Posted on 01/14/2017 10:25:29 AM PST by ColdOne
The question isn't whether Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) will win confirmation. It's how many Democratic votes will he win.
Barring a surprise, Sessions is going to be the nation's next attorney general, as no Republicans are expected to oppose him.
GOP lawmakers are confident that he will be able to easily clear the upper chamber after undergoing a grilling from his colleagues during a hearing that spanned more than 10 hours.
How many votes come from his Democratic colleagues is a bigger question. Here's a look at the key senators who are worth watching.
Republicans opposing Sessions (0):
No Republican senator is expected to vote against Sessions’s attorney general nomination.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Does it matter?
Woe be unto any Republican Senator that does not confirm him.. I know that much for sure.
Just Manchin.
How many Dems up for reelection, and might be contested, in two years? That will give us a ballpark number of how many might vote for Sessions
How many Republicans will vote for him? Our biggest problem has always been the equivocal, wishy-washy GOP.
Nor will “Little Marco” be the decider on Tillerson either. He will be whipped into shape. Or he will be whipped.
There are 8 RED State Democrats up for election in 2018. It will be interesting to see how they vote.
Probably right. What Trump should do is - on twitter- Tell the American people to watch each vote closely and take names- namely the many Democratic Senators that are up for re-election in 2 years. They will drop a pant load if he begins to call them out one by one as needing replacement.
Thanks
One dem. I’m more concerned about how many Republicans WON’T back him.
The dems always know they’ll get reelected no matter what because who else are the libs going to vote for? The repubs finally figured out they can do the same.
None that would have anything to worry about.
They had better wise up. The protest today only drew a couple hundred protesters. I just heard they expected 25,000 and only a few hundred showed up
The only one on the committee is Brown from Ohio. He probably doesn't have much to worry about.
I bet it is more than that, they have 24 seats to defend in 2018, many of then in states Trump won.
The Democommunists try to smear Sessions with the “racist” label, but they don’t have much to say about their own Grand Kleagle of the KKK, the late Robert Byrd, who frequently used the “n” word in his conversation. Double standard much?
People have been talking about how many seats the Democrats have to defend in 2018. They claim that the confirmation votes can be used against weak Democrats in red states.
If that's true, then the Sessions vote offers two possibilities:
1. The Democrats show unity in their ginned up racism claims, in order to rally the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, and Black Lives Matter crowd against Trump.
2. Democrats see Sessions as inevitable and therefore don't give future opponents an opposition vote to be used against them in 2018. They will "save their powder" for a different fight where the odds are better.
Would that fight be Tillerson, where Rubio is showing his Democrat side again? Will it be a legislative fight over Obamacare or Common Core? That's the question: how damaged might Democrats be for future fights by forcing their caucus into unity now?
One answer is that it doesn't matter; Democrats never break ranks, always march in lock-step, always advance the fight, and so a loss of political capital now in opposing Sessions is not really a loss at all, as the fight never stops.
The concept of "political capital" is defunct in the Trump era. Fight today, and deal with the next fight when it comes, and then the next and so on and on.
-PJ
Which protest was that? Can’t keep them straight. Thanx.
I am with you 100%. I will be watching every Democrat Senator’s vote!!! IMHO...the Democrat Party is imploding and will continue to do so, especially if they follow their leadership of failed, POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama. I cannot wait for the Mid-Term elections of 2018 to get here...so we, the American pople and legal voters can finish off the entire “Traitor” Democrat Party!!!
Hint: The Obamabot media has told us that “Al Sharpton” would hold a rally today in Washington, DC, against Donald J. Trump...and.....25,000 folks would rally...Ho-Hum, only a few Black Lives Matter Sharpton/Obama Black Racist, Cop Haters showed up!!! So much for Sharpton rallies!!!
There are what, 30 Democrat senators up for reelection in 2018?
There will be Rats voting for him. Probably purple state Rats.
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