Posted on 04/06/2017 9:16:33 AM PDT by servo1969
I was looking at the post nuke cloture vote which only needed 51 to pass and did.
Your number as to the pre-nuke cloture vote that failed is correct, commie swine Bennett flip flopped post nuke. So he gets zero credit.
And I give none to Heidi/Red Joe (Donnelly)/Manchin either cause voting not to drop the bomb rendered their filibuster opposition meaningless.
Props to our RINOS for towing the line.
Johnny Isakson was absent for the confirmation vote. Dude has had serious health problems for a long time, at one point IRRC it was feared he was gonna die. He probably should have retired.
Thomas, you mean. Scalia could be a bit authoritarian and government-sucking at times.
“McConnell is a klutz.”
He put Gorsuch on the bench for this case. Under your klutz plan we would still be hearing speeches from the democrats on why to not vote for Gorsuch.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3542856/posts
“McConnell is a klutz.”
If Democrats had afforded Gorsuch a relatively non-controversial confirmation process (after all, it was simply swapping one conservative for another), it is a very open question whether McConnell would have been able to corral all 52 votes to pass a rules change on behalf of Trump’s second pick — whose credentials may not be quite as sterling as Gorsuch’s, and whose presence on the Court would tilt the ideological balance rightward. By picking the fight that they did in order to appease the barking jackals in their base, Democrats ensured that the next pick can get installed on the bench with 50-plus-one votes.
Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court on April 7 and this week will take part in deciding whether he and his fellow justices will hear the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s ruling which upheld California’s “good cause” requirement for concealed carry.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3543155/posts
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