Ahem. The rush to confirm the hideous, madness-inducing concatenation of eldritch abominations that constitutes Donald Trump's cabinet nominees took an ugly (or uglier) turn Wednesday, when Utah Senator Orrin Hatch responded to Democrats' procedural maneuvering with the Senatorial equivalent of flipping over the table when you don't like the way the game is going. Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee had boycotted the committee's hearing Tuesday, denying the committee a quorum, so it had to delay a vote on sending to the full Senate the nominations of Steven Mnuchin for Secretary of the Treasury and Tom Price for Secretary of Health and Human Services. So when Dems boycotted the rescheduled meeting again Wednesday morning, Hatch, the Republican chair of the committee, said the hell with it and
Just so long as he doesn't ask us to back him with political support and troops when he invades Mexico. I'm okay with his getting a bit brusque with Malcolm Turnbull, but that would be going too far.
Not in the federal government. They have majorities in Congress and have the presidency. They are courting revolution by abusing their bare majority to ignore legitimate Democratic concerns.
And they did it again today - Senate Environment and Public Works Committee suspends rules, pushes Trump's EPA nominee to full vote without Democratic participation.
Shhhh..We don't want them to be shy about that pulling out the stops
They have interest in the law to the extent that they are the law
Its gonna be rough, but I have faith this will yieled to the better of history in time
https://youtu.be/crARnAJv1EM
THEY are the minority, though.
A lot of them didn't get a chance to vote. They had been deleted from the electoral rolls on a bullshit pretext before they even knew about it.
Just so long as he doesn't ask us to back him with political support and troops when he invades Mexico. I'm okay with his getting a bit brusque with Malcolm Turnbull, but that would be going too far.
YES YES YES!!! I forgot about them!, also too those who were eligible to vote but couldn't because of technical road blocks SHAME ON ME (for reelz).
Not in the federal government. They have majorities in Congress and have the presidency. They are courting revolution by abusing their bare majority to ignore legitimate Democratic concerns.
Wow, that deescalated quickly.
And they did it again today - Senate Environment and Public Works Committee suspends rules, pushes Trump's EPA nominee to full vote without Democratic participation.
This was posted in the wrong thread, so I'm moving it to the RIGHT place. Sorry. :-(
I think you mean do A job.
Grossest orgy ever!
The GOP Congressfolk are criminals. If they don't abide by rule of law, it's time stopped doing so, too.
It's not hypothetical. 'Saving it for some stupid, future fucking.'