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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I hope the American people are paying attention as to how the democrats are obstructing our government for their own political purposes.....
How is this a “constitutional question”?
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.
So of course McConnell will ask and Jeff Sessions being the nice Republican that he is will accommodate Schumer. And this will go on and on just like everything else.
Best thing Sessions, or anyone else, can do is ignore Schumer.
Democrats are threatening to slow the Senate to a crawl in response to President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey.
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More Winning! Thank you President Trump!
Hopefully all the property of the office of FBI Director including written and electronic records were secured while Comey was in L.A. I think the timing of Trump’s action was planned.
But they are consistent in one weird way.
Whatever Trump does, they'll oppose it.
Here is what I have been posting in other threads:
I would argue that those of us who do not want to see the Trump momentum derailed adopt the most pragmatic response to both the predictable hand-wringing of anti-Trump Republicans & the crocodile tears of the forked tongue Democrats like Chuck Schumer, over the firing of Director Comey.
The distracting hoopla, being orchestrated in major part by Trump haters in the mass media, is absolutely inconsistent with very crucial efforts to defang the North Korean Government, before something happens that could lead to literally millions of deaths, both in South Korea & Japan, as well as--God Help us!--from an attack on the American Grid.
What is significant in this juxtaposition of the hoopla over the Comey firing & the Korean situation is this. Donald Trump in one month has accomplished infinitely more in addressing the North Korean threat, than his three predecessors in 24 years! Please let that soak in. Consider the level of the Chinese involvement on our side as the evidence.
What variety of idiot or self-promoter wants to undermine Donald Trump's influence overseas, at this moment in history, by stirring up a fire-storm over the firing of an office-holder, whose conflicting actions have been widely criticized, in recent months, on both sides of the political aisle? Let us not play the media game. Let us focus on what this half-cocked firestorm is undermining, and set these disgusting opportunists, with a highly destructive agenda, back on their heels.
William Flax
Yaaaaaawn....... Excuse # 147.
Clinton fires Sessions:
If they are going to boycott and obstruct the Senate now is the best time to start voting on nominations and bills! Get er done!
Trump owns these guys. They don't know how to react
It wasn’t even 6 months ago.
They were saying he was responsible for HRC’s defeat as late as yesterday morning.
This is a LOL moment.
Soctt Adams
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/160515646406/the-comey-firing
“Democrats and the Opposition Media reflexively oppose almost everything President Trump does. This time he gave them something they wanted, badly, but not for the reason they wanted. That’s a trigger. It forces anti-Trumpers to act angry in public that he did the thing they wanted him to do. And they are.”
Keep it up, Dems. Keep it up.
Let the entire nation see just how unhinged you are.
I can barely stand to read/watch/hear any news or talk radio anymore. The level of stupid has reached such heights, that, for my own personal well-being...I have to avoid it.
First graders locking the classroom door.
I would enjoy watching them report for work over Memorial Day weekend
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