Posted on 11/29/2016 12:54:58 PM PST by markomalley
Senator Chris Coons (D., Del.) said on CNN Tuesday that he regrets the rule change Senate Democrats made to the nomination process.
“The filibuster no longer acts as an emergency brake on the nomination,” Coons said.
The senator was questioned on the nomination process and the rule changes that senate Democrats had made in order to keep Republicans from derailing their selected nominees.
Coons admitted that Democrats had watered down the nomination process after Kate Bolduan mentioned that Republican’s could now take advantage of the simpler consent process.
“I do regret that. Frankly I think many of us will regret that in this congress because it would have been a terrific speed bump, potential emergency break, to have in our system to slow down the confirmation of extreme nominees,” Coons said.
Coons continued saying that blocking President-Elect Trump’s appointments now came down to the will of the American people, arguing that the general public will find his nominees too extreme and sound the alarm with their senators.
After mentioning the election results and arguing that the American people did not give Trump an overwhelming mandate as Hillary Clinton won the popular nomination and senate Democrats won more votes than their Republican counterparts, John Berman reminded the senator that Donald Trump had won the White House.
Too late now!
Something about gored oxen comes to mind.
What goes around, comes around, you stupid Dem.
There is no “popular nomination”. Hillary lost.
You betcha!
“What goes around, comes around.”
It’s quite possible the Republican leadership will allow a vote to restore the previous “speed bump”.
It’s all about “comity” to them.
It never seems to occur to some people that, when they are in power and screwing those who are out of power, some day the roles might be reversed.
KABOOM! that’s right - you screwed yourselves, so LIVE LONG and SUCK IT! (from the Big Bang Theory)...as said by Will Wheaton.
um...aw.
too f***ing late ya bastiges!
You wanted this, now you can suck on it.
One of my DE Senators.
Harry Reid’s pet.
Lets Biden paw his terrified daughter, while grinning like a Cheshire Cat.
We could have had Christine O’Donnell instead, who actually knew the Constitution, but Karl Rove had to destroy her.
“extreme nominees”
Moron can’t imagine there are people in this world who don’t share his world view.
They were so arrogant that they never thought it possible that their new weapon would ever be used on them.
May they never learn.
That's what I'm afraid of. Sometimes I think there could be 90 Republicans in the senate, and they would still allow the Democrats dictate the rules of the game to them.
If only the Republicans and the public had made those points at the time, the Democrats could have seen the recklessness of the idea. *cough*
Drink!
Russia hacked shillary's email account.
Russia hacked the voting in the 3 brexit states.
Shillary won the popular vote.
Trump's a racist.
I feel your pain. O’Donnell caught a lot of flak from Republicans but I liked her.
What goes around, comes around.
She upset the RINO pick for Senator in 2010—Mike Castle—and she was given the Sarah Palin treatment.
I saw it up close and personal.
Karl Rove can GFH.
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