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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The Republicans in the Senate have managed to devolve to a point where even "let him nominate, it won't get past us" is acceptable. Now, they apparently have to block and obstruct and generally wreck the political process of the US or they "lose" somehow.
Is the Senate vote a secret vote? If it is, that might explain it, since a surprisingly large amount of the Senate Republicans are vocally getting sick of the obstructionism.
edited 2nd Apr '16 3:35:28 PM by Zendervai
I meant the confirm one.
And since it isn't a secret vote, that means this is getting progressively stupider, at least in my opinion.
Or is Mc Connell that worried about people breaking ranks?
So basically, the GOP plans to blow itself up, metaphorically speaking, rather than hand their Bushwood over to Al Czervik
edited 2nd Apr '16 5:21:04 PM by PotatoesRock
He acts like New Money and that's all that matters. He doesn't follow the rules of the dinner forks, nor the proper clothing combinations.
Trump doesn't follow the rules, and that's part of the rejection. He may be Old Money, but he acts like a boorish New Money slob who doesn't follow the rules of decorum and dog whistles and is threatening the 'dignity' of their racket
@Zendervai: It's not a formal "vote" at all. The nomination won't even come to a vote at all without the support of the majority of the Republican caucus (the Hastert Rule
).
Its just crazy- its a agency that is supposed to protect people (I think) but now theyre abusing a process that only makes people less secure. They wont even tell apple how they hacked the iphone. Plus I think they technically lied under oath when they said there was no way for them to hack the iphone without a backdoor?
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The FBI would probably say that they're making the country as a whole more secure.
The FBI didn't know how at the time how to hack the iPhone. Their people later found a way.
Keep Rolling OnConsidered the amount of Inter-Service Rivalry I've read in accounts of FBI interactions with other law enforcement agencies, domestic and foreign, I reckon their pride simply prevented them from turning to the NSA. Didn't they find some Israeli forensic outfit to do the hack?
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotThey'd rather rely on foreigners than on their local rivals? I may be wrong, but this seems despicable.
Well, I must confess I'm intensely biased against contracting Israeli folks on matters of "defense", "security", and "intelligence".
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