can ignore something, or even twist the facts more to their liking, they’ll do it.


21 posted on 01/08/2017 6:01:47 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: x1stcav

When Harry Reid unilaterally abolished the filibuster for all presidential appointments except the Supreme Court the ONLY reason he left Supreme Court filibusters alone is because there were no vacancies on the Court at the time.

I will believe McConnell is growing a pair if he invokes the Reid Rule and unilaterally abolishes filibusters of Trump’s Supreme Court nominees.


22 posted on 01/08/2017 6:09:47 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!)
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To: Olog-hai
Bitch McConnell should use language like: I am going to ram President Trump's nominees down the Senate's throat like a Union Pacific locomotive through the Donner Summit Tunnel!

Alas, no balls.

23 posted on 01/08/2017 6:09:55 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Olog-hai

The Boston Globe ran a column by Patrick Leahy accusing Sessions of being an “extremist”. You can’t post comments there any more unless you are a subscriber (fat chance).

But if I could, my comment would be: “Sessions is an extremist? So? That did’t stop the Senate from confirming Janet Reno, Eric Holder, or Loretta Lynch, did it?”


24 posted on 01/08/2017 6:14:37 PM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: Jim Noble

I think that if people like Leaky Leahy have not yet realized that their expiration date is long past, then they’re in for a shock soon.

BTW, the Globe article comments are all piling on Leaky.


25 posted on 01/08/2017 6:25:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
'Ol Turtle is a Beta boy to the Alpha Male....and we all now know who the Alpha Male will be in Washington


26 posted on 01/08/2017 6:30:58 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: Olog-hai

No, no, no. Democrats should continue to embrace their inner Trigglypuff. Do it for Social Justice!


27 posted on 01/08/2017 6:46:00 PM PST by TChad (Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
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To: Olog-hai

Senate Republicans need to grow some cajones and start acting like real men and women. Maybe they need to see “Mr Smith Goes to Washington” or “A Man for All Seasons” or “High Noon” again. Or hear “The Ballad of Rodger Young”. When did courage go out of style?


28 posted on 01/08/2017 7:36:00 PM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Olog-hai

Mitch McConnell saved the Supreme Court vacancy - saved it for Trump to fill.

That one act excuses anything and everything McConnell might have done in the past - - he’s a friggin’ hero...


29 posted on 01/08/2017 8:41:57 PM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare Motto: "If You Like Your Doctor, Maybe You'll Like Your New Doctor" - Dave Barry)
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To: GOPJ

I don’t give him sole credit for that, and it really doesn’t excuse what he did in the past (especially his broken promises) due to what he was capable of as Senate majority leader. Nor does it excuse his past attacks on conservatives.

I hope his wife behaves herself in her new position.


30 posted on 01/08/2017 8:50:47 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Spok

No, they need to develop character. Even the most evil can have “cojones” towards committing the most vile and reprehensible acts.

I’m not going to hold my breath on character development. But stranger things have happened.


31 posted on 01/08/2017 8:52:28 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Where was this spine during the last two years, Mitch?

He needed a leader to follow.

32 posted on 01/09/2017 3:59:35 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Olog-hai

He saved us from having a liberal Supreme Court for the next decade... That’s big Olog-hai...


33 posted on 01/09/2017 6:01:07 AM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare Motto: "If You Like Your Doctor, Maybe You'll Like Your New Doctor" - Dave Barry)
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To: GOPJ

Compared to what he could have done on top of that, it’s not so big. The federal government ought to have been shut down multiple times between 2015 and now, thus hampering what Obama ended up doing during that period.


34 posted on 01/09/2017 7:04:12 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: trebb

He sure followed Obama quite closely. Big inspiration for him to “show the American people we can govern” (as many other of his cohorts liked to say, e.g. McCain, Joe Barton, Greg Walden) but on the left side of the equation. And even of late, he still shows a preference for being on the left, save this example and his last-minute refusal to consider Garland.


35 posted on 01/09/2017 7:15:39 AM PST by Olog-hai
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