Mike Pompeo won a favorable vote Monday from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after Sen. Rand Paul flipped to endorse him, paving an unexpectedly easy path for the CIA director to win confirmation as secretary of state as soon as this week.
Pompeo appeared all but guaranteed to draw an unfavorable recommendation from the committee, with Paul firmly opposed, until the Kentucky Republican opted to vote yes after getting a personal appeal from President Donald Trump. Had Paul not changed his stance, Pompeo was on track to become just the third nominee in two decades to get a negative report in committee — and likely the first in that time to win a vote in the full Senate.
Paul said his surprising turnabout on Pompeo came after multiple conversations with Trump and after getting what he described as "assurances" that the hawkish nominee sees the war in Iraq as "a mistake" and wants to wind down the U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
With bi-partisan support looming in the full Senate, Pompeo seems to be a shoo-in for the job. Moreover, he certainly seems to be the most qualified and more in sync with the President's initiatives.
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Wants to wind down the U.S. presence in Afghanistan? Given that Obama promised to wind down our presence as soon as he took office, and Trump campaigned on winding down our presence, and we should have been winding down around 15 years ago, that's rather flimsy and naive for Rand Paul to accept assurances about.
It makes you wonder what his real deal is. I guess we'll probably never know.
So Much Winning.
So much 5 liberal stooges of CHT Crying.
Off topic:
NY gov cuomo now wants to ban plastic bags. Didn't we move to them because they were better for the environment?
Meanwhile PA continues to develop the marcellus shale while cuomo sits with his thumb up his *ss.
Top that California.
WP, I completely agree we should have never gone to that shithole and I have been saying exit for 14 years. Bomb the hell out of them and be done.
Hard to believe with an R majority they could barely get the votes to confirm this fraud....Great job, donnie....!!! Next, the VA hearings begin...wonder how that one will work out????
Didn't we move to them because they were better for the environment?
Really???? LOL
Bomb, or whatever we needed to do there, and then leave. We could bug out, everything right now, and it wouldn't harm us or our interests. It's not like we owed them, to ride herd on the Taliban or anything like that.
I have believed, and I still believe, that the main reason we stay deployed in Afghanistan is to have a force projected there, an eye to Iran and Pakistan. It's never been worth it, IMO.
The environmental impact of plastic grocery bags isn't that bad until they wind up in the ocean or littering the landscape.
Personally I like to keep them because I use them for other purposes, usually at least one re-use per. I think it mitigates at least the greenhouse cost of producing them. Also, if NY is that concerned about them, it wouldn't be that hard to set up recycling. Put a box by mailboxes, contract the USPS to pick them up. It wouldn't take up that much space ...
I agree that a ban would be silly - discourage the packaging of everything in plastic, that would be many times more effective.
Remember when plastic straws were the darling of environmentalist because they save on trees being chopped down to produce paper straws?
Funny thing is that it's not the industrial powers that is the problem.
They have to technology and awareness to process and dispose of plastic items.
It's when they are shipped to the third world.
California's ban is symbolic and unnecessary.
I have believed, and I still believe, that the main reason we stay deployed in Afghanistan is to have a force projected there, an eye to Iran and Pakistan. It's never been worth it, IMO.
They don't call Afghanistan the graveyard of empires for nothing.
If what happens in Afghanistan stays in Afghanistan I would only be too happy to leave then to their medieval tribal wars.
Unfortunately that's not the case.
Remember when plastic straws were the darling of environmentalist
Really.....don't recall that at all!!!
Didn't we move to them because they were better for the environment?" MB
I see this question stumped fatty.
Plastic straws?"CS
Remember, water bottles was a liberal idea and we should be out of oil by now.
Peak Oil, another human modeling failure.
Democrat Presidential contender Sanders declared: “These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger.”
Trump $1 Trillion deficit
Obama $1.65 Trillion deficit
Take a guess at which deficit has the 5 liberal stooges of CHT Triggered?
"These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger.”
Yeah, all equally poor, all equally desperate for something to eat.
Anybody that honeymoons in the old soviet union should be automatically disqualified from running for president.
Yep.
Democrat Presidential contender Sanders has followed on with;
" will propose a jobs guarantee program for every American worker “who wants or needs one.” (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Sen. Bernie Sanders will announce a plan for the federal government to guarantee a job paying $15 an hour and health-care benefits to every American worker “who wants or needs one,” embracing the kind of large-scale government works project that Democrats have shied away from in recent decades.
Sanders's jobs guarantee would fund hundreds of projects throughout the United States aimed at addressing priorities such as infrastructure, care giving, the environment, education and other goals. Under the job guarantee, every American would be entitled to a job under one of these projects or receive job training to be able to do so, according to an early draft of the proposal."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/01/15/obamas-federal-debt-grew-at-a-slower-rate-than-reagan-h-w-bush-or-w-bush/#115b67861917
Maybe the freemartin fucker can point out how he arrived at his hocus BS number of 1.65 T from these actual values....I'm sure he will lie about it, just like his false idol trump
Fiscal 2007: $161 billion (next to last year of Bush’s second term)
Fiscal 2008: $459 billion (beginning impact from the Great Recession)
Fiscal 2009: $1.4 trillion (Obama’s first year and in the teeth of the Recession)
Fiscal 2010: $1.3 trillion
Fiscal 2011: $1.3 trillion
Fiscal 2012: $1.1 trillion
Fiscal 2013: $680 billion
Fiscal 2014: $485 billion
Fiscal 2015: $438 billion
Fiscal 2016: $587 billion
Fiscal 2017: $666 billion (Trump’s first year of his Presidency)
It is clear that the almost $1 trillion jump between fiscal 2008 and 2009 was due to the Great Recession. Tax receipts fell, expenditures rose and Obama and Congress passed the American
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