Have you ever had your sewerage back up? Now, I’m not talking about a minor problem but a major, BIG TIME back up that has erupted all over everything. Now think about your bathroom full of crud and your toilet full of crud. Now tell me the characteristics of the turd that is three from the back and two deep in the toilet bowl. You can’t, and you are probably questioning my sanity, because, when the world is full of crap, nobody pays attention to one single turd. That is exactly the strategy the Republican Party will be employing next week.
Senate Democrats are frustrated that Republican leaders have scheduled six confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees next Wednesday, the same day the president-elect will hold his first press conference in many months.
Democrats oppose several of the appointees and hope to drag out the vetting process, thus maximizing the public exposure of their complaints. They are concerned that with multiple hearings occurring simultaneously, it will be more difficult to fully question and evaluate the nominees in public settings. They’re also concerned that the schedule coincides with Trump’s press conference – and will take place the day after President Obama’s final speech in office – further taking attention away from the confirmation process.
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor Thursday he had shared his concerns about the schedule with his Republican counterpart, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and hoped for a solution to “alleviate the crunch.”
“That is mostly unprecedented in the modern era of Cabinet considerations, happening only once in history,” Schumer said of the six hearings in one day. “That’s not the standard."
Schumer said “mostly unprecedented” because six confirmation hearings for President George W. Bush’s nominees were held two days before his 2001 inauguration.
“They’re jamming them together so that they receive less scrutiny and attention individually,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “I regret that there are so many hearings bunched together."
Republicans, for the most part, dismissed these concerns…
From <Real Clear Politics>
The press will pay little if any attention to the hearings, because Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten is holding his first press conference since last July, when he asked Russia to hack the Democratic candidate.
Rachel Maddow thinks Trump’s intent is to stifle coverage.
I think she has a point.
There can be only one way to proceed. Use every dirty trick the Republicans used against Obama to block every nominee. They can’t block a good one. Hell, if there were a Department of Animal Husbandry, Trump would appoint Michael Vick to head it up.
RESIST!!
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Or this:
I think it's a combination of avoiding publicity and avoiding awkward questioning. Whatever it is, it is definitely a dirty trick. And your analogy, disgusting though it is, is perfect for this disgusting behavior.
RESIST !!!
Oh….but of course!
I 'back' you up on this. It's one big cluster!
You gotta give Rethuglicans credit for one unparalleled skill:
When it comes to unbridled assholery, they excel!
PS: A teeny, tiny thumbnail of that toilet would have been appreciated.
I'm thoroughly disgusted, but this time not so much by the Republicans who are doing exactly what they've always been doing.
No, this time it was 'Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor Thursday he had shared his concerns about the schedule with his Republican counterpart, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and hoped for a solution to “alleviate the crunch.”' which set my teeth on edge. So much for the resistance Democrats were going to put up in the Senate and House!
It's bloody unbelievable! Instead of coming up with a way to block those nominations no matter what, Schumer slithered on his belly to McConnell in the hope McConnell would do something to alleviate the crunch he and his cronies had worked so hard to put together. I bet the Republicans still haven't stopped laughing. They've got Democrats exactly where they want them again and Schumer gave them the assurance they needed.
I'm sorry, it's probably not what many people here want to hear, but there are too many signs the party isn't going to put up a fight against Drumpf and his horror cabinet at all and America is in for the four worst years the country has ever seen. Sadly that will also be true for the rest of the world if Drumpf is allowed to wreak his havoc on America and the rest of the planet. My only hope now is that progressives will do what it takes to unburden themselves from the DINO party as soon as possible. It'll be too late to stop Drumpf and his minions, but it may give America a fighting chance in 2020. If there's something left to fight for, that is.
The party needs to be reformed from the ground up. There's really nowhere else to go. I certainly would never support Putin loving Jill Stein.
What Lona said is so true. The dems are all ready rolling over and playing dead rather than standing up to the Republican thugs.
resist, thanks
Think of a river in spring time. When the mountain snowpack melts, water streams down to rivers which eventually become overloaded such that they spill their banks creating flooding and damage, in many cases, severe damage that can take months, even years from which to recover.
This is how I see Drumpf, the flooding river.
From Wikipedia :
Drumpf is setting himself up as an absolute monarch — what he says goes! And he is being aided and abetted by Republicans and voters who don't pay attention but blindly acquiesce. In the 1930's, Hitler did the same thing. Part of both of those plans was to control the flow of information. By arranging multiple seemingly conflicting events — 6 nomination hearings, his 1st press conference, following Obama's last address the day before — he is attempting to flood the plain so that the press is sent scurrying for higher ground and nothing receives its due attention. It is time for people like Dan Rather to saddle up to help cover the events so that Drumpf doen't get his way. The king must be seen in his new clothes.
The US needs a New Age of Enlightenment.
Resist!!!
Thanks all! Hugs!!
That is their way of stopping any publicity for any single one appointee! Of course they are plugging up the publicity for these horrid appointees! Jeff Sessions is one and Scott Pruitt is another that should be fully investigated and vetted BEFORE they get to voting for them! Scott Pruitt is the EPA's utter polar opposite!!! He wants to get rid of the EPA and help the Big Oil Magnates get around regulations!!!