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Posted on 04/22/2018 1:21:27 PM PDT by jazusamo
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker on Sunday dismissed criticism about Republicans “ramming” Mike Pompeo’s nomination as secretary of state through the chamber, saying Senate Democrats have blocked the “highly qualified” Pompeo from getting the post just to appease their anti-Trump base.
“I don't think allowing people to vote is called ramming,” Corker, R-Tenn., said in response to the criticism on CNN. “This is a person who is highly qualified. He was first in his class at West Point, did The Harvard Law Review … knows more about what is happening in the world probably than anybody in America because of his post at CIA.”
Pompeo earlier this month appeared before the committee for a confirmation hearing and could face a vote as early as Monday from the panel’s 21 members who would recommmend, or not, that he get a final Senate floor vote and the State Department post.
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The Democrats are able to block the Republicans, seemingly, at will.
Is Rand Paul doing another one of his prissy little Look At Me routines? Iirc, he didn’t fair much better than Lindsey Graham in his run for the WH. You’d think they could put two and two together.
Agreed, especially with help from the likes of Paul and McCain.
Looks like it, it’s time for Paul to put his big boy pants on.
Maybe Rand’s neighbor can talk some sense into him.
Sabotage your own country
Close.
The Democrats are able to block The Other Democrats, seemingly, at will.
The problem is not the dems! The real problem is “THE TURTLE MC CONNEL” invoke the nuclear option all senate problems disappear.....
Time, or past time.
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I feel very guilty for laughing so hard. Even the dog wondered what was up.
Pompeo is Deep State all the way. His ascenscion to the office of Secretary of State (which is inevitable) will ultimately limit Trump’s ability to drain the Swamp.
This is the Obama “Resistance”.
Bump!
Lol!
Wouldn’t it be nice if Conservatives had a political party? Oh, that’s supposed to be the Republican party?
”… a final Senate floor vote and the State Department post." ???
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
I think that the post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification, anti-Trump Senate RINO majority may be giving us procedural smoke and mirrors concerning Pompeo.
More specifically, a constitutionally enumerated difference between the voting power of senators versus representatives is this. With the exception of constitutional enumerated supermajority vote requirements on specific kinds of votes, senators are uniquely guaranteed one vote.
”Article I, Section 2, Clause 1: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature."
(No guarantee of one vote per representative like senators have.)
”Article I, Section 3, Clause 1: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote [emphasis added]."
In other words, I suspect that this constitutionally undefined committee vote is basically giving anti-Trump majority RINOs a politically correct way to stop Pompeo, regardless that the procedure nullifies the one vote per senator guarantee imo.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Patriots, we really need to repeal 17A imo.
The 16th Amendment needs to disappear too.
Yep, that’s about the size of it. There really arent very many actual Republicans abd there hasn’t been for a long long time.
If the Dems kill the Pompeo nomination and the talks with North Lorea fail then watch for Trump to blame that the Dems are to blame.
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