DC: The Senate approved a package of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees Thursday, notching another 15 confirmations just days after Justice Brett Kavanaugh was installed on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The confirmations came as half a dozen Democratic lawmakers, particularly those in red states, were pressed to return home to defend their Senate seats for the final stretch before the November midterm elections.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seized on the opportunity and made Democrats an offer: let the Senate adjourn until after the election, provided Democrats don’t force the full 30 hours of debate allowed for each nominee.
Democratic leaders were left at an impasse: They could keep their caucus in the Capitol to oppose the nominees — effectively ceding the campaign trail to Republican challengers — or confirm Trump’s judges briskly and risk alienating their supporters.
Democrats elected the latter course, to the relief of vulnerable senators who said the nominees would have been confirmed before the election anyway.
“If we stayed here for two or three weeks, we’d probably have done the same thing,” Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana told Politico. “I think it’s good.”
Still, condemnation from progressive interest groups was swift. more here
WINNING Baby!
Not only that, with each press release on judicial confirmations we get a twofer.
Psychologists’ couches are filling up as Americans seek relief from Trump Anxiety Disorder
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/12/donald-trump-anxiety-disorder-pscyhologists-221305
The kooks are losing their Goddamned minds both figuratively and literally
What was that quote about “Mule Piss”
This is hysterical… Now the prog bints are doing a massive rhetoric pivot to claim that the Federal court system is a relic that needs to be scrapped. They don’t even try to be subtle in how full of shit they are now.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/supreme-court-bad-history-reform.html
thirty to go. to bad. had the dems laid across the wine cask and ready to accept anything in order to go “home” and get re-elected. silly bastards let them loose for only fifteen confirmed? why did they not make it forty?
Wow! Trump has the turtle confident enough to stick his neck out again.
Winning, as defined by how many bodies a person stands on to wave the flag.
The wheels is coming off!
All hail Cocaine Mitch.
The media left off the second portion of McConnell’s statement, “or it gets the hose again.”
Republicans are playing politics better than democrats?
Trump has infused MAGA into their bloodstream!
I love our president as much as a mommy loves a new born baby. I am so happy that the shakles of McCain have been released. The new found GOP, is like the second comming of Christ here to save the USA.
There is one campaign promise Trump hasn’t kept. He said we would get tired of winning. The wins keep stacking up and in the words of Hillary Clinton, “I ain’t in no ways tired…”.
Carter, maybe you could explain you assertion?
How many bodies did obama and hitlery stand on in Libya?
Of course, the only flag those two would wave is red and has a sickle on it.