Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Democrats must regret changing the rules on filibustering appointees...

Many of the President's appointees must go through confirmation hearings. In fact, anyone given a title of "Secretary" or is put in charge of any department or is heading a regulatory body is in line for a hearing. Now there is obviously a chance in any confirmation that a candidate could be voted down. But largely because of the Democrat's short term thinking and probably some belief in their impenetrable blue wall, they decided it would be wise to remove the ability for a Senate Minority to filibuster a Presidential appointee.  

This gives Trump almost a free ride. 


Moreover, any chance that there might be some rogue NeverTrump Republicans in the Senate who might come out against Trump has been largely discouraged by Trump's reasonable behavior, his conservative appointees, and to a large degree the immature behavior of his detractors on the left. Who would want to associate themselves with all the whining, and recounts, and sore loser actions from the Democrats? Certainly no Republican what wants on a decent committee or wants to be reelected. 

Wouldn't the Democrats love to force Trump to nominate an entire cabinet of people who require at least eight Democrats to be on board? There would be no Jeff Sessions, there would be no Betsy DeVos, there would be no Tom Price, there would be no "controversial" conservatives.

The reality is that it's become very obvious with these particular nominations, that Trump does plan to basically "undo" as much of what President Obama tried to put into place as they can. Many of his nomination are 180 degrees from what "had" been in place. 
  • Jeff Sessions is said to want to enforce the laws. Especially laws on immigration. This works to undercut the current refusal of our Federal Government to enforce some many most any immigration laws. 
  • Betsy DeVos is all about alternative schools, and school choice. She is being steadfastly opposed by the Teachers unions and others who want to keep the status quo in place.
  • Tom Price was the Republican who actually "wrote" the main alternative to Obamacare. He quite obviously is in place to guide a "repeal and replace" of Obamacare.    
  • Both Mark Pompeo and General Flynn were critics of most everything Obama and everything Clinton. Clearly they plans to move both the Military and the CIA towards a more aggressive poster in fighting terror and international threats. This would be a large shift from the current poster of standing aside and watching. 
This quite obviously scares the shit out of the left (as well it should). The problem is that the Democrats put all of their efforts to get their left wing agenda "in place"... and put little or no effort in ensuring the success of said agenda. Implementing your agenda is not an accomplishment in and of itself. It has to be shown as successful and backed by a majority of voters, so that those voters continue to vote for people who will keep it in place. But the Democrats didn't ensure success, they didn't' garner success, and they didn't win the election.

The Democrats "could" have had many more safeguards to their agenda, had they been able to do more to control the leadership of the executive branch. As it stands, they gave up that right when they decided to alter the Senate rules to remove the ability to filibuster Cabinet appointees. Live by the sword, die by the sword.  

43 comments:

Loretta said...

"As it stands, they gave up that right when they decided to alter the Senate rules to remove the ability to filibuster Cabinet appointees. Live by the sword, die by the sword. "

My favorite part of a TRUMP Presidency.

Serves them right.

Anonymous said...

The problem is that the Democrats put all of their efforts to get their left wing agenda "in place"... and put little or no effort in ensuring the success of said agenda.
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this is not really new. ideologically the democrats have been operating like this forever.

they measure everything - proposals, programs, agendas - by their 'intentions,' never the net result or unintended consequences of their actions.

remember the fast food calorie labels the left demanded to protect us from ourselves? yeah, they didn't amount to anything -

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fast-food-calorie-labels-not-working-study-finds/

liberals only succeeded in driving up the cost of doing business for the exclusive right to feel good about themselves.


opie said...

At least they keep the best interests of the country at hand and rightfully will allow nominations to proceed without the encumbrance of a rule that the right has used for years. It is a good thing, not bad. My favorite thing is now the R's have complete control and are fighting amongst themselves.

Myballs said...

Lol. Dopie funny.

Anonymous said...

My favorite thing is now the R's have complete control and are fighting amongst themselves.
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fighting among themselves, eh?

show us.

meanwhile, back in asshat land, nancy 'embrace the suck' pelosi kept her house MINORITY leader position.

thank you GOD.

Loretta said...

"thank you GOD."

LOL, amen!

Loretta said...

Keith Olbermann's going crazy again.

This is great.

wphamilton said...

Made me look :( He thinks that getting two thirds of the House and Senate, Trump's Cabinet and the Vice President to declare that Trump cannot perform the duties of the Presidency is a good idea worth looking into?

Is there something like that for political commentators who have lost touch with reality?

Loretta said...

Not really sure what he's saying.

I put him in the same bag with Glenn Beck - loons.

Anonymous said...



in other news, 0linsky grants an interview to rolling stone and proceeds to complain about 'fake news.'

'fake news'

'rolling stone'

yeah, THAT rolling stone. the one that wrote a fake news story about a campus rape that never happened. the one who got taken to court and now has to cough up $3 MILLION for the fake news story.

i'm surprised that as a nation, we've actually survived this fucking imbecile.

wphamilton said...

meanwhile, back in asshat land, nancy 'embrace the suck' pelosi kept her house MINORITY leader position.

Apparently they are still in denial about their institutional problems. The Democrats will collide with reality, soon enough.

Anonymous said...

Loretta Russo said...

Keith Olbermann's going crazy again.

This is great.
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just wait until inauguration day. roger is going to lose his shit on a galactic level.

i'm going to need a 5 point harness for my seat inside his head just to survive the ride.

Anonymous said...

The Democrats will collide with reality, soon enough.
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but a head on collision with the reality of the situation will never get them to change their tactics, wp. not a chance.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Draining the swamp?
He's FILLING it with 'gators.

Mnuchin is ... as much of a Wall Street insider as is humanly possible ... he's been linked to just about every financial boondoggle of the last decade or so.

For example, he's got a few million in his bank account courtesy of one Bernie Madoff.

Similarly, he profited handsomely from the housing meltdown of 2008, buying failed subprime lender IndyMac for pennies on the dollar, renaming it OneWest, and then shaking down desperate people with foreclosure threats.

Mnuchin netted $3.4 billion from the company when he sold it after six years.

These things may just be why Elizabeth Warren slammed the pick, calling Mnuchin, "the Forrest Gump of the financial crisis [who] managed to participate in all the worst practices on Wall Street."

So much for draining the swamp.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

That last was from the popular commentator Christopher Bates at electoral-vote.com.

Loretta said...

Spam

Loretta said...

No one cares, pedo

caliphate4vr said...

These are awesome

DISPATCHES FROM THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WHERE HILLARY CLINTON WON

Anonymous said...


pastor pederast,

it would appear that letting the assclown extraordinaire tag team of bates and tannenbaum do your thinking for you did not turn out too well.

and those gators that trump is filling his swamp with?

their favorite meal is liberal democrats.





Loretta said...

"i'm going to need a 5 point harness for my seat inside his head just to survive the ride."

LOL.

Bless his little heart.....

Loretta said...

"The Democrats will collide with reality, soon enough."

I heard a woman (a Democrat) from Michigan say that while Hillary was worried about bathrooms, Trump was worried about jobs.

caliphate4vr said...

just wait until inauguration day. roger is going to lose his shit on a galactic level.

i assume we won't get the treat of his 'live blogging' the inaugural like he did 8 years ago


Yo Yo Ma.....



wow, just wow....



More bands.....


LMAO

Anonymous said...

Yo Yo Ma.....



wow, just wow....



More bands.....

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i want trump to hire AC/DC to perform "highway to hell" just to rub it in.

LOL.

Anonymous said...



ABC News PoliticsVerified account

‏@ABCPolitics

NEW: Sarah Palin under consideration for Secretary of Veterans Affairs, sources tell @ABC News. -@shushwalshe


POP goes the alky!


C.H. Truth said...

Apparently they are still in denial about their institutional problems. The Democrats will collide with reality, soon enough.

I would have thought that collision with reality would be the election of Donald Trump over their savior Hillary Clinton. But I guess not.

Anonymous said...



here's a thought...

i wonder trumps dow will hit 20,000 before 0linsky's national debt hits 20 TRILLION.


Anonymous said...

I would have thought that collision with reality would be the election of Donald Trump over their savior Hillary Clinton. But I guess not.
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democrats are probably thinking they're just a few more transgendered rest rooms away from that permanent 'GOP in the wilderness for a generation' majority.

Myballs said...

Something to really make hb's head explode..... u just saw the first article about Trump going up on Mt. Rushmore.

It already appears that his thirty plus years experience as a CEO is and will serve him very well.

Anonymous said...


President Barack Obama on Monday signed into law the No Veterans Crisis Line Call Should Go Unanswered Act, which was sponsored by Rep. David Young, R-Ia.

Young called the bill's passage "a victory for our veterans, service members and their families in Iowa and across the country," in an email statement from his office.

The law requires the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to ensure calls made to its suicide hotline are returned in a timely manner.

“Problems with the Veterans Crisis Line are simply unacceptable," Young said in a statement when the bill was approved by the U.S. Senate. "And this legislation seeks to fix this critical mental health tool to support our returning heroes."

The bill was presented to the president on Nov. 18.

Its passage came following reports that an average of 35 percent to 40 percent of crisis calls received in May rolled over to backup centers where workers had less training to deal with veterans' problems.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2016/11/28/obama-signs-rep-youngs-veteran-crisis-line-bill/94574316/

amazing.

congress has to draft and pass, and the president has to sign a separate law requiring government employees to do their fucking jobs.

here's to hoping trump fires at least a full third of the federal workforce.

KD, Minority Speaker Nanny the Tax Cheater said...

RRB, good job of getting HB panties in a bind over on his kiddy blog.


embrace the suck - she won again

So nothing has been learned on the left, she will be direction more US Tax Payer dollars under the cover of her hubbies lame ass company.

KD said...

Apparently they are still in denial about their institutional problems. The Democrats will collide with reality, soon enough."

RRB, you do live rent free in poor stupid Financially challenged HB head, it must be like being lost in space, black and vapid.


I see the Trump Effect has caused more people in the USA to be richer , if they had the good sense to invest in the stock market since the Historic Election of Business man Trump. The Trump Effect.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

It's fun to scroll down a post with just the Troothers.

Kissing each other's asses.

EwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwEwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwEwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwEwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

It stinks.

KD said...

Newsweek is not over the devastating loss by their Girl


"Madam President" Newsweek on sale near you.



Adults were talking about matters that effected the big Historic Win, then in came the diaper pin wearing liberal and his trail of tears.


"TrumpCare" PBS devastated last night

KD, Hillary still Counting??? said...

Speaking of Smelling Lying Liberals (I know redundant, right).

The election is over , expect for the Hillary Recount but only in states she thought before the voting she won, funny how real votes always beat polling.

Senate minority leader Chuckie "Schumer: Republicans Are 'Plotting a War on Seniors'
By Susan Jones | November 30,2016"

He is so old he forgot what date the election was held on, he meant to tell this big lie before the election.


White Votes Matter = WVM

Replaced BLM

C.H. Truth said...

It's fun to scroll down a post with just the Troothers.

As opposed to scrolling down a typical comment thread over at the legacy blog?

Anonymous said...

As opposed to scrolling down a typical comment thread over at the legacy blog?
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LOL.

his posts can't draw draw flies over there.

KD, Hillary still Counting, lol said...

Hillary Stien Recount could not be going any better for the Republicans and President Elect Trump


The liberal press called Hillary one of the "Dead-enders" because she is lending lawyers, money and her name to this mess.

THE Hillary Soundtrack to this mess, give it a listen it has a lot of what SHE is doing in it, Send Lawyers, Guns and MONEY, because the shit has it the Fan

Loretta said...

"Kissing each other's asses."

"President elect Trump" has a good ring to it.

Indy Voter said...

It takes very little time to scroll through those.

KD, Union get Trump Help - Saves Jobs said...

It does Ette, very nice ring, sounds like freedom and prosperity.

Just ask those 1 k that are still going to be working in the USA at Carrier. Remember the HB lies, wait, I know there are so many, well to be more specific, the lie that "Trump hates unions and will destroy them" ,,,, fact, Carrier is a union shop.

"The president of the union that represents 1,400 Carrier Corp. workers in Indianapolis is not optimistic that a last-ditch effort by President-elect Donald Trump can save their jobs.

Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, said Friday he has not been briefed on talks between the incoming Trump administration and Carrier. But he doesn't see any chance for Trump or Vice President-elect Mike Pence to reverse Carrier's plan to move its west-side furnace operations to Monterrey, Mexico.

"If in fact (discussions) do materialize into something, I would think they'd have to include us at some point in time," Jones said."

Actually ole Chuck, let the adults get this deal done and you can con your members , IF, you can into believing you had something to do with this BIG WIN.


This was the stand Pre Trump Victory.

Question why did Hillary and Obama do nothing to stop these job losses to Mexico?

Commonsense said...

This is sure to explode at least three heads here.

Trump’s Path to Mount Rushmore
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD
Smart energy policy could give the next President his best prospect for spurring growth in manufacturing jobs—and thus delivering on the promises his voters think matter most.


Pundits are terrible at predicting presidencies; remember the hymns to the greatness of the Second Lincoln, the New Roosevelt, and the Democratic Reagan that wafted to the heavens during the Obama transition. And the pundits were even worse at predicting Trump’s fate during the election; how many times did they predict his demise? But now, as convinced as ever of his incompetence and their infallibility, the punditocracy is telling us why the Trump administration is doomed to implode.

No less than Obama himself thought he was on par with Ronald Reagan when it came to being a transformative president. Turns out he was no more transformative than a carnival barker and his legacy will not last one second beyond 12:01 PM on January 20th, 2017.

Loretta said...

12:01 PM on January 20th, 2017 can't come soon enough.

opie said...

Loretta Russo said...
12:01 PM on January 20th, 2017 can't come soon enough.

LOL.....wishing your life away...... good for you.