Posted on 04/23/2015 11:10:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Loretta Lynch, after being kept waiting in the wings by the Senate for five and a half months, was confirmed Thursday as the first African American woman to serve as Attorney General.
Lynch was approved 56-43, one of the narrowest margins in history for an attorney general nominee.
The vote ended an unusually partisan episode in modern Senate confirmation history, in which a largely uncontroversial nominee to one of the top cabinet posts was kept out of office for a lengthy period over issues extraneous to her job.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Once again, we have the futility of voting demonstrated to us. We send “Republicans” to the Senate and they vote to confirm a fringe racist dedicated to the overturning of the Constitution to be the Attorney General of the United States. Yes, elections do have consequences, no matter what happens the government controls all and we move closer to the Fourth Reich.
Yes, Ted Cruz.
Does it come as a surprise to you? Many on this forum =said what he would do. Only to be told by the judas goats that they were full of shit.
I think he walked out to express his disgust with the whole procedure led by McConnell. I’m sure we will be hearing his reason soon.
What’s the point of voting anymore?
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Like a great man (or two+) has said
“If voting REALLY mattered, they wouldn’t let us do it”.
Thought I heard something the other day the vote wasn’t the ‘usual’ 60 because of some actions Reid had done when he was in charge.
Why didn’t McConnell put it back the way it was? I know, a rhetorical question with the ‘reasoning??’ by the R’s if we change it back, when we want it we won’t have it or some such BS..
Kind of like your parents saying
“Eat ALL of your supper, kids in China are starving!”
Of course, being the precocious lil darling I was, my answer tended to be...
“How is my eating this ‘????’ going to help a starving kid in China?” OR, “if that is the case, maybe you should have sent it to China direct?”
Rubio and Paul stayed and voted, NO, any other senators running?
The vote was infuriating enough.
What made it even worse was when Barasso and then Cornyn took to the floor within minutes to try and soften the blow by saying “But, but, but, this is what the American people wanted us to do! Look! We’re being bi-partisan!”
An obvious ploy to politic their way out of an inevitable backlash.
They (the “GOP leadership”) are no better than the Rats and should be treated as such.
I’d be fine with Cruz running as an independent. I couldn’t possibly care less about the GOP at this point.
That would've required some backbone and gonads from the poor excuse from KY, McConnell.
Every 6 years, two years out from election, Juan McCain morphs into a Conservative.
THIS IS NOT "REPORTING". Los Angeles Times = propaganda.
This had nothing to do with race. Opposition had everything to do with Lynch's inability/unwillingness to enforce the law (proven in her testimony before Congress), something that the U.S. Attorney General in theory is required to do. In other words, issues NOT extraneous to her job.
Consider well the important trust . . . which God . . . [has] put into your hands. . . . To God and posterity you are accountable for [your rights and your rulers]. . . . Let not your children have reason to curse you for giving up those rights and prostrating those institutions which your fathers delivered to you. . . . [L]ook well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust. . . .
Think not that your interests will be safe in the hands of the weak and ignorant; or faithfully managed by the impious, the dissolute and the immoral. Think not that men who acknowledge not the providence of God nor regard His laws will be uncorrupt in office, firm in defense of the righteous cause against the oppressor, or resolutly oppose the torrent of iniquity. . . . Watch over your liberties and privileges - civil and religious - with a careful eye.
[Matthias Burnett, Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Norwalk, An Election Sermon, Preached at Hartford, on the Day of the Anniversary Election, May 12, 1803 (Hartford: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin, 1803), pp. 27-28.]
Just found this yesterday. Sorry, Grandpa, I think it's too late.
(The Reverend happens to be my 5th great grandfather.)
It was necessary for patriots who are evidently still in fooling themselves about Republicans, an obsolete term that should be synonymous with unicorns, to shoot themselves in the foot by reelecting McConnell. Maybe such patriots will wise up now.
And beware of the Senate! The corrupt, citizen-elected Senate not only helps the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional bills, but the Senate also approves activist justices to declare those unconstitutional laws constitutional.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
Would he recognize Connecticut today?
She will be worse. Holder was confined because Obama wanted to get re-elected. Now no one is stopping him. She will have a grand ole time breaking all laws, making whitey and tea party Christian types pay for all the sins of the founders.
HORRIBLE...DEPRESSING. We knew they would cave, just so dang awful to see it.
They did and they stopped Obama. I know that because mobs on this forum said they would. that they would hold their feet to the fire to insure that they did. I wish to thank the voters of Kentucky for sending Mitch McConnell to the Senate to fight for Obama’s agenda.
So much caving. They should be called cavemen.
more racist law enforement?
(didn’t we elect R’s to the da*ned Senate?! what gives here?)
F- John Cornyn worthless POS
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