Posted on 10/25/2019 3:14:58 AM PDT by cotton1706
Golly gee! Senator working SOOO hard!
In their BUSY Tuesday-Thursday schedule, they held eight votes, four of which were cloture votes, so they really only voted on four things.
Two treaties, an ambassadorship, and one Kentucky judge (Mitch is from Kentucky).
Only 11 judges confirmed SINCE JULY.
And they make how much money a year to do this little work?
The RINOcrats are as worthless as used toilet paper.
Vichy Republicans in the Senate literally asleep at the wheel while a coup is in progress against POTUS. Just unbelievable.
I learned something last week that I hadn’t appreciated before. When President Trump was inaugurated, he found a backlog of nearly 150 open judge seats. I knew this, but had assumed that it was a normal. It was anything but normal. Most presidents leave but a few.
Lazy Barack, had left these seats open, thinking that the Hillary and Bill machine would fill them. This has contributed to the terror the Rats felt when Trump won the election. It is this backlog that President Trump and the McConnel Senate has now mostly filled. This is the one Obama legacy that we can all be thankful for.
You are mostly correct. However, there is another fact at play.
Obam had 325 federal judges confirmed. George W. had 325 federal judges confirmed.
Both 8 year presidencies of different parties.
I think McConnell intentionally kept those figures even. He was in charge of the senate for tge last two years of Obama’s presidency. And there is a lot of liberal gnashing of teeth at the slowdown of confirmations. But they never mention the intentional slowdown and outright obstruction during the Bush years.
But in any case, Trump and conservatism are reaping the judicial benefits!
They were sailing along nicely then slowed way down. They need to revoke blue slips for district court judges too then ram scores of them through every month until we are caught up. There are still some Circuit Court nominations to confirm too.
Essentially nothing has been done since early September and it doesn't look like there's any momentum to get the job done this year...
Beginning to resemble a political-hostage situation...
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