pacino wrote:i would imagine he actually wouldn't give a shit how he gets on the Court as long as he gets there

drsmooth wrote:

pacino wrote:i would imagine he actually wouldn't give a #$!&@ how he gets on the Court as long as he gets there

squeaking in forever makes you That Guy Who Squeaked In. Pretty sure he, & others, gives a #$!&@

drsmooth wrote:I'd imagine Gorsuch, along with his would-be SC colleagues, would prefer he were confirmed by 60+ vs "nuked in" to the court. His "disheartenment" and "demoralization" may partly be calculated to win dem sympathies. Let's see if during the next few weeks he takes further steps to pass himself off as RBG's long-lost son

Representatives for Tester and Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) wouldn’t say on Monday whether the lawmakers had decided to back Sessions. Voting no would put them at odds with groups such as the National Rifle Association, which said it will include the Sessions confirmation vote in its voter scorecard next year.

Fairfax, Va.— The National Rifle Association today issued the following statement from Chris W. Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), applauding the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Sen. Jeff Sessions as the 84th attorney general of the United States:

“The NRA and our five million members would like to congratulate Jeff Sessions on his confirmation as attorney general. He will make America a safer place by prosecuting violent criminals while protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners."

The U.S. Senate confirmed Attorney General Sessions by a bipartisan 52 to 47 vote.

pacino wrote:Republicans dislike Warren and thus thinks the public does, too
timely article!

pacino wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

pacino wrote:i would imagine he actually wouldn't give a #$!&@ how he gets on the Court as long as he gets there

squeaking in forever makes you That Guy Who Squeaked In. Pretty sure he, & others, gives a #$!&@

his vote will be no less valid. it may matter if he attends cocktail parties, i guess.

The Dude wrote:

drsmooth wrote:I'd imagine Gorsuch, along with his would-be SC colleagues, would prefer he were confirmed by 60+ vs "nuked in" to the court. His "disheartenment" and "demoralization" may partly be calculated to win dem sympathies. Let's see if during the next few weeks he takes further steps to pass himself off as RBG's long-lost son

This crossed my mind too. Saying what he did to a Dem really seems like a calculated move, bc he knew it would get out

Roger Dorn wrote:Well yeah I mean I'm convinced we are heading towards suspended elections in 4 years. This is the beginning of an autocracy.

Mr. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican and the majority leader, says he and his Senate Republican colleagues are quite satisfied with the Trump team so far. In fact, he said, they are reassured by signs that President Trump is going to hew to a conservative agenda after early fears that the president — a relatively unknown quantity to most elected Republicans — might not really be one of them.

“The country doesn’t need saving,” Mr. McConnell said when asked during an interview in his Capitol office if there was any cause for a senior-level congressional intervention given early chaos in the evolving West Wing.

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He added: “No matter what sort of theatrics that go on around the administration, if you look at the decisions that are being made, they are solid — from our perspective — right-of-center things that we would have hoped a new Republican president would have done.”

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“It is the kind of thing we would have expected of one of the others, had they been nominated and elected,” Mr. McConnell said, referring to Republican presidential candidates defeated by Mr. Trump who had more conventional political and government backgrounds.