Posted on 10/26/2020 3:49:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - A deeply torn Senate is set to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, but Democratic leaders are asking Vice President Mike Pence to stay away from presiding over Monday’s session due to potential health risks after his aides tested positive for COVID-19.
But Democrats said in a letter to Pence on it’s “not a risk worth taking,” according to copy obtained by The Associated Press.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and his leadership team wrote that not only would Pence’s presence violate Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, “it also be a violation of common decency and courtesy.”
“Nothing about your presence in the Senate tomorrow can be considered essential,” the Democrats wrote. They warned of the risk not just to senators but the police, restaurant workers and others who keep the Capitol running.
Schumer, of New York, said the Trump administration’s drive to install Barrett during the coronavirus crisis shows “the Republican Party is willing to ignore the pandemic in order to rush this nominee forward.”
To underscore the potential health risks, Schumer urged his colleagues Sunday not to linger in the chamber but “cast your votes quickly and from a safe distance.” Some GOP senators tested positive for the coronavirus following a Rose Garden event with Trump to announce Barrett’s nomination, but they have since said they have been cleared by their doctors from quarantine.
By pushing for Barrett’s ascension so close to the Nov. 3 election, Trump and his Republican allies are counting on a campaign boost, in much the way they believe McConnell’s refusal to allow the Senate to consider Obama’s nominee in February 2016 created excitement for Trump among conservatives and evangelical Christians eager for a Republican president to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Put on your masks and vote dems. Or stay home and let Americans finish to pick.
mr. Shummmer, YOU are a greater danger to the people than the virus!
“Could the rats be more obvious?”
LOL! They are adult children, so they’re acting their mental age of around thirteen years old, eighth graders. Emotion-driven, cliquish, genital-obsessed, mean-spirited eighth graders.
Dear Schmuck, were you born an asshole, or did you at it your whole life?
A bunch of geriatric socialists might get COVID from Pence and die.
... so what’s the bad part?
Aha!
The DEMONrats think MASKing them can prevent us from catching onto the truly EVIL nature of their intentions!
Hey, it's a smart virus, everyone knows that.
It knows that if you go into a restaurant or walk by the people eating outdoors in a 25 knot wind, it will leap into your system and infect you like white on rice.
However, once you are seated, you may remove your mask and you are perfectly safe. Same with going to the beach. You must wear a mask walking around, but if you lay down on the sand, you are quite safe. The virus understands this.
Just as it knows not to infect Leftists. Even viruses know that would be biting the hand that feeds you.
😱😱😱
masks don’t work now?
Hahaha
Thanks for the picture of scummed. I needed new bird cage liners.
Hey, those suckers can tell time, measure distance, tell essential from non-essential...
We’re screwed!!!!
And because this is really chapping my backside this morning...
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/?m=1
Check out “Rules for You, Not Groot (UPDATE)”
Way-way-way-wait. . . The Democrats announced they would be boycotting Mrs. Barrett's confirmation vote. What the heck happened?
And if they believe their own weed, shouldn't they encourage Pence to go to the vote, so he can infect all the Republicans (with no Dems in the room), and they'll all die and stuff?
Man! You step away from the news for a few days and the lies and drama-queening you remember are gone, replaced by completely new bull***t.
I'm kind of miffed. I was beginning to like the old lies--especially the one that had the Senate chamber empty of Democrats.
Follow the science. I’m sure they will test him more than once. How many of the Senators will be tested? How many times did Schumer get tested in the last month?
We want a 9 member court to eliminate tie votes....a tool which can/would/could let an “absurd” finding of a lower court stand.
Frankly, I think Joe and Kamala are supposed to be in quarantine.
The image of her holding up a blank note paper is one for the ages.
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