Posted on 02/01/2017 10:14:46 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
If the Senate Majority Leader stays true to form, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is going nowhere
When Senate Democrats confirmed yesterday that they will filibuster President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) responded, “What I would expect from our Democratic friends is that the nominee be handled similarly to Clinton’s and Obama’s first two nominees in their first terms.”
Wow. If I were Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), I’d be peeing my pants.
Nitch McConnell does NOT want Trump coming down on him....
Heck, he can just borrow one.
He will grow a pair of cotton balls that will be there as long as the wind is not blowing. He goes where the wind blows, and his cotton balls will be the first to go.
Turtle boy is obligated to the continued employ of his wife, Elaine Chou as cabinet level secretary of transportation. Swamp critters the pair.
Well his wife just got confirmed so not like Trump can use that as a bartering item
I have always...(well, since Nov. 8th) believed that the libs don’t have the guts to force the nuclear option for the first USSC nominee.
They’d rather hope to regain the Senate majority in 2018 and forestall a second and game changing conservative nominee.
Yertle doesn’t have the balls to go nuclear.
The least he can do is make the Democrats do a real filibuster.
Don’t just fold to the threat like they always do.
Mitch is doing good right now. I think he deserves our support. But, I know many don’t agree. That’s okay too.
I was appalled with Senator Franken’s character assassination of Sessions and Cruz in the hearings this AM. The silver lining might be that the DC ‘pubs stand together. There’s no way to walk back the things that were said this AM, and they have no choice but for the Republicans to stand together....or they’ll be next.
McConnell grow a pair?
If they are the congressional Republican variety, he will need a whole cluster.
Well, at least Republican Senators are finally starting to fight back.
Got/and will get around those idiotic dem boycotts of the senate committees!! I think EPA/Pruitt is the only one we have left to deal with.
Orin Hatch was really pissed.... AS HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN
No balls, no hits, three strikes and you’re out. Don’t we wish.
I was thrilled to see Hatch speak that way!!! Way to go!!!
I am so happy the Senator’s are taking a stand.
The Speaker......not so much......not crazy about him and don’t really trust him.
Prove me wrong Ryan. Get with the program!!!
I didn’t get to see Franken’s crap this morning. Hopefully it is on you tube I hate that $#%$@#%@#$^%@$ Frankenstein....
President Trump has displayed pure, steadfast, and raw COURAGE for the past two weeks. It’s my hope and prayer that President Trump’s courage will help spineless RINO’s (and the rest of the GOP) to summon their own personal courage, follow this great leader into battle.
We must pray every day for President Trump’s good health, safety, and steely resolve. God bless President Trump, God bless America!
The problem is McConnell's political principles.
McConnell is a center-left Republican.
And so is Paul Ryan.
And so is almost every other national GOP leader.
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Senator Schumer’s only play is to delay the confirmation process because he doesn’t want Gorsuch on this year’s SCOTUS rulings, which by itself is doubtful if McConnell finds his balls, but Schumer will NOT block the overall nomination. Here’s why.
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SCHUMER’S CARDS – If Schumer filibusters Judge Gorsuch now, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will, most likely, use the nuclear option and point to Senator Schumer as the reason therein. That means Gorsuch on the bench having needed only 51 votes.
McConnell points to Schumers intransigence and also points to the former confirmation of Gorsuch, against the backdrop of the Judges impeccable character and credentials etc.
Deployment of the nuclear option means, more consequentially, when Justice Kennedy announces his retirement, ANY replacement – including a much, much more conservative replacement like Pryor – is a guaranteed seat only needing 51 votes.
Think about it. The court would then lean even further to the right, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2017, (now 84-years-old), clinging to a respirator in year one of President Trump’s tenure.
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Why would anyone want to share a bed with that spineless turtle. There really is someone for everyone.
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