Trump handed defeat by GOP Senate

[Dem4life1970]

Last edited Fri Nov 15, 2024, 06:43 PM - Edit history (1)

[CurtEastPoint]

1. the URL to display the image is here. It has to end with an image extension: jpg png etc.

[GreenWave]

2. Just like Ivanka, Jarrod and Melanoma were going to control him 8 years ago...

Oh wait. They didn't.

[Septua]

3. The matter at hand is whether he remains anti-Trump.

Both chambers of Congress has and had, enough anti-trump members to end the political life of Trump when they had the chance. But they didn't have the spine to do it. They could start impeachment hearings as soon as the new Congress begins, if they had the spine.

The Congress is supposed to be the 'check' on the Executive Branch, as provided by the Constitution. But Congress is too scared to exercise their authority. What has transpired over the past 8 years would not have transpired 50 years ago.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. He has already backed ndown from his no recess appointments pledge

[Septua]

5. That's breaking news...

My initial impression was some of the GOP Senators actually questioned the competence of some of the nominees. I should have known better.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cabinet-recess-appointments-john-thune-1986307

Senator John Thune has suggested that recess appointments could be a potential strategy to push through President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet appointments.

To get around this predicament, Trump could use recess appointments and bypass the Senate to get his Cabinet picks confirmed, according to Republican senator and incoming Majority Leader John Thune. "I think that all options are on the table, including recess appointments. Hopefully, it doesn't get to that but we'll find out fairly quickly whether the Democrats want to play ball or not," he said on Thursday during an interview with Fox News.

"...it's a question of how much the Democrats resist or object, or try to block those nominations from going forward. We're gonna grind them out. We're gonna keep consistently moving and we'll see what kind of cooperation we get, and we'll make decisions about where do we go from there."

[Maru Kitteh]

6. *yawn*

The idea that a single vertebrae exists collectively between the lot of them is blotto.

[WarGamer]

7. not really...

Thune and Trump have spoken several times since the election, with the Senator assuring the President-Elect he'd be on his side...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/13/thunes-trump-gop-00189473

John Thune triumphed in his campaign for GOP leader by laser-focusing on two things: Republican senators and mending his relationship with Donald Trump.

“[Thune] said over and over and over and over that he was going to make President Trump’s agenda his agenda, and so I feel good about that,” prominent conservative Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who supported Cornyn, said after the vote.

“They’re in a good place with each other,” added Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), who’s spent recent time with Trump and is a Thune ally. “There’s no rift between them. There are no concerns about their relationship at all.”