Posted on 11/29/2016 7:20:25 AM PST by kevcol
Key Senate Republicans say they won't support a change to Senate rules that would allow President-elect Trump to quickly get his Supreme Court nominee confirmed, a sign that Trump may find it harder than he was hoping to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Republican Sens. Pat Roberts of Kansas, Bob Corker of Tennessee, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have all said they would not support a change.
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This better be posing. Especially Pat Roberts...Sarah Palin saved his bacon on his last campaign.
Maybe LG could get a cabinet post.... then the new SC governor, an apparent Trump supporter, could appoint a REAL conservative. Then fire LG for poor performance.
Ah, Republicans ... who value getting along so they invariably go along....
A freeper just said Mcconnells wife has been given a job by Trump.
Not happy about it..but now he is going to screw Trump over on his picks.
This is why self-respecting adults rarely have any interest serving in the U.S. Senate. Chris Christie was once asked about whether he would run for a U.S. Senate seat from New Jersey after his tenure as governor is over, and he said there's no way he'd do such a thing -- because he'd be driven to drown himself in the Potomac River (that's exactly what he said).
The good news here is that Trump is a businessman who has no patience for this kind of sh!t. I have no doubt that Trump will use some very creative measures to work around the dipsh!ts who obstruct him in the Senate -- such as using a revolving door of recess appointments even to fill Supreme Court positions, for example.
Trump is in the driver’s seat, the GOPe knows it has to follow his agenda or face extinction.
WRT SCOTUS nominees, Trump has one signal advantage - the fact that he ran on a platform of nominating people from an explicit list of candidates. That was a promise to those who supported him, and a threat to those who would support Hillary. A two-edged sword at the time. If any one of those candidates had proved to be a juicy political target, the Democrats could have, and would have, bludgeoned Trump politically over it. But they didn’t.Now that Trump has won, that list is an insurance policy. The Democrats have a tradition of arbitrarily claiming that any Republican nominee for SCOTUS is “out of the mainstream.” Well, the terms of 25 Democrat senators - over half of all incumbent Democrat senators - expire in 2018. Ten of those Democrats hail from states won by Trump; five from states Trump won by over 18%. The Senate Democratic caucus is going to be a bit tentative about calling a nominee from Trump’s list of candidates for SCOTUS “out of the mainstream.”
That dog won’t hunt at all in states where Trump won. And probably not all that well elsewhere. Chuck Schumer may find that, coming from deep-blue NY, he is out of the mainstream on that issue.
The usual suspects
That Reid used it means its the Reid Scenario now.
If its good enough for the Dems its good enough for the Turdle McConnell.
If the GOP doesn’t get things done we vote Turdle and the whole bunch out. Now that they have Trump, the house and senate, I don’t want to hear the Rinos and Dems kept it from happenning.
Use the Reid Scenario from day on, and become just as dirty as Dirty Harry
Good, now we have a new club in the Senate, The Pussy Whipped Republican Weasel club and the honorary members are Roberts, Flake, Graham and Corker. Wonder how many more will join the PWRW club?
The wuss that is Mitch is there for another four years
Trump needs to call a few of the old buzzards in and tell them he wants them to get rid of the filibuster. He will get no legislation, and no appointments, unless they do. He can be persuasive when he calls them in and tells them what’s what.
I wish I was as emphatic on that point as you are. Trump’s winning is just the first of many battles to be fought IMO. It is not the end of the GOPe, if it were, he would not be considering populating his administration with some GOPe types at the expense of some who were loyal to him during the election process. Those four clowns who voiced their opinion on the nuclear option are drawing the lines and they know they have nothing to lose....together with their cohorts across the aisle, they will not allow any sharp turn to the right on the SC, unfortunately. See the dems do not break ranks, the GOP does when it suits their individual purposes. It will take many elections to turn this around, at least two more senate elections and a follow on presidential victory to drain the swamp IMO.
Schumer will let those 5 vote yes, and a couple of the others. He just needs 40 votes to win a filibuster.
When Trump announced in June 2015, I hoped he would run as an independent (which, really, he kind of did). In 2018, which so many vulnerable Senate Democrats, I hope at least that the RNC is looking for "Trumpians" to fill those seats.
Based on Art of the Deal I can now see Trump’s strategy. Trump will order his 20 candidates from least conservative to most conservative candidates. He will start with the least conservative and send one after another with each one progressing to most conservative. With 20 candidates he will wear them out eventually.
Corker, Graham and Flake all voted for Gang of Eight and should be removed at the first opportunity, 2018 for Flake and Corker, 2020 for Graham.
Appoint Corker, then fire him. TN gets a new Republican senator.
He has the ability to go directly to his supporters.
No Republican will want to run in 2018 against the Trump agenda.
Well,this is just going to perpetuate a continuing vacancy on the S.Ct. because the Dems aren’t going to give Trump any votes to get a conservative judge on the Court.
They will cite the Republicans refusal to vote in a Scalia replacement.
But when the Dems get a chance to approve a Dem President’s nominee for the Court, if they don’t have the votes they WILL use the nuclear option because Dems don’t care about tradition and they only play to win.
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