The democrats haven't learned a thing from this pass electtion. Man are their panties in a wad.

Funny read if wan't so sad.


Left wants Senate Dems to confirm Merrick Garland in a three-minute window in January or something

After the 114th Congress expires, but before the 2016 class of senators is sworn into the 115th Congress, there will only be 66 senators. Thirty-four of those senators (32 Democrats and two Independents) would then constitute a majority. Vice President Joe Biden, who under the Constitution also serves as the president of the Senate and may therefore serve as the body's presiding officer whenever he pleases, would refuse to recognize any motions made by Republicans and would grant the floor to Minority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.). Obama would re-nominate Garland to the Supreme Court, the Senate would immediately take up Durbin's motion to confirm Garland, and then Democrats would use the nuclear option to ram through Garland's confirmation with only 34 of 100 duly elected senators voting in the affirmative.

READ MORE....
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/12/07/fun-left-wants-senate-dems-to-confirm-merrick-garland-in-a-three-minute-window-in-january-or-something/

Quote from: Bronx on December 07, 2016, 03:33:13 PM
The democrats haven't learned a thing from this pass electtion. Man are their panties in a wad.

Funny read if wan't so sad.


Left wants Senate Dems to confirm Merrick Garland in a three-minute window in January or something

After the 114th Congress expires, but before the 2016 class of senators is sworn into the 115th Congress, there will only be 66 senators. Thirty-four of those senators (32 Democrats and two Independents) would then constitute a majority. Vice President Joe Biden, who under the Constitution also serves as the president of the Senate and may therefore serve as the body's presiding officer whenever he pleases, would refuse to recognize any motions made by Republicans and would grant the floor to Minority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.). Obama would re-nominate Garland to the Supreme Court, the Senate would immediately take up Durbin's motion to confirm Garland, and then Democrats would use the nuclear option to ram through Garland's confirmation with only 34 of 100 duly elected senators voting in the affirmative.

READ MORE....
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/12/07/fun-left-wants-senate-dems-to-confirm-merrick-garland-in-a-three-minute-window-in-january-or-something/

Easy enough to stop: declare a recess until Trump is sworn in.

What about the work of congress in the time they're in recess? Would anybody really know the difference btween them at work and them in recess?

Quote from: Ghoulardi on December 07, 2016, 03:48:28 PM
Easy enough to stop: declare a recess until Trump is sworn in.

What about the work of congress in the time they're in recess? Would anybody really know the difference btween them at work and them in recess?

If they go into recess b o appoint people as he likes.

Quote from: walkstall on December 07, 2016, 04:01:25 PM
If they go into recess b o appoint people as he likes.

Obama can appoint anyone he wants during a recess

They'll promptly be thrown out by the supreme court like his labor appointment a few years back

Quote
In a rebuke to President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court struck down three of his recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board as unconstitutional.

Read more at http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/supreme-court-recess-appointments-108347

Or perhaps Trump will call out the unconstitutional appointment and ask the individual/s to clean out their desk and leave.

Quote from: Ghoulardi on December 07, 2016, 04:07:24 PM
Obama can appoint anyone he wants during a recess

They'll promptly be thrown out by the supreme court like his labor appointment a few years back
Read more at http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/supreme-court-recess-appointments-108347

Or perhaps Trump will call out the unconstitutional appointment and ask the individual/s to clean out their desk and leave.

The SC is now 2 and 2 not 2 and 2 and 1 maybe for the people.

Quote from: walkstall on December 07, 2016, 05:59:57 PM
The SC is now 2 and 2 not 2 and 2 and 1 maybe for the people.

Looks like I got that one backwards. Reviewing the Politico website I cited, I found it was when the senate was in session, even pro forma session, Obama could not constitutionally make appointments. I apologize for the error, Walks.

Quote from: Ghoulardi on December 07, 2016, 07:08:41 PM
Looks like I got that one backwards. Reviewing the Politico website I cited, I found it was when the senate was in session, even pro forma session, Obama could not constitutionally make appointments. I apologize for the error, Walks.

Not a problem, in this day and age we help each other.  Even after b o is out of office. 

And, a very good article why the above shenanigans can not possibly work:

QuoteNo, Senate Democrats Can't Use The 'Nuclear Option' To Confirm Merrick Garland

...By custom, Congress convenes on January 3 of odd years to begin a new congressional term. By law, however, the term of duly elected senators within a particular class begins precisely at noon on January 3. The terms for new senators begin at the precise moment the terms for the previous senators expires. The 2016 class of the U.S. Senate consists of 34 senators. They become senators not at the whims of Joe Biden or Dick Durbin, but by the combined authority of the U.S. Constitution and the voters who elected them to office. This fact alone nukes the entirety of Waldman's point, because the alleged gap of time during which he proposes his parliamentary chicanery simply does not exist....

http://thefederalist.com/2016/12/07/no-senate-democrats-cant-use-nuclear-option-confirm-merrick-garland/

Also, from the OP's link:

QuoteLotta problems here, as Davis notes. For one thing, since the Senate's beginning a new term, Obama would need to re-nominate Garland that same day. But there's a Senate rule that says nominations can't be taken up on the day they're introduced without unanimous consent. There's also a rule that gives a Senator's presentation of credentials, i.e. the swearing-in of senators, priority over all other business, which suggests that Biden couldn't properly hold a vote on Garland even if he wanted to while there are 34 newbies standing by waiting to have their oaths administered. Democrats could, in theory, vote to suspend both of those rules, but that requires a two-thirds majority. They don't have the numbers.

In short, they can fantasize all they want, but nothing is going to happen. They lost. Too bad. Suck it up. Deal with it. (and other similar platitudes.)

I would wish them better luck next time, but honestly, I hope they lose even worse next time.

Plus, Garland was a rubber worm-bait pick, with authentic-looking 'conservative' traits, in order to get McConnell to 'bite' on it... 

obama's calculation was to throw the Republican-primaries into disarray by making the GOP look 'obstructionist-ridden'.

If she'd won, I guarantee that madam carpetbag would've immediately withdrawn Garland's name and replaced it with a flaming commie lib.

Every time one of Trump's appointees passes the GOP should hold a moment of silence to thank Harry Reid for making it all possible.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on December 08, 2016, 08:02:12 AM
Every time one of Trump's appointees passes the GOP should hold a moment of silence to thank Harry Reid for making it all possible.

This is the party too stupid to learn from its own breathtakingly ignorant mistakes. Not just running Senorita Skank in the first instance, but also their childish refusal to accept defeat at the same rules they enjoyed in other times and races.

"We'll cheat to win. We're Democrats, the criminal class --- and right now our leadership is looking pretty ancient as Pelosi fights off Ryan in the House and Harry "Mr. Exercise" Reid staggers off into oblivion."

Their Blue Dogs (fiscal conservatives) are reportedly all but gone and the social liberals dominate. Eight miserable years under Obama wasn't enough. I see a sunset ahead for the oldest American political party. That nightfall is long overdue.