GOP jams Senate Dems with confirmation blitz

[highplainsdem]

Source: Politico

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s conference has scheduled six Cabinet-level confirmations hearings for next Wednesday, Jan. 11, the same day the chamber will likely slog through an all-night vote-a-rama on a budget and the president-elect will give his first press conference in six months.

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Republicans insist their intention is not to obscure the confirmation hearings for cabinet nominees amid a flurry of political activity. But the net result will likely be too many events for comprehensive news coverage — and it may tank Senate Democrats’ long-planned strategy to systematically attack Trump’s cabinet and wound the Republican Party.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has personally urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) not to schedule simultaneous hearings on Trump’s selections, warning that such a move would test the new relationship between the two leaders. But the GOP ignored the entreaty by scheduling the attorney general, secretary of state, CIA director, education secretary, homeland security chief and transportation secretary all for the same day.

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But Republicans are standing firm, refusing to back down to Democrats’ requests to move some of the hearings to different days. The GOP says the calls for delay are a transparent attempt by Democrats to slow down the confirmation process and isolate individual nominees with negative publicity. Don Stewart, a spokesman for McConnell, said "Sen. Schumer is not satisfied with precedent and best practices."

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/senate-confirmation-trump-cabinet-nominees-233247

[Raster]

1. Good ol' Comrade McConnell...

...just need that extra wifey income to balance their checkbook.

[Chasstev365]

2. Mitch McConnell needs to be arrested

He is a mockery to our democracy and our system of checks and balances.

[bdamomma]

3. McConnell is a weasel

no offense to weasels. He is guilty and trying so hard not have his a$$ in a sling.

Definitely watch out for him.

[cstanleytech]

8. Sadly thats not a crime you can be arrested for in this country or atleast

not yet though I wouldnt be surprised if the GOP would try to pass and use such a law if they thought it would help them maintain their power like their gerrymandering has done.

[dionysus]

10. What's with allbthese falls tonarrest political enemies? Being a douchebag is not criminal.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Don't back down; don't compromise; don't collaborate. NT

[n2doc]

5. I hope the Dems throw every possible procedural slowdown they can into it

Every possible one. If the repubs wish to be assholes, then we can too.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. You can see the desperation in their actions

They're afraid it may yet meet significant resistance

You can feel the mood in the country, in the stock market,
in the people you talk to, in the stores. I'm seeing hesitation in
spending, doubts about what is going on. This is a power grab.

The more we push back and the sooner we do it, the better it will be.

Twitter is on fire with doubt, at least the people I follow.

[hibbing]

7. Keep the faith

Because I no longer have any. The legacy of the New Deal, ACA and much more are gone. One thing I do have faith in is many Democrats voting for even lower tax rates for the ruling class.

I wish I had your optimism in terms of influencing the process, but that ended on election night.


Peace

[cstanleytech]

9. Aye the Dems and everyone need to be as vocal about this as when the GOP tried to get rid

of the ethics oversight so that they could have a clear shot at well..........being more unethical.