Posted on 10/13/2017 2:06:35 PM PDT by cotton1706
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell walked back his announced intention to eliminate a longtime tool of bipartisanship in the Senate by doing away with blue slips — something that Republicans used and abused in order to block former President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees during his time in office.
McConnell had told The Weekly Standard on Tuesday that he planned on removing the importance of blue slips, rendering them as a symbolic gesture as opposed to a procedural mechanism. But McConnell's spokesman, Don Stewart, told HuffPost on Wednesday that the Republican Party did not intend on eliminating blue slips.
The blue slip is not a rule per se, but more of a tradition — a 100-year-old tradition that has been observed by both parties to ensure that the president consults with senators on judicial nominations from their states. It fulfills the Senate's constitutional duty to provide “advice and consent” to the president when it comes to filling permanent spots on the federal judiciary.
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We have waited as long as I have been alive, to have this stacked deck. We have a president who is willing to sign the most Conservative legislation, and McConnell and Ryan have obstructed all year.
They haven’t acted on one major piece of legislation. Not one!
We could lose the majority next year, without achieving even one important goal.
This will go down in the History of the United States as the largest failure by Congress in U. S. History.
These men are enemies of the nation, pure and simple.
If you’re a Democrat, you have to be sitting back with fingers crossed, hoping against hope this continues a few more months.
Next year is an election year. Nobody wants to rock the boat in an election year.
Get ready for more of the same.
I’ll have to give the Democrats props. Their kick back attitude has garnered them a victory of sorts on every topic.
No panic here.
He FOLDS!
Reminds me of the days of Frist and Lott.
If only the Pubbies had a Senate leader with a backbone. Must be something that, when they take the oath of office, they have their backbone removed.
You nailed it!
You mean he’s gay?
No, I just meant he is more aligned with the Democrats than with Trump, although there have been rumors about him and his military service in the far distant past.
Sorry, did not post w/sarc...
“Chuck Grassley - is it me or is this guy one of the more disingenuous “conservatives” in the Senate. Seems as though he talks a good game and then its sing along and dance along when it comes down to crunch time.”
That’s been my impression, too. Just when he has the football, with nothing between him and the goal line, he trips over his own feet.
“Grassley is over 80 and was elected to the senate in 1980. They don’t have the energy for the fight anymore”
Low T is a big problem for Republicans in the Congress! Maybe Jeff Sessions too!
Obviously he doesn’t believe Brannon can decimate the establishment Senate RINOs.
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Someone needs to remind Mitch that Brannon buys ink by the barrel.
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