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How Fear of Being ‘Primaried’ Is Breaking Senate’s Constitutional Role
REAL CLEAR ^

Posted on 01/26/2025 10:01:25 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET

Today the Senate seems content in ceding its constitutional duties to the new president. Republican Senators are poised to rubber stamp even the most suspect and unqualified cabinet picks. We should all be concerned about the damage being done to our constitutional system of separation of powers.

Yet most Republican senators have fallen in line, and there’s little wonder why.

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This writer is a fan of Murkowski. She was primaried and the system bailed her out. He also has a problem with primary challengers. That's really over the top. All challengers have an uphill climb.
1 posted on 01/26/2025 10:01:25 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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Gee Eff Wy


2 posted on 01/26/2025 10:03:02 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Call Traitor General Milley back into service, bust him to private, courtmartial, convict, hang.)
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As every communist/dem vote lock stock and barrel for every pick of theirs.


3 posted on 01/26/2025 10:06:19 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (#PureBlood )
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Maybe the author should instead ponder the damage done to Congress by the 17th Amendment.


4 posted on 01/26/2025 10:06:20 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.”.)
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Isn’t is sad that we cannot even use accurate acronyms on FR? I was just bounced for two weeks for complaining about dirty boomer hippies with no profanity at all. I suspect the mods are boomers.


5 posted on 01/26/2025 10:06:58 AM PST by wildcard_redneck ( )
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Ernst should be primaried regardless. If she wins another 6 year term she’ll go back to her old ways.

La.-Cassidy is a back stabber. Same with Tillis in NC.
Cornyn/Risch/Capito-all old. New blood needed.

Who’s gonna step up and challenge these people?

Collins-Maine. Keep her. The best we can get.


6 posted on 01/26/2025 10:07:34 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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**Maybe the author should instead ponder the damage done to Congress by the 17th Amendment.**

The root of this issue. A problem ‘solved’ just creates another.


7 posted on 01/26/2025 10:09:38 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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For years the Congress has had no trouble “ceding” its authority to the USSC as well as to every Tom, Dick, & Harriett NGO that exists. Of course, now that Trump is wielding power, something is really, really wrong with Congress.


8 posted on 01/26/2025 10:10:47 AM PST by 4Runner (Watch. Wallet. Gun. Right foot! Left foot! Sweet Liberty Valens! Thank God for Guns! --Denny Crane)
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So why did most of these Assist. ‘Rats vote for most of Jao BiXiden’s appointments?


9 posted on 01/26/2025 10:12:15 AM PST by Paladin2
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Hegseth, Noem, Patel, Homan, Rubio and Gabbard are all highly qualified for their important jobs.

Pete Hegseth is a people person as the picture of the happy smiles of his wife and children show.


10 posted on 01/26/2025 10:14:29 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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Maybe we can terrorize them into getting rid of the 17th Amendment for us.
11 posted on 01/26/2025 10:15:18 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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Nick Troiano


12 posted on 01/26/2025 10:16:56 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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The primary duty of the Senate is to advise - i.e. mention the names of suitable people.

The senators had weeks to name a more qualified person than Hegseth but did not do so.


13 posted on 01/26/2025 10:18:18 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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This writer is a fan of Murkowski. She was primaried and the system bailed her out

It's the ranked voting system that the dims use to rig the elections

Note to PDJT...an EO to stop ranked votng would be nice.

14 posted on 01/26/2025 10:19:17 AM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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Boo f’ing hoo.


15 posted on 01/26/2025 10:19:59 AM PST by Dave911
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They're pissed about Hegseth!

I saw a headline that read, "Hegesth confirmed despite bipartisan opposition" as if anyone who voted for Trump gives a flying F what McConnell, Murkowski, and Collins had to say about it.

16 posted on 01/26/2025 10:20:05 AM PST by Drew68
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Did any of these handwringers have one iota to say about any of Biden’s disastrous appointments?


17 posted on 01/26/2025 10:20:31 AM PST by unlearner (Still not tired of winning.)
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If they reversed the 17th amendment just think of all the money that could be saved. Senators would have to put the good of the state before the good of the lobbyists


18 posted on 01/26/2025 10:23:29 AM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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Its funny they say this yet say nothing about the fact that not a single Democrat voted for him. Lots of Republican Senators voted to confirm Biden’s picks yet the Democrats are nearly unanimous in opposing any of Trump’s nominations that are not Establishment insiders.


19 posted on 01/26/2025 10:23:43 AM PST by FLT-bird
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Perhaps the people in question will fight for us better when led into battle by an experienced and wiser President Trump.

Possible senatorial replacements should keep an eye out for their future possibilities which might arise from traitorous behavior.


20 posted on 01/26/2025 10:24:08 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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