Posted on 04/17/2015 6:12:25 AM PDT by Rockitz
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has joined Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid in calling for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to abandon his pre-election promise to fight President Obama’s executive amnesty by holding a vote to confirm U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch as Attorney General.
“I think that presidents have the right to pick their team,” Bush said in New Hampshire at an event with about 95 voters and “a horde of media,” according to Time Magazine’s Zeke Miller.
“The longer it takes to confirm her, the longer Eric Holder stays as Attorney General,” Bush said, echoing a talking point that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has used to justify his planned vote for Lynch–even though a vote for her is a vote for Obama’s executive amnesty.
Bush’s move comes as he’s lost his frontrunner status–despite all the money he’s raking in–in the 2016 GOP primary to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who opposes Lynch’s nomination and now leads Bush in polls in all three early primary states.
Reid, appearing on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC program on Thursday, also—like Bush—called for Senate Republicans to confirm Lynch immediately.
“I had a conversation today with a number of Republicans and told them really to get her done, or I will make sure they will have an opportunity to vote against her,” Reid said. The Huffington Post then laid out, citing Reid’s top aide Adam Jentleson, how the Senate Minority Leader would force a vote on Lynch if the GOP leaders like McConnell keep blocking the vote.
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At this time, there are only five Senate Republicans who plan to support Lynch: Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Susan Collins (R-ME), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Mark Kirk (R-IL).
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FReepers- See the 5 GOP senators supporting Lynch? Get after 'em.
Just asking because I want to know: what is the foundational reason for immigration legislation?
A mortally wounded Holder on the verge of indictment is far better than an emboldened, Marxist hack like Lynch.
Read my tagline. Money and power. Employers want cheap labor. Democrats want a dependent underclass that will vote for them to increase their benefits.
Hillary/Jeb (D) - 2016...because it no longer matters.
That is a reason for gutting immigration legislation. From what I can see, the reason for immigration legislation is to keep people out who want to come in.
Just wondering, if there were no immigration rules in the world for a period of say three months, where do you all think people would end up?
I might go to Tahiti.
FUJB
Go away Jeb Bush...
Bingo............Conservatives and all Americans will rue the day that money and especially anonymous foreign and domestic money should be “freedom of speech”. Global corporations will work against USA sovereign interests as will foreign money (even from allies)as their interests are not our
interest. These policies have corrupted the USA.
He really is on the wrong ticket.
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In Jeb you see a lot of what the GOP really is. He is the GOP establishment personified.
Another day, another reason to despise this traitorous Bush family.
The ultimate motive on these trade treaties has been to eliminate immigration law and borders and national sovereignty. Big global business wants freedom to manufacture and hire and import workers at their whim, without the nuisance of sovereignty and Constitution.
“I think that presidents have the right to pick their team,”
I agree with this in general, except when they are cut of the same cloth as Holder, who has proven that he cares nothing about Justice, and has been the most partisan AG in our history.
can’t wait to see jeb at the GOP debates..”I stood with harry reid to force a vote to replace one corrupt ag with another..and..I also wanted more acts of love of illegal immigration!!!!”
Bush is one of “THEM!” He is not in any way shape or form respectful of our American values or traditions. Agenda 21!!!!!
Sr. Jeb Bush es hambre de poder vender fuera!
So I guess Jeb thinks that the “advise and consent” CHECK on Presidential excesses is NOT needed.
But this is America — not some “Hispanic” country, whose Constitution does NOT limit what their dictators can do.
And (Knock-knock, Jeb! Wake up!) there ARE excesses....
This man makes me want to puke! grrrrrrr
If we have jebbush, GOP should replace the elephant with the skull & bones.
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