Posted on 10/04/2020 8:30:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s not been a good 24 hours for Republicans.
First, Donald Trump tweeted he had tested positive for COVID-19. Then, in rapid succession, several other White House aides reported positive tests, including Kellyanne Conway and campaign manager Bill Stepien.
If that weren’t bad enough, three Republican senators have reported positive coronavirus tests in the last 24 hours, with the latest being Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. Previously, North Carolina’s Thom Tillis and Utah’s Mike Lee also tested positive. All of them will go into quarantine for at least two weeks.
What does that do to the timeline to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Barrett’s nomination will go forward as scheduled.
McConnell, who was interviewed on Hugh Hewitt’s radio program, said the Senate Judiciary Committee will take additional precautions as it moves forward with the confirmation process for Barrett.
“The plan is for the nomination to come out of the committee on October the 22nd as Chairman Lindsey Graham has indicated, and we will be voting on the nominee very soon,” McConnell said. “I haven’t picked an exact point to bring the nomination up. But it is front and center for the American people. As we move ahead I will be more specific on the precise time on the Senate floor.”
Judiciary Committee hearings are scheduled to begin on October 12.
But if any of those senators who tested positive become ill, that could lengthen their quarantine indefinitely. Any delay would make confirming Barrett problematic. A vote delayed until after the election would be a crapshoot and McConnell knows it. With two GOP senators — Collins and Murkowski — already on record saying that they believe whoever is elected on November 3 should choose the nominee,
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This is just what the Rats wanted. It’s looking more and more like something sinister has gone down in order to delay the vote on her confirmation.
China didn’t force lockdowns here
Their Commie proxies did
How about we just lie down and take whatever the Chinese can dump on us?
Is that what you want?
I say we’ve had enough of this nonsense!
How many democrats have been infected?
Old age is not contagious, coronavirus is.
MANY, MANY people have passed from the flu and pneumonia!!!
Like.
China started the hysteria. Their agenda was to make everyone afraid to the point of losing rational thought!
True, but that wouldn’t matter to the dems as long as their agenda was passed. And, if someone caught the virus, too bad, so sad.
You started down this road with your, "it's just a cold comment".
I responded with an account to illustrate it's not "just a cold".
Then you remotely diagnosed her case by some miracle without knowing one fact of the case.
You want to be the expert on a case you know nothing of.
Hence my reason for saying you might want to change your screen name.
Then your wittle fweelings were hurt....boo, hoo, hoo.
Man up.
Yep....we’ve had enough of YOUR nonsense.
The Chinese have proven themselves to be nothing but lowlifes!
They can’t put a few brain cells together and come up with their own technology, so they steal it from us.
Then Trump comes along and shows how things are done, they have a little hissy fit and pull out their stupid little virus and scare everyone with their lies!
Actually They can have a floor vote without a committee vote.
And it doesn’t have to be a simultaneous vote on the floor so if a yes vote is fighting off the virus they can vote with the room cleared. Point being if Mitch is determined to get the vote done it will be. But I see no determination or urgency whatsoever from the Turtle. None.
I agree with you completely the hysteria created over this has allowed these bastards to control us!! I thought the American people had more courage and fight in them than this! I have to say I am very disappointed!! Americans in general have let the media drain the courage from them, drain common sense from them and TAKE FREEDOM from them!!
You need to stop giving in to the Chinese!!
Where is your patriotism?
And why do you melt down so easily, and then project it on to me?
Are you a deep state operative?
There you go, finally an actual patriot joins the conversation!
LOL!!!!
Now, run along back to your safe space.
RE: How many democrats have been infected?
Not any PROMINENT politician that I know of.
Put him in a “space suit” and bring him to the vote.
Senator Ron Johnson can waltz in the the Senate floor and vote on the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation.
To hell with coronavirus!
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