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Senate confirms Loretta Lynch as next U.S. Attorney General
Los Angeles Times ^ | 04/23/2015 | TIMOTHY M. PHELPS

Posted on 04/23/2015 11:10:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Loretta Lynch, after being kept waiting in the wings by the Senate for five and a half months, was confirmed Thursday as the first African American woman to serve as Attorney General.

Lynch was approved 56-43, one of the narrowest margins in history for an attorney general nominee.

The vote ended an unusually partisan episode in modern Senate confirmation history, in which a largely uncontroversial nominee to one of the top cabinet posts was kept out of office for a lengthy period over issues extraneous to her job.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 114th; attorneygeneral; bhodoj; doj; lorettalynch; lynch; lynchconfirmed; senate
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To: SeekAndFind

Once again, we have the futility of voting demonstrated to us. We send “Republicans” to the Senate and they vote to confirm a fringe racist dedicated to the overturning of the Constitution to be the Attorney General of the United States. Yes, elections do have consequences, no matter what happens the government controls all and we move closer to the Fourth Reich.


141 posted on 04/23/2015 11:41:57 AM PDT by Rodentking (There is no God but Yahweh and Moses is his prophet - http://www.airpower.blogspot.com/)
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To: Old Sarge

Yes, Ted Cruz.


142 posted on 04/23/2015 11:42:21 AM PDT by madison10
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To: tpmintx

Does it come as a surprise to you? Many on this forum =said what he would do. Only to be told by the judas goats that they were full of shit.


143 posted on 04/23/2015 11:42:59 AM PDT by sport
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To: BigEdLB

I think he walked out to express his disgust with the whole procedure led by McConnell. I’m sure we will be hearing his reason soon.


144 posted on 04/23/2015 11:43:34 AM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Cochran won his Republican seat by having Democrats crossover and vote for him in the run offs. I guess this is the payback he gives them. We didn't have a good candidate to vote for in the election and McDaniels was Borked by Barbour and the MSM. Cochran is a RINO and always has been. He's almost as liberal as Kennedy was. This sucks, now we have an uber racist as the AG as before we just had a mid level racist.
145 posted on 04/23/2015 11:43:50 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: BitWielder1

What’s the point of voting anymore?
= = = = = = = = = = = =

Like a great man (or two+) has said

“If voting REALLY mattered, they wouldn’t let us do it”.

Thought I heard something the other day the vote wasn’t the ‘usual’ 60 because of some actions Reid had done when he was in charge.

Why didn’t McConnell put it back the way it was? I know, a rhetorical question with the ‘reasoning??’ by the R’s if we change it back, when we want it we won’t have it or some such BS..

Kind of like your parents saying

“Eat ALL of your supper, kids in China are starving!”

Of course, being the precocious lil darling I was, my answer tended to be...

“How is my eating this ‘????’ going to help a starving kid in China?” OR, “if that is the case, maybe you should have sent it to China direct?”


146 posted on 04/23/2015 11:44:48 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)A pessimist damns the wind, an optimist thinks it will change and a realist adjusts the sails.)
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To: conservativejoy

Rubio and Paul stayed and voted, NO, any other senators running?


147 posted on 04/23/2015 11:45:23 AM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: smokingfrog

The vote was infuriating enough.

What made it even worse was when Barasso and then Cornyn took to the floor within minutes to try and soften the blow by saying “But, but, but, this is what the American people wanted us to do! Look! We’re being bi-partisan!”

An obvious ploy to politic their way out of an inevitable backlash.

They (the “GOP leadership”) are no better than the Rats and should be treated as such.


148 posted on 04/23/2015 11:46:39 AM PDT by FatherFig1o155 ("Most bad government results from too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: dp0622

I’d be fine with Cruz running as an independent. I couldn’t possibly care less about the GOP at this point.


149 posted on 04/23/2015 11:47:14 AM PDT by Nickname
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To: ealgeone
She shoulda been “Borked”.

That would've required some backbone and gonads from the poor excuse from KY, McConnell.

150 posted on 04/23/2015 11:47:17 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (0bama may not be THE antiCHRIST, but he's definitely ANTI - CHRIST!)
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To: Menehune56
Notice two things, Juan McCain voted against Lynch, and Juan McCain just announced his reelection.

Every 6 years, two years out from election, Juan McCain morphs into a Conservative.

151 posted on 04/23/2015 11:47:44 AM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: SeekAndFind
a largely uncontroversial nominee to one of the top cabinet posts was kept out of office for a lengthy period over issues extraneous to her job

THIS IS NOT "REPORTING". Los Angeles Times = propaganda.

This had nothing to do with race. Opposition had everything to do with Lynch's inability/unwillingness to enforce the law (proven in her testimony before Congress), something that the U.S. Attorney General in theory is required to do. In other words, issues NOT extraneous to her job.

152 posted on 04/23/2015 11:48:00 AM PDT by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Matthias Burnett

Consider well the important trust . . . which God . . . [has] put into your hands. . . . To God and posterity you are accountable for [your rights and your rulers]. . . . Let not your children have reason to curse you for giving up those rights and prostrating those institutions which your fathers delivered to you. . . . [L]ook well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust. . . .

Think not that your interests will be safe in the hands of the weak and ignorant; or faithfully managed by the impious, the dissolute and the immoral. Think not that men who acknowledge not the providence of God nor regard His laws will be uncorrupt in office, firm in defense of the righteous cause against the oppressor, or resolutly oppose the torrent of iniquity. . . . Watch over your liberties and privileges - civil and religious - with a careful eye.

[Matthias Burnett, Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Norwalk, An Election Sermon, Preached at Hartford, on the Day of the Anniversary Election, May 12, 1803 (Hartford: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin, 1803), pp. 27-28.]

Just found this yesterday. Sorry, Grandpa, I think it's too late.

(The Reverend happens to be my 5th great grandfather.)

153 posted on 04/23/2015 11:48:09 AM PDT by madison10
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To: tpmintx; All

It was necessary for patriots who are evidently still in fooling themselves about Republicans, an obsolete term that should be synonymous with unicorns, to shoot themselves in the foot by reelecting McConnell. Maybe such patriots will wise up now.

And beware of the Senate! The corrupt, citizen-elected Senate not only helps the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional bills, but the Senate also approves activist justices to declare those unconstitutional laws constitutional.

The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.


154 posted on 04/23/2015 11:49:17 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: madison10

Would he recognize Connecticut today?


155 posted on 04/23/2015 11:49:52 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She will be worse. Holder was confined because Obama wanted to get re-elected. Now no one is stopping him. She will have a grand ole time breaking all laws, making whitey and tea party Christian types pay for all the sins of the founders.

HORRIBLE...DEPRESSING. We knew they would cave, just so dang awful to see it.


156 posted on 04/23/2015 11:49:58 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: ctdonath2

They did and they stopped Obama. I know that because mobs on this forum said they would. that they would hold their feet to the fire to insure that they did. I wish to thank the voters of Kentucky for sending Mitch McConnell to the Senate to fight for Obama’s agenda.


157 posted on 04/23/2015 11:50:01 AM PDT by sport
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To: SeekAndFind

So much caving. They should be called cavemen.


158 posted on 04/23/2015 11:50:51 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: SeekAndFind

more racist law enforement?

(didn’t we elect R’s to the da*ned Senate?! what gives here?)


159 posted on 04/23/2015 11:51:39 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Another brilliantl- intelligent comment sent thru an amazingly-stupid spell checker)
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To: FatherFig1o155

F- John Cornyn worthless POS


160 posted on 04/23/2015 11:52:08 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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