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Rip wrote:

Smoove_B wrote:

Rip wrote:I'm wondering if he expects them to not confirm Sessions making it a cakewalk to get Cruz through......

I thought Cruz was being prepared for Supreme Court nomination?

I've heard he was going to pick one from that list he floated awhile back.

The names on Trump's list are:

1. Keith Blackwell
2. Charles Canady
3. Steven Colloton
4. Allison Eid
5. Neil Gorsuch
6. Raymond Gruender
7. Thomas Hardiman
8. Raymond Kethledge
9. Joan Larsen
10. Mike Lee
11. Thomas Lee
12. Edward Mansfield
13. Federico Moreno
14. William Pryor
15. Margaret A. Ryan
16. Amul Thapar
17. Timothy Tymkovich
18. David Stras
19. Diane Sykes
20. Don Willett
21. Robert Young

I'm thinking Mike Lee.

Paingod wrote:*Edit: As an aside, I actually feel much better since discovering AdBlock Plus let's me set specific images to "Blocked" - RIP's avatar was making me want to punch my screen every time I saw it. Not seeing it makes me so much happier.

Smoove_B wrote:

Scraper wrote:Did you watch South Park this week? Spot on. It was brilliant and they even managed to combine the White House music with the Imperial March every time Drumpf/President Garrison was on.

Wow, no I did not. I guess I'm not as clever as I thought I was.

RunningMn9 wrote:My conservative #NeverTrump sources, which were highly critical of Priebus (unqualified), Bannon (racist douche) and Flynn (crank), seem *very* happy with the Pompeo pick. West Point Grad, Army Officer, Harvard Law (including editor of the Harvard Law Review). Allegedly very intelligent.

They have labeled him a "conventional Republican" pick.

Rep. Pompeo wrote: He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think that the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence for having put friends of mine, friends of yours, in the military today, at enormous risk because of the information he stole and then released to foreign powers.

Rip wrote:That was when a democrat was president

LordMortis wrote:Douche

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... n-kentucky

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:I suppose not surprisingly, it doesn't look like Trump is making much of an effort to have diversity in his cabinet:

Kraken wrote:

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:I suppose not surprisingly, it doesn't look like Trump is making much of an effort to have diversity in his cabinet:

I dunno, seven of those photos are colored.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:Well done.

In other news, Trump has settled the Trump University lawsuit for 25 million dollars. I'm guessing part of the terms of the settlement is that he doesn't have to admit fault...

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:Well done.

In other news, Trump has settled the Trump University lawsuit for 25 million dollars. I'm guessing part of the terms of the settlement is that he doesn't have to admit fault...

tjg_marantz wrote:He didn't settle and he'll never settle. He said so during the campaign.

raydude wrote:P**sy grabbing hands!

hepcat wrote:

raydude wrote:P**sy grabbing hands!

That really needs to be a techno song.

$iljanus wrote:

hepcat wrote:

raydude wrote:P**sy grabbing hands!

That really needs to be a techno song.

Sounds like something The Prodigy could come up with...or Morrissey.

RunningMn9 wrote:...
Sessions has been Alabama's Attorney General and has been a US Attorney. So whatever you think about how he did those jobs, he's not a fish out of water as the US AG. I have questions about his judgment (i.e. thinking that Trump would be a good President), but this seems like a fairly straightforward appointment. I don't like it because I don't like the man making the appointment, and I don't like the sorts of things that I suspect Sessions will focus on as AG (or rather what he'll choose to have the DoJ ignore). But I understand it...

malchior wrote: but also being part of the process and guiding someone who is frankly inept has got to be compelling.

RunningMn9 wrote:Yeah, being a competent con man doesn't imply competence at governing a nation of 320M people dealing with extraordinarily complex problems.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: In other news, Trump has settled the Trump University lawsuit for 25 million dollars.

We're going to have professors and adjunct professors that are absolutely terrific. Terrific people. Terrific brains. Successful. The best. We are going to have the best of the best. And, honestly, if you don't learn from them, if you don't learn from me, if you don't learn from the people that we're going to be putting forward, and these are all people that are handpicked by me, then, you're just not gonna make it in terms of the world of success. And that's okay, but you're not gonna make it in terms of success.

Defiant wrote: I bet Trump is feeling like an idiot - imagine, a whole audience of sixty million people that it's been shown these speeches work on, and he only conned money out of a few thousand?

A senate rule change championed by outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid could leave Democrats powerless to stop any of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments.

In 2013, Sen. Reid and other Democrats pushed forward with a rule change dubbed the “nuclear option” to eliminate filibusters for all presidential nominations except Supreme Court justices. This means that a simple majority of 51 votes instead of 60 votes is necessary to confirm executive office appointments.

The Republicans are set to enter 2017 with at least 51 senators and can gain another seat with a likely win in the December senate run-off race in Louisiana.

So while Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman Donna Brazile has called for the senate to reject Trump’s nomination of Republican Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general, Trump’s cabinet will get confirmed as long Republicans vote along party lines.

Many Democrats have publicly displayed a lack of regret for the rule change.