Posted on 04/14/2025 10:48:27 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Senate, once again, was working into the early morning hours Friday with its new majority leader, Republican John Thune, setting the pace.
It wasn’t until just after 2 a.m. that the last of the senators had straggled into the chamber to cast their vote on the confirmation of retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The vote capped a grinding start to the year for the Senate that included several all-night floor sessions and — importantly for Thune — the quickest top-level Cabinet confirmation process in the past 20 years.
At the outset, however, such an outcome was far from assured. President Donald Trump was making demands that the new Senate leader be ready to put the chamber into recess so he could skip over the Senate confirmation process altogether. Faced with that prospect, Thune, a South Dakota Republican, said his message in conversations with the president was, “Let us do this the old-fashioned way and just use the clock and grind it out, and then we’ll see where we go from there.”
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Oh, you sweet summer child. Half this country would rather burn alive than let Trump save them.
Everybody? Not even all Republicans want Trump to succeed, John.
Thune-he’s a winner. He can now give lip service to both sides as our leader. He can’t get away with being a d—k like the rat leadership.
Oh, you sweet summer child. Half this country would rather burn alive than let Trump save them.
God, Schumer did not age well.
Not everyone can age as beautifully as Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi.
Or Helen Thomas......
RINOs always get away with that. Just have a look at their history.
As my mother used to tell me when I was a kid, “if you think ugly, defeatist thoughts, they will eventually ooze out into your face.”
Then put your money where you mouth is John
I wanna know how you can say everybody wants to see Trump succeed and then vote against DOGE and foreign aid. The usual suspects stymied that in including YOU. I welcome any correction in my assessment....if I’m wrong tell me.
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