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Screw them and the horse they rode in on, seriously. Another reason to send $ to GA. And people outside of the political mainstream shouldn't be considered? Toomey, where did Ivanka and Jared fall? Delusional and so very hypocritical.
GOP senator: Biden Cabinet picks will be a 'discussion' with Republican Senate
By Jordain Carney - 11/11/20 02:23 PM EST
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said on Wednesday that he expected the nomination process for President-elect Joe Biden's Cabinet to be an "ongoing discussion" with Senate Republicans, if they hold on to the majority.
Toomey's comments come as Democrats worry that a Republican Senate majority could force Biden to negotiate over his picks for top administration positions and block nominees they view as too progressive.
Toomey said during a Washington Post Live interview that Cabinet picks were a "shared responsibility" between the president and the Senate majority.
"So I think people who are well outside of the political mainstream don't belong in really important, senior-level, Cabinet-type posts. And that's why that will be an ongoing discussion, I think, between a Republican Senate and Joe Biden," Toomey added.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/525517-gop-senator-biden-cabinet-will-be-a-discussion-with-republican-senate
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts)hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)Iris
(15,653 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)When I think they cannot go lower, they amaze me and find newer and further ways to be complete assholes.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Let them impeach him and see how that goes. That's their only check on the president. Otherwise he can do whatever the fuck he wants.
Rules can't apply to only one side.
Seriously, Toomey, fuck you.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,342 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)In It to Win It
(8,248 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)texasfiddler
(1,990 posts)There is at least that
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Boogiemack
(1,406 posts)Trump has already done this so he has set the precedent.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)EndlessWire
(6,526 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,937 posts)EO are now considered normal
Appointing and voting Supreme Court Justices in an election year now considered normal
There are more to consider but I am drained of all my thoughts thanks the your party.
BGBD
(3,282 posts)Who they want less than the nomine
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)That needs to be the #1 priority right now for all of us.
Maven
(10,533 posts)Fuck them. Joe should just appoint 'acting' department heads, same as Trump did.
C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)has no business judging anyone else's hiring plan.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,467 posts)Joe Biden should invite the media to perform the oversight that the Senate used to do before the Republican Party destroyed this role. Make it prime time....I would trust the media to do the job more honestly than the hypocritical clowns in the Organized Crime Party who currently inhabit the Senate.
Bayard
(22,063 posts)Won't work, and we don't have to. "Too Progressive" will be any Dem.
crickets
(25,969 posts)fold it in five corners, and shove it where the sun don't shine. Your guy LOST. Biden won. He'll pick his cabinet however he damned well pleases.
Vinca
(50,269 posts)The rules don't suddenly change back just because the criminal is gone.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)For Treasury...Tim Geithner, Jack Lew or JANET YELLEN.
Janet Yellen was confirmed for Federal Reserve Chair.
John Kerry for SoS, and HILLARY CLINTON for AG.
babylonsister
(171,059 posts)Tarc
(10,476 posts)This dumb myth really needs to die.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)begins and ends with "this is who I'm appointing".
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)He set a precedent. Biden is quite prepared to follow it, should they insist on pulling this shit. Go fuck yourself, Mr. Toomey.
andym
(5,443 posts)where the two Democratic candidates are slight underdogs according to the first poll. The election is winnable, especially if trump voters are too discouraged to vote.
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)Demanded the Republican Fraud Party ram through as the Republicans twisted and perverted rules to approve while exempting the Dems from the process?
Hey Toomey, what about Ivanka and Jared running the White House for Fat Daddy along with all the temporary appointments and acting positions, while you Republican Shit Stains just laughed your asses off?