Posted on 01/08/2017 5:27:57 PM PST by Olog-hai
Republicans on Sunday defended their party against Democratic complaints that Congress is being forced to consider nominees for Donald Trump’s administration without completed ethics reviews.
“All of these little procedural complaints are related to their frustration in having not only lost the White House, but having lost the Senate,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“I understand that,” he added, “but we need to sort of grow up here and get past that.” …
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I wouldn’t say liberals have a short attention span as much as they have a selective attention span. One filtered by their agenda. If enough time goes by where they can ignore something, or even twist the facts more to their liking, they’ll do it.
When Harry Reid unilaterally abolished the filibuster for all presidential appointments except the Supreme Court the ONLY reason he left Supreme Court filibusters alone is because there were no vacancies on the Court at the time.
I will believe McConnell is growing a pair if he invokes the Reid Rule and unilaterally abolishes filibusters of Trump’s Supreme Court nominees.
Alas, no balls.
The Boston Globe ran a column by Patrick Leahy accusing Sessions of being an “extremist”. You can’t post comments there any more unless you are a subscriber (fat chance).
But if I could, my comment would be: “Sessions is an extremist? So? That did’t stop the Senate from confirming Janet Reno, Eric Holder, or Loretta Lynch, did it?”
I think that if people like Leaky Leahy have not yet realized that their expiration date is long past, then they’re in for a shock soon.
BTW, the Globe article comments are all piling on Leaky.
No, no, no. Democrats should continue to embrace their inner Trigglypuff. Do it for Social Justice!
Senate Republicans need to grow some cajones and start acting like real men and women. Maybe they need to see “Mr Smith Goes to Washington” or “A Man for All Seasons” or “High Noon” again. Or hear “The Ballad of Rodger Young”. When did courage go out of style?
Mitch McConnell saved the Supreme Court vacancy - saved it for Trump to fill.
That one act excuses anything and everything McConnell might have done in the past - - he’s a friggin’ hero...
I don’t give him sole credit for that, and it really doesn’t excuse what he did in the past (especially his broken promises) due to what he was capable of as Senate majority leader. Nor does it excuse his past attacks on conservatives.
I hope his wife behaves herself in her new position.
No, they need to develop character. Even the most evil can have “cojones” towards committing the most vile and reprehensible acts.
I’m not going to hold my breath on character development. But stranger things have happened.
He needed a leader to follow.
He saved us from having a liberal Supreme Court for the next decade... That’s big Olog-hai...
Compared to what he could have done on top of that, it’s not so big. The federal government ought to have been shut down multiple times between 2015 and now, thus hampering what Obama ended up doing during that period.
He sure followed Obama quite closely. Big inspiration for him to “show the American people we can govern” (as many other of his cohorts liked to say, e.g. McCain, Joe Barton, Greg Walden) but on the left side of the equation. And even of late, he still shows a preference for being on the left, save this example and his last-minute refusal to consider Garland.
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