Schumer just played Republicans - got cloture on Garland / Fudge / Regan nominations...

[SidDithers]

Link to tweet

He briefly had a 2/3 majority in the Senate, and rammed through cloture on Garland, Marcia Fudge (HUD) and Michael Regan (EPA). Now they can be confirmed with a 50 vote majority.



https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4950418/user-clip-merrick-garland-cloture


Sid

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I love it!

[Wounded Bear]

2. Remember all the shit people around here used to give Chuck about being "soft"...

Guess he got the last laugh on this one.

[soothsayer]

3. Garland plus two others. Fudge (HUD) and Michael Regan

I think

[SidDithers]

5. You're right. I wasn't sure if they were all included...

I only saw the Garland clip on CSPAN.



Sid

[Cha]

8. TY

[leftieNanner]

4. Awww. Poor Tom Cotton.

He was planning another grandstand move to try to slow walk Garland's confirmation.

Sucks to be you Cotton!

[SidDithers]

6. Yup...

Balloon Juice has got it too:

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2021/03/06/breaking-senate-majority-leader-schumer-has-advanced-merrick-garlands-nomination-to-a-final-vote/

Last week, Senator Cotton provided a long and detailed explanation as to why he was holding up Merrick Garland’s nomination to be Attorney General. Despite the long winded justification, the reality is that he was doing it because 1) he could and 2) he’s an asshole.

Senate Majority Leader Schumer didn’t say anything about Senator Cotton’s obstructionism. Instead he waited for his opening, moved to occupy the space once he had an opening, and completely destroyed Senator Cotton’s bad faith efforts.

snip

Schumer knew, because he knows his Republican colleagues, that as soon as they could flee the Senate floor to relieve themselves, get something to eat, or get some sleep that they would. And that would give him an opening to put the ARA back on track. His invoking cloture as soon as the ARA passed and the Republican senators filed out is the same type of tactic.

Merrick Garland’s nomination to be Attorney General will now proceed. Senator Cotton just got screwed on live television.

Sid

[3catwoman3]

16. I think reason #2 should be...

...reason #1.

[AZ8theist]

20. As far as Cotton goes, reason #2 IS THE ONLY REASON.

[mountain grammy]

9. Awww

[Cha]

7. Hey Sid.. TY Rt.. Good on Sen Schumer!

[unblock]

10. Awesome, but could have been epic

Just in case there's a next time (republicans will probably learn from this, unfortunately) we should have an incredible everything bill on the shelf just waiting for such a moment. Pass every dream item on the agenda in one fell swoop before they rush back to the senate.

[Sogo]

11. That's a great idea....

Especially as pertains to HR1!

[George II]

13. We DID have an "incredible everything bill" that was passed shortly after noon today.

[unblock]

15. I stand corrected LOL. I mean *another* incredible everything bill ;)

[George II]

21. ...

[George II]

12. So much for Schumer being a "weak leader", eh? He and Pelosi are the most shrewd politicians....

....we've seen in decades.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. This is great

WTG Schumer

[gratuitous]

17. And totally legal under the Senate rules

I saw a clip earlier today with McConnell whining about how those mean ol' Democrats had shoved through the Covid-19 package without any Republican votes. I thought the whaaaaa-mbulance should have pulled up to take him away.

[regnaD kciN]

18. The only question: will Manchin and Sinema support these nominations...?

[BobTheSubgenius]

19. The Republicans have got a power game, and that's it.

If they can't bull-rush their way through an issue, they're dead in the water. They have no finesse, no strategy other than exploiting their (temporary) advantages.

This is the entire yin and yang in microcosm.

[moonscape]

22. I'm now going to have to work on

forgiving him, re his games and vote against the Iran nuclear deal. I soured on him quite a lot but need not to be a one-trick critic.

TY Schumer for your hard work. It was obviously far more skillful and facused than could be seen publicly for Biden to call you out so effusively.

Well-done. This is the moment Schumer has been waiting for, to be Majority Leader and show his chops.

[regnaD kciN]

23. This is why, if we can't abolish the filibuster, we need to reform it...

...to put the burden on those who would sustain it. Make them actually keep talking, camping out in the Senate hallways, etc. The way it's structured now, it takes almost no effort for a bloc of forty Senators to essentially kill a bill. That wasn't what a filibuster was meant to do. Make it so that, eventually, those doing the filibustering need to be careful to not fall asleep (literally or figuratively) and thus lose their right to stonewall needed legislation.

[SunSeeker]

24. K & R

[Blue Owl]

25. Suck it you GOP sacks of dick

[sheshe2]

26. Well played, Senator Schumer.

Bet the repubs are busy wiping egg off their collected faces.

[Wounded Bear]

27. Ooh! Didn't hear about Fudge and Regan before!

Well played Chuck!

[Bonn1997]

28. Could they have gotten HR1 through the same way?

[bucolic_frolic]

29. Did they sleep on purpose?

Because they don't want to deal with the fallout from blocking them, and will gain little if they do.