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Posted on 04/20/2015 6:06:02 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Potential GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush is calling on Congress to confirm attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch, whose confirmation hearings took place in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in January. In February, Lynch was voted out of the committee and approved 12-8. Due to the legislative schedule and fighting over bills already in motion, a full Senate vote on her confirmation has not yet taken place. More from POLITICO:
“I think presidents have the right to pick their team,” Bush said, according to reports of his stop at the “Politics and Pie” forum in Concord, New Hampshire, on Thursday night.
A Senate fight over a sex-trafficking bill that includes a controversial abortion provision has held up Lynch’s nomination for 160 days since Obama announced his choice last Nov. 8, but Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is threatening to break protocol and force a vote on the Senate floor.
“If someone is supportive of the president’s policies, whether you agree with them or not, there should be some deference to the executive,” Bush told reporters. “It should not always be partisan.”
The attorney general isn't supposed to be "supportive of the president's policies." The attorney general is supposed to advise the president on constitutional matters and is responsible for ensuring the balance between the executive and legislative branches in maintained.
During her confirmation hearings, Lynch expressed support for President Obama's executive amnesty and argued that anybody who is inside the United States, regardless of how they got here or what their legal status is, has a right to work.
"I think the right and obligation to work is one that is shared by everyone in this country regardless of how they came here and certainly if someone is here, regardless of status, I would prefer that they be participating in the work place than not be participating," Lynch said.
If jebbie is the R, I’m not voting. Let the D win. Crash this thing asap. The waiting is the hardest part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMyCa35_mOg
They are paid off by the world socialist. A creep family among us. Horrible people.
The D winning would actually be better for the country.
That is why I won’t for Jeb under any circumstances. Could we really trust this guy to appoint Judges, especially to the Supreme Court?
I was a sucker. I saw things I didn’t like but in 2004 I voted for him again. What does one do? Vote for Kerry? stay home? maybe.
Is he really trying to get elected??
If he’s nominated, he will drag the down-ticket Republicans with him. Congress would return to Democrat control.
It actually might have been better for the nation if Al Gore had won the Electoral College vote in 2000. 9/11 would have happened on his watch. He would have handled it ineptly. His liberal social policies would have been rejected by the GOP Congress. The Bush family might have been finished with respect to presidential politics. After 4 (or 8) years of Gore, Obama would not have been in a position to be elected.
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I will never, ever vote for Jeb Bush.
A RINO roars. FU JEB.
Well, the GOP has run with two “moderate” (sub: ‘rat-approved’) almost lifelike, robotic squishes in 2008 and 2012.
Maybe it’s time to try a lively conservative? Heck yes!
And this time the Gay Old Party can stay out if the way.
Cruz, lose or snooze.
No more GOP-e stiffs.
Bipartisan Plea for Lynch Confirmation
President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, received a vote of support from both media star Al Sharpton and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush this week. Her confirmation has been held up by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken) in protest over Obama’s executive grant of amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
Sharpton labeled McConnell’s actions “racist. Keeping a Black woman from rising up to take her rightful place is a continuation of the hundreds of years of oppression of African Americans in this country. They let a white woman hold this job when Bill Clinton was president. For them not to extend the same courtesy to a Black woman is just shameful.”
Bush took a more nuanced stance saying that “while I doubt that the Republican opposition to Ms. Lynch can be totally attributed to racism, it could be construed as such by the media. Rather than having this monkey on my or any Republican’s back as the GOP strives to win the 2016 presidential election, it would be much more convenient if Lynch were simply approved as AG.”
“Besides, as a matter of principle, I believe that it’s the President’s prerogative to have anyone he chooses to serve in his cabinet,” Bush added. “I certainly would expect such deference to me if I were president. If you ask me, to violate this basic courtesy on the rather flimsy grounds that President Obama may have exceeded his authority on the amnesty thing isn’t the way we should be running this country. Do we really want to set a precedent of denying a president the option of bypassing Congress when circumstances warrant it? Would we want such a rigid adherence to the Constitution if a Republican was in the Oval Office?”
To help press home their seriousness on the issue Sharpton and Bush vowed to do more than just offer words of support for Lynch. Sharpton announced a partial hunger strike and swore off sushi until Lynch is confirmed. In contrast, Bush says he “will eat nothing but Mexican food, which I will cook myself—unlike a certain other public figure who has to get hers from Chipotle. I will prove that I am the authentic Hispanic presidential candidate in the 2016 race and simultaneously express my solidarity with the plight of the immigrant.”
In related news, Lynch rebuffed the idea that the Department of Justice ought to investigate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails. “As I understand it, all of these emails were sent from or received on Secretary Clinton’s private server,” Lynch observed. “Well, the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution bars government from intruding into private communications. As far as I am concerned this case is closed.”
Source: Semi-News, http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,168372.0.html
(excerpted from "A Freeper in Wonderland")
Beware the Jebberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware this uffish JebJeb bird....and shun
This frumious, slithy pandersnatch!
Leni
Ok, I’m really trying to wrap my head around this guy’s strategy. He’s obviously doing everything in his power to piss off the Republican base, but why?
You have got to be frikken kidding me. Jeb has NO chance of "sweeping" Texas. This is Cruz Country!
Why did McCain do that? And Bob “Let’s make a deal” Dole? And other Pubbie RINOs?
George Prescott Bush polled 70+ percent in the 2014 primary and general election. Last time, I looked he is just “Jebbie, Jr.”
Cruz ran behind the much scorned Mediocre Mitt (percent of the vote) in the Nov 2012 Texas election.
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