Posted on 01/31/2017 8:03:43 AM PST by browniexyz
Senate Democrats on Tuesday refused to attend a committee vote on two of President Trump’s more controversial nominees, effectively delaying their consideration.
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee boycotted votes to advance Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, and Steven Mnuchin, his selection to head the Treasury Department. The pair had been among some of the more contentious selections to join Trump’s Cabinet.
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Suspend the rules that require a quorum and vote the straight majority.
Why does this necessarily delay the votes? The Republicans have the majority,; proceed with the votes. Is there some obscure Senate rule that needs to be changed?
Trump needs to lance this festering boil.
Take it straight to the Senate floor.
My Senators are the idiot sisters, Murray and Cantwell. No point in making the call.
Pray?
While we do what? Sit back and act like this is a TV show?
Where the hell are the Conservatives from Kentucky? You people need to be breaking down Mitch’s door, and getting on the ass of your state government to get this fools butt in gear.
This is YOUR senator! Act like you actually give a toss!
Since the Dims are a minority on the committees, I don’t see what the problem is.
I have no end to the expletives I would heap on these do-nothing GOP “leaders” who are allowing this to happen.
We the people have to get more active and support the people we elected. We cannot sit back and let them face the hyenas alone - even a lion flees when attacked by a pack of rabid hyenas.
We have to rally in the streets like the leftists do. That’s where the Schumers and Pelosis get their courage. Trump and our other people we elected need our active visible support.
Time to call on the Sergeant at Arms to round up the derelicts.
Hold the votes without them, then certify the vote and move forward.
I deal with young children daily, and when one throws a tantrum over nothing, they usually have some unmet need at home that needs addressing. Could be these RATS need a hug. Or food. Or sleep. Or a good spanking. Heh Maybe a short time in a cozy area full of stuffed animals and stress balls will help them adjust to CHANGE.
The acting State Department inspector general during Hillary Clinton’s tenure there was was a donor to Barack Obama, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics’ Open Secrets database.
Harold W. Geisel, a former ambassador, served as a temporary State Department IG during Clinton’s entire time as head of the State Department. According to Open Secrets, in 2008 Geisel contributed $2,300 to Barack Obama.
The donor data offers further insight into a question posed by Bloomberg News and others, specifically, when it comes to the Clinton email scandal — in which Clinton declined to use a government email account in favor of a private one, complete with its own separate server — just where was the State Department’s watchdog?
“For five years, including all of Clinton’s time as secretary, the State Department’s Office of Inspector General never had a confirmed inspector,”
Friendly Reminder: There Was No Inspector General At State When Hillary Was There
Recently, the State Department’s Inspector General issued a report that its employees weren’t following federal guidelines regarding the preservation of emails. It wasn’t deliberate, most employees don’t have a lot of clarity regarding what should be saved for the public record and what should not. Yet, the gap is massive. In 2011, 1 billion State Department emails were sent, but less than 62,000 were saved. How did the Inspector General miss the Hillary email trainwreck? Well, as Bloomberg reported, the State Department didn’t have one when she served as Secretary of State.
Moreover, this incident has government accountability groups somewhat hopeful as it raises the issue concerning Inspector General vacancies in government. Then again, not every Inspector General is of a good character.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/25/acting-state-department-ig-during-hillary-clintons-tenure-an-obama-donor/
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2015/03/25/friendly-reminder-there-was-no-inspector-general-at-state-when-hillary-was-there-n1976105
[I]t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost—if not quite—one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. …So yeah; they are democrats. And more than a civil war; it is an undeclared attempt at communistic revolution.
— Woodrow Wilson, Sociaism and Democracy, 1887
[T]he first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.
Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production. …
— Communist Manifesto, chapter 2
Schumer’s fake tears are spreading.
Put a hold on their checks
Gutless.
my first thought too
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