Breaking: Senate Majority Leader Chosen by Secret Ballot

[ETGator1]

Senator John Thune of South Dakota will be the new Senate Majority Leader:

townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/11/13/senate-gop-leadership-race-n2647632

Thune was my second choice behind Rick Scott who was the first to be voted out of the race.

In the head-to-head between Thune and John Cornyn, Thune won the position receiving 29 votes.

Thune did go on record that he would make recess appointments which will allow Trump to get his appointments filled without significant delay and that he would support Trump's MAGA policies. Cornyn only said he would keep the Senate in session until Trump's appointments are approved and didn't say he would be a supporter of MAGA policy. What Cornyn said was not good enough so, since not Rick Scott, better to be John Thune presuming he will keep his word.  



 

[Walter]

Nov 13, 2024 12:45:23 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

Senator John Thune of South Dakota will be the new Senate Majority Leader:

townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/11/13/senate-gop-leadership-race-n2647632

Thune was my second choice behind Rick Scott who was the first to be voted out of the race.

In the head-to-head between Thune and John Cornyn, Thune won the position receiving 29 votes.

Thune did go on record that he would make recess appointments which will allow Trump to get his appointments filled without significant delay and that he would support Trump's MAGA policies. Cornyn only said he would keep the Senate in session until Trump's appointments are approved and didn't say he would be a supporter of MAGA policy. What Cornyn said was not good enough so, since not Rick Scott, better to be John Thune presuming he will keep his word.  



 

Can you explain why recess appointments would be necessary when the GOP has all the votes they need to confirm anyone Trump appoints?
What are they and Trump afraid of?

Second Q: Is it true that the GOP will start referring to The Senate as 'The Duma'?

[ETGator1]

Nov 13, 2024 12:52:48 GMT -5 Walter said:

Nov 13, 2024 12:45:23 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

Senator John Thune of South Dakota will be the new Senate Majority Leader:

townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/11/13/senate-gop-leadership-race-n2647632

Thune was my second choice behind Rick Scott who was the first to be voted out of the race.

In the head-to-head between Thune and John Cornyn, Thune won the position receiving 29 votes.

Thune did go on record that he would make recess appointments which will allow Trump to get his appointments filled without significant delay and that he would support Trump's MAGA policies. Cornyn only said he would keep the Senate in session until Trump's appointments are approved and didn't say he would be a supporter of MAGA policy. What Cornyn said was not good enough so, since not Rick Scott, better to be John Thune presuming he will keep his word.  



 

Can you explain why recess appointments would be necessary when the GOP has all the votes they need to confirm anyone Trump appoints?
What are they and Trump afraid of?

Second Q: Is it true that the GOP will start referring to The Senate as 'The Duma'?

The minority can slow processing nominees to a snail's pace with senate procedures. I'm not an expert to speak to those procedures. If a nominee doesn't get out of committee, the full senate can't vote.

Recess appointments can be made at any time when the senate is in recess. The appointments are for one year. I guess Trump will worry about anyone appointed in recess after the year is up.

You would know better about The Duma as your democratic socialist authoritarian party used the senate to rubber stamp everything Biden/Harris wanted, all of which went down to spectacular failures.

Inflation was transitory, so the Fed started 9 months too late to fight inflation which resulted in the highest inflation in over 40 years. Inflation went down to 2.4% CPI in September, but the CPI Core remained stubbornly high at 3.3%. The Fed in an election year cut rates twice. The report today is the October CPI went back up from 2.4% to 2.6% while the CPI Core still remains stubbornly high at 3.3%. The reason the people feel these numbers so much, enough to be the #1 concern in the election, is inflation has remained high in that prices have never fallen. It's like having compound inflation every month. Now, the inflation trend back up is starting again.

www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_11132024.htm 

What a mess, what a mess! Everything your party did over 4 years turned into a pile of shit and continues to do so. You shouldn't be embarrassed by republicans; you should be a republican. You are too smart to be so dumb. I read that Trump turned 10 California counties from blue to red. That is at least a start.   

[Panama pfRedd]

Thune and Cornyn are swampers. Scott was the right choice but hey, the swamp wants the swamp and the swamp wants the vote secret so you and I can have no say in it.

[daleko]

Nov 13, 2024 12:52:48 GMT -5 Walter said:

Nov 13, 2024 12:45:23 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

Can you explain why recess appointments would be necessary when the GOP has all the votes they need to confirm anyone Trump appoints?
What are they and Trump afraid of? President Barack Obama made 32 recess appointments, Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments, and George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments. Did you bitch then? IS this just a Trump thing, for you.

Second Q: Is it true that the GOP will start referring to The Senate as 'The Duma'?

Here's Johnny Joey Jones' opinion of the Senate. I, to some degree agree. Actually resonate w.
"Senators have a six year term. They are the most secure seats in elected federal office.
EVERY Senator sees a President when they look in the mirror. They also act much differently when caucusing and operate much more independently than the House. They don’t take “marching orders” in the same way house members do." There's always one (think John McCain), many times more than one, sometimes a whole group. Being the Senate leader can be challenging when it involves a group of big swinging dicks. Thune was among the many senators of both parties who condemned the rioters and opposed Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Trump then called for someone to challenge Thune in his 2022 primary, but no one emerged, and Thune prevailed. And he's close to Mitch McConnell. But he is a politician and has sought to mend fences w Trump. But he wasn't favored by Trump or Trump Senate soldiers. And yet here he is.

[Walter]

Nov 13, 2024 13:47:47 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

Nov 13, 2024 12:52:48 GMT -5 Walter said:

Can you explain why recess appointments would be necessary when the GOP has all the votes they need to confirm anyone Trump appoints?
What are they and Trump afraid of?

Second Q: Is it true that the GOP will start referring to The Senate as 'The Duma'?

The minority can slow processing nominees to a snail's pace with senate procedures. I'm not an expert to speak to those procedures. If a nominee doesn't get out of committee, the full senate can't vote.

Recess appointments can be made at any time when the senate is in recess. The appointments are for one year. I guess Trump will worry about anyone appointed in recess after the year is up.

You would know better about The Duma as your democratic socialist authoritarian party used the senate to rubber stamp everything Biden/Harris wanted, all of which went down to spectacular failures.

Inflation was transitory, so the Fed started 9 months too late to fight inflation which resulted in the highest inflation in over 40 years. Inflation went down to 2.4% CPI in September, but the CPI Core remained stubbornly high at 3.3%. The Fed in an election year cut rates twice. The report today is the October CPI went back up from 2.4% to 2.6% while the CPI Core still remains stubbornly high at 3.3%. The reason the people feel these numbers so much, enough to be the #1 concern in the election, is inflation has remained high in that prices have never fallen. It's like having compound inflation every month. Now, the inflation trend back up is starting again.

www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_11132024.htm 

What a mess, what a mess! Everything your party did over 4 years turned into a pile of shit and continues to do so. You shouldn't be embarrassed by republicans; you should be a republican. You are too smart to be so dumb. I read that Trump turned 10 California counties from blue to red. That is at least a start.   

With the gavel and the votes, there wouldn't be any abnormal delays in approving appointments. If all the GOP members vote to confirm, it's a done deal for every single nominee, and in quick order. One can only guess that neither Trump nor the Senate leadership thinks they have firm majorities to approve nominees, so Trump is taking the authoritarian approach and just bypassing The Duma altogether.

[Walter]

Nov 13, 2024 14:40:59 GMT -5 daleko said:

Nov 13, 2024 12:52:48 GMT -5 Walter said:

Can you explain why recess appointments would be necessary when the GOP has all the votes they need to confirm anyone Trump appoints?
What are they and Trump afraid of? President Barack Obama made 32 recess appointments, Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments, and George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments. Did you bitch then? IS this just a Trump thing, for you.

Second Q: Is it true that the GOP will start referring to The Senate as 'The Duma'?

Here's Johnny Joey Jones' opinion of the Senate. I, to some degree agree. Actually resonate w.
"Senators have a six year term. They are the most secure seats in elected federal office.
EVERY Senator sees a President when they look in the mirror. They also act much differently when caucusing and operate much more independently than the House. They don’t take “marching orders” in the same way house members do." There's always one (think John McCain), many times more than one, sometimes a whole group. Being the Senate leader can be challenging when it involves a group of big swinging dicks. Thune was among the many senators of both parties who condemned the rioters and opposed Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Trump then called for someone to challenge Thune in his 2022 primary, but no one emerged, and Thune prevailed. And he's close to Mitch McConnell. But he is a politician and has sought to mend fences w Trump. But he wasn't favored by Trump or Trump Senate soldiers. And yet here he is.

How many of the recess appointments by Clinton, Bush and Obama were done with Senate majorities of their own party? I'd have to look it up, but I'd bet very few, if any, because there is no reason to do it unless the nominee is a complete hack, of which in Trump's case, there may be many, and Trump knows it.

I totally get making recess appointments with a hostile Senate of the other party gumming up things, but that isn't what is going on here.

IMO, this is about Trump essentially announcing to the Senate GOP that they are irrelevant. That Thune was selected and not Scott tells me that the rank and file in the Senate went all GameDay, telling Trump, "Not so fast, my friend."

[Buckeye Dale]

Nov 13, 2024 15:27:58 GMT -5 Walter said:

Nov 13, 2024 13:47:47 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

The minority can slow processing nominees to a snail's pace with senate procedures. I'm not an expert to speak to those procedures. If a nominee doesn't get out of committee, the full senate can't vote.

Recess appointments can be made at any time when the senate is in recess. The appointments are for one year. I guess Trump will worry about anyone appointed in recess after the year is up.

You would know better about The Duma as your democratic socialist authoritarian party used the senate to rubber stamp everything Biden/Harris wanted, all of which went down to spectacular failures.

Inflation was transitory, so the Fed started 9 months too late to fight inflation which resulted in the highest inflation in over 40 years. Inflation went down to 2.4% CPI in September, but the CPI Core remained stubbornly high at 3.3%. The Fed in an election year cut rates twice. The report today is the October CPI went back up from 2.4% to 2.6% while the CPI Core still remains stubbornly high at 3.3%. The reason the people feel these numbers so much, enough to be the #1 concern in the election, is inflation has remained high in that prices have never fallen. It's like having compound inflation every month. Now, the inflation trend back up is starting again.

www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_11132024.htm 

What a mess, what a mess! Everything your party did over 4 years turned into a pile of shit and continues to do so. You shouldn't be embarrassed by republicans; you should be a republican. You are too smart to be so dumb. I read that Trump turned 10 California counties from blue to red. That is at least a start.   

With the gavel and the votes, there wouldn't be any abnormal delays in approving appointments. If all the GOP members vote to confirm, it's a done deal for every single nominee, and in quick order. One can only guess that neither Trump nor the Senate leadership thinks they have firm majorities to approve nominees, so Trump is taking the authoritarian approach and just bypassing The Duma altogether.

I think it's more in the order of being ready to get rolling right out the door on 20 Jan 2025...No nonsense, no BS, no caring about what the dims in congress think...Kinda what the results of the election dictated.

[AlaCowboy]

Nov 13, 2024 12:52:48 GMT -5 Walter said:

Nov 13, 2024 12:45:23 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

Senator John Thune of South Dakota will be the new Senate Majority Leader:

townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/11/13/senate-gop-leadership-race-n2647632

Thune was my second choice behind Rick Scott who was the first to be voted out of the race.

In the head-to-head between Thune and John Cornyn, Thune won the position receiving 29 votes.

Thune did go on record that he would make recess appointments which will allow Trump to get his appointments filled without significant delay and that he would support Trump's MAGA policies. Cornyn only said he would keep the Senate in session until Trump's appointments are approved and didn't say he would be a supporter of MAGA policy. What Cornyn said was not good enough so, since not Rick Scott, better to be John Thune presuming he will keep his word.  



 

Can you explain why recess appointments would be necessary when the GOP has all the votes they need to confirm anyone Trump appoints?
What are they and Trump afraid of?

Second Q: Is it true that the GOP will start referring to The Senate as 'The Duma'?

No. But we do refer to you as the Dummy.