Sen McConnell.
Posted on 04/07/2017 7:49:12 AM PDT by central_va
Live thread. Should be a nuclear day! Will Shumah cry?
Link not working for me (on mobile).
Using this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0hP3JMcR28
Confirmation vote at 11:30
Either link works. Audio on youtube is louder!
Request a change in title from “Nomination” to “Confirmation”. Thanks.
Chuck you, Fumer!
bump
Not really -- this one (hopefully) gets us back to the status quo. Trump selection of the next SC justice will be a big one.
The town cryer can stuff it.
I never thought McConnell would have the backbone to use the nuclear option.
Maybe, just maybe, the Pubbies are sprouting a spine.
Fist bump! :-)
I will have new respect for Yurtle the Turtle if this actually happens.
Sen McConnell.
I suspect Mrs. Elaine Chou McConnell was pleasantly surprised last night with Mitch McTurtles newfound manhood.
Good for McConnell - can’t stand the guy, but he deserves credit for holding out some long, hard months last year & not even giving Merrick a hearing. I saw a story where he asked Trump early for a list of those he would nominate if elected & once he saw it, he decided it was worth waiting for the election result. Lately he’s been sounding tougher - I believe that having a real leader at the top (Trump) does make a difference.
I thought Schumer would be as bad/tough as Reid. I was wrong - Schmucky is not up to the caliber of Reid - a good thing. He’s still plenty conniving, obstsructionist & willing/able to do damage, but Harry Reid was in a class by himself and I am SO glad he’s gone.
Dick Turbin up now. Can’t listen.
This was all a foregone conclusion from the outset. The Rats knew they weren’t going to replace Scalia with a liberal, especially if Trump won. This was all Kabuki Theater.
Muted Durbin lying his head off, as usual. Acting as though if they were the majority and a Republican President had nominated a new Justice in an election year that they would not have blocked the nominee under the rationale spelled out by Biden. The Democrats pulled this nonsense before to have one standard applied to Republican nominees and another applied to Democrat nominees - get Republican nominees blocked under the “long standing traditions” so there are more vacancies then blow up those traditions when they are in charge and ram through their liberal nominees.
..and when someone does something right, like
Senator McConnell has done with this nomination, we
must acknowledge it. That encourages them to contine
this behavior. SO contact his office TODAY!!
202-224-2541
What do you mean *if* this actually happens? It happened yesterday afternoon. “Nuclear option” is literally yesterday’s news.
Today is the confirmation vote.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.