GOP senators work to evade ethics review of Trump nominees

I hope they all paid their taxes, let alone submit a tax return.

Wasn't that the big scandal 8 years ago?

 

Unethical became more than acceptable once Trump was elected. The GOP Congress is not going to care about ethics if it has any impact to their power. Get used to it. Not sure what the Dem can do.

 

Will the swamp be drained still? Is draining the swamp done by adding more sewage?

 

Can't Dem Senators block any Trump nomination from coming to a vote?

 

McConnell in 2009, "The Senate has the constitutional duty to provide it's Advise and Consent on presidential nominations, a duty which we take seriously. In consultations with our Ranking Members. we reaffirm our commitment to conduct the appropriate review of these nominations consistent with the long standing and best practices of committees, regardless of which political party is in the majority."

McConnell this morning, "But we need to, sort of, grow up here and get past that."

 

Sad Turtle is such a shill

Rocket River

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...r-secretary-state-nominee-tillerson/96359776/

 

Swamp the drain.

 

Chucky Schumer laying down the 3rd degree internet burn on Mitch McTurtleConnell

 

HA! That's pretty awesome. I have mixed feelings about Schumer, but that was a good move.

 

McConnell is such an absolute joke. Does anybody respect him?

 

Obama had 7 appointees confirmed on Inauguration Day and 14 within the first two weeks of his admin.

Next.

 

Were all of those Obama nominees cleared with their ethics background and had all of that turned over by the time they had their confirmation hearings?

Are all of Trump's nominees cleared with their ethics background and had all of that turned over by the time they are up for their confirmation hearings?

 

This is all that count. Anyone know answer to this yet?

 

Confirmation hearings have yet to start. What kind of mangled question is that (in bold)? If English isn't your first language, the proper structuring should be "will all of that be turned over by the time they are up for their confirmation hearing"? I've heard media outlets also portray this as an event which has already taken place - which it has not.

 

It's all you dems and libtards fault. That's right, we all got Trump now because you and your organizations suck major corrupt balls so much that middle America didn't have another option. Look in the mirror b****. You all let America down and now you want to complain about it.

 

Wow, somebody turned in on the wrong side of the bed -- I tell you what. Please take a deep breath and accept that the 60 million + people who voted reluctantly (in most cases) for HRC are not your enemies. They are your fellow citizens and in many cases could call you friend (as long as the AM radio was turned off for a while).

So "libtards" and "b****" for your fellow Americans may feel good to you (I guess), but it's not helping anything. It's just another tiny step of making everything worse. I have seen you be a lot classier than that. And before you complain of the other team, well, just be better than the worst of the other team, right?

Finally, there is NO way the clusterF of 2016 can be put on just one group. This was an amazing team effort of fail. Epic terrible choice and campaign from Dems, in my view at least, and a shockingly horrible process and selection by the GOP, after trotting out an unprecedentedly large array of mostly incompetent clowns, one of whom openly insulted large swaths of America just to rile up the base.

I don't know which talking blowhard is advancing this "Democrats fault entirely!" narrative, but that's like blaming just France for World War I. (Actually, it's a whole lot like that.)

Cheers.

EDIT: Whoops on the clusterF bomb in the original version there. I didn't know that would squeeze past the software.

 

It is an extension of the "this is why Trump won" meme being used to try and quite opposition. Thing is that they just need to own Trump. The party voted for all of him, warts and... more warts.

Yeah, his election was a perfect storm of running against a candidate many people hated, but that storm also included FBI intervention, Russian disinformation and hacking campaigns, constant attacks on reason, media obsession with free Trump promotion and Clinton villifcation. But, in the end, Trump is the GOP's mess.

 

McConnell is at least consistent in his lust for power and the belief in the illegitimacy of political power held by his foes. I'm not sure Obama appreciated just how Machiavellian McConnell actually is.