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Gidney N Cloyd

(19,841 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 03:59 PM Apr 2015

McCain: GOP Blockade Of Obama Nominees Is 'Nuclear Option' Revenge

What a bunch of twisted fuckwads. And what a small, petty, child of a man is John McCain. They stall nominations so bad that Reid has to spank them and go nuclear. And now they get back by doing more of the same.


Sen. John McCain has an explanation for Obama administration appointees whose confirmation votes are languishing in the GOP-led Senate: It’s payback for Democrats using the so-called nuclear option to push through scores of nominations in the previous Congress.
“I told ’em: ‘You jam them through, it’s going to be a long time before I approve of them,’” McCain said, recounting what he told Democrats after they changed the rules in 2013 and confirmed dozens of lifetime judicial appointments and several high-profile Cabinet nominees. “It’s affected me as chairman of the Armed Services Committee.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/republican-senate-obama-nominees-117128.html#ixzz3XseQXScv

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calimary

(81,322 posts)
4. What a petty little piss-ant.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 04:05 PM
Apr 2015

Still mad that the black guy beat you and your idiot bimbo, 'eh john? How old are you? FIVE?

okaawhatever

(9,462 posts)
6. So what will it take to "force you" to do your job? Basically he's saying that he's not going to do
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 04:10 PM
Apr 2015

his job as punishment for someone else doing his job when he wouldn't do his job.

summerschild

(725 posts)
11. The Republicans cannot govern.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 06:19 PM
Apr 2015

Hope everyone remembers that when they vote.

Another problem: I think they have also become ungovernable.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
12. And we're supposed to believe that electing a Republican president will fix this country.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 06:54 PM
Apr 2015

It will just allow them to finish breaking it once and for all.

Johonny

(20,852 posts)
13. You know who it affects... We The People that need these people confirmed to have a functioning
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 07:16 PM
Apr 2015

government. Jesus these people are so rich they live above the country meanwhile this stuff hurts the 99%.

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