Posted on 04/09/2017 12:16:43 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON – In response to the U.S. Senate enacting the so-called “nuclear option” on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. issued the following statement:
“It is disappointing to see Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell change the rules of the Senate to allow for a simple majority vote on Supreme Court nominees now and in the future. He has rolled back long-standing Senate rules and traditions to lower the bar for Judge Gorsuch’s nomination, in essence making Gorsuch nothing more than a garden-variety political appointee.
“For nearly a year, AFGE has asked Congress to do its job and hold hearings for Judge Merrick Garland. It’s a sad day for democracy when partisan senators refuse to do what’s right to get what they want. Working people in America are under constant attack and continue to face numerous attempts to undermine their rights at work from insiders looking to roll back provisions that unions have long fought for. Forcing through a justice by a simple majority vote shows that leaders in the Senate don’t care about the working class.
“Congress had a chance to have a serious debate about the impact of Judge Gorsuch’s lifetime appointment on working people in America. Supreme Court Justices will now be political appointees, serving for life.
“Last year I stood outside the Supreme Court with hundreds of others asking our elected representatives to ‘Do their job,’ and now it’s safe to say they have let us all down. It’s unfortunate that faced with the idea of having to put forth a new and better nominee for all of America, Senate leaders have instead run roughshod over long-established rules and guidelines so they could get their way.”
I don’t care what they have to say.
It’s your baby, too bad you gave it away.
Bitches!
Nuke the pensions.
All get transferred to a 401.
Cox is paid-and-up-to-date member of the Democrat cult. Democrats and progressive are just cult members. Not a reason to listen to their whining.
Agree.
And there are now more unionize government employees than exist in all of private sector America.
The public servants became our masters.
And are paid double or more than what those in private sector makes. This is 100% bull sh*t and should have never been allowed to happen.
The Constitution only requires a simple majority. Any thing else in a political rule, not our forefathers.
I don’t care if they get over it or not.
If you could check their voting habits .. you’d find out that this UNION, like a lot of them VOTE DEMOCRAT.
To the democrats who say that ‘now SCOTUS nominees are nothing more than political appointees’, I always ask which of Obama’s SCOTUS nominees were anything more than political appointments? I mean, those were the most transparently political appointees that Obama nominated, none of which would stand up to half of Gorsuch’s record."
This is a good point. Why did Obama put up a throwaway like Garland, and not someone high-profile who actually campaigned for the job, like Tribe?
The answer is: the Reid Rule. They knew all along he wouldn't get a hearing, and that was because of Harry Reid.
What I want to know is - where are all the goddamned books? Where are the tell-alls that explicitly detail Obama's conniving and contrivances, with the aid of ValJar, Boiled Rice, et al.
So, Mr. Cox: Schadenfreude!
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