Largest Federal Union Calls Senate’s Use of the Nuclear Option a ‘Sad Day for Democracy’

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) ^ | April 07, 2017 | American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr

[eyedigress]

I don’t care what they have to say.

It’s your baby, too bad you gave it away.

Bitches!

[eyedigress]

Nuke the pensions.

All get transferred to a 401.

[Montana_Sam]

Cox is paid-and-up-to-date member of the Democrat cult. Democrats and progressive are just cult members. Not a reason to listen to their whining.

[dragnet2]

Agree.

And there are now more unionize government employees than exist in all of private sector America.

The public servants became our masters.

And are paid double or more than what those in private sector makes. This is 100% bull sh*t and should have never been allowed to happen.

[elpadre]

The Constitution only requires a simple majority. Any thing else in a political rule, not our forefathers.

[CyberAnt]

I don’t care if they get over it or not.

If you could check their voting habits .. you’d find out that this UNION, like a lot of them VOTE DEMOCRAT.

[StAnDeliver]

"How did it go a year of ‘accept my nominee or I’ll leave the seat vacant’? Why were they never angry at Obama for not putting forward another nominee?

To the democrats who say that ‘now SCOTUS nominees are nothing more than political appointees’, I always ask which of Obama’s SCOTUS nominees were anything more than political appointments? I mean, those were the most transparently political appointees that Obama nominated, none of which would stand up to half of Gorsuch’s record."

This is a good point. Why did Obama put up a throwaway like Garland, and not someone high-profile who actually campaigned for the job, like Tribe?

The answer is: the Reid Rule. They knew all along he wouldn't get a hearing, and that was because of Harry Reid.

What I want to know is - where are all the goddamned books? Where are the tell-alls that explicitly detail Obama's conniving and contrivances, with the aid of ValJar, Boiled Rice, et al.

[StAnDeliver]

And btw, AFGE officials were one of the groups that helped submarine Bernie in the primary; despite the membership split right about 50-50 for Bernie (Cox's protestations of 2:1 for Cankles is as bs as she was), AFGE made an early call (Dec. 2015!) for Cankles, and regimentally ko'd any internal Bernie movements.

So, Mr. Cox: Schadenfreude!