Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:44 PM
EricMaundry (1,619 posts)
McConnell: Democrats need to grow up and let Trump nominees get confirmed
Source: Washington Post
Republicans are vowing to press ahead with confirmation hearings this week for Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees despite the concerns of a federal watchdog that their complex backgrounds are slowing required ethics reviews. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday that there are no plans to alter a packed confirmation calendar, but he vowed that no nominee will earn an up-or-down vote until the requisite background checks are completed by the FBI and a federal ethics office. “The Democrats are really frustrated that they lost the election,” he told CBS’s “Face the Nation,” adding that he was in a similar situation eight years ago when President Obama took office. “What did we do? We confirmed seven Cabinet appointments the day President Obama was sworn in. We didn’t like most of them, either. But he won the election,” McConnell said. “So all of these little procedural complaints are related to their frustration at having not only lost the White House, but having lost the Senate. I understand that. But we need to, sort of, grow up here and get past that.” Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mcconnell-democrats-need-to-grow-up-and-let-trump-nominees-get-confirmed/2017/01/08/06f97628-d5c6-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html Considering some of the people the Tang Baboon nominated, hell should freeze over before they are confirmed.
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EricMaundry | Jan 2017 | OP |
oldtime dfl_er | Jan 2017 | #1 | |
lastlib | Jan 2017 | #25 | |
47of74 | Jan 2017 | #2 | |
tenorly | Jan 2017 | #6 | |
cstanleytech | Jan 2017 | #3 | |
bdamomma | Jan 2017 | #23 | |
The Velveteen Ocelot | Jan 2017 | #4 | |
saidsimplesimon | Jan 2017 | #5 | |
oldtime dfl_er | Jan 2017 | #15 | |
TeamPooka | Jan 2017 | #7 | |
Liberalagogo | Jan 2017 | #8 | |
notdarkyet | Jan 2017 | #40 | |
annabanana | Jan 2017 | #9 | |
Thor_MN | Jan 2017 | #10 | |
MurrayDelph | Jan 2017 | #11 | |
oldtime dfl_er | Jan 2017 | #16 | |
bucolic_frolic | Jan 2017 | #12 | |
turbinetree | Jan 2017 | #13 | |
ffr | Jan 2017 | #14 | |
FreeStateDemocrat | Jan 2017 | #17 | |
bdamomma | Jan 2017 | #18 | |
Blue Idaho | Jan 2017 | #19 | |
Rex | Jan 2017 | #20 | |
andym | Jan 2017 | #21 | |
Grey Lemercier | Jan 2017 | #22 | |
AgadorSparticus | Jan 2017 | #50 | |
roamer65 | Jan 2017 | #24 | |
tecelote | Jan 2017 | #26 | |
jmowreader | Jan 2017 | #27 | |
jehop61 | Jan 2017 | #31 | |
jmowreader | Jan 2017 | #33 | |
smirkymonkey | Jan 2017 | #28 | |
bucolic_frolic | Jan 2017 | #29 | |
tavernier | Jan 2017 | #30 | |
DinahMoeHum | Jan 2017 | #32 | |
coco22 | Jan 2017 | #34 | |
Gothmog | Jan 2017 | #35 | |
ehrnst | Jan 2017 | #36 | |
bucolic_frolic | Jan 2017 | #37 | |
Retrograde | Jan 2017 | #38 | |
tarheelsunc | Jan 2017 | #39 | |
davsand | Jan 2017 | #41 | |
NNadir | Jan 2017 | #42 | |
AgadorSparticus | Jan 2017 | #43 | |
Sunlei | Jan 2017 | #47 | |
AgadorSparticus | Jan 2017 | #49 | |
Retrograde | Jan 2017 | #52 | |
yuiyoshida | Jan 2017 | #44 | |
Sunlei | Jan 2017 | #45 | |
Sunlei | Jan 2017 | #46 | |
harun | Jan 2017 | #48 | |
brutus smith | Jan 2017 | #51 |
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:45 PM
oldtime dfl_er (6,784 posts)
1. FU
send him some more turtle food.
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Response to oldtime dfl_er (Reply #1)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 06:12 PM
lastlib (19,747 posts)
25. Proceed with self-fornication, Turtle-Face!
With a chain-saw.
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:45 PM
47of74 (18,470 posts)
2. Fornicate You Mitch McConnell
No, we actually remember what you did you racist piece of shit.
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Response to 47of74 (Reply #2)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:52 PM
tenorly (2,037 posts)
6. Him, and his narco in-laws.
https://www.thenation.com/article/mitch-mcconnells-freighted-ties-shadowy-shipping-company/
Talk about being above the law. Can you imagine if Harry Reid or Chuck Schumer had even one tenth as much dirt!?! |
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:50 PM
cstanleytech (23,917 posts)
3. I have a counter proposal Mitch, how about the Dems show Trumps the same level of respect you
and your party showed President Obamas?
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Response to cstanleytech (Reply #3)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:46 PM
bdamomma (61,539 posts)
23. this is coming from a man
who wanted President Obama to serve only one term..what a smug man.
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:51 PM
The Velveteen Ocelot (100,716 posts)
4. Look, Turtle Boy, these aren't "just little procedural complaints."
There's a statute that requires these ethical background checks to be done. What's the point of having hearings now if the ethics reviews turn up all manner of unsavory conflicts of interest (which, in the case of some of these dickbags, is entirely possible)? Won't it be embarrassing for the GOP to have to withdraw a nominee who turns out to have a festering heap of sleazy conflicts of interest problems? It's pretty obvious they want to limit public scrutiny of their corrupt stooges.
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:51 PM
saidsimplesimon (7,849 posts)
5. reminds me of this response
"You are in the courtroom of world opinion. You have denied they exist, and I want to know if I understood you correctly. I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room!”
Adlai E. Stevenson |
Response to saidsimplesimon (Reply #5)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:26 PM
oldtime dfl_er (6,784 posts)
15. that is
friggin beautiful
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:02 PM
TeamPooka (20,828 posts)
7. That's a very "If you're getting raped, lay back and enjoy it" attitude. Fuck You Mitch.
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:06 PM
Liberalagogo (1,770 posts)
8. Your medicine, Mitch....
I don't believe you like the taste.
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Response to Liberalagogo (Reply #8)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:44 AM
notdarkyet (2,160 posts)
40. With what I gathered from Sunday morn shows (Joy),
The Obama transition team had all their paperwork for the nominees done. Herr frumpy team has not done their homework, but want a passing grade. Remember these people from school? Thought they were better than everyone else and wanted people like us to do it for them?
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:12 PM
annabanana (52,791 posts)
9. six ways from Sunday he should get
fucked
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:13 PM
Thor_MN (11,843 posts)
10. Yeah, nothing should hold up nominations, the Muricans won't stand up for for it.
Listen, Mitchy, you hypocritical piece of turtle shit. You took almost a fucking year to NOT do your job to hold one fricking confirmation hearing, now you want to do SEVEN in one day? Fuck off, the people DID speak and 3 million more say that you got it wrong. It takes as long as it takes. Get your sorry ass nominees to fill out their damn applications, in full, give us a couple months to see what the hell they have left out and lied about, then we will have us some investigations, special hearings, spend millions of dollars dragging our heels and then we will get back to you in, oh about, 4 and half years to tell you to fuck off.
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:14 PM
MurrayDelph (4,797 posts)
11. Mitch McConnell needs to get kicked in the balls so hard that
a) His turtle head retracts back into his shell,
or b) The pointy tip of the cowboy boot that did it are sticking out of his mush-mouth. |
Response to MurrayDelph (Reply #11)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:27 PM
oldtime dfl_er (6,784 posts)
16. I like this response
more than I think I should.
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:15 PM
bucolic_frolic (32,777 posts)
12. Is it 'fair' to 'win' a tainted election?
Trump's criteria, oft repeated: 'fair'
Was it 'fair', Donnie Boy? |
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:18 PM
turbinetree (22,981 posts)
13. Reminds me of how a turtle stuck his head in his shell
and decided along with Grassley and others, to deny a sitting president the opportunity to debate and vote on a U.S. Supreme Court Judge, so in closing turtle---------------------------f**k you and the horse you road in on---------------does this sound grown-up, I really hope not, you should be under f***ing indictment for treason
![]() So again FU and the horse you road in on---------------how's the turtle food? Do you remember your comments on people having it "to good" on "Food Stamps, or Social Security, here's a reminder t an ass**** making $225,000 a years working for the Koch's brothers, Art Pope and others http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/mitch-mcconnell-businesses-suffer-because-people-are-doing-too-good-with-food-stamps/ |
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:22 PM
ffr (21,458 posts)
14. ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
FU!
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:28 PM
FreeStateDemocrat (2,654 posts)
17. Get out the rubber stamp, the pukes are running the show, so why are they worried about us?
Are they afraid someone (anyone, please) will start asking questions and the steamroller might get stopped by public outrage.
Obviously, they are going to paint any effort at finding clarity in the nominees qualifications for office as being obstructionist to making 'merica great again for billionaires! |
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:31 PM
bdamomma (61,539 posts)
18. how about we all call
McConnell's office en masse and ask him what part did he play in to support this asshole.
Telling us and the Democratic party to move on they did this before and we had a war in IRAQ. Mr Mc Connell can fuck off. Well I just called his office can't leave messages. Could that be a good sign? |
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:35 PM
Blue Idaho (4,825 posts)
19. The last thing in the world Democrats need
Is a lecture on anything from Mitch Fucking McConnell.
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:36 PM
Rex (65,616 posts)
20. Who the fuck does McCokehead think we are? Republicans?
No fuckwad, some of us can still think for ourselves. We are not like GOPukers and just blindly follow orders!
Go fuck yourself. |
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:38 PM
andym (5,066 posts)
21. The same way Mitch put Justice Garland on the fast track for approval. nt.
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:44 PM
Grey Lemercier (1,429 posts)
22. a bedtime story for you, Mitch
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Response to Grey Lemercier (Reply #22)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 08:58 AM
AgadorSparticus (7,963 posts)
50. +1
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 05:56 PM
roamer65 (31,912 posts)
24. Let's play a game, Mitch.
It's called "Go hide and fuck yourself".
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 06:18 PM
tecelote (5,016 posts)
26. Democrats need to grow up?
We're having trouble speaking on a Pre-School level.
How about Trump growing up? |
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 06:39 PM
jmowreader (47,430 posts)
27. It would be convenient to just issue a flippant obscenity, but this calls for more than that
All right, it would be fun too. But I still won't.
Mitch McConnell was the leader of the obstructionist wing of the Republican Party during the presidency of Barack Obama. Obama, by and large, chose reasonable people to fill his administration - and McConnell's gang attempted to quash them all. Fast forward to now. Trump picked... a Secretary of State with so many foreign entanglements - including ones with countries hostile to us, like Russia - that anything he does is going to run him into conflicts of interest an Energy Secretary who ran for president on a pledge to get rid of the Department he's been chosen to lead a Labor Secretary who hates workers and is trying to get rid of the ones he has an Education Secretary who despises public education a Defense Secretary who wants to be the next Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann an EPA Secretary who's aligned with the fossil fuel industry an Interior Secretary who almost got kicked out of the Navy for travel fraud a SBA chief with no knowledge of small business, except maybe the vendors who sell snacks and souvenirs at her wrestling matches a Transportation Secretary who is married to Mitch McConnell (and, as far as I know, is totally innocent of any knowledge of the commercial transport industry) an Attorney General whose only problem with the Ku Klux Klan revolves around the refreshments they serve at their meetings a Housing and Urban Development secretary who hates public housing assistance a Treasury Secretary who helped create the Great Recession a Chief Strategist who runs breitbart.com Shall I go on? I'd really like Trump to explain why he chose these people for the positions he did - especially Ben Carson, who says he doesn't want to work in government in the first place (which explains why he ran for president) and for whom there are two MUCH better positions - head of the FDA and Surgeon General. Did he choose all these people specifically because he knew they'd piss off the Democrats? If so, he needs to withdraw them all and replace them with people who might actually have some skill set running the agency in question. |
Response to jmowreader (Reply #27)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 06:52 PM
jehop61 (1,735 posts)
31. His wife is well acquainted
with commercial transportation. Her family owns one of the largest Chinese owned shipping companies in the world! No conflict there
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Response to jehop61 (Reply #31)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 07:05 PM
jmowreader (47,430 posts)
33. My dad was a surveyor, which doesn't mean I know how to run a transit
I looked at her bio on Wikipedia, and it appears she knows banking pretty well - but all she knows about transportation is being the agency head.
I guess it's too much to ask for another Deborah Hersman (the NTSB administrator with a commercial driver's license, who grew up investigating train derailments) but you'd think we'd get someone in any of these agencies who want to do something more with them than padlock the door. |
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 06:41 PM
smirkymonkey (63,221 posts)
28. No Mitch, Republicans need to grow the fuck up and stop playing games.
You stupid fucking ugly turtle.
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 06:45 PM
bucolic_frolic (32,777 posts)
29. Some of the worst 100 days in American History
if not world history
These people, like Trump, know no boundaries Political Borderline Personality Disorder |
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 06:49 PM
tavernier (10,494 posts)
30. Be careful your offspring don't grow up speaking Russian
thanks to your efforts, Comrade Meech.
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 07:04 PM
DinahMoeHum (20,709 posts)
32. "Grow up"? You first, Turtle Face
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 07:20 PM
coco22 (1,258 posts)
34. MCConnell...
KISS OUR ASSES YOU LYING HYPOCRITICAL POS!!!
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 07:40 PM
Gothmog (113,313 posts)
35. These nominees have not filled out their paperwork
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 08:41 PM
ehrnst (32,640 posts)
36. Spit take....
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 11:05 PM
bucolic_frolic (32,777 posts)
37. The Rush to Judgment indicates they are terrified of the resistance and the hacking aftermath
Don't let them break you - resist all you can
They are trying to create a stampede effect - just like they tried for Romney in 2012 as he led all the polls, and for Sniffles and coverup the hacking, which I suspect we don't know the half of it Don't ever believe them --- all news is #FAKE NEWS now, designed to promote worship for the #FAKE |
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 11:44 PM
Retrograde (8,549 posts)
38. Projecting much, Mitch? (n/t)
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:08 AM
tarheelsunc (2,116 posts)
39. Sure, just as long as Merrick Garland is confirmed first. eom
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:00 AM
davsand (13,340 posts)
41. Mitch needs to go shit in his hat, too. I'll be here waiting.
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:42 AM
NNadir (29,577 posts)
42. Live by the sword, die by the sword you traitor supporting idiot.
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:50 AM
AgadorSparticus (7,963 posts)
43. Wtf. Is Mitch McConnell losing his mind or what?!?!!!
Grow up?!?!! What is he...regressing into a neophyte legislator? Why the fuck is he talking like that? Quit hanging out with dumbasses like Donald. You lose IQ that way. When you confirmed 8 nominees for Obama, were they vetted? I bet they were. Nice try, though. No cigar for you.
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Response to AgadorSparticus (Reply #43)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 07:11 AM
Sunlei (22,651 posts)
47. Mitch McConnells wife is one of the 'trump picks'? Ds better question her connections in russia.
how many contacts and who?
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Response to Sunlei (Reply #47)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 08:40 AM
AgadorSparticus (7,963 posts)
49. Yes! I bet he and a few others are eyeball deep in this Russian mess.
Response to Sunlei (Reply #47)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 04:46 PM
Retrograde (8,549 posts)
52. Payback for keeping Garland off the Supreme Court?
Proof? Why do I need proof? I'm going to tar Republicans by innuendo, like they seem fond of doing.
Her appointment is payback for something - it's the way Trump operates. |
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 04:01 AM
yuiyoshida (38,288 posts)
44. Translation:
"Democrats need to GET OVER IT like they did in 2000 when We stomped on their face, by cheating. "
あなたにファック くたばれ! きさま |
Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 06:46 AM
Sunlei (22,651 posts)
45. In 2009 McConnell demanded Obamas nominees complete everything first & they did. There is a letter.
Of course Obamas transition was much quicker. They finished weeks before the 1/20 date because Obamas team was prepared well in advance.
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Response to Sunlei (Reply #45)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 06:59 AM
Sunlei (22,651 posts)
46. Heres copy of the 2009 demand letter from McConnell.
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 07:17 AM
harun (11,282 posts)
48. Hope Dem's work as hard to nominate Trump's picks as the GOP worked
on nominating Obama's Supreme Court pick.
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Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 09:23 AM
brutus smith (685 posts)
51. Schumer should get on 1st thing this morning
and tell turtle and the rest of the repubs to GFYS. Then show his letter from 2009 demanding Obama's picks be vetted. Quit letting repubs control the narrative.
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