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Breaking: Collins, Murkowski to oppose DeVos for Education Secretary
HotAir ^

Posted on 02/01/2017 11:44:45 AM PST by Java4Jay

That leaves McConnell and Senate majority whip John Cornyn with some heavy lifting to do. They either need to convince Collins and/or Murkowski to get back on board with DeVos, or make sure no one else disembarks before Pence can cast the 101st vote and keep Sessions in the Senate long enough to pull off this high-wire act. Stay tuned.

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To: Java4Jay

The teacher unions and the Big Education establishment is going full bore against DeVos. I have some friends who are teachers (elementary, high school, and college level) and school administrators and they are all going apeshit over her. Which is why I like her.


41 posted on 02/01/2017 12:28:21 PM PST by Mannaggia l'America
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To: Java4Jay

Need to bring Manchin on board to get her over the top. Any other Dim would be icing. If Manchin doesn’t agree, tell him he will be the No. 1 target in 2018. If he does come on board, he’ll only be target No. 14 or 15.


42 posted on 02/01/2017 12:29:08 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Java4Jay

I really dont mind if she doesn’t make it. All his other picks are great...this one seems marginal at best.


43 posted on 02/01/2017 12:29:26 PM PST by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: DoodleDawg

Also a big difference in impact, trading scalia for another conservative on the court doesn’t shift the power at all..

Devos allowing school choice is a far far bigger threat to the left.

They have made it clear she is the main one they will be shooting to take out from day one....

If the Dems are going to go completely batcrap it will be during the Devos vote...


44 posted on 02/01/2017 12:30:14 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Java4Jay
< yawn >

These two were predicted to eff up, and there are no more deserters. Pence will seal the deal, and the drama is all unnecessary.

45 posted on 02/01/2017 12:30:25 PM PST by Gargantua ("President Trump... please help us fix this mess." ;^)
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To: TADSLOS

We can pull the “race card” also. The most blatantly racist and tyrannical decision a lawmaker can vote in regards to education is the disenfranchisement of school choice which predominately effects the inner city child. I suppose they should not get uppity because they get welfare and abortion choices.


46 posted on 02/01/2017 12:31:25 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Timpanagos1

Trump needs to find folks in their home states who will work against them in regard to their reelection AND find out what bills they are trying to get passed for their states and then have someone contact them about whether they want those bills passed or shot down.


47 posted on 02/01/2017 12:36:39 PM PST by knightforhire
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To: DoodleDawg

You are right . There are these non Secretary “cabinet attendees” you mentioned . I forgot about Chow. Those others are nothing. I don’t consider the SBA loan person or the UN voter as Cabinet.


48 posted on 02/01/2017 12:39:43 PM PST by WENDLE (We need to move forward on our 100 new federal judges ASAP .)
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To: Java4Jay

Make no mistake.

This is about Teacher Union money.

Pure and simple.


49 posted on 02/01/2017 12:40:29 PM PST by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: Java4Jay

The GOP weak links are going wobbly.


50 posted on 02/01/2017 12:40:34 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: Java4Jay

Call these crazy *itches:

https://www.collins.senate.gov/contact

https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact/office-locations


51 posted on 02/01/2017 12:44:42 PM PST by ZULU (Particular circumstances can never be used to justify an act that is intrinsically evil.)
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To: Java4Jay

Those 2 sows need to be retired!!!


52 posted on 02/01/2017 12:46:03 PM PST by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I wonder if they need to call Governor of Alabama Robert J. Bentley

To see who he has lined up to replace Jeff Sessions

53 posted on 02/01/2017 12:47:39 PM PST by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: Carl Vehse; KC_Lion

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Is there anything on this earth more worthless than a Republican Senator?

The voters in Alaska and Maine?
>

IMO, blame it on the party that allows these types of people to run in their stead....Party over principles. Winning over everything else.

Voters, OTOH, have little choice for such blame.


54 posted on 02/01/2017 12:48:48 PM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Busko

We had Murkowski out at one point, and then the GOPe acquiesced to her bullsh** write-in campaign.


55 posted on 02/01/2017 12:48:51 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Java4Jay

DeVos has never been an educator. She has supported education and charter schools, but has never taught. Even conservative teachers do not back her.


56 posted on 02/01/2017 12:53:28 PM PST by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and VP Mike Pence Daily)
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To: Java4Jay

Don’t worry, McCain and Lindsey Graham will through him a life preserver with an anchor tied around it. .


57 posted on 02/01/2017 12:55:10 PM PST by Fhios
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To: madison10

Don’t care. Don’t need an educator for that slot - just an administrator, and judging the American professional “educators” by their “products”, the less input they have the better.

Having any Republican NOT back ANY of Trump’s appointees is simply unforgivable. We are at war with the Dems at this point. You are either with us, or against us.


58 posted on 02/01/2017 12:57:54 PM PST by ZULU (Particular circumstances can never be used to justify an act that is intrinsically evil.)
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To: Java4Jay

Senator Collins votes against Choice in Education, consigning millions of poor children to sub-par educations and futures.


59 posted on 02/01/2017 1:02:00 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Java4Jay

This is “breaking?” as in something significant just happened? I think not. Might as well have had BREAKING: Collins and Murkowski Are Women.


60 posted on 02/01/2017 1:02:59 PM PST by arthurus
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