Senate Democrats Run For Home

[AlaCowboy]

Senate Democrats struck a deal with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to approve 15 federal judges if Mitch would let them go home. President Trump will now have appointed 13% of active federal judges. He has two more years to raise that total.
Why did Democrats want to go home? They need to campaign and raise funds so they can keep their cushy seats in the Senate. I wonder if the progressive Liberal Lefties will condemn their state Senators for this?


www.aol.com/article/news/2018/08/29/democrats-just-confirmed-lots-of-trumps-judges-so-they-could-skip-town/23512171/

[Walter]

Aug 29, 2018 21:41:20 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

Senate Democrats struck a deal with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to approve 15 federal judges if Mitch would let them go home. President Trump will now have appointed 13% of active federal judges. He has two more years to raise that total.
Why did Democrats want to go home? They need to campaign and raise funds so they can keep their cushy seats in the Senate. I wonder if the progressive Liberal Lefties will condemn their state Senators for this?


www.aol.com/article/news/2018/08/29/democrats-just-confirmed-lots-of-trumps-judges-so-they-could-skip-town/23512171/

Very strange. Seems like a deal was made, but what?

[AlaCowboy]

Aug 29, 2018 22:01:06 GMT -5 Walter said:

Aug 29, 2018 21:41:20 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

Senate Democrats struck a deal with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to approve 15 federal judges if Mitch would let them go home. President Trump will now have appointed 13% of active federal judges. He has two more years to raise that total.
Why did Democrats want to go home? They need to campaign and raise funds so they can keep their cushy seats in the Senate. I wonder if the progressive Liberal Lefties will condemn their state Senators for this?


www.aol.com/article/news/2018/08/29/democrats-just-confirmed-lots-of-trumps-judges-so-they-could-skip-town/23512171/

Very strange. Seems like a deal was made, but what?

I told you why. They wanted to get out on the campaign trail. McConnell had scheduled the votes on these nominees for late August and early September and Congress is usually on recess from mid-August till after Labor Day.
Here's a quote from the article I linked.

WASHINGTON ― Senate Democrats just gave a huge gift to President Donald Trump: They agreed to expedite votes on 15 of his nominees to lifetime federal court seats because they wanted to go home.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) had lined up votes for all those district court nominees last week. Normally, Senate rules require up to 30 hours of waiting time for each nominee ― something Democrats typically take advantage of to delay action on confirming Trump judges. But Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) cut a deal with McConnell on Tuesday to bypass the wait times and let them all get through.

Why? So Democrats could get back to campaigning and focusing on winning re-election in November. The Senate is now out of session until next Tuesday.

Of the 15 nominees, six were confirmed by voice votes on Tuesday. Another one was confirmed on a recorded vote. The remaining eight will get quick votes next week.

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Their campaigning will all be for naught. They're running scared and for good reason - The middle has had enough of their shit and the big blue wave won't be what they think... It'll be the tsunami that washes them out of office.

[bamorin]

Aug 30, 2018 9:08:05 GMT -5 @kelliers said:

Their campaigning will all be for naught. They're running scared and for good reason - The middle has had enough of their shit and the big blue wave won't be what they think... It'll be the tsunami that washes them out of office.

shumer is safe. Abe Lincoln couldn't win that seat.

[AlaCowboy]

Aug 30, 2018 9:08:05 GMT -5 @kelliers said:

Their campaigning will all be for naught. They're running scared and for good reason - The middle has had enough of their shit and the big blue wave won't be what they think... It'll be the tsunami that washes them out of office.

Republican and Conservative voters better not think this way. With the wave of unverifiable mail-in and absentee ballots every vote is needed.

[Deleted]

Aug 30, 2018 12:27:22 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

Aug 30, 2018 9:08:05 GMT -5 @kelliers said:

Their campaigning will all be for naught. They're running scared and for good reason - The middle has had enough of their shit and the big blue wave won't be what they think... It'll be the tsunami that washes them out of office.

Republican and Conservative voters better not think this way. With the wave of unverifiable mail-in and absentee ballots every vote is needed.

Agreed. Complacent Republican voters need to be worried enough to get out and vote in numbers they traditionally haven't been doing so in the past.

[Walter]

Aug 30, 2018 12:27:22 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

Aug 30, 2018 9:08:05 GMT -5 @kelliers said:

Their campaigning will all be for naught. They're running scared and for good reason - The middle has had enough of their shit and the big blue wave won't be what they think... It'll be the tsunami that washes them out of office.

Republican and Conservative voters better not think this way. With the wave of unverifiable mail-in and absentee ballots every vote is needed.

Historically the largest number of unverifiable and absentee ballots are by Republicans.
That's why Republican legislatures never pass any laws to verify and ID those voters, even though it is, by far, the largest percentage of illegal votes cast.

"Critics of absentee voting laws in the United States believe that some laws make it easier to commit absentee ballot vote fraud."
ballotpedia.org/Absentee_ballot_vote_fraud

[AlaCowboy]

Aug 30, 2018 13:34:02 GMT -5 Walter said:

Aug 30, 2018 12:27:22 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

Republican and Conservative voters better not think this way. With the wave of unverifiable mail-in and absentee ballots every vote is needed.

Historically the largest number of unverifiable and absentee ballots are by Republicans.
That's why Republican legislatures never pass any laws to verify and ID those voters, even though it is, by far, the largest percentage of illegal votes cast.

"Critics of absentee voting laws in the United States believe that some laws make it easier to commit absentee ballot vote fraud."
ballotpedia.org/Absentee_ballot_vote_fraud

Many Republican voter absentee ballots are from military members stationed around the world. Al Gore attempted to get thousands of military absentee ballots rejected in the 2000 election because they arrived after the deadline, even though they were in military officials hands well before the deadlines and were delayed due to combat conditions in other countries.
Walter, do you have a link to back up your claim that the largest number of unverifiable ballots are by Republicans? Seems like unverifiable ballots would be difficult to, er, um, verify as Republican. But I'm sure you can do so.

[Walter]

Aug 30, 2018 15:03:13 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

Aug 30, 2018 13:34:02 GMT -5 Walter said:

Historically the largest number of unverifiable and absentee ballots are by Republicans.
That's why Republican legislatures never pass any laws to verify and ID those voters, even though it is, by far, the largest percentage of illegal votes cast.

"Critics of absentee voting laws in the United States believe that some laws make it easier to commit absentee ballot vote fraud."
ballotpedia.org/Absentee_ballot_vote_fraud

Many Republican voter absentee ballots are from military members stationed around the world. Al Gore attempted to get thousands of military absentee ballots rejected in the 2000 election because they arrived after the deadline, even though they were in military officials hands well before the deadlines and were delayed due to combat conditions in other countries.
Walter, do you have a link to back up your claim that the largest number of unverifiable ballots are by Republicans? Seems like unverifiable ballots would be difficult to, er, um, verify as Republican. But I'm sure you can do so.

Why would any election official agree to count an unverified ballot? Unverified...how?
As to Republicans and absentee voting, note I used the word "historically". That's how it used to be back in the day and though it has begun to change recently, I'd guess it still leans Republican.
Here's a story about Florida where it DOES lean Republican. Note the highlighted portion.

MIAMI — Approximately 311,000 Floridians cast absentee ballots by Friday morning in the nation’s biggest battleground state, and the numbers are increasingly moving in favor of Democrats and their White House nominee, Hillary Clinton.

Compared to the day before and this point four years ago, Democrats are catching up to Republicans in the number of voted absentee ballots — a part of the election that the Florida GOP used to own. But now, Republicans are ahead of Democrats by just 1.9 percentage points (about 42-40 percent), compared with a 3 percent advantage held Thursday by the GOP and a 3.9-point Republican advantage at this point relative to Election Day in 2012, state elections data shows.

www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2016/10/fla-early-ballots-and-voter-registration-numbers-show-democrats-surging-in-fla-106392

[AlaCowboy]

Aug 30, 2018 16:05:06 GMT -5 Walter said:

Aug 30, 2018 15:03:13 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

Many Republican voter absentee ballots are from military members stationed around the world. Al Gore attempted to get thousands of military absentee ballots rejected in the 2000 election because they arrived after the deadline, even though they were in military officials hands well before the deadlines and were delayed due to combat conditions in other countries.
Walter, do you have a link to back up your claim that the largest number of unverifiable ballots are by Republicans? Seems like unverifiable ballots would be difficult to, er, um, verify as Republican. But I'm sure you can do so.

Why would any election official agree to count an unverified ballot? Unverified...how?
As to Republicans and absentee voting, note I used the word "historically". That's how it used to be back in the day and though it has begun to change recently, I'd guess it still leans Republican.
Here's a story about Florida where it DOES lean Republican. Note the highlighted portion.

MIAMI — Approximately 311,000 Floridians cast absentee ballots by Friday morning in the nation’s biggest battleground state, and the numbers are increasingly moving in favor of Democrats and their White House nominee, Hillary Clinton.

Compared to the day before and this point four years ago, Democrats are catching up to Republicans in the number of voted absentee ballots — a part of the election that the Florida GOP used to own. But now, Republicans are ahead of Democrats by just 1.9 percentage points (about 42-40 percent), compared with a 3 percent advantage held Thursday by the GOP and a 3.9-point Republican advantage at this point relative to Election Day in 2012, state elections data shows.

www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2016/10/fla-early-ballots-and-voter-registration-numbers-show-democrats-surging-in-fla-106392

So, no link to back up your claim that republicans lead in the unverifiable ballot category? According to the rules your posts with that claim must be deleted.
Administrator? Please administrate.

[Walter]

Aug 30, 2018 16:36:43 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

Aug 30, 2018 16:05:06 GMT -5 Walter said:

Why would any election official agree to count an unverified ballot? Unverified...how?
As to Republicans and absentee voting, note I used the word "historically". That's how it used to be back in the day and though it has begun to change recently, I'd guess it still leans Republican.
Here's a story about Florida where it DOES lean Republican. Note the highlighted portion.

MIAMI — Approximately 311,000 Floridians cast absentee ballots by Friday morning in the nation’s biggest battleground state, and the numbers are increasingly moving in favor of Democrats and their White House nominee, Hillary Clinton.

Compared to the day before and this point four years ago, Democrats are catching up to Republicans in the number of voted absentee ballots — a part of the election that the Florida GOP used to own. But now, Republicans are ahead of Democrats by just 1.9 percentage points (about 42-40 percent), compared with a 3 percent advantage held Thursday by the GOP and a 3.9-point Republican advantage at this point relative to Election Day in 2012, state elections data shows.

www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2016/10/fla-early-ballots-and-voter-registration-numbers-show-democrats-surging-in-fla-106392

So, no link to back up your claim that republicans lead in the unverifiable ballot category? According to the rules your posts with that claim must be deleted.
Administrator? Please administrate.

I'd have to first delete your post that stated: "...with the wave of unverifiable and mail-in ballots..."
So, I will delete my reference to YOUR reference if you can't back up your claim that anyone thinks there are unverifiable ballots.

As I do with Willie though, I'm giving you a shot before I do.
Link?