Joe DiGenova 3-19-18 Possibly the last segment since he now has a job.
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March 19, 2018, 05:31 PM
sdy
In Missouri, Republican Josh Hawley has declared his candidacy for the REP nomination for the 2018 Missouri senate seat. Hawley is the current AG of Missouri.
DEM Claire McCaskill is the current senator who will be running for reelection in Nov 2018.
Hawley put up this ad to use Clinton's India rant against McCaskill.
On Friday Marc Short, the administration’s Director of Legislative Affairs, joined Sarah Sanders at a White House press briefing. He laid out the facts regarding the Democrats’ unprecedented obstructionism:
The Senate, obviously, has the constitutional responsibility for advice and consent. So what that looks like in real life is the President selects a nominee, they then undergo an entire FBI background check, they work with the Office of Government Ethics to de-conflict financial issues — and that’s a process that takes a good amount of time, a good amount of resources.
Only then, after cleared through an FBI background check and the Office of Government Ethics, is a nominee submitted to the United States Senate. When they get to the Senate, they go through several additional evaluations, including meetings with staff, meetings with the members on both sides of the aisle. The nominee then undergoes a hearing and the committee then votes on the nominee to get out of that committee.
At that point, the nominee moves to the Senate floor for full confirmation. Traditionally, the Senate routinely confirms the administration’s nominees once out of committee. It is there to respect the will of the American people and the election for an administration to fill out its roles under a new President. Instead, what Senator Schumer has done is to require cloture votes to essentially slow down the process and to obstruct.
At this point, in the past four administrations combined — the last four administrations — the Senate had conducted 17 cloture votes combined; cloture vote, in essence, being a filibuster on a nominee. Seventeen cloture votes in the last four administrations combined, at this point.
Today, the Senate has had 79 cloture votes in the first 14 months of our administration.
Seventeen, over the last four administrations, versus seventy-nine in the first 14 months of our administration. That is roughly five times the number of the last four administrations combined.
If a cloture vote is demanded (i.e., the Democrats filibuster), under Senate rules there must be 30 hours of debate. Which means that the Senate grinds to a halt
Senator Schumer is essentially weaponizing a Senate procedure and demanding cloture votes on our nominees that he even eventually supports. Eleven of the President’s nominees have been approved without a single dissenting vote, yet still forced to go through a 30-hours of debate to essentially slow down the Senate calendar simply for the purpose of obstruction. Even Senate Democrats have begun to call this out and to say it is getting to the point of ridiculous.
At this rate, the United States Senate would take eleven and a half years to confirm our nominees. Eleven and a half years to confirm our nominees.
March 20, 2018, 09:09 AM
benny6
quote:
Originally posted by sdy: Mitch McConnell needs to solve this problem:
No, he needs to WANT to solve this problem. Old turtle head is a real swamp creature.
When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed. Luke 11:21
"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." -- George W. Bush
March 20, 2018, 06:56 PM
clipper1
Mitch McConnell IS the problem.
March 20, 2018, 07:45 PM
TigerDore
quote:
Originally posted by benny6: No, he needs to WANT to solve this problem. Old turtle head is a real swamp creature.
Yes, he is a swamp creature.
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March 20, 2018, 07:45 PM
JALLEN
So if McConnell steps to the microphone tomorrow and says, “The bitchers and moaners in SigForum are right, so I am stepping down as majority leader. I hope we can all support the new guy.”
What does new new guy do? The same cats to herd on his side, the same God Damned Commies in the same seats on the other side.
What does he do to start getting things your way?
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
March 20, 2018, 08:13 PM
erj_pilot
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Asks Harry Reid how to cheat, lie, and play hard ball?
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
March 20, 2018, 08:20 PM
justjoe
quote:
The bitchers and moaners in SigForum
I guess I am one. So, if I, and others here, are pissed at the RINOs who constantly undermine President Trump and the agenda that propelled him to the presidency-- we're "bitchers and moaners"?
"You get much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone."
March 20, 2018, 08:45 PM
Shifferbrains
The Republican's need to pull their heads outta their asses soon, or they very well might get beaten badly in November. I certainly freaking hope not, but damn, they are not living up to their promises.
March 20, 2018, 08:53 PM
mbinky
What would a new majority leader do? No idea. But I'm willing to try. When the person in charge can't get the job done, he cannot be in charge anymore. That's how the real world works.
What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? Time for Mitch to let someone else take on the Schumer.
March 20, 2018, 10:12 PM
JALLEN
Who choses the Majority Leader?
The Senators of his party, not Trump.
He has to find a way to make 51 Senators do the work of 60.
Even if McConnell was the smoothest, most persuasive fellow in history, he would have a hard time against Schumer. Schumer has 49 Senators to do the work of 40, and they are highly motivated to resist Trump.
I remember when many Senators voted their regional interest, no matter what the party wanted. Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana Senators voted for the energy needs, the Carolinas watched out for tobacco, the plains had the farm interests, southerners voted against civil rights, no matter what the party wanted.
No more. Party line votes are almost required. Nose counting is a fine art, so if they have some wiggle room, a Senator who has a problem can “vote his conscience” on a bill without ruining the party desired outcome. All too often.
Let’s put ~60 Senators in McConnell’s corner and see what a genius he turns out to be.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
March 20, 2018, 10:28 PM
bozman
Change the fucking rules and go nuclear!
If the republicans do not do it, the dems will as soon as they regain power.
Fuck the 60 vote rule, for everything.
The "Boz"
March 20, 2018, 11:57 PM
sdy
I would think the 30 hours of debate should be dramatically reduced, given that the DEMs are obviously abusing it. Make it 4 hours.
Also McConnell should push to keep the senate working as much as possible. If the DEMs are just plain being obstructionists, as they are, then give them a few 7 days a week sessions.
March 21, 2018, 05:08 AM
nhtagmember
make it 30 minutes and call a vote
you can have your 30 hours
it starts at midnight and ends at 6AM the next day
talk, don't talk
you got your 30 hours
next
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March 21, 2018, 05:47 AM
mbinky
The problem is the democrats play to win. The republicans don't even understand the game. (Or they agree with the democrats, which is more likely).
March 21, 2018, 07:03 AM
Veeper
quote:
I remember when many Senators voted their regional interest, no matter what the party wanted. Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana Senators voted for the energy needs, the Carolinas watched out for tobacco, the plains had the farm interests, southerners voted against civil rights, no matter what the party wanted.
You were alive before the 17th was ratified?
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