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"McCain has promised to continue blocking Supreme Court nominees if Hillary is elected."

Let the people decide... when they can finally make the right choice by voting Republican. lol

Hell, let's just let the SCotUS wither away to nothing. Anyway:

McCain walks back pledge to block Clinton Supreme Court nominee:
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/301391-mccain-walks-back-pledge-to-block-clinton-supreme-court-nominee

But you know it's going to be more of the same.

[Edited on October 18, 2016 at 9:01 PM. Reason : -]

10/18/2016 9:00:26 PM

I don't know if the CATO Institute qualifies as part of the GOP, but there's this:

http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/26/senate-refuse-confirm-hillary-clintons-judicial-nominees/

10/26/2016 6:50:23 PM

Cruz has jumped onto the perpetual nominee blocking bandwagon.

10/26/2016 10:23:47 PM

Not really worried about this, as long as the Dems win the Senate, Schumer will nuke the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees just like Reid did for the federal district courts.

10/27/2016 1:38:26 PM

http://youtu.be/icc0NXOdJQg

holy shit

10/27/2016 10:17:27 PM

Trumps America

10/27/2016 10:36:12 PM

^^ what was that

10/27/2016 11:01:11 PM

It was this,



Context:

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"Tammy Duckworth was born in Bangkok, Thailand, to Franklin and Lamai Duckworth. Her American father, who died in 2005, was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who traced his family's American roots to before the Revolutionary War. Her Thai mother is of Chinese ancestry."

Also, SHE HAS NO LEGS.

10/27/2016 11:02:45 PM

damn

Quote :

"She also pointed to the fact Kirk exaggerated his military service on his campaign website, describing himself as a "veteran of the Iraq War," while he only served in the Navy Reserves and was never deployed. "Senator Kirk has been caught lying about his military record over ten times, but he was quick to launch false attacks questioning Congresswoman Duckworth's family's long history of serving our country. A struggling political campaign is no excuse for baseless and despicable attacks, and Senator Kirk owes Congresswoman Duckworth and her family an apology," Sisselman said."

10/28/2016 9:35:54 AM

Racists shitheads like Mark Kirk were spewing their bullshit as Republicans long before Trump so maybe this will help dispel the notion that Trump hijacked the party and we can stop mourning the death of "intellectual conservatism" like that was a thing at any point in the last 25 years

10/28/2016 9:50:04 AM

^

10/28/2016 11:13:52 AM

Lol, he called Lindsey Graham "a bro with no ho."

10/28/2016 11:38:43 AM

^^^ You should read some of Bill Moyer's commentary during the Carter/Reagan election of '80.

He said the same exact shit that you and the Democratic party are spewing today concerning the Republican party. "They're all racists, they hate women, a vote for Reagan is a vote for resegregation and bigotry and sexism yadda yadda.

Your schtick is old and tired. Find something new. Reagan handed it to Carter, yet the world didn't end.

I'm not saying Trump is anything close to Reagan, and I'm not defending Trump here - he's said some pretty racist things, and I fully support the fact that he's a sexist. I'm just defending the party.

Find some new complaints.

10/28/2016 11:53:27 AM

where's your defense of the party?

10/28/2016 12:00:38 PM

Sounds like a man ahead of his time to me

[Edited on October 28, 2016 at 12:18 PM. Reason : And lol "the world didn't end" score one for the good guys ]

10/28/2016 12:16:43 PM

Quote :

"He said the same exact shit that you and the Democratic party are spewing today concerning the Republican party. "They're all racists, they hate women, a vote for Reagan is a vote for resegregation and bigotry and sexism yadda yadda."

Except I didn't say any of that.

Take your strawmen elsewhere, hack.

10/28/2016 12:55:56 PM

kudos for also implying that Reagan was great for black people

10/28/2016 1:04:20 PM

Quote :

"Your schtick is old and tired. Find something new. Reagan handed it to Carter, yet the world didn't end. I'm not saying Trump is anything close to Reagan, and I'm not defending Trump here - he's said some pretty racist things, and I fully support the fact that he's a sexist. I'm just defending the party. Find some new complaints. "

holy fucking shit

10/28/2016 1:35:13 PM

I'd say it's hard to believe how many of them are lining up to block ANY court appointments, but it's pretty much the new normal for them at this point.

11/2/2016 8:52:14 AM

With all the upcoming impeachment hearings, investigations, etc., it really is unfair to expect Congress to give up or down votes on judicial nominations.

11/2/2016 10:49:39 AM

so will people blame the GOP for creating the white supremacist who assassinated two cops, or is that kind of blame game constrained to just democrat SJW's who are soooo PC about Black Lives Matter

11/2/2016 10:59:05 AM

Funny and sad at the same time:

https://t.co/gaWPhkrzah

Republicans had a huge shift in their perspective of the economy, while democrats had a big shift, just from the election.

11/15/2016 4:45:54 PM

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a51364/cnn-dreamer-immigrant-santorum/

such a compassionate conservative

12/8/2016 11:00:54 AM

the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex

12/8/2016 11:32:42 AM

Lol at the first action out of the gate was to neuter the House Office of Congressional Ethics in a late night vote. Really putting your best foot forward and working for the American people.

1/3/2017 7:09:21 AM

^ obviously, 'drain the swamp', was referring to the ethics committee

[Edited on January 3, 2017 at 8:26 AM. Reason : H]

1/3/2017 8:26:26 AM

when even Trump's Twitter thinks you fucked up...

1/3/2017 11:32:16 AM

Absolute worst part is all the statements along the lines of "the office needed reform" or even worse "we need more due process against allegations, etc.".

How god damn stupid do they think we are that we might eat that bullshit? It's insulting as hell. Jack Abramoff, an actual scandal!!!!, was not that long ago.

Of course none of this outrage will matter. Conservatives, in their gerrymandered districts will refuse to hold their representatives accountable. Mostly because they are too worried about faked abortion videos or ACORN or Operation Jade Helm or whatever bogus stupid shit that they are currently hysterical about.

[Edited on January 3, 2017 at 12:01 PM. Reason : "We are trying to protect members from witch hunts" .... a god damn republican said that. Bwahahaha]

1/3/2017 11:54:54 AM

they reversed it unanimously already. Nice try assholes, but yes, people are actually watching what you do

1/3/2017 1:21:50 PM

Congressional ethics lolololol

1/3/2017 3:04:59 PM

1/5/2017 3:12:36 PM

1/5/2017 3:58:52 PM

Maybe when Planned Parenthood gets its funding stripped all the idiots in rural America will die off from STDs.

Of course, we all know they will just start knocking each other up at 16 and raise more idiots.

1/5/2017 4:07:19 PM

so amazing how raising the debt ceiling is suddenly not a huge national issue that we should shut down the government over

1/12/2017 10:44:11 AM

Since the ACA was too long to read before passing it, I'm assuming that the GOP is releasing a draft of their replacement plan any minute so everyone can review it?

1/13/2017 12:40:49 PM

Calm down. It will be terrific.

1/13/2017 12:44:45 PM

Quote :

"so amazing how raising the debt ceiling is suddenly not a huge national issue that we should shut down the government over"

I mean where are the Republican voters at? It's no surprise that the politicians are unprincipled, but back during the days of debt ceiling fights the tea party created enormous amounts of pressure on GOP congress people. It's like without Freedomworks or Heritage setting up AstroTurf campaigns all of these people just vaporized off the earth (one can wish) or stopped having an opinion on the matter.


Or maybe these folks were never principled to begin with and just blindly hated Obama.

1/13/2017 1:48:13 PM

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"Or maybe these folks were never principled to begin with and just blindly hated Obama."

1/13/2017 2:06:08 PM

Remember Obama inherited a $1.4 trillion federal budget deficit which had been reduced to below $500 billion by 2015. Hell, Obamacare itself has saved the federal government hundreds of billions in healthcare spending since it's passage and was projected to save trillions more, while ensuring the solvency of Medicare for decades. On the budget, like so many other issues, Obama would have been deified by "principled conservatives" if not for the (D) next to his name (or the color of his skin).

1/13/2017 2:19:29 PM

Don't worry guys, Jason Chaffetz is on top of any potential ethics problems going on.

He's called the Federal Ethcis Chief to Congress to get an expert opinion on the potential conflicts of interest the president-elect has with his businesses chastise him for commenting on Trump.

1/13/2017 3:10:36 PM

That Ethics Chief fella seems pretty sharp to me (between the tweets to Trump last month and his more recent rant, they were both SPOT ON). Seems like there is a decent chance he could rip Chaffetz a new butthole. #prayers

1/13/2017 3:34:10 PM

Quote :

"so amazing how raising the debt ceiling is suddenly not a huge national issue that we should shut down the government over"

this is one of those problems that the solution is too unpopular to ever happen so we will keep kicking the can down the road. Once interest rates inevitably go up we going to be pretty screwed tho

1/13/2017 7:16:10 PM

Yeah super huge problem we should shut the government down over... until republicans raise it in the middle of the night and no one cares

1/13/2017 8:39:34 PM

^oh i agree. i think we should freeze spending at current levels until the budget balances and then keep it balanced. its immoral to force future generations to pay for our benefits. its basically like buying a house and putting your grand kid's name on the mortgage note

[Edited on January 14, 2017 at 6:38 AM. Reason : a]

1/14/2017 6:30:05 AM

the debt ceiling and spending are not the same thing, they duped you into supporting them by tricking you into thinking they are

1/14/2017 6:42:20 AM

^i dont support anyone in Washington except maybe rand paul

i did not intend to imply they were the same thing if i did

[Edited on January 14, 2017 at 6:46 AM. Reason : s]

1/14/2017 6:43:24 AM

Rand Paul, who I mostly do like, better be careful... hes said some things recently that stink of Trump ass-kissing. In particular about Jim Acosta and the press..

1/14/2017 7:42:31 AM

Lepage out of nowhere takes the lead for worst hot take on civil rights in 2017.

1/17/2017 10:17:07 AM

Referenced in the President Trump credibility watch thread, the CBO's and JCT's estimates for the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015, which was passed by Congress and vetoed by President Obama:

Quote :

"The number of people who are uninsured would increase by 18 million in the first new plan year following enactment of the bill. Later, after the elimination of the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid eligibility and of subsidies for insurance purchased through the ACA marketplaces, that number would increase to 27 million, and then to 32 million in 2026. Premiums in the nongroup market (for individual policies purchased through the marketplaces or directly from insurers) would increase by 20 percent to 25 percent—relative to projections under current law—in the first new plan year following enactment. The increase would reach about 50 percent in the year following the elimination of the Medicaid expansion and the marketplace subsidies, and premiums would about double by 2026."

1/17/2017 2:18:00 PM

Does that study include the terrific low-cost plan that Trump has in which no one will be uninsured?

1/17/2017 2:26:05 PM