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Hardball: McConnell Changes Rule to Overcome Obstruction of Trump's Judicial Picks, Dems Fume
Townhall.com ^
| October 11, 2017
| Guy Benson
Posted on 10/11/2017 10:38:32 AM PDT by jazusamo
This may seem like an abstruse parliamentary maneuver -- and it is -- but Mitch McConnell just escalated the judicial wars in a minor but meaningful way. If frustrated conservatives want the GOP Senate majority to " start acting like one ," McConnell's decision eliminates a lever Democrats have been using to stymie some of President Trump's judicial picks. In that sense, he's very much acting like a majority leader; a Democratic one. Try not to let your eyes glaze over as you read the details of this move, which involves dramatically reducing the power of so-called "blue slips" on judges, with which Senators from the home state of a presidential selection have been able to withhold their consent in order to prevent that nomination from moving forward. Not anymore. McConnell warned Democrats that he was leaning this direction last month, hoping they'd abandon this form of partisan blockade. They didn't. So he's followed through on his threat -- via the Weekly Standard:
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; bluesliprule; blueslips; cocainemitch; federaljudges; judges; judicialnominees; mcconnell; mcconnellsenaterule; mitchmcconnell; pmcconnellblueslip; senate; senaterule; third100days; trump; trumpjudiciary; ussenate; winning
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Good for McConnell.
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:38:32 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
About damned time, you pansy, limp-wristed, turtle-faced loser...!
To: jazusamo
Yank the blue slip vetoes! Good!
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:41:34 AM PDT
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Beer! Because you can't drink bacon!)
To: jazusamo
Mc acting like the Republican leader?
What’s the catch?
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:41:48 AM PDT
by
Leep
(Less talk more ACTiON!)
To: jazusamo
I guess the donors got through the rino haze.
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:41:52 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: jazusamo
ABOUT DAMN TIME!! What the hell took you nearly a YEAR!! WTF!!
To: jazusamo
“Good for McConnell.”
Praise for McConnell? Are you insane? LOL
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:42:35 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
To: jazusamo
I think McTurtle may be feeling some heat.
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:42:40 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: DannyTN
The cuck is feeling the heat.
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:42:56 AM PDT
by
Ted Grant
To: jazusamo
I will take a WIN anyway I get one.
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:43:42 AM PDT
by
IC Ken
To: Leep
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:43:53 AM PDT
by
mazda77
To: NorthMountain
Absolutely, you’re dead on the mark.
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:44:23 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
To: Leep
Catch? That it’s still just talk - no action yet?
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:46:28 AM PDT
by
Let's Roll
("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
To: HamiltonJay
ABOUT DAMN TIME!! What the hell took you nearly a YEAR!! WTF!!Mitch appears to have gotten hormone treatments.
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:47:43 AM PDT
by
pfflier
Lets git er done, folks!
Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:47:47 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
To: Let's Roll
The RINOs are running scared.
They’re going to be primaried.
Steve Bannon is leading the charge.
To: NorthMountain
Feeling the heat?
From his demeanor, it was thought he’d lost his last nerve.
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:48:07 AM PDT
by
V K Lee
(DJT: "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ")
To: Common Sense 101
“About damned time, you pansy, limp-wristed, turtle-faced loser...!”
Don’t hold back now. Tell how you really feel about him!
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:48:15 AM PDT
by
Autonomous User
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
To: jazusamo
Too late, McTurdle. OUT OUT OUT!
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posted on
10/11/2017 10:49:26 AM PDT
by
Kalamata
(Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
To: jazusamo
McConnel’s feeling the torches burning close to his tail.
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