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.
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RE: I seem to recall that the same thing happened to John Ashcroft, the former Missouri senator who graciously yielded his seat after narrowly losing his re-election campaign to a dead man
John Ashcroft’s final confirmation vote if I recall correctly was 75-25.
Why the cowardice?
And here is the Los Angeles Times deliberately lying again. This media propaganda corps is the reason evil is winning.
absolutely mind boggling how the criminals in the Senate can confirm another criminal as the US AG (sarc). I hope she turns on them like a snake but the reality is they confirmed her so she will continue to protect and then use them like her criminal predecessor did.
The 56 should be in jail. Un-American idiots, all of them.
These 6 Republicans who voted for her are SCUM pure SCUM..they could have easily done 5 minutes of research and found out that Lynch was part of a group in college that was anti Israel and Pro Palestinian..so either these Republicans didnt care to do the research or they flat out don’t care..and either way both make me sick
Un-freaking-believable. Just unbelievable. I am speechless. The GOP has done everything within their evil power to ensure that conservatives have nowhere to go in this country.
I wonder. Do they actually believe the lies they write?
i just threw up on my keyboard...
Is there ANYONE out there right now, today, who says that voting was worth it?
Where are the people who crowed after November “By Golly NOW we’ll show ‘em!”?
Conservatives are the battered women of the GOP. You’ll always come back to them, no matter how much they beat you.
Lynch the GOP!
RE: Sens. Jeff Flake of Arizona, Orrin Hatch of Utah, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Susan Collins of Maine, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, should be thrown out of office as soon as posible!
They are no better than the most liberal democraps.
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Thad Cochran, Rob Portman, Ron Johnson and (get his) MITCH McCONNELL joined this spineless group to vote FOR confirmation.
The LA Times STILL to this day has not released the Rashid Khalidi tapes of Obama praising him(and supposedly praising Hamas) so yeah, the Slimes lies, its what they do
So much for the Senate attempting to check Obama’s royal unconstitutional decrees.
If he doesn’t want to vote on it, he shouldn’t make a speech.
Why participate in a farce? Can you think of a better way to show contempt?
Oh really from my new home state, not voting for her ass next election.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
(2016) is a long ways away with these GOP_Turds in charge selling out their voters.
Any conservative that comes along will kick these traitors to the curb. We just need
good Men and Women willing to stand up and announce their patriotism for America.
someone says openly they will not enforce united states laws.
and they are confirmed.
Another nail in America’s integrity coffin.
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