Senate votes to confirm Trump pick William Barr as new attorney general

The Hill ^ | February 14, 2019 | Jordain Carney

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Does the Deputy AG have to go through the confirmation process?

[Alberta's Child]

Good approach there, VDK!

[McGavin999]

Yes he does. Rosenstein was confirmed

[BillyBoy]

>> I hope my fears about the guy are misguided. <<

I'm gonna call it now that the FReepers who screamed at the top of their lungs that Barr "hates gun owners" and is "an enemy of the second amendment" will NEVER apologize and admit they were wrong if Barr DOESN'T "go after" gun owners.

After all, the FReepers who swore up and down that Pat Roberts would morph into an Arlen Specter clone if he was re-elected haven't even said "gee, he's been a reliable conservative, I'm sorry I falsely smeared that guy as a Lisa Murkowski type RINO"

[Alberta's Child]

... do you see them nuking the filibuster to get something that they universally supported?

I do.

[jjotto]

Yes. DAG requires confirmation.

The President appoints more than 4,000 people, and around 1,200 require Senate confirmation.

There is an ongoing effort to reduce the number of appointees requiring confirmation.

[BillyBoy]

>> For all the talk about Barr being a "D.C. swamp creature," he hadn't worked in government since January 1993 and has spent the last 25+ years working in corporate counsel and board of director roles for some major corporations. <<

Shhh. There you go again with those pesky facts!

As for me, I WISH we had gotten Trump's "horrible pick" and "D.C. Swamp creature" on SCOTUS instead of the so-called "proven, originalist, Scalia-clone" he actually put there.

I guess if Barr went around giving statements that Roe was an "important precedent" that should be "respected", instead of saying it was horrible judicial activism and should be overturned, he'd be a far superior "Scalia-like figure" in the eyes of some screwy FReepers.

[Revel]

“More than 50 senators voted for Barr’s nomination, giving him enough support to be confirmed.”

No exact number. What kind of reporting is that?

[jazusamo]

The voting was still in progress, final vote was 54-45.

[jjotto]

Probably wrote the story using announcements from senators before the actual vote. They wanted to be first.

Party line vote, except Rand Paul voted no and Dems Manchin and Doug Jones voted yes.

[MountainWalker]

Couldn’t disagree more on that one.

[BillyBoy]

>> Kirsten Sinema pisses off the left again and SUPPORTS Barr’s confirmation. she also looks kinda hot today. Definitely NOT Senate-appropriate attire. <<

>> funny, i saw her yapping in the senate chamber in the background and kept glancing waiting for someone else to move out of the way so I can get a better view! I’d tap it. <<

Heh. I personally find her to be much hotter than Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.

I remember there was some thread of Sinema dressed provocatively at some Senate ceremony and some FReepers were complaining that it was appalling and against Senate decorum while the rest of us were oogling her. Ironically these same conservatives had no problems with an "Evangelical Christian" megachurch "pastor" from Illinois dressing like he's at a biker bar while he's "preaching" in "church", and balked when I said it should have been a red flag for Mancow Mueller not to trust a "pastor" who dressed like that:

[BillyBoy]

Ah, here's the photo of her "appalling" outfit:

[BillyBoy]

>> The President appoints more than 4,000 people, and around 1,200 require Senate confirmation. <<

<< There is an ongoing effort to reduce the number of appointees requiring confirmation. <<

There should be an ongoing effort to INCREASE the number of appointees requiring Senate confirmation. Obama wouldn't have been able to put dozens of totally unaccounted for "czars" running every type of bureaucracy imaginable if that were the case.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Someone should’ve told this twit that the Senate is not a discotheque.

[WashingtonSource]

What does Jordain Carney at The Hill go to great lengths to avoid giving the exact number of votes favoring Barr? He reports it merely as more than 50. I find that dishonest journalism.

[jazusamo]

The vote was strung out at the end and he posted the article before the vote was over, I believe Barr had 53 votes when he posted it.

[WashingtonSource]

Final vote: 54 to 45.

[jazusamo]

Yep.

[gibsonguy]

Another deep state heck is my fear too. Trump learned nothing from Wray? Trump is seduced by the notion of an easy confirmation. Was the AZ fruitcake a show vote?