“Members Sessions, Cruz, and Lee arent even worth mentioning... because you have such a low opinion of them?
I assume thats not the case and you are just over-reaching....”
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Sorry, I’m not “over-reaching”. Those three can be depended upon to vote down Obama’s bad nominees (and, at least Cruz, to possibly vote against ALL his nominees). But there “good” votes in Committee mean nothing if the squishes I mentioned vote with the ‘RAT minority to yield a majority and thus send Obama nominees to the full Senate. In the full Senate, the ‘RATS voting 100% for the nominee (as they WILL) together with a handful of RINOs voting with the ‘RATS (as they WILL) will yield the needed 51 votes to confirm the Obama nominee. The 60 vote closure rule will usually prevent that.
We need to think carefully and clearly on this issue. The ‘RATS (and a number of RINOs) are at war with us and we need to KNOW THAT AND ACT ACCORDINGLY.
Nutcases also make it through the filibuster.
Anyone who made it through the Committee would have made it through a filibuster too.
Maybe there are other reasons for renewing the filibuster, but “belt and suspenders” isn’t persuasive because both are subject to the same political manipulations so they aren’t complimentary but redundant.