Posted on 05/10/2017 9:08:35 AM PDT by ColdOne
Democrats are threatening to slow the Senate to a crawl in response to President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the No. 2 Senate Democrat, launched the effort by objecting to the Senate GOP's routine request to allow 13 committee hearings to take place on Wednesday.
"Because of the decision last night by the president of the United States to terminate the director of the FBI and the questions that its raised we gathered together, the Democratic senators on the floor, and listened as our leader at least suggested a path for us to follow as an institution facing this constitutional question," Durbin said from the Senate floor.
The move abruptly ended a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that had already started.
Democrats are holding a caucus meeting to discuss how to move forward after Comey's firing.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) requested that McConnell ask Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to meet in a separate closed-door briefings with senators.
Wednesday isn't the first time Democrats have tried to leverage the Senate schedule.
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But they were just complaining about his so much!
Just six month ago, they were calling for his firing...
Dems rampaging. “Majority Leader” hiding under his desk. SSDD.
As usual, these donkeys are backing the wrong horse. They live in a fantasy world, kept back from reality by their media shills.
Exactly.
I guess they'll do anything Chuckie says....watch out for the Kool-Aid.
I can’t keep track of these Democrats changing sides:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/us/politics/hillary-clinton-james-comey.html?_r=0
Unhinged democrats cutting their own heads off...luv’in it!
Could the Senate move any slower and still be considered to be comprised of living beings?
Sometimes I envy the democrats having the ability to have the entire of world history begin each day at breakfast
Oh, the insanity of liberalism is once again on full display.
Change the rules and make these communist despots irrelevant.
What a bunch of crying hypocrites! Just last year, they wanted Comey gone. They should be thanking Trump, not criticizing him.
I am officially sick and tired of all the Bull coming from the Democrat party. They are repulsive.
The Dems are understandably unhinged, they are losing at every turn, they have nothing. If it wasn’t for the media pretending they are doing a great job they’d all commit themselves to the funny farm.
How is that any different from what they are doing now?
Comey's office safe probably has copies of the opposition research files on all the Senators... detailing multiple felonies on each and every one of them.
Where’s McTurtle?
Is it mere coincidence that he sacked Comey while Comey was out of the office?
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