Congress has handed Trump a historic presidential victory [Grassley nixes blue slips]

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[Grampa Dave]

Draining the judicial swamp!

Which helps to drain the Deep State Swamps from coast to coast and in between!

[Grampa Dave]

McConnell should realize, Steve Bannon is watching and noting Turtle’s every move. I’m really glad Bannon is there, and working to clear the Rinos, Never Trumpers and anti-American democRATs out of both Houses.

Bannon is doing far more damage to the Democrats/Rinos/Never Trumpsters from outside the WH…!

The mediots, rioting liberals and liberal mayors, who are dissing Trump 24/7, are in for some fun times from Bannon and Gorka.

There will be zero mercy on the Rinos, mediots and Never Trumpsters in Congress and Rino's like the B$tch Mitch from Bannon’s new op center.

Bannon has now entered a Free Fire Zone and will take Zero Prisoners on the Hudson and Potomac rivers.

[Lumper20]

I think you are right. McConnell and Ryan are useless.

[Cementjungle]

For this reason alone the Republicans need to retain control of the Senate in 2018, RINOs and all.

I'm currently undecided on that point. For too many elections people tell me to vote for the RINO otherwise another Dem will get in. I usually wind up regretting that because the RINOS cause as much damage, if not more sometimes, than Dems.

I really want to rid the place of the old timers... RINOs and Dems alike (there's not much difference these days). I think that getting new blood in there can be better than retaining some of the corrupt old swamp creatures.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I am all for taking out RINOs in the primaries, but in the general election if the choice is voting for a RINO or letting Chuckie Schumer become Senate Majority Leader then I will vote for the RINO.

If the Democrats retake the Senate then no Trump judicial or other nominee will ever again make it to the Senate floor for a vote.

The war to save our nation can only be won in the primaries and lost in the general election.

[Vigilanteman]

And that brings us to the Democrat who provided the initial generous source of President Trump's solid triumph: Former Senate Majority Leader, and Democrat, Harry Reid. Reid is a major reason this good fortune has befallen President Trump because Reid was the one who killed the filibuster rule for judicial nominees in 2013. And when he killed it, it was gone for good.

Whoever would have thought back then that Dirty Harry would be good for something?

[GOPJ]

We can thank that corrupt greedy Harry Reid too...

Love Winning!!!!

[GOPJ]

No we don’t need term limits... we need to replace the liberals with conservatives who serve FOREVER....

[Neoliberalnot]

I’m comfortable with that too,but it is not feasible. The lawyers have seized conrol of all branches of government at every level and they make the laws to benefit themselves.

[GOPJ]

An effective part of the ‘deep state’ is career employees with strong institutional memory - people who know where the levers of power are - and how to use them.

Term limits gives those employees of the deep state more power while keeping elected officials in the permanent position of being 'newbies'.

Term limits weakens our Representatives and strengthen the power of the bureaucracy...

You're coming from a good place Neoliberalnot because term limits are a good idea in theory... but reality makes it a horror. Possibly if all civil service employees in DC were also 'term limited' it might work but that's unlikely to happen - and has major downsides too.

[Neoliberalnot]

Legislators make the laws and worse yet are judges who decide what laws they like even if supported by popular vote. Note that trump had the power to override EPA’s desire to shut down the coal industry. Absent term limits, legislators become just like the bureaucracy employees, in it for their entire careers just like the bureaucrats.