John Thune elected as Senate majority leader
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Secret ballot was always going to end this way. If trumps movement is smart they will immediately start primary pushes on every single Republican who entertained a secret ballot.
It’s not like the other choices were all that great. Rick Scott is meh and probably about the same and John Cornyn would have been worse, a Cocaine Mitch 2.0.
https://babylonbee.com/news/congressional-republicans-say-theyre-working-hard-to-figure-out-how-to-squander-the-next-two-years/
The bee already covered this.
They stopped being satire.
Sometimes I wonder why they created NotTheBee in the first place
Republican politicians are not working for you. They will never be on your side.
but the womens sports!!!
This guy will be McConnell's butt puppet, serving the Democrats just as faithfully as McConnell did. It's telling that the leftists in the Yahoo comments are praising him. Still, this was going to be shit no matter what. The "MAGA" candidate was Rick "red flag" Scott, who signed gun grabbing laws when he was the governor of Florida.
I miss the pre-2020 Yahoo comments.
They still pop up from time to time. Maintaining the current soy soaked version requires a massive and sustained censorship operation. If they slip up even a little shit gets based very quickly. The days following the election reminded me of old times because the censors got overwhelmed.
While I am no fan of McConnell, he's very good at what he does, and he wasn't "serving the Democrats" - quite the contrary. If you have a Supreme Court majority, it is because of McConnell.
Lmao, expected Antonio take/10.
McConnell literally sold out Republicans in the midterms because he hates Trump
Pushing through judicial appointments were the only thing Mitch did well. He sucked at everything else.
And it should be noted that Amy Coney Barret and Kavanagh have certainly been less than perfect, and my understanding was that Mitch had at least some advising role in making those selections. I believe he’s the one who provided Trump’s shortlist in the first place. “If you have a Supreme Court majority…” yeah, maybe. But those vacancies were going to happen with or without Mitch, and with someone more based in his role we may have in fact gotten better appointees. It’s impossible to know, but it’s definitely not cut and dried enough to overlook all his glaring flaws.
Not surprising. I predicted a long time ago they'd let Trump win to prevent hot civil war and instead rig the house/senate races to stymie him.
The immediate goal with Majority Leader is to prevent recess appointments, ultimate goal to remove after impeachment.
Thune will keep the Senate "session" going indefinitely even when no Senators are working in DC and no votes are taking place. They'll reject Trump's picks so he'll appoint some deep-state approved guys.
Trump will then go to the Supremes and say "bullshit!" and normally they would say "too bad, strict interpretation" but since they've already been pissed off by the lawfare and having to rule on Presidential Immunity (they wanted it kept vague as a check) they'll instead rule that Trump can recess appoint if a quorum isn't in DC for more than a weekend.
But in the meantime Trump's already appointed some deep-staters, so he'll fire them during recess since they serve "at the pleasure of the President". ACLU will sue to prevent that because they weren't fired for cause and it'll go to the Supremes who echoing their Immunity will say "if you piss us off again we're making Trump world dictator now fuck off with this bullshit".
The Senators will be royally pissed off having to fly back and forth every weekend and even more so actually do their jobs, so they'll then finally appoint the good guys to the Cabinet. So that'll eat up the first year or two of his term - enough time to rig the House with enough for permanent impeachment.
This is why J.D. Vance needs to exercise his power as President of the Senate and make Thune go sit at the kiddie table. It'll be tedious but it's the only way to break the back of the Uniparty.
Otherwise we're going to get a repeat of Paul Ryan backstabbing Trump in 2016 to protect the swamp.
Unfortunately he presides over the Senate, he's not the President of the Senate.
So he doesn't make the rules or determine sessions, just a tie-breaker. Which is good, but the establishment just whips up an extra vote so it's largely symbolic.
Beg to differ.
"but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided"
You're right, but the Senate rules make it an office with no power.
The swamp never loses. They let Trump win to avoid the boogaloo. But now they get WW3.
The pure folly of the 17th Amendment on full display. It MUST GO
Since Thune is a feckless meat puppets being controlled by Mitch McConnell that means we have an obstructionist NeverTrumper in place to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. This is setting up a repeat of the 2016 Paul Ryan backstab.
J.D. Vance needs to exercise his power as President of the Senate and make Thune go sit at the kiddie table while he takes care of business.
At least he's better than Cornyn.
He was in 2nd place in the voting…
Sigh…
Deep State not taking this sitting down.
Isnt thune a secret nazi name? Lawl.
I bet he'll be arrested too.
RINO POWER!!!