I think Murkowski and Collins are the ones who are holding this up. Unfortunately, they control the swing votes. Without them, he is probably not confirmable.
Collins on board. I think it’s down to Flakey and MurCowSki.
and flake..
the reason there has not been a vote is because the votes are not there.
“think Murkowski and Collins are the ones who are holding this up. Unfortunately, they control the swing votes. Without them, he is probably not confirmable.”
Murkowski and Collins need to told unambiguously that they will be removed from all Senate committees, no money allocated to their pet projects in their states in spending bills while they are in office, and that no party money will be spent on the reelection campaigns.
And that is what a LOT of Freepers don't seem to understand. They keep saying Grassley should VOTE NOW VOTE NOW but they don't get that he's walking a tightrope. If he does that and the three idiots vote no...then we end up with no judge.
And UNFORTUNATELY, we don't have a majority leader with a pair and a spine who knows how to punish those who get out of line like the democrats do. If Turtle knew what he was doing, he would pull the two that were going to be here in 2019 aside and say "look, stop this nonsense now and vote yes, or I will put you as a junior member on the worst sub-committee I can think of and give you two the office with all the rats! You'll think you've died and gone to hell!"
But he won't...because we don't have a real leader.