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GOP Led Senate Confirms Loretta Lynch To Be Attorney General
Mitch McConnell could have reinstated the filibuster to stop her. He didn't. Mitch McConnell could have refused to bring her nomination to the floor. He didn't. So, what did Mitch McConnell do? He voted for her confirmation.GOP "yes" votes: Ayotte, Cochran, Collins, Flake, Graham, hosta, Johnson, Kirk, McConnell, and Portman. https://t.co/zX9yBsCx6S
— dan holler (@danholler) April 23, 2015This is who those Republicans think is qualified to be Attorney General of the United States of America.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Gomer Pyle at April 23, 2015 02:10 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Emperor Clusterfuck I at April 23, 2015 02:11 PM (YFFpo)
Posted by: El oh El at April 23, 2015 02:12 PM (XpAxm)
Posted by: John McCain at April 23, 2015 02:12 PM (pi/11)
Posted by: Old Hob at April 23, 2015 02:12 PM (Lp6I1)
Posted by: brainpimp at April 23, 2015 02:12 PM (zosQc)
Posted by: Time for a beat down at April 23, 2015 02:13 PM (agXt1)
(hehehe, you dumbasses)
Posted by: Teh GOPe at April 23, 2015 02:13 PM (8hctH)
I'm DONE with the GOP
Posted by: evil_bun_bun at April 23, 2015 02:13 PM (FTXzR)
Posted by: Old Hob at April 23, 2015 02:14 PM (Lp6I1)
/
bwa ha ahahahahahhahahahahaahahhahhahha
breathes....
ahshhhahahhhhahahahahhahaha
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 02:14 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Super Creepy Eric Hoteham at April 23, 2015 02:14 PM (oDCMR)
Posted by: Nip Sip at April 23, 2015 02:14 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 02:14 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: SMOD at April 23, 2015 02:15 PM (G4aHK)
Posted by: McConnel Doctrine at April 23, 2015 02:15 PM (/6xrQ)
John Bolton, absolutely well inside the boundaries of "mainstream" nominees for the post in question - UN Ambassador - was stymied, without remorse, by the Senate Dems.
Paul Wolfowitz, a very accomplished and serious (and even squishy on the edges in some ways, which will surprise many) was lynched (outside the Senate process) when he might have brought some common sense to the World Bank.
In Clinton's first term, a couple of his nominees - nothing special but not ridiculously corrupt or stupid, as Obama's nominees often are - self-destructed over what would now be seen as peccadilloes (sp?). Quickly. Without any really unreasonable media frenzy or partisan skulduggery.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2015 02:15 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: One Iron MacGuffin at April 23, 2015 02:15 PM (NjX7M)
Posted by: Old Hob at April 23, 2015 02:16 PM (Lp6I1)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 23, 2015 02:17 PM (fWAjv)
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at April 23, 2015 02:17 PM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 23, 2015 02:17 PM (fWAjv)
Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at April 23, 2015 02:17 PM (evdj2)
Scum and bottom feeders.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 23, 2015 02:17 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Golfman at April 23, 2015 02:18 PM (uivt4)
Posted by: Dan Quayle at April 23, 2015 02:18 PM (G4aHK)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2015 02:18 PM (1deOB)
Same with Pataki. Well-positioned favorite son candidacies are always about something, more often about the VP slot or the like. But this cycle might - might - actually make securing some chips for a brokered convention a non-insane prudential move.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2015 02:18 PM (afQnV)
I genuinely believe this country is essentially over. It is something else now, and whatever it is, it needs to self-destruct or be destroyed for us to get back to where it was and where it should be.
Posted by: Tommy V at April 23, 2015 02:18 PM (NBoRH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 23, 2015 02:18 PM (W5DcG)
THAT I am surprised by.... I thought it would be engineered to give more Rinos cover...
apparently... they just don't care what we think....
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 02:18 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2015 02:18 PM (2Ojst)
Posted by: Nip Sip at April 23, 2015 02:14 PM (0FSuD)
Sounded a lot better when MLK said it.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 23, 2015 02:18 PM (fWAjv)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 23, 2015 02:19 PM (kivUY)
1) Eternally block every nominee until Obama is out of office because every one of them is going to be a far left racist crank, the next likely worse than the previous one.
2) Pick this one because the job needs filling and they're all going to be awful
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 23, 2015 02:19 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at April 23, 2015 02:19 PM (zauWW)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 23, 2015 02:19 PM (kivUY)
Yeah, usual suspects.
If someone REALLY wanted to be a dick, they'd ask Rand to denounce or support his buddy Mitch over this one. (That's a weird relationship, borne of necessity I guess. Rand got Mitch re-elected.)
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 02:19 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: gracepmc at April 23, 2015 02:19 PM (xvd51)
The only chance I see for this country... is if the next election is a referendum on the Government itself... and its powers...
But the only one I see talking about that stuff is Ted Cruz...
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 02:20 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Super Creepy Eric Hoteham at April 23, 2015 02:20 PM (oDCMR)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 23, 2015 02:19 PM (kivUY)
----
close ..... sooooo close....
Posted by: The Barrel at April 23, 2015 02:20 PM (NaV4z)
Or 3) leave Holder in place. Yeah, he wants out, but fuck him. Better the asshole you know...
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 02:20 PM (AkOaV)
You don't think tee-off times like this just happen do you??
Posted by: Mitch 'Ninja Turtle Name: Mitch' McConnell at April 23, 2015 02:20 PM (DLu2s)
Posted by: steevy at April 23, 2015 02:20 PM (mGBKM)
Patience, I won the bid. Lowest bid.
Posted by: Yellowston Caldara at April 23, 2015 02:20 PM (S+el1)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 23, 2015 02:20 PM (wlDny)
Posted by: steevy at April 23, 2015 02:20 PM (mGBKM)
Posted by: Khruschev, Mao, and Stalin, Esq. at April 23, 2015 02:20 PM (sCHw2)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 23, 2015 02:20 PM (8ZskC)
What is the point of voting for these spineless a--holes? There isn't a single vertebra among the lot of them.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 23, 2015 02:20 PM (lmdHn)
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 02:20 PM (qh617)
This.
Posted by: Golfman at April 23, 2015 02:21 PM (uivt4)
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier
Perhaps after sixteen years of two female President Clintons you will have earned my mercy.
Posted by: SMOD at April 23, 2015 02:21 PM (G4aHK)
Posted by: flounder at April 23, 2015 02:21 PM (ecDRv)
So why did Mitch even put this up for a vote? Why not just sit on it? I'm sure he's sitting on lots of other stuff..
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 02:21 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Sharkman at April 23, 2015 02:21 PM (72D6h)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 23, 2015 02:21 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: LibertarianJim at April 23, 2015 02:22 PM (9TK8E)
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 02:21 PM (AkOaV)
Because Obama called him out in a Press conference last week on it...
And he F'n CAVED....
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 02:22 PM (qh617)
Ya.
Posted by: EphramKG36 at April 23, 2015 02:22 PM (gtXzt)
Flake. Pretty amazing how AZ - mostly sane on the state level, even better than that on some things like guns - has produced two fairly worthless senators. Flake's predecessor was, to me, a very smart and respectable guy who took his job seriously, even if he didn't always vote the right way. Like Sessions or Inhofe, not just "conservative" but smart serious people who worked hard to understand important issues and do something about them.
Ayotte. For some time a semi-lost cause, correct?
The way IL is going, who knows, maybe Kirk survives the next election? Classic case of fairly worthless (and it's more painful because there's no doubt he knows better on many issues) "better than the Dem" sort, but just barely, and in this case, not at all.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2015 02:23 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at April 23, 2015 02:23 PM (zauWW)
Posted by: John McCain, Card Carring Maverick at April 23, 2015 02:24 PM (TV9BR)
Posted by: nip at April 23, 2015 02:24 PM (a6Odp)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 23, 2015 02:24 PM (QyBQv)
Posted by: Mitch, 0Bama's Bitch at April 23, 2015 02:25 PM (sCHw2)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
It matters not. In the end there is only pain.
Posted by: SMOD at April 23, 2015 02:26 PM (G4aHK)
This is the final straw for me, as he is my senator.
He has gone from Tea Party candidate to I want to get along with Mitch the Bitch
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 23, 2015 02:26 PM (QyBQv)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 23, 2015 02:27 PM (HSmrB)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 23, 2015 02:27 PM (wlDny)
Posted by: eman at April 23, 2015 02:27 PM (drCV6)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at April 23, 2015 02:23 PM (zauWW)
Fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me.
Posted by: Ozzy (All my hate cannot be found) at April 23, 2015 02:27 PM (O9qtX)
Posted by: Accused pederast Harry Reid at April 23, 2015 02:28 PM (TV9BR)
Mcconnell conned us all. He's a democrat manchurian republican. He sucked up 2014 midterm money that could have gotten us more votes in NH, VA, and a few others.
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at April 23, 2015 02:29 PM (bCJvd)
Posted by: despair at April 23, 2015 02:29 PM (J6suc)
You take the brazen lawlessness explicitly endorsed by this nominee (illegal immigration) and make it the disqualifying issue, and oppose her (or make a stink about not even bringing the nomination to the floor).
You take no meaningful hits from people who would ever vote for you. You raise the profile on a key issue in which the broader electorate backs your position - by huge margins.
Same political/substantive logic applied to the DHSappropriations bill. This case, however, was even easier - no ridiculous bogus "shutdown" nonsense to deal with.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2015 02:29 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: John McCain, Card Carring Maverick at April 23, 2015 02:24 PM (TV9BR)
But you have a LOT to fear from us, mofo.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 23, 2015 02:30 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at April 23, 2015 02:29 PM (bCJvd)
Bullshit. Some of us tried to tell the rest exactly who he was.
Posted by: DrewM. at April 23, 2015 02:31 PM (2OdVw)
Another racist attorney general. Great.
Posted by: despair at April 23, 2015 02:29 PM (J6suc)
And sexist. It is going to be all sexism all the time for the evil lying, murderous, corrupt cunt AKA Hillary.
Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at April 23, 2015 02:32 PM (TV9BR)
endorsed by this nominee (illegal immigration) and make it the
disqualifying issue, and oppose her (or make a stink about not even
bringing the nomination to the floor).
You take no meaningful hits from people who would ever vote for you.
You raise the profile on a key issue in which the broader electorate
backs your position - by huge margins.
Same political/substantive logic applied to the DHSappropriations
bill. This case, however, was even easier - no ridiculous bogus
"shutdown" nonsense to deal with.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2015 02:29 PM (afQnV)
Exactly. Where are the Republicans shouting that this bitch is "far out of the mainstream," which she is, and refusing to vote for her? You know, the way the Reds treat a loyal American nominee.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 23, 2015 02:32 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Jay Guevara
****
please, "we" can't do nothing.
it's been proven. we must be insane to think we know what's right or wrong. 51 million illegals? whatever, good for country, obviously, that's why our leadership doesn't care obama breaking, ignoring the law.
we tried.
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at April 23, 2015 02:32 PM (bCJvd)
He really was the real deal at the start. Non-career pol with valuable real-world experience and success who was bringing some very basic common sense to the game.
Lends weight to the (still early) post-mortem that the Tea Party phenomenon was one of the last twitches of the dying body.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2015 02:32 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at April 23, 2015 02:33 PM (Sd++4)
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at April 23, 2015 02:29 PM (bCJvd)
Bullshit. Some of us tried to tell the rest exactly who he was.
***
but "we" don't matter.
I mean, unless GOP leadership is right, that Obama lame duck session is still too powerful of a historicly popular juggernaut to be stopped. don't want to lose moderates. etc etc.
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at April 23, 2015 02:33 PM (bCJvd)
They couldn't muster 29 Republicans to vote against Boner. That's the upper limit on the number of conservatives in Congress. A half dozen is more likely. Our agenda IS NOT their agenda.
Posted by: despair at April 23, 2015 02:33 PM (J6suc)
So we don't get screwed by the democrats getting everything they want?
Yeah.
Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at April 23, 2015 02:34 PM (TV9BR)
**do tell
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at April 23, 2015 02:34 PM (bCJvd)
Posted by: NCwoof at April 23, 2015 02:34 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: Your GOPe at April 23, 2015 02:35 PM (FcR7P)
We won't have a reprentstive democratic republic but we sort of don't have that any longer anyway but at least the race card will finally be torn up and thrown in the trash.
Posted by: Kreplach at April 23, 2015 02:36 PM (pHEyr)
Posted by: Joe Biden at April 23, 2015 02:36 PM (TV9BR)
This was true with the whole shut-down theater, too. Not as obvious, but clear. Though even some our smartest commenters could not see that, and instead ingested the frankly silly myth that the GOP would suffer at the ballot box for being seen as actually doing something, causing SOME trouble - in a 70% "wrong track" country with a flat economy .....
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2015 02:36 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: NCwoof at April 23, 2015 02:37 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: t-bird at April 23, 2015 02:38 PM (FcR7P)
Just kidding.
But even before looking, I'm sensing this topic is far the more important one.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2015 02:38 PM (afQnV)
The only one I can think of is that the system is rigged against third parties. The two institutionalized parties make it very difficult for a third party to even get on the ballot. And winning less than 50% + the margin of fraud + 1 gets you exactly nothing. Unlike a parliamentary system, the winner-take-all system freezes out small interest groups.
Posted by: despair at April 23, 2015 02:38 PM (J6suc)
So if the Republican leadership and the Democrats voted for her, and 43% didn't... I'm confused. Who is leading whom?
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A old one-eyed pirate bitches.
Posted by: Accused pederast Harry Reid at April 23, 2015 02:39 PM (TV9BR)
Posted by: RomneyBot since 2007 at April 23, 2015 02:40 PM (3ImmG)
Posted by: steveegg at April 23, 2015 02:40 PM (cL79m)
Down to the county level, most places are structurally two-party (to a surprising degree, where a citizen wonders why two parties, which are private unofficial entities, are basically enshrined in the system and receive public moneys for some functions).
Very, very, very difficult to move the needle with a third party, the way state election laws are constructed. Taking over one of the two big parties is the only way for major change to be made. Isolated cases exist, mostly on state/local level, where the two-party hammerlock does not apply, but usually on small, specific issues.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2015 02:42 PM (afQnV)
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Yes but we could win some seats and would likely have more power in negotiations.
I think the faulty theory is that many democrats would not switch to the new democan party and the communist party would be even smaller with less influence. I think it would be close to an even split and then conservatives get more say.
Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at April 23, 2015 02:43 PM (TV9BR)
I guess I'm thinking: A cabinet position just seems like a poor place to plant our flag. The costs/rewards for fighting on that hill as the opposition party seems questionable.
Posted by: Doug at April 23, 2015 02:46 PM (yNjgJ)
Yep - this president is unlikely to offer a serious, good candidate for any cabinet post, esp. the AG.
Perfect. THAT is how you keep this administrations very unpopular (and possibly judicially unsustainable) lawlessness on the table, in the media, etc.
It's basic political common sense that you don't neccessarily win every vote, or "win" every political/PR round, on every issue. But on important issues, where the electorate is largely favorable to your position, you DO take a stand some times, to make the point, define yourself, encourage public support, and DIFFERENTIATE. This last word is the most common one used by strategists, esp. Senate ones, in all but solid blue/red districts and states. In my day I'd estimate 50% of the roll call votes in the Senate served no purpose OTHER than differentiation for incumbents/against incumbents, and fund-raising.
It's the slog, the everyday ditch-digging of political strategy you use - *when you are actually building a coalition or a dynamic to get something done, or something stopped*.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2015 02:48 PM (afQnV)
We vote the Dem out after ridding ourselves of our RINO affliction and, hopefully, vote in someone who is in OPPOSITION, to the Dem syndicate in the election after dumping the RINO...
What we need is for Ace to identify about 10 such low cocksucking RINOS to dump. A hit list, as it were.
Posted by: The roost aint what it used to be at April 23, 2015 02:51 PM (7GI9v)
Posted by: Loretta Lynnch at April 23, 2015 02:53 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: Future Media Storyline at April 23, 2015 03:02 PM (sCHw2)
Pick the worst (for values of "worst") ten percent of the GOP in each house and make them radioactive.
Posted by: Chico at April 23, 2015 03:02 PM (a7Dd7)
Posted by: Leonard Pinth-Garnell at April 23, 2015 03:03 PM (Ilm6f)
Posted by: Ibin Pharteen at April 23, 2015 03:05 PM (zL/eJ)
We vote the Dem out after ridding ourselves of our RINO affliction and, hopefully, vote in someone who is in OPPOSITION, to the Dem syndicate in the election after dumping the RINO...
What we need is for Ace to identify about 10 such low cocksucking RINOS to dump. A hit list, as it were.
Posted by: The roost aint what it used to be at April 23, 2015 02:51 PM (7GI9v)
While I agree with a decimation (fuck it; I want annihilation), the very wrong thing to do is to vote for the DemocRAT in the general election. By inflating their vote totals, you're just encouraging the RepublicRATs to halve the distance between them and their majority partners in the bipartisan Party-In-Government from 2 inches to 1 inch.
Instead, find a conservative third-party candidate to back, or if there isn't one, write in somebody who is conservative. That way, they are sent the message that they lost because they told us to fuck off.
Posted by: steveegg at April 23, 2015 03:06 PM (cL79m)
Posted by: Citizen X at April 23, 2015 03:06 PM (7ObY1)
Posted by: steveegg at April 23, 2015 03:08 PM (cL79m)
Posted by: physics geek at April 23, 2015 03:09 PM (MT22W)
Posted by: Buzzion at April 23, 2015 03:10 PM (z/Ubi)
Every chance they get the knife goes into my back, this time they twisted it.
Posted by: Gmac- Pulling in feelers in preperation... at April 23, 2015 03:10 PM (4CRfK)
https://youtu.be/LIqQBg_sk_8
Everything = JJ Watt
Everything JJ Watt is destorying = me
(This is only like 99% an excuse to post JJ Watt)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at April 23, 2015 03:11 PM (mf5HN)
Pick the worst (for values of "worst") ten percent of the GOP in each house and make them radioactive.
Posted by: Chico at April 23, 2015 03:02 PM (a7Dd7)
If you like being the minority-of-the-minority instead of the minority-of-the-"majority", a mere decimation will suffice. We need to toss a lot more than 10%.
Posted by: steveegg at April 23, 2015 03:11 PM (cL79m)
The jokes write themselves.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 23, 2015 03:12 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Captain Kickass at April 23, 2015 03:12 PM (FcR7P)
Pick the worst (for values of "worst") ten percent of the GOP in each house and make them radioactive.
Posted by: Chico at April 23, 2015 03:02 PM (a7Dd7)
If you like being the minority-of-the-minority instead of the minority-of-the-"majority", a mere decimation will suffice. We need to toss a lot more than 10%.
Posted by: steveegg at April 23, 2015 03:11 PM (cL79m)
I'm a Celt.... when we had a bad year we used to sacrifice our KING, to appease the Gods...
Just need to update that policy a bit...
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 03:13 PM (qh617)
But the only one I see talking about that stuff is Ted Cruz...
Posted by: BB WOLF
Speaking of which:
Not Voting - 1 - Cruz (R-TX)
Hope whatever chicken dinner fundraiser you're at today was worth missing a campaign defining event.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 23, 2015 03:13 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: physics geek at April 23, 2015 03:13 PM (MT22W)
98 Meh - I care but I don't care...No nominee put up by Obama for this post (or most others) would be acceptable...
Posted by: RomneyBot since 2007 at April 23, 2015 02:40 PM (3ImmG)
They're going to suck no matter what. So why approve his first choice that is likely the worst most successful, most in line with his beliefs. Force him to go with his second or third option.
Posted by: Buzzion at April 23, 2015 03:13 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 03:13 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 03:13 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 23, 2015 03:14 PM (rDqRv)
Posted by: Jacob's Step Stool at April 23, 2015 03:14 PM (VNgld)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at April 23, 2015 03:14 PM (Sd++4)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 23, 2015 03:13 PM (kdS6q)
I believe he was there... because he spoke on the Senate floor AFTER the vote...
But he knew his vote made no difference... the fix was in....
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 03:15 PM (qh617)
Every chance they get the knife goes into my back, this time they twisted it.
Posted by: Gmac- Pulling in feelers in preperation... at April 23, 2015 03:10 PM (4CRfK)
This was us pulling up on the knife after twisting it.
Posted by: El PRL at April 23, 2015 03:15 PM (cL79m)
Posted by: Buzzion at April 23, 2015 03:13 PM (z/Ubi)
He is a stubborn fuck,. holder would just have stayed on and tortured us
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 23, 2015 03:15 PM (rDqRv)
Yeah, I don't think there really was a win for this. No matter what choice they made, it was awful. Its not like President Obama was going to say "ohh, all right, here's a nominee that's qualified, not a racist left wing radical lunatic guys" if they refused to confirm.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 23, 2015 03:16 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Buzzion at April 23, 2015 03:13 PM (z/Ubi)
He is a stubborn fuck,. holder would just have stayed on and tortured us
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 23, 2015 03:15 PM (rDqRv)
Holder wants to leave though. Forcing him to stay would also be punishment for him.
Posted by: Buzzion at April 23, 2015 03:16 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at April 23, 2015 03:16 PM (HbLwc)
so instead of fighting... instead of even TRYING...
You roll over like the good dog you are... and beg for scraps from the table?
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 03:17 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 23, 2015 03:17 PM (FsuaD)
I believe he was there... because he spoke on the Senate floor AFTER the vote...
Posted by: BB WOLF
Then vote you Canadian fnck. That's what you're there for.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 23, 2015 03:17 PM (kdS6q)
Instead they are going to die on their knees in a ditch.
http://pamelageller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/worjrw.jpg
Posted by: rd at April 23, 2015 03:17 PM (L7qFk)
Posted by: Yip at April 23, 2015 03:17 PM (84SRe)
Force holder to stay.
Lynch will be no different than Holder (both extensions of Obama). So why not keep the asshole we know in charge?
Especially since we know he wants to leave.
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 03:17 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Harley Quinn at April 23, 2015 03:17 PM (snilk)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at April 23, 2015 03:16 PM (HbLwc)
I'm next in line for MaxiCave's job, and I've got the maxi-pad to prove it.
Posted by: Miss Lindsey at April 23, 2015 03:18 PM (cL79m)
Here now! I never we could only ever do it once!
10%
If necessary, nuke 10% of what's left, etc
It'll be a fun diversion from the real work that lies ahead of us: Sorting out work details and bunking arrangements in the camps. And what will pass for currency in the camp economy
Posted by: Chico at April 23, 2015 03:18 PM (a7Dd7)
Canadian?
Must be talking about Cruz, eh?
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 03:18 PM (AkOaV)
Sigh.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 23, 2015 03:17 PM (FsuaD)
He's an idiot. But this was a message to all those that might cross Fredo
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 23, 2015 03:19 PM (rDqRv)
Posted by: The Hill To Die On at April 23, 2015 03:19 PM (SpnVI)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 23, 2015 03:19 PM (GGCsk)
Posted by: AmishDude at April 23, 2015 03:19 PM (HNhyh)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 23, 2015 03:19 PM (6GBAx)
Posted by: Blue Hen at April 23, 2015 03:20 PM (Spluw)
Agree completely. The folks constantly beating the drum of "You have to vote GOP!" or "Reform the GOP" don't seem to understand incentives and how they apply to voting.
When a party can reliably depend on your vote, it has no incentive to alter course. No amount of "Reform From The Bottom Up" is going to change this.
Switching parties simply warps the entire incentive structure so that the disaffected party simply thinks it has to adopt even more of the opposition's stance.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 23, 2015 03:20 PM (xSCb6)
You roll over like the good dog you are... and beg for scraps from the table?
I dunno how you win this fight, its like being forced to choose which testicle you want crushed.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 23, 2015 03:20 PM (39g3+)
You take every radical nominee, and if they have radical statements and/or actions to expose ... you raise holy hell about each transgression AND tie it to the Democratic Party.
You continue until either Obama caves (he won't) or vulnerable Dems start getting nervous (they will).
Fuck this bull shit constant cover given to the same damn GOPe losers. The only reason they can't win is because they won't fight.
Posted by: ScoggDog at April 23, 2015 03:20 PM (0DVOr)
<<
The message is never drop your guard...or your pants.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 23, 2015 03:20 PM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 23, 2015 03:20 PM (39g3+)
Piss in his face first
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 23, 2015 03:21 PM (rDqRv)
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They don't need Hannibal Lector, they've got Kermit Gosnell
Posted by: The Great White Snark at April 23, 2015 03:21 PM (XUKZU)
That's US. Fumbling, mumbling our way through life, showing up to work in the morning, hungover, until the first beer of the morning kicks in.
Then, after a lifetime, either the liver gives out, or we lose our driver's license and job, and sit at home on social security, still drunk.
Posted by: EphramKG36 at April 23, 2015 03:21 PM (gtXzt)
Posted by: dogfish at April 23, 2015 03:22 PM (1vYi0)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2015 03:22 PM (2TN4k)
Posted by: Blue Hen at April 23, 2015 03:22 PM (Spluw)
The most rotten branch of the govt.
Wouldn't want to be rude with a filibuster or anything. You may get called racist.
Posted by: brak at April 23, 2015 03:22 PM (Tj+s6)
Posted by: rd at April 23, 2015 03:23 PM (L7qFk)
You roll over like the good dog you are... and beg for scraps from the table?
I dunno how you win this fight, its like being forced to choose which testicle you want crushed.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 23, 2015 03:20 PM (39g3+)
How do you win???? Holder wants to retire... he will NOT stick out the job until Obama is done..
So you do not confirm... and Obama sends up another... who is better... or worse...
if worse... you do not confirm...
Eventually Obama and Holder HAVE to find someone who will actually uphold the Rule of Law....
Because the GOP just helped confirm an Attorney General... the top Law Enforcement Officer in the Nation... who has STATED she will not follow the written law... that Obama has the ability to over ride the law.
Which strikes to the very hear of us being a Republic...
At the very WORST... you have made a statement and stood on Principle... and Holder stays as Attorney General...
How is that a LOSS???
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 03:23 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at April 23, 2015 03:14 PM (Sd++4)
------------------
So, Mary,, can I count on your support in 16'?
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 23, 2015 03:23 PM (HSmrB)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 23, 2015 03:24 PM (kdS6q)
The Democrats never give in on anything. That's why they have defeated conservatives all across the board. Step by step, office by office, year after year, they advance and win, while conservatives say "Meh. Not the hill to die on. But next time!"
Posted by: despair at April 23, 2015 03:24 PM (J6suc)
Posted by: wrg500 at April 23, 2015 03:24 PM (S+el1)
10%
If necessary, nuke 10% of what's left, etc
It'll be a fun diversion from the real work that lies ahead of us: Sorting out work details and bunking arrangements in the camps. And what will pass for currency in the camp economy
Posted by: Chico at April 23, 2015 03:18 PM (a7Dd7)
The problem is a mere 10%/cycle booting means we'll never get the majority of the former GOP because they convert 15% of the elected conservative wing every cycle (see Johnson, Ron).
Posted by: steveegg at April 23, 2015 03:24 PM (cL79m)
Let me sum this up for you:
Harry fucking Reid suspended 200+ years of tradition to remove the filibuster and stock the courts and cabinet heads over the conservative opposition.
Mitch fucking McConnell continued this practice to allow Obama's fucking nominees to go forward without any real opportunity for conservative opposition.
Let that sink in deeply.
Posted by: prescient11 at April 23, 2015 03:24 PM (q5APL)
Next up, the Most Corrupt Woman Attorney General ... and after Janet Reno, that's quite a task.
Posted by: Erich Honecker at April 23, 2015 03:25 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Sambo at April 23, 2015 03:25 PM (0u9/S)
Posted by: Feh at April 23, 2015 03:25 PM (wwy25)
Let that sink in deeply.
Posted by: prescient11 at April 23, 2015 03:24 PM (q5APL)
After saying, pre election, that he would reverse these very policies....
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 03:25 PM (qh617)
In many respects, it's actually worse with the GOP in control of 2/2 of 1/3 of the government.
They simply have give up on being a principled, agenda driven opposition party.
Posted by: Kreplach at April 23, 2015 03:26 PM (pHEyr)
I think you have a significantly higher trust that President Obama has any degree of sanity or flexibility in his character than I do.
In other words: he's probably got a list of 500 candidates each one more looney than the last and he'd just go down the list. If none of them get chosen, he'd make a speech about how the evil Republicans are denying the American People justice, so he has to unilaterally bypass them.
I agree fighting is better than not, but in the end, the result is the same and since every nominee would be black, all that would happen is Republicans would be tarred as racists and obstructionists trying to block justice.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 23, 2015 03:26 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Old Hob at April 23, 2015 02:16 PM (Lp6I1)
How do you solve a problem like the Orrin?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
In all seriousness, it is a combo of people in the state liking he has seniority, liking his connections since he has been in the senate a million billion years, and liking him personally because he has a grandpa nice guy vibe. Combine that with (until the tea party efforts recently to change this) little grassroots connection to effect change for the caucus/primary candidates and straight party republican voting. Orrin thus wins handidly. Y-Not probably has a savvier take on Utah politics but that is my take on it.
There was an attempt in the last election to get a changing of the guard after the Bennett shocker, but Orrin, to his credit, rallied his people and they stacked the caucus system. Otherwise he would have been out on his ear. (Frankly many were not impressed with his challenger, deservedly, so there was some lethargy for his opponent helping Hatch along.)
He pinky swears this term is his last (as he has the last few terms) so we'll see if his promise holds true. Pray we can get another Mike Lee elected! That would make my day but I have a sinking feeling the GOP will get in a RINO at the eleventh hour.
Posted by: LizLem at April 23, 2015 03:26 PM (yRwC8)
Ah, that sounds like the LIFE.
How can I get paid to sit on my ass all day and get drunk? Sign me up for that shit ASAP!
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 03:26 PM (AkOaV)
Also: federal judge nominee Miguel Estrada whose nomination as sidelined for years until he finally gave up and withdrew.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2015 03:26 PM (2TN4k)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at April 23, 2015 03:26 PM (XUKZU)
I guess I'm thinking: A cabinet position just seems like a poor place to plant our flag. The costs/rewards for fighting on that hill as the opposition party seems questionable.
Posted by: Doug at April 23, 2015 02:46 PM (yNjgJ)
You would almost have a point if the pathetic shits of the GOP in congress were willing to actually plant their flag in anything.
Posted by: Buzzion at April 23, 2015 03:27 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: jeannebodine at April 23, 2015 03:27 PM (SR3U3)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 23, 2015 03:27 PM (39g3+)
At least then ... might get an extra bread ration. What's the GOP offering ? The golden opportunity to continue dragging the dead-beats along while the elites continue to sell me out.
Screw that.
Posted by: ScoggDog at April 23, 2015 03:27 PM (0DVOr)
Republicans = Social Democrats
Conservatives = Christian Democrats
Communists are still communists, of course.
Posted by: Feh at April 23, 2015 03:28 PM (wwy25)
Posted by: Your GOP Congress at April 23, 2015 03:28 PM (fLKzW)
No, the deck will still be stacked against white people. Mexicans will be able to be racist against whoever they want, while we will have no right to speak against anyone. There will be no fairness or justice for us - not that there is any now.
Posted by: despair at April 23, 2015 03:28 PM (J6suc)
I see the opposite: Obama needs someone he can count on to cover his a$$ while he gets in all the items from his wish list crammed through in the the final months of his presidency.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2015 03:28 PM (2TN4k)
Posted by: Feh at April 23, 2015 03:25 PM (wwy25)
A promise that federal general funds rather than the special sex trafficking fund will be used to fund abortions-on-demand.
Posted by: steveegg at April 23, 2015 03:28 PM (cL79m)
They... did... not... even... try....
Think on that... sure O may keep sending up crappy AG candidates... but maybe... just maybe.... not...
But the GOP just gave the new AG COVER for anything she does... because she was confirmed with GOPe votes...
They are now complicit in anything she does....
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 03:28 PM (qh617)
Posted by: prescient11 at April 23, 2015 03:24 PM (q5APL)
After saying, pre election, that he would reverse these very policies....
Posted by: BB WOLF
Let's not forget that the rest of the phukeRs elected him majority leader.
Posted by: dogfish at April 23, 2015 03:29 PM (1vYi0)
I thought Obama personally approved everyone on the "kill list" and all military operations, like the bin Laden one, which HE insisted on telling us that HE signed off on and that HE approved and "I, I, I, me, me, we, us, me" puled off?
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 03:29 PM (AkOaV)
Sen. Ted Cruz skipped the vote to confirm Loretta Lynch as attorney general on Thursday. just three hours after he took to the Senate floor to rail against her nomination. Cruz was the only member of the chamber not to vote.
Cruz missed another key Senate vote this week. to pass a sex trafficking bill that was caught up for weeks due to an abortion-related dispute. The vote was 99-0, and Cruz was the sole missing senator then, too.
The senator has drawn scrutiny over his attendance record in his short time on Capitol Hill. POLITICO reported earlier this week that Cruz has missed the vast majority of hearings for the Armed Services Committee, is below-average in attendance on his other major committees and ranks 97th during the first three months of this year in showing up for Senate floor votes.
Cruz 2016: AWOL
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 23, 2015 03:29 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: skip at April 23, 2015 03:29 PM (tFcoz)
Posted by: LizLem at April 23, 2015 03:29 PM (yRwC8)
GOP response? Make that woman Attorney General!
Posted by: Feh at April 23, 2015 03:29 PM (wwy25)
Posted by: wrg500 at April 23, 2015 03:30 PM (S+el1)
Posted by: LizLem at April 23, 2015 03:29 PM (yRwC
Defending ISIS terrorists.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 23, 2015 03:30 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 23, 2015 03:30 PM (6GBAx)
No they won't. They aren't ever going to nominate someone sane, let alone someone who will "uphold the rule of law".
I just don't see the advantage to Team GOP for fighting this tooth and nail. Yes she was exposed as being an illegal-loving Obama knob-gobbler. But what else is new? Everyone else that he would have nominated would also have been an illegal-loving Obama knob-gobbler.
Posted by: chemjeff at April 23, 2015 03:30 PM (2XMpf)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 23, 2015 03:30 PM (39g3+)
And then, of course, we have the Rs that voted for cloture but sneakily voted against Lynch on confirmation: Alexander, Capito, Corker, Cornyn, Gardener, Roberts, Rounds, Thune, Tillis.
Posted by: jeannebodine
Awww -- you peeked!
Posted by: The GOP
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 23, 2015 03:30 PM (kdS6q)
I thought Obama personally approved everyone on the "kill list" and all military operations, like the bin Laden one, which HE insisted on telling us that HE signed off on and that HE approved and "I, I, I, me, me, we, us, me" puled off?
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He can't be there on every gutsy call, He has golf games to attend.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at April 23, 2015 03:31 PM (XUKZU)
Nah most of our friends from south of the border see themselves as white.
American liberal politicians invented the "hispanic" or "latino" labels for the census back in the, what, 70s?
Thats why "non hispanic white" is a thing, because even with "hispanic" as a choice, many spanish speakers identify as "white".
Mainly, because, you know, theyre descendants of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italians.
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 03:31 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: despair at April 23, 2015 03:28 PM (J6suc)
Its already here.... come to Central California... where in my town, I am a minority...
Hispanic companies do business with other Hispanic companies... its their preference.
If you are trying to get a job??? you better know Spanish...
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 03:31 PM (qh617)
Obama wasn't looking for another AG, he was looking for another firewall.
Posted by: wrg500 at April 23, 2015 03:31 PM (S+el1)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 23, 2015 03:29 PM (kdS6q)
I'm a big fan so this does trouble me. I have to be honest.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 23, 2015 03:31 PM (St6BJ)
slink away never to be heard of again. Not positive I'll get my wish
though. What oh what cushy job awaits him, I wonder...
Posted by: LizLem at April 23, 2015 03:29 PM (yRwC
Tune into our new show, "Social Justice with Eric Holder!"
Posted by: MSNBC at April 23, 2015 03:31 PM (8hctH)
That buck ain't stopping here, no siree.
Posted by: B. O. at April 23, 2015 03:32 PM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: Al Sharpton at April 23, 2015 03:32 PM (wAQA5)
Got news for you. We're going to do that anyway.
Posted by: MFM at April 23, 2015 03:32 PM (Spluw)
Its pretty standard for presidential candidates to miss a ton of votes in congress when they are in the legislature;
Posted by: Christopher Taylor
Cruz was there. He just had to sit his ass down and play MarioKart on his Gameboy for an hour or two.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 23, 2015 03:32 PM (kdS6q)
No need to fight it tooth and nail.
Just pull a Harry Reid, and never allow a vote to get to the floor.
Make Holder stay on.
Then if there is a chance to "negotiate" something at some point, maybe say "fine, you do that, and we'll let Holder leave."
But theres no reason (other than courtesy) for Mitch to bring this vote to the floor.
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 03:32 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: The President of Zimbabwe for life at April 23, 2015 03:32 PM (W6iIX)
Posted by: Loretta Lynch at April 23, 2015 03:32 PM (fLKzW)
Posted by: Citizen X at April 23, 2015 03:32 PM (7ObY1)
Posted by: chi's sandwIch (previously shredded chi) at April 23, 2015 03:33 PM (NRQlH)
Verrrry interesting.
Thanks. Food for thought.
Posted by: Citizen X at April 23, 2015 03:34 PM (7ObY1)
Posted by: Cruzinator at April 23, 2015 03:34 PM (P7ulB)
Thanks, GOPiece of Shit
Posted by: Feh at April 23, 2015 03:34 PM (wwy25)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 23, 2015 03:34 PM (6GBAx)
Posted by: Loretta Lynch at April 23, 2015 03:34 PM (fLKzW)
Yeah, they tend to get really upset, defensive, and even hostile when the native American in their blood is brought up. Its a class thing, the more mixed blood, the lower class you are. They all claim to be direct pure descendents of Hidalgos and Dons from Spain or something. Its very odd.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 23, 2015 03:34 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 23, 2015 03:34 PM (R8h28)
He had money to raise and babies to kiss.
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 03:35 PM (AkOaV)
Alamo.... Spartans at Hot Gate.... Battle of Camerone...
Sometimes you need to fight... even in a losing battle... to set things up for the NEXT fight...
But the GOP NEVER fights... on anything...
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 03:35 PM (qh617)
Posted by: dogfish at April 23, 2015 03:35 PM (1vYi0)
slink away never to be heard of again. Not positive I'll get my wish
though. What oh what cushy job awaits him, I wonder...
He's going to end up as an executive on some Lefty corporation, maybe a tech company. IIRC, former spokesguy Jay Carney is a VP at Amazon.
Of course he'll also be on the Board of Directors for a variety of big, Dem-supporting companies.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2015 03:35 PM (2TN4k)
Posted by: Loretta Lynch at April 23, 2015 03:32 PM (fLKzW)
What if I told you I was ready to take out Killary in the primaries? I promise to keep you on, honeybuns.
Posted by: Baba O'Malley at April 23, 2015 03:35 PM (cL79m)
Posted by: Citizen X at April 23, 2015 03:35 PM (7ObY1)
Posted by: Hillary "Screech" Clinton at April 23, 2015 03:35 PM (R8h28)
So, Mary,, can I count on your support in 16'?
Posted by: Hillary Clinton
................................
I didn't know Mary was in the walker business.
Posted by: wth at April 23, 2015 03:35 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: LizLem at April 23, 2015 03:36 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Cruzinator at April 23, 2015 03:36 PM (P7ulB)
I wouldn't bet my life savings on it, but maybe one day the Clintons will have a run in with a set of brass knuckles disused as exercise bands.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 23, 2015 03:36 PM (St6BJ)
So, Barky voted "present" if he voted at all, and that's bad.
Cruz skips key votes and that's meh.
Got it.
Posted by: Citizen X at April 23, 2015 03:36 PM (7ObY1)
Posted by: JEM at April 23, 2015 03:36 PM (o+SC1)
Mexico has a bunch of white people in it too.
It is just the non white mexicans who go to the USA
Posted by: The President of Zimbabwe for life at April 23, 2015 03:36 PM (W6iIX)
I'm not sure that it's not Barry and Co. who are putting the screws on Ma Clinton. Somebody is leaking a little here, a little more there. Trying to send a message.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2015 03:36 PM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 03:35 PM (qh617)
Come on - we fought like hell to keep Angle, O'Donnell, Akin and Mourdock out of the Senate. It helped they self-destructed, but we had a hand in that.
Posted by: The NRSC at April 23, 2015 03:36 PM (cL79m)
Answered - even as I was asking. Thanks.
Posted by: chi's sandwIch (previously shredded chi) at April 23, 2015 03:37 PM (NRQlH)
That buck ain't stopping here, no siree.
Posted by: B. O. at April 23, 2015 03:32 PM (LA7Cm)
then it was an unlawful order.... period...
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 23, 2015 03:37 PM (qh617)
But my flesh, my Scots/Irish/pirate/Klingon/Met heritage wants revenge!
Posted by: Chico at April 23, 2015 03:37 PM (a7Dd7)
Yeah.
Well, racism is very prevalent in Spanish speaking countries. Pure European is seen as much more preferable to "mixed blood." And in fact, the ruling class in many of these countries (who are mostly pure european or close to it) are happily sending us their indigenous people across the border.
But EITHER WAY, my point stands. Spanish speakers don't hate "whitey" since they see themselves as "whitey" which I think is a huge flaw in the democrats plan vis a vis importing all of these people. If you can't get the Mexican and the Brazilian to both see themselves as part of the same victim class who have to vote "against whitey" then it'll be very tough for them to pull together / maintain a racial animus based majority. Which is clearly their goal.
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 03:37 PM (AkOaV)
Blow jobs, probably. That's why I'll never be taken alive. I'm not going, I'm not blowin'.
This wheel chair I'm sitting in is packed with explosives. You try to pry my ass out of this chair and we're all gonna die.
Posted by: EphramKG36 at April 23, 2015 03:38 PM (gtXzt)
The advantage is that you keep Holder from leaving, which is something he wants to do, and you keep an undeserving incompetent out of the position.
It's not like they have to expend real physical efforts or political captial to accomplish this.
All they had to do is keep her bottled up and tell the SCOAMF to send a better nominee.
But as usual they caved.
Spineless cunts.
Posted by: Kreplach at April 23, 2015 03:38 PM (pHEyr)
On the other hand, this looks like somebody made a deal for something. We don't know what, because that's not something anybody would admit. But I'll bet money that down the line there's going to be some bill somewhere that will pass by the skin of its teeth because just a couple of Dems came along for the ride.
Posted by: billo at April 23, 2015 03:38 PM (YRFqi)
Cruz skips key votes and that's meh.
Got it.
Posted by: Citizen X
I'm sorry I don't ever remember commenting on Barky's Senate record. Take your assumption and stuff it.
Posted by: dogfish at April 23, 2015 03:39 PM (1vYi0)
They a hand in it and an arm , a couple of legs and most of all , their mouth.
Posted by: Cruzinator at April 23, 2015 03:39 PM (P7ulB)
Oh for the love of...et tu Amazon? Well at least he'll get a big discount on the russian propaganda posters being shipped to his house!
Posted by: LizLem at April 23, 2015 03:39 PM (yRwC8)
Correct, he's running for office, so he has to be a lying manipulative piece of crap to get there. Its why I'd never do it - you have to sell your soul to get to that level of power and there's just no way to do it that is virtuous and honest. I'm not trying to slam Cruz, its just a fact of life in politics.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 23, 2015 03:39 PM (39g3+)
So far this month, Cruz has missed 20 of the Senate's 28 roll call votes, according to GovTrack.
Lazy Canadian fnck.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 23, 2015 03:42 PM (kdS6q)
Cruz skips key votes and that's meh.
I'm sure if you thought about it long enough you could grok the difference between "misses a few votes during a campaign" and "virtually never actually voted on anything during his entire career."
then it was an unlawful order.... period...
Its one that doesn't ruffle my feathers much either way. I think the Russians have it right here, as awful as it is: they stop taking hostages if you prove you don't give a damn.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 23, 2015 03:42 PM (39g3+)
Conservatives should have voted Democrat in KY against McConnell. I thought the idea was crazy until seeing him in action.
Posted by: Kal at April 23, 2015 03:42 PM (13G+x)
lynch will only be around for 18 months unless we lose the 2016 election.
Posted by: kj at April 23, 2015 03:44 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: kj at April 23, 2015 03:44 PM (lKyWE)
So you're saying she's gonna be here awhile...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 23, 2015 03:45 PM (fwARV)
Posted by: kj at April 23, 2015 03:44 PM (lKyWE)
As your presumptive nominee, I'm working hard on that.
Posted by: The Jebinator at April 23, 2015 03:45 PM (cL79m)
"misses a few votes during a campaign"
Posted by: Christopher Taylor
Between January and March, Cruz missed more votes than any other senator except Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who was injured while exercising, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), another presidential candidate.
:Missed a few votes.....
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 23, 2015 03:47 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: billo at April 23, 2015 03:38 PM (Y
Lol. Good one.
Posted by: Sambo at April 23, 2015 03:52 PM (0u9/S)
Posted by: jondoran@angstyquestions at April 23, 2015 04:06 PM (g1MTt)
...
Mainly, because, you know, theyre descendants of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italians.
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 23, 2015 03:31 PM (AkOaV)
The ones pouring across the border are Mestizos - primarily the descendants of Mayan and Aztec Indians, mixed with black, with a small amount of Euro ancestry. They are not white. The small Mexican elite is essentially white, but not the people they are encouraging to move to the US. They are basically ethnically cleansing their country of undesirables and foisting them on the US.
Posted by: despair at April 23, 2015 04:14 PM (J6suc)
Posted by: despair at April 23, 2015 04:22 PM (J6suc)
RINOs have the House and the Senate.
What difference, at this point, does it make.
Posted by: NCwoof at April 23, 2015 06:10 PM (aUQgu)
FTFY!
BTW, who do you think Shrillery will appoint as AG?
Posted by: redc1c4 at April 23, 2015 06:26 PM (jMMCO)
Posted by: saltlick at April 23, 2015 06:34 PM (ggwIn)
Posted by: underdown at April 23, 2015 06:37 PM (Mxkwf)
than any other senator except Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who
was injured while exercising, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), another
presidential candidate.
:Missed a few votes.....
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 23, 2015 03:47 PM (kdS6q)
I saw that and am not concerned unless I see more details that would lead to concern. He did not vote for the human trafficking bill in the 22nd but he apparently was not there the 22nd. He voted against cloture for Loretta Lynch (thus expressing his disapproval of her confirmation) so I do not take his failure to stick around for the final vote (to vote no again) as him trying to avoid taking a position. He generally votes the vast majority of the time and, more importantly, can be counted on to not vote against the people who elected him to be conservative.
Posted by: redbanzai at April 23, 2015 06:45 PM (5DGKy)
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Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)