Posted on 02/06/2025 10:24:45 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Democrats succeeded Thursday in delaying a committee vote to advance the confirmation of FBI director nominee Kash Patel until next week at least.
The vote, which was slated to happen at 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, was pushed to next week after Senate Democrats demanded a second hearing from the Trump-aligned former Defense Department official, citing concerns about his previous remarks and candor.
In a statement Tuesday night, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa., said attempts by top Judiciary Democrat Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and others to force Patel to testify again were "baseless" as he already sat before the committee for more than five hours and disclosed "thousands of pages" of records to the panel, as well as nearly 150 pages of responses to lawmakers' written questions.
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It’s only because GOP Senators choose to follow ancient, arcane rules, instead of exercising majority power, that such things occur.
Lol...Bill Gates says he’s leaving the country if its released.
Thats not fishy at all. :P
The democrats need to hear from us as they did on election day before they sue this country back to october 2024
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
Trump’s supporters/MAGA is BIG and was heard on election day now they need to be heard again thru phone messages, emails (politicians do read them), commenting in their social media posts on Facebook, Twitter (X). The MAGA numbers can be overwhelming. No matter what the issue, let your Reps know where you stand.
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
According to the UK Daily Mail (not perfect but light years better than most US “newspapers”): ‘If people in that report are still fighting to keep their names private, they have no legal basis to do so unless they’re a child, a victim or a cooperating defendant in a potential case against Ghislaine Maxwell,’ Bondi said in the January 3 interview [with Fox News].
Insightful freeper, poconopundit, on Kash Patel’s terrific book,
“Government Gangsters” had these cogent observations that echo USAID corruption:
<><>... the fastest way to move up in govt is to screw
up, and the bigger the screw up, the bigger the promotion.
<><>Every person implicated in your mistakes has an interest
in covering up what they did, so they will promote you.
<><>The people at the very top are usually the most immoral, unethical people in the entire agency.
I missed what allowed the RATs to push this ? With Repubs in the majority, how does this happen ?
What process did they use to delay it? Why can’t the Repukes just ram him through?
GROW A PAIR THUNE!
Yup. I was thinking that with Tulsi at intel. Why do the acting directors have to be squishes? Put Gaetz in as acting Director or Flynn or Bannon. Give them incentive to get on with it.
No, that won’t work.
Committee rule.
Yes but it would discourage them from doing it over and over. Not on this vote but on all votes. Make them stay in session.
Committee rule.
A serious question. If they refuse to vote Patel out of committee is it at all likely the following will happen?
“.. but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.”
Dickless Durbin at it again. And now we have his evil twin, Adam Schitt.
My understanding is that any committee member can delay the process to leave the committee and advance to the floor by 7 days. That’s what happened to Pam Bondi.
Democrat Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and others to force Patel to testify again were “baseless”.
Democrats are still elevator shaft diving won’t be many left to jail soon.
Now I know he is the right guy.
Yeah, like the Christmas Eve 2010 ramming Obamacare down our throats, when everyone was feeling warm and fuzzy.
Walk over them wearing cleats. No prisoners.
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