Given the GOP in control of the SENATE confirmation process--WHY do they have to tolerate brutality toward the candidate?
Or, if they do have to tolerate a measure of brutality as the DIMRATS take their turns being traitorous globalist shills--WHY can't the GOP Chairman--after the one or 2 rounds or questions 'required,' Conclude the tortured process as complete and call for a vote?
I don't get this overly drawn-out torture session. Seems dumb, to me. Does the Chairman lack sufficiently robust cajones to call a halt after a minimum of turture?
Short response is Yes. Dems change the rules whenever it pleases them. Reps never get involved. The Reps could hold the hearings, shorten them up at will, and push the nominee threw. Instead they let the Dems and Press make up rules as they go.
As you know, the title of *Chair* generally is simply a role as a facilitator, to the members of the Committee, able to implement established rules of order, to hear any objections For the record, and are otherwise subjected to the clock in the same way as the minority Ranking Member, and all other committee members.
The *majority* rule of any said Committee rules and determines the outcome of the inquiry or investigation, and is the only real power of the Chairman.
However, recall that the minority depend on the Ranking Member who generally submits a Minority Report, regarding the outcome/conclusions.
These members are powerful and independently elected and can not be actually be “corralled” for their nasty tone and hate filled words.
What can be done (and is seldom done) is members can be turned in to the Ethics Committee, as should have been done with Honolulu Hag and Kamela Cabal-la, and Feinstein, when they subjected nominees to their ANTI-CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS TEST, against Amy and Justice Kavanaugh!
Blatantly defying the Constitution on Freedom of Religion grounds should have been filed.
Catholics today are other faiths, tomorrow... that’s a promise. Yikes!
You May recall the Dems, at the opening of the Kavanaugh hearings in the Senate Judiciary Comittee, interrupting Sen. Grassley and moving for adjournment. I posted then that he missed a golden opportunity.
Grassley could have accepted the move to adjourn - after a vote on the nominee! Perhaps not proper procedure under Senate rules, but the Dems weren't following proper procedure to begin with. All of that horror the Satan-worshipping Dems foisted on the nation could have been avoided and Justice K immediately confirmed.
Of course I am presuming intelligence and cleverness on the part of the 'pubbies... perhaps a huge stretch.