Posted on 01/31/2025 9:51:59 AM PST by RandFan
@JohnCornyn
Art. II, Section 2,clause 2 provides that the President shall appoint officers with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Having won the election decisively, I believe President Trump has earned the right to appoint his own cabinet, absent extraordinary circumstances.
Therefore, it is my intention to consent to the appointment of @TulsiGabbard as Director of National Intelligence.
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It should help if his friends are thinking the same.
Yay!
The sooner Tulsi is confirmed, the better. Along with RFK Jr.
I assume McConnell is an automatic ‘no’ for most of Trump’s nominations. Rubio was an exception because he was a former Senate colleague.
A glimmer of hope from a Company Man.
Yes but it wont matter as far as Tulsi goes I dont think
Funny how McConnell has spent 20 years demanding loyalty to leadership and voting yet now he’s the one out of step and on his way out
Good..CONFIRM THEM ALL
He’ll be primaried in 2026.
Either that or the deep state has enough votes to kill her confirmation without Cornhole, and his handlers are letting him vote yes so he can pretend to support Trump.
Murkee, collins, post turtle?
I hadn’t considered that but I think she’s OK the way the hearing went
We’ll see what they do soon.
‘Funny’ - but not funny.
How big of you, “Big” John.
It must be election season, Cornyn is acting like a conservative. Except when he thinks no one is watching. I watched the vote for Hegseth, when Cornyn arrived at the capital, he immediately joined Murkowski and Collins who were standing together. I think polls show him losing to Paxton.
When its all said and done, I would expect most if not all of Trump’s appointees to get approved.
Need something more than “we don’t like you” to really take someone out.
So far, these confirmation “hearings” really haven’t revealed anything about any of Trump’s nominees that would make the average non partisan decide they are “unqualified”.
RFK Jr. exposing Bernies “Big Pharma” ties was classic.
Yeah exactly.
Yep.
RFK I’m not sure will make it based on the hearings
I thought RFK did fine but the reaction to how people did confounds me.
Same here
We shall see.
I don’t think those hearings revealed anything, like most of them.
People who have already made up their minds just looking for a viral moment for their next fund raiser.
Can take 3 defections with no pickups and still get confirmed.
We shall see what happens. Collins and Murkowski are certainly people you never want to count on in a pinch if you can avoid it.... We’ll see who, if anyone else, defects.
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