Posted on 12/08/2016 7:52:19 AM PST by Lazamataz
Woo Hoo!
Dingy said to day that Trump is entitled to his picks same as Obama.
“Senator John Thune just confirmed on Fox News that Republicans will stick with the nuclear option, instituted by Reid and the Democrats to get their more controversial appointments through.
In other words, there will be very little chance any of Trump’s cabinet appointments can be stopped.”
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Thank God for Sen. Thune and those other Republican Senators who finally looked in the mirror at their privates and discovered they had a set of nuts!
May the United States of America and her people continue to vomit forth all that is Obama and his America-hating followers.
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PERFECT choice of words, and thank you for posting them.
So they can’t say anything, now that the rules are changed
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Well I for one hope to hear them scream their stupid heads off, because it will be music to my ears.
The Turtle hasn’t spoken.
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When turtles get in the way they often get run over.
They need to use it just to make the point. :)
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And they need to use it without hesitation whenever the Rats attempt to impede America’s progress back from the precipice they tried to push it over.
Liberals always think their cheating benefits them...
May God continue to grant us more victories.
“Maybe. Reid didn’t nuclear on SCOTUS tho.”
Reid’s party did not have a majority when Scalia died. Nuclear option was not an option.
What Thune meant to say is that the GOP Senate will stick with the rule that the filibuster is not available in cases of Executive Branch confirmations (i.e., only a simple majority is needed for cloture instead of 60 votes). The “nuclear option” refers to the method that Senate Democrats used to change the rule (having the chair rule that a simple majority was needed for cloture and, when Republicans objected and the Senate Parliamentarian said that 60 votes were needed, having the Senate membership overrule the Parliamentarian by a simple majority vote), not to the new rule itself.
Oh, and if Democrats thought that Republicans would disarm unilaterally and allow Democrats to block Trump’s nominees after the Democrats took the filibuster away for (non-SCOTUS) nominations during Obama’s presidency, all I can say is, in my best Sweathog impression, “UP YOUR NOSE WITH A RUBBER HOSE.” (I would tell Senate Democrats to stick it somewhere else, but this is a family website.)
The Democrats definitely did prevent President Bush from appointing Supreme court nominees.
Hahahaha! How sweet it is!
Trump has injected a backbone in the GOP.
Perhaps Trump will be able to grow spines on congressional GOPers
LOL, great statement!
I wouldn’t mind seeing Trey Gowdy nominated for Supreme Court Justice by President The Donald.
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