My bet is on Garland requiring a Harris vote, for obvious reasons (a lot of Republican congressmen are complicit with the coup, for starters).
He was already advanced by the committee by a vote of 15-7. ie 4 Republicans are already voting for him, including Grassley, Graham, Cornyn, and Tillis.
It's not going to be a close vote.
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My bet is on Garland requiring a Harris vote, for obvious reasons (a lot of Republican congressmen are complicit with the coup, for starters).
He was already advanced by the committee by a vote of 15-7. ie 4 Republicans are already voting for him, including Grassley, Graham, Cornyn, and Tillis.
It's not going to be a close vote.
Graham is a surprise, so guess that you are right.
There's good reason why McConnell had to prevent Garland's SC confirmation vote from even happening, and this was back when you needed 66 to confirm!
Yeah he's not a firebrand or some kind idealogue. He's what you traditionally want as an AG and that scares the GOP because they had 4 years of ignoring laws under the impression they'd keep having that
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Merrick Garland and Marcia Fudge both confirmed today, the US finally has a god damn AG
70-30 on Garland.
Which basically proves what people said. If McConnell had brought it to a vote, he'd likely have passed. He's just too qualified and otherwise unobjectionable* for them not to.
* ie, straight, white, male. He also doesn't tweeter, but that's not the reasons others have been excluded, Neera Tanden was a white male, she'd likely have been confirmed.
Merrick Garland and Marcia Fudge both confirmed today, the US finally has a god damn AG
70-30 on Garland.
Which basically proves what people said. If McConnell had brought it to a vote, he'd likely have passed. He's just too qualified and otherwise unobjectionable* for them not to.
* ie, straight, white, male. He also doesn't tweeter, but that's not the reasons others have been excluded, Neera Tanden was a white male, she'd likely have been confirmed.
confirming him as AG when Democrats are in control as opposed to blocking him from the Supreme Court when Republicans are in control are two pretty different scenarios, to be fair
Merrick Garland and Marcia Fudge both confirmed today, the US finally has a god damn AG
70-30 on Garland.
Which basically proves what people said. If McConnell had brought it to a vote, he'd likely have passed. He's just too qualified and otherwise unobjectionable* for them not to.
* ie, straight, white, male. He also doesn't tweeter, but that's not the reasons others have been excluded, Neera Tanden was a white male, she'd likely have been confirmed.
confirming him as AG when Democrats are in control as opposed to blocking him from the Supreme Court when Republicans are in control are two pretty different scenarios, to be fair
Probably hoping to curry favor in not going after his wife, which uhh good luck.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Merrick Garland and Marcia Fudge both confirmed today, the US finally has a god damn AG
70-30 on Garland.
Which basically proves what people said. If McConnell had brought it to a vote, he'd likely have passed. He's just too qualified and otherwise unobjectionable* for them not to.
* ie, straight, white, male. He also doesn't tweeter, but that's not the reasons others have been excluded, Neera Tanden was a white male, she'd likely have been confirmed.
confirming him as AG when Democrats are in control as opposed to blocking him from the Supreme Court when Republicans are in control are two pretty different scenarios, to be fair
And ones in which he has control over his own actions.
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Merrick Garland and Marcia Fudge both confirmed today, the US finally has a god damn AG
70-30 on Garland.
Which basically proves what people said. If McConnell had brought it to a vote, he'd likely have passed. He's just too qualified and otherwise unobjectionable* for them not to.
* ie, straight, white, male. He also doesn't tweeter, but that's not the reasons others have been excluded, Neera Tanden was a white male, she'd likely have been confirmed.
confirming him as AG when Democrats are in control as opposed to blocking him from the Supreme Court when Republicans are in control are two pretty different scenarios, to be fair
Probably hoping to curry favor in not going after his wife, which uhh good luck.
Better play would have been to vote against him and then claim that any investigations or prosecution of his wife were payback for that. Obviously bullshit given the shenanigans she got up to, but it’d probably work to muddy the water with the idiot media.
Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
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Merrick Garland and Marcia Fudge both confirmed today, the US finally has a god damn AG
70-30 on Garland.
Which basically proves what people said. If McConnell had brought it to a vote, he'd likely have passed. He's just too qualified and otherwise unobjectionable* for them not to.
* ie, straight, white, male. He also doesn't tweeter, but that's not the reasons others have been excluded, Neera Tanden was a white male, she'd likely have been confirmed.
confirming him as AG when Democrats are in control as opposed to blocking him from the Supreme Court when Republicans are in control are two pretty different scenarios, to be fair
And ones in which he has control over his own actions.
i was referring more to the total vote than just McConnell's, but yeah
Man, do I hope Garland goes hard on the anti-trust stuff to break the stranglehold that the pigs have because of economics.
Also hope he goes hard on putting white supremacist filth in jail, where it belongs. Hell, maybe he can prosecute enough of those fuckers, that they wont' be a big enough voting block for republicans anymore, while also breaking a shit ton of laws that are designed to fuck over minorities.
The tweet was removed? Something about exorcisms and sage?
Susan Rice (former ambassador to the UN, former National Security Advisor, now Biden's Director of the Domestic Policy Council) is occupying Stephen Miller's old office and reportedly was burning sage in it to cleanse the space of negativity.
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BREAKING: A majority of U.S. Senators have voted to confirm Deb Haaland as the nation’s Secretary of the Interior, making her the first Native American in history to lead a Cabinet agency.
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BREAKING: A majority of U.S. Senators have voted to confirm Deb Haaland as the nation’s Secretary of the Interior, making her the first Native American in history to lead a Cabinet agency.
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BREAKING: A majority of U.S. Senators have voted to confirm Deb Haaland as the nation’s Secretary of the Interior, making her the first Native American in history to lead a Cabinet agency.
Indian Country is a news outlet covering stories about/for/related to Indigenous Americans.
BREAKING: A majority of U.S. Senators have voted to confirm Deb Haaland as the nation’s Secretary of the Interior, making her the first Native American in history to lead a Cabinet agency.
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He was already advanced by the committee by a vote of 15-7. ie 4 Republicans are already voting for him, including Grassley, Graham, Cornyn, and Tillis.
It's not going to be a close vote.
She's going to need a lot more than just sage.
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Graham is a surprise, so guess that you are right.
Canada can help.
I think she needs the Vatican for this one, and as much holy water as the priest can carry.
We’re gonna need an old Pope and a young Pope ...
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Yeah he's not a firebrand or some kind idealogue. He's what you traditionally want as an AG and that scares the GOP because they had 4 years of ignoring laws under the impression they'd keep having that
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There are indeed two Popes right now.
Suspiciously convenient, wouldn't you say?
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There are two Popes inside you...
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70-30 on Garland.
Which basically proves what people said. If McConnell had brought it to a vote, he'd likely have passed. He's just too qualified and otherwise unobjectionable* for them not to.
* ie, straight, white, male. He also doesn't tweeter, but that's not the reasons others have been excluded, Neera Tanden was a white male, she'd likely have been confirmed.
confirming him as AG when Democrats are in control as opposed to blocking him from the Supreme Court when Republicans are in control are two pretty different scenarios, to be fair
Probably hoping to curry favor in not going after his wife, which uhh good luck.
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And ones in which he has control over his own actions.
Better play would have been to vote against him and then claim that any investigations or prosecution of his wife were payback for that. Obviously bullshit given the shenanigans she got up to, but it’d probably work to muddy the water with the idiot media.
i was referring more to the total vote than just McConnell's, but yeah
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Regan and Haaland are a wonderful one-two punch for starting to turn this boat around environmentally.
I saw a comic that I agreed with that it was biden flipping on a light switch to illuminate an end of a tunnel and I feel that...
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Also hope he goes hard on putting white supremacist filth in jail, where it belongs. Hell, maybe he can prosecute enough of those fuckers, that they wont' be a big enough voting block for republicans anymore, while also breaking a shit ton of laws that are designed to fuck over minorities.
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Nice chart to figure out how honest a news source is.
The tweet was removed? Something about exorcisms and sage?
Annoyingly I cannot seem to find the tweets the precious baby GOP snowflakes are upset about
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If it weren't for double standards Republicans wouldn't have any standards at all.
Indian Country is a news outlet covering stories about/for/related to Indigenous Americans.
Frustratingly (if unsurprisingly) thin margin on the vote but this is very cool, very good, and long overdue.
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Ah but you see, she has "radical left" politics like... *checks notes* "Thinking we maybe need a livable planet"
Yeah amazingly a member of the group the US has been fucking over thinks we probably shouldn't ruin the land we stole.
I get that the GOP are disingenuous as fuck, but god damn they are letting their freak flag fly.
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Isn't the department of the interior the one in charge of native American affairs?
Oh, absolutely. Alaska and New Mexico are the only two states in the union where even the GOP has to pay attention to Natives.
(Well, and maybe Hawaii, depending on the year)
The Bureau of Indian Affairs falls under the Department of the Interior, yeah.
Which is part of what makes it so absurd/gross that there's literally never been an Indigenous Secretary of the Interior
Hawaii I thought is so democrat the gop is non existant? Its just different versions of democrats?
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Yep, the BIA is under Interior. This is pretty massive for Native Americans.
The GOP no longer functionally exists in Hawaii - this is why Gabbard was a Democrat.