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'Lines are drawn': Onlookers stunned as McConnell reportedly delivers bad news to Trump
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The Senate can't turn down too many Trump appointees until they are looked on as an obstruction to their own party. So, you'll definitely lose Gaetz, but Trump has flooded the zone with incompetence.
Donnie boy is always testing the waters, testing the limits. It's an extreme version of what the GOPers have been doing for years. Ask for a 150% of what's reasonable, and then act all butt hurt when they only get 125%. We've seen this game before. There's nothing new coming out of the "grand" Old party. smh.
Well those are just basic negotiation skills.
If so then the Dems need to learn some basic negotiation skills. But I don't agree. The two parties are supposed to represent all of the US, and what they should be negotiating for is those policies that are in the best interest of all US citizens. I hope you'll agree that is not the case.
Very few things the federal government does has anything to do with helping people. It’s bowing to our corporate masters while trying to keep the masses from rioting
Yup, Gaetz and (if the GOP does the minimum of trying to protect this country) Gabbard are the sacrificial lambs to get through Hegseth, RFK and already too many others to count.
I am starting to believe the theory Trump is putting up the worst possible people so when one gets rejected he can try to force Congress to adjourn and then appoint whomever he wants which will be 100% worse.
Not that Trump thought of this but someone, Miller, is pulling the strings
It's negotiating 101. Open with the hoop dream so the next option isn't near as bad. If you get your first option, you win, and if you get the second option, you win a little less.
Senators are very different in many ways. They are very powerful, and feel a responsibility to their position for the most part. That includes advise and consent, part of the Constitution. It takes just as many Republican votes to call a recess as to confirm a nominee. Don't forget, also, that until DeWine and DeSantis do their bit, they will be two votes short.
As shit as Roberts' SCOTUS is, I don't think even they'd go that far. Their entire argument hinges on one phrase from Article Two:
Supposedly as long as neither the House nor the Senate alter their scheduled appointment dates this clause can't be invoked.
We can only hope for incompetence, the real danger is a malicious and competent appointment.
Fair point, however, incompetency at Secetary of Homeland, for instance, makes you less safe.
Incompetence in Trumps first term usually led to not much being done and retention of the status quo.
I said it was a fair point.
I also said there were exceptions.
You are correct in both points.
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