Posted on 01/22/2017 10:05:26 AM PST by mandaladon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior Republican lawmakers on Sunday said they would vote to approve President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, despite their concerns over the former ExxonMobil chief's relationship with Russia's president.
"After careful consideration, and much discussion with Mr. Tillerson, we have decided to support his nomination to be secretary of state," Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said in a statement.
"Though we still have concerns about his past dealings with the Russian government and President Vladimir Putin, we believe that Mr. Tillerson can be an effective advocate for U.S. interests," the two senators, both senior members of the Senate committee weighing Tillerson's nomination, said in their statement.
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The US Senate butt boys speak.
I don’t know WHAT THE HELL happened behind the scenes but boy I would LOVE TO HAVE BEEN a fly on that wall!!!! I WILL BET YOU Trump has the goods on these two BASTARDS and big money coming from defense contractors!!! These two NOW KNOW Trump MEANS BUSINESS, DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!! Trump met personally with BOTH Lockheed and Boeing to get the costs down, NOT HAVING to pad these ASSHATS pockets costs can come down !!!! NOT only these two but the ENTIRE house and senate kickbacks!!!
Republicans are going to be in lockstep for a while. They need to show solidarity in the face of rat opposition. Win a few battles, win a war and then start looking towards your own priorities.
Expect a lot of wins, followed by a few periods when there will be debate meant for the constituencies. Then more wins.
SOOO; the Bobsy twins want a seat at the table, do they?
Some people want to make every anchor baby with no allegiance to the US and Winston Churchill (American on his mother’s side like Cruz) eligible.
If htose two support him, it makes me wonder about him.
If those two support him, it makes me wonder about him.
Paul and Rubio are still out there, I believe. But that still makes 50 plus the VP, and leaves Democrat Manchin to spare.
OK, I give up. Why isn’t Rubio a NBC?
Interesting point... McCain is dirty as hell. Bush and the Democrats both have gotten him to dance their tune, but anyone else could lock him up so easily... especially since he leaked FBI documents.
His parents were still Cuban nationals at the time he was born.
Children of foreign nationals inherit the nationality of their foreign national parent(s). Obama was born a British subject because of his Kenyan father , he is not a natural born citizen.
One is only a natural born citizen when one cannot be anything else.
In the unlikely event Rubio’s parents had returned to Cuba, he would have been a Cuban citizen.
He is not a natural born citizen.
Wonder what they got in exchange?
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A very qualified assurance that their dossiers will not be made public.
While there’s more than a little schadenfreude in assuming that to be the case, I hope it isn’t. Keeping such “dossiers” private for the purpose of what is essentially blackmail is not right. Such “dossiers” should be made public immediately. Voters have the right to know just who and what they’ve elected. If they’re dirty, out with them as far as honest people are concerned.
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