Washington Post: Democrat obstruction unprecedented

[CrusaderFrank]

Looks like the Democrats are embracing being the party of "no" simply because they can't accept losing an election. Let's hope the American people make them pay for this during the 2018 midterms.

• Of the last seven administrations, three had a full Cabinet confirmed and in place within three weeks of the president’s inauguration.

• President Barack Obama had all but two nominees confirmed within two weeks of his inauguration. And President Bill Clinton had all but one nominee confirmed within one week after he took the oath of office.

• So, what about President Donald Trump? At four weeks into his presidency, a mere six of his 15 nominees had not yet been voted on. And at the end of week seven, two of those nominees haven’t even had a single committee hearing.

• How did this happen? Simple: Senate Democrats decided, as a conference, to block and obstruct Trump’s Cabinet nominees, carelessly smashing Senate norms of procedure and etiquette in the process.

• Senate Democrats have gone to such extraordinary lengths to sabotage the normal process of a new president staffing his administration that even The Washington Post called their obstruction “unprecedented.”

• Trump’s Cabinet remains unfilled nearly three months into his presidency. And the rate of confirmation for his other nominees has been just as slow.

• With more than 1,000 additional positions still needing to be confirmed by the Senate, the bureaucracy will keep humming along without reforms and critical areas of the government will be compromised. Meanwhile, Democrats fill their election war chests and cause a political media frenzy.

Senate Democrats Are Delaying 'Drain the Swamp'

Its a republican congress, Homer. They can nominate whoever they want and in whatever time frame they want. How dumb can you be

Good to see that you're as ignorant about this topic as you are about most, Ben! The Congress doesn't "nominate" anyone! They "confirm" nominees that have been chosen by an incoming President! Senate Democrats under Chuck Shumer have deliberately slow walked confirmation hearings drawing out the process for as long as they can. What they are doing makes it impossible for the Trump team to function properly because they don't have people in place to work on the issues. Then idiots like yourself start strings asking why Trump hasn't fixed things yet!

Please stop!

T-rump is a hack who failed to do the necessary work to staff his Administration. Several of his nominees were fellow hacks like DeVos and Perry....others were Teabag sops like Sessions and Mullvaney....then there was the Flynn disaster, after which T-rump had to find someone with pulse willing to work with his Freak Show....he got lucky when a patriot stepped up and took the gig.....

The cost?

No more indulging Barcalounger Commandos with talk of Radical Muslim yakkety yak....

LOL @ Flynn "Disaster"

Dems had to commit a felony to derail Flynn

Tell everyone the reason Flynn had to resign....

Seditious Dems committed a felony in releasing his talks with a Russian to the NY Times

 

[IcebergSlim]

Looks like the Democrats are embracing being the party of "no" simply because they can't accept losing an election. Let's hope the American people make them pay for this during the 2018 midterms.

• Of the last seven administrations, three had a full Cabinet confirmed and in place within three weeks of the president’s inauguration.

• President Barack Obama had all but two nominees confirmed within two weeks of his inauguration. And President Bill Clinton had all but one nominee confirmed within one week after he took the oath of office.

• So, what about President Donald Trump? At four weeks into his presidency, a mere six of his 15 nominees had not yet been voted on. And at the end of week seven, two of those nominees haven’t even had a single committee hearing.

• How did this happen? Simple: Senate Democrats decided, as a conference, to block and obstruct Trump’s Cabinet nominees, carelessly smashing Senate norms of procedure and etiquette in the process.

• Senate Democrats have gone to such extraordinary lengths to sabotage the normal process of a new president staffing his administration that even The Washington Post called their obstruction “unprecedented.”

• Trump’s Cabinet remains unfilled nearly three months into his presidency. And the rate of confirmation for his other nominees has been just as slow.

• With more than 1,000 additional positions still needing to be confirmed by the Senate, the bureaucracy will keep humming along without reforms and critical areas of the government will be compromised. Meanwhile, Democrats fill their election war chests and cause a political media frenzy.

Senate Democrats Are Delaying 'Drain the Swamp'

Its a republican congress, Homer. They can nominate whoever they want and in whatever time frame they want. How dumb can you be

Good to see that you're as ignorant about this topic as you are about most, Ben! The Congress doesn't "nominate" anyone! They "confirm" nominees that have been chosen by an incoming President! Senate Democrats under Chuck Shumer have deliberately slow walked confirmation hearings drawing out the process for as long as they can. What they are doing makes it impossible for the Trump team to function properly because they don't have people in place to work on the issues. Then idiots like yourself start strings asking why Trump hasn't fixed things yet!

Please stop!

T-rump is a hack who failed to do the necessary work to staff his Administration. Several of his nominees were fellow hacks like DeVos and Perry....others were Teabag sops like Sessions and Mullvaney....then there was the Flynn disaster, after which T-rump had to find someone with pulse willing to work with his Freak Show....he got lucky when a patriot stepped up and took the gig.....

The cost?

No more indulging Barcalounger Commandos with talk of Radical Muslim yakkety yak....

Do you want to discuss the problems Barack Obama had initially filling Cabinet appointments, Slim? That was done without the stalling tactics that the Democrats are employing against Trump. Trump was elected President to do a job. Democrats are deliberately working from day one to make that job as hard as possible. Let's call a spade a spade!

So if it is just like the last time, why is this time "unprecedented"?

Why the FauxRage?

And do you REALLY want to go there?

Republicans had it in for Obama before Day 1

 

[IcebergSlim]

Charles Freeman...Bill Richardson...Judd Gregg...Tom Daschle...Timothy Geithner...Hilda Solis...Ron Kirk? Do those names ring a bell? Rightwinger seems to have amnesia when it comes to remembering the fiasco that WAS the Obama team nominating its Cabinet!

Did you know that Judd Gregg is a Republican?

 

[IcebergSlim]

Its a republican congress, Homer. They can nominate whoever they want and in whatever time frame they want. How dumb can you be

Good to see that you're as ignorant about this topic as you are about most, Ben! The Congress doesn't "nominate" anyone! They "confirm" nominees that have been chosen by an incoming President! Senate Democrats under Chuck Shumer have deliberately slow walked confirmation hearings drawing out the process for as long as they can. What they are doing makes it impossible for the Trump team to function properly because they don't have people in place to work on the issues. Then idiots like yourself start strings asking why Trump hasn't fixed things yet!

Please stop!

T-rump is a hack who failed to do the necessary work to staff his Administration. Several of his nominees were fellow hacks like DeVos and Perry....others were Teabag sops like Sessions and Mullvaney....then there was the Flynn disaster, after which T-rump had to find someone with pulse willing to work with his Freak Show....he got lucky when a patriot stepped up and took the gig.....

The cost?

No more indulging Barcalounger Commandos with talk of Radical Muslim yakkety yak....

LOL @ Flynn "Disaster"

Dems had to commit a felony to derail Flynn

Tell everyone the reason Flynn had to resign....

Seditious Dems committed a felony in releasing his talks with a Russian to the NY Times

That's not why T-rump requested his resignation.....try agan, Frank...

 

[IcebergSlim]

Its a republican congress, Homer. They can nominate whoever they want and in whatever time frame they want. How dumb can you be

Good to see that you're as ignorant about this topic as you are about most, Ben! The Congress doesn't "nominate" anyone! They "confirm" nominees that have been chosen by an incoming President! Senate Democrats under Chuck Shumer have deliberately slow walked confirmation hearings drawing out the process for as long as they can. What they are doing makes it impossible for the Trump team to function properly because they don't have people in place to work on the issues. Then idiots like yourself start strings asking why Trump hasn't fixed things yet!

Please stop!

T-rump is a hack who failed to do the necessary work to staff his Administration. Several of his nominees were fellow hacks like DeVos and Perry....others were Teabag sops like Sessions and Mullvaney....then there was the Flynn disaster, after which T-rump had to find someone with pulse willing to work with his Freak Show....he got lucky when a patriot stepped up and took the gig.....

The cost?

No more indulging Barcalounger Commandos with talk of Radical Muslim yakkety yak....

LOL @ Flynn "Disaster"

Dems had to commit a felony to derail Flynn

Tell everyone the reason Flynn had to resign....

Seditious Dems committed a felony in releasing his talks with a Russian to the NY Times

Seditious Dems committed a felony in releasing his talks with a Russian


And, Frank.......look up "Irony"....

 

[Oldstyle]

Charles Freeman...Bill Richardson...Judd Gregg...Tom Daschle...Timothy Geithner...Hilda Solis...Ron Kirk? Do those names ring a bell? Rightwinger seems to have amnesia when it comes to remembering the fiasco that WAS the Obama team nominating its Cabinet!

Did you know that Judd Gregg is a Republican?

Did you know that he was nominated by Barack Obama? Why don't you display some uncharacteristic honesty, Slim and admit that Barack Obama's nomination process for HIS Cabinet was a fiasco and that it wasn't because of anything the GOP did...those wounds were all "self inflicted"!

 

[rightwinger]

Alt-news?

Taking your propaganda straight up, without even a hint of discretion?

Wanna dispute the number, G?

And therein lies the broader point. Trump and his team have known for months they needed to prepare a vast executive-branch team to take the reigns of power this afternoon – and they blew it badly. The Republicans didn’t just ask dozens of Obama appointees to keep going to work because of the officials’ competence; Trump World is also scrambling because it’s desperate.
Washington Post is maintainingan online database on executive-branch offices that require Senate confirmation, and there are a total of 690 positions. As of now, Trump has nominated a grand total of 30 people to fill those posts.

And that doesn’t include other government offices that don’t require Senate confirmation – positions Trump simply can fill on his own – which also remain empty.

Republicans are eager to complain that Democrats are to blame for the fact that so few of Trump’s cabinet nominees are ready for confirmation, but it’s not Dems’ fault Trump hasn’t nominated anyone for 660 out of 690 executive-branch positions.

As power shifts, Trump's team remains unprepared to govern

So on 1/20/17 MSNBC thinks Trump was unprepared to govern because he didn't have 690 executive branch positions already named? That was the day after he was sworn in. If I can remind you buffoons on the left...Trump went right to work naming his Cabinet and Democrats went right to work stalling their confirmations. It's typical for Cabinet members to choose those that work beneath them something that Democrats have sabotaged because they've been holding up confirmations. Instead of dozens of Cabinet level people choosing hundreds of people...you're asking why Trump isn't choosing those 690 positions!

Please shit the fuck up....it's called a "transition team".

Governing is hard work.....T-rump doesn't like to work....

His administration is perfect reflection of his capacity.

Trump doesn't like to work? Trump is up before 6 AM everyday and works until after midnight typically! He's probably the hardest working President we've ever had. He's actively working on policy changes to fix things in the country. Compare what Trump does to what Barry DID why don't you? Barack Obama didn't come up with any of his Administration's legislation...that all came from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. What did Obama REALLY do? He flew around the country on Air Force One doing rallies to drum up support for the work that Reid and Pelosi were doing. Barack Obama doesn't have the faintest idea how to craft legislation or run a large organization. He was an empty suit relying on others to do the hard work of governing.

Based on?
Let me guess?

What Trump is telling you

 

[IcebergSlim]

Charles Freeman...Bill Richardson...Judd Gregg...Tom Daschle...Timothy Geithner...Hilda Solis...Ron Kirk? Do those names ring a bell? Rightwinger seems to have amnesia when it comes to remembering the fiasco that WAS the Obama team nominating its Cabinet!

Did you know that Judd Gregg is a Republican?

Did you know that he was nominated by Barack Obama? Why don't you display some uncharacteristic honesty, Slim and admit that Barack Obama's nomination process for HIS Cabinet was a fiasco and that it wasn't because of anything the GOP did...those wounds were all "self inflicted"!

So you had no idea....

You persist in your Bold Assertions, which make no impression on me....

The record demonstrates that T-rump was very poorly prepared for the transition. Unusually so.

You have convinced yourself that all the things T-rump and his flunkies said about his managerial talents are true...when shown the actual record, you morons averted your eyes.

And now T-rump is a " victim"?

Negro, please.

 

[Faun]

....and every time you mf's leave office, every single time, you simp, the country is left in debt and in chaos.

Oh snowflake....Barack Obama added as much to the national debt (almost $10 trillion) in 8 years as all presidents in U.S. history combined did in the 233 years prior.

Any other lies you'd like to attempt?

LOLOL

Cracks me up when you imbeciles lie while calling others a liar. Despite your lie....

Obama .......................................... $9.3t
All prior presidents combined ... $10.6t

The last president to run up the debt more than every other prior president combined was Ronald Reagan.

 

[IcebergSlim]

Were you better off in 2016, than you were in 2008? Now tell us the truth

Much better off in 2008. We didn't have Obamacare destroying the U.S. economy. We didn't owe $20 trillion in national debt. We had religious freedom. Men knew to use the men's room instead of invading the women's restrooms.

Thank God the American people turned over more than 1,000 seats to Republicans during Obama's reign of terror or he would have achieved his objective of collapsing the U.S.

Sure....so what was happening with the economy in 2008?

Do you think that you might be just about the stupidest human being alive?

 

[L.K.Eder]

These mf's have a bad bad case of CAN'T REMEMBER SHIT!! For 8 years they gave Obama and the democrats hell, now all of a sudden, we're suppose to just roll over and play dead....Get the fuck outta here

Oh you poor little nitwit. Barack Obama had a Democrat super-majority when he was sworn into office. Nobody blocked anything until 2010 when the American people had two full years of failed Obama policy. You people never were very good with history.

Ask norm coleman about that supermajority

 

[IcebergSlim]

Alt-news?

Taking your propaganda straight up, without even a hint of discretion?

Wanna dispute the number, G?

And therein lies the broader point. Trump and his team have known for months they needed to prepare a vast executive-branch team to take the reigns of power this afternoon – and they blew it badly. The Republicans didn’t just ask dozens of Obama appointees to keep going to work because of the officials’ competence; Trump World is also scrambling because it’s desperate.
Washington Post is maintainingan online database on executive-branch offices that require Senate confirmation, and there are a total of 690 positions. As of now, Trump has nominated a grand total of 30 people to fill those posts.

And that doesn’t include other government offices that don’t require Senate confirmation – positions Trump simply can fill on his own – which also remain empty.

Republicans are eager to complain that Democrats are to blame for the fact that so few of Trump’s cabinet nominees are ready for confirmation, but it’s not Dems’ fault Trump hasn’t nominated anyone for 660 out of 690 executive-branch positions.

As power shifts, Trump's team remains unprepared to govern

So on 1/20/17 MSNBC thinks Trump was unprepared to govern because he didn't have 690 executive branch positions already named? That was the day after he was sworn in. If I can remind you buffoons on the left...Trump went right to work naming his Cabinet and Democrats went right to work stalling their confirmations. It's typical for Cabinet members to choose those that work beneath them something that Democrats have sabotaged because they've been holding up confirmations. Instead of dozens of Cabinet level people choosing hundreds of people...you're asking why Trump isn't choosing those 690 positions!

Please shit the fuck up....it's called a "transition team".

Governing is hard work.....T-rump doesn't like to work....

His administration is perfect reflection of his capacity.

Trump doesn't like to work? Trump is up before 6 AM everyday and works until after midnight typically! He's probably the hardest working President we've ever had. He's actively working on policy changes to fix things in the country. Compare what Trump does to what Barry DID why don't you? Barack Obama didn't come up with any of his Administration's legislation...that all came from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. What did Obama REALLY do? He flew around the country on Air Force One doing rallies to drum up support for the work that Reid and Pelosi were doing. Barack Obama doesn't have the faintest idea how to craft legislation or run a large organization. He was an empty suit relying on others to do the hard work of governing.

That's awesome Narrative.....and Boldly Asserted..

 

[Faun]

Alt-news?

Taking your propaganda straight up, without even a hint of discretion?

Wanna dispute the number, G?

And therein lies the broader point. Trump and his team have known for months they needed to prepare a vast executive-branch team to take the reigns of power this afternoon – and they blew it badly. The Republicans didn’t just ask dozens of Obama appointees to keep going to work because of the officials’ competence; Trump World is also scrambling because it’s desperate.
Washington Post is maintainingan online database on executive-branch offices that require Senate confirmation, and there are a total of 690 positions. As of now, Trump has nominated a grand total of 30 people to fill those posts.

And that doesn’t include other government offices that don’t require Senate confirmation – positions Trump simply can fill on his own – which also remain empty.

Republicans are eager to complain that Democrats are to blame for the fact that so few of Trump’s cabinet nominees are ready for confirmation, but it’s not Dems’ fault Trump hasn’t nominated anyone for 660 out of 690 executive-branch positions.

As power shifts, Trump's team remains unprepared to govern

So on 1/20/17 MSNBC thinks Trump was unprepared to govern because he didn't have 690 executive branch positions already named? That was the day after he was sworn in. If I can remind you buffoons on the left...Trump went right to work naming his Cabinet and Democrats went right to work stalling their confirmations. It's typical for Cabinet members to choose those that work beneath them something that Democrats have sabotaged because they've been holding up confirmations. Instead of dozens of Cabinet level people choosing hundreds of people...you're asking why Trump isn't choosing those 690 positions!

Please shit the fuck up....it's called a "transition team".

Governing is hard work.....T-rump doesn't like to work....

His administration is perfect reflection of his capacity.

Trump doesn't like to work? Trump is up before 6 AM everyday and works until after midnight typically! He's probably the hardest working President we've ever had. He's actively working on policy changes to fix things in the country. Compare what Trump does to what Barry DID why don't you? Barack Obama didn't come up with any of his Administration's legislation...that all came from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. What did Obama REALLY do? He flew around the country on Air Force One doing rallies to drum up support for the work that Reid and Pelosi were doing. Barack Obama doesn't have the faintest idea how to craft legislation or run a large organization. He was an empty suit relying on others to do the hard work of governing.

WTF??

So Obama didn't come up with the ARRA? And he didn't push it through the Congress just weeks after being sworn in? Trump says he inherited a mess ... nearly 2 months in office -- how many proposals has Trump pushed through Congress? How many bills has he signed?

 

[IcebergSlim]

Alt-news?

Taking your propaganda straight up, without even a hint of discretion?

Wanna dispute the number, G?

And therein lies the broader point. Trump and his team have known for months they needed to prepare a vast executive-branch team to take the reigns of power this afternoon – and they blew it badly. The Republicans didn’t just ask dozens of Obama appointees to keep going to work because of the officials’ competence; Trump World is also scrambling because it’s desperate.
Washington Post is maintainingan online database on executive-branch offices that require Senate confirmation, and there are a total of 690 positions. As of now, Trump has nominated a grand total of 30 people to fill those posts.

And that doesn’t include other government offices that don’t require Senate confirmation – positions Trump simply can fill on his own – which also remain empty.

Republicans are eager to complain that Democrats are to blame for the fact that so few of Trump’s cabinet nominees are ready for confirmation, but it’s not Dems’ fault Trump hasn’t nominated anyone for 660 out of 690 executive-branch positions.

As power shifts, Trump's team remains unprepared to govern

So on 1/20/17 MSNBC thinks Trump was unprepared to govern because he didn't have 690 executive branch positions already named? That was the day after he was sworn in. If I can remind you buffoons on the left...Trump went right to work naming his Cabinet and Democrats went right to work stalling their confirmations. It's typical for Cabinet members to choose those that work beneath them something that Democrats have sabotaged because they've been holding up confirmations. Instead of dozens of Cabinet level people choosing hundreds of people...you're asking why Trump isn't choosing those 690 positions!

Please shit the fuck up....it's called a "transition team".

Governing is hard work.....T-rump doesn't like to work....

His administration is perfect reflection of his capacity.

Trump doesn't like to work? Trump is up before 6 AM everyday and works until after midnight typically! He's probably the hardest working President we've ever had. He's actively working on policy changes to fix things in the country. Compare what Trump does to what Barry DID why don't you? Barack Obama didn't come up with any of his Administration's legislation...that all came from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. What did Obama REALLY do? He flew around the country on Air Force One doing rallies to drum up support for the work that Reid and Pelosi were doing. Barack Obama doesn't have the faintest idea how to craft legislation or run a large organization. He was an empty suit relying on others to do the hard work of governing.

Wait....let me try.. .


Obama would walk to the Oval Office (45 miles each way, straight uphill there and back) every morning at 4 am......after yet another all nighter spent curing cancer and comforting widows and orphans....when he wasn't out hunting down Usama...with nothing more than brass knuckles and an iron will.

 

[bendog]

Looks like the Democrats are embracing being the party of "no" simply because they can't accept losing an election. Let's hope the American people make them pay for this during the 2018 midterms.

• Of the last seven administrations, three had a full Cabinet confirmed and in place within three weeks of the president’s inauguration.

• President Barack Obama had all but two nominees confirmed within two weeks of his inauguration. And President Bill Clinton had all but one nominee confirmed within one week after he took the oath of office.

• So, what about President Donald Trump? At four weeks into his presidency, a mere six of his 15 nominees had not yet been voted on. And at the end of week seven, two of those nominees haven’t even had a single committee hearing.

• How did this happen? Simple: Senate Democrats decided, as a conference, to block and obstruct Trump’s Cabinet nominees, carelessly smashing Senate norms of procedure and etiquette in the process.

• Senate Democrats have gone to such extraordinary lengths to sabotage the normal process of a new president staffing his administration that even The Washington Post called their obstruction “unprecedented.”

• Trump’s Cabinet remains unfilled nearly three months into his presidency. And the rate of confirmation for his other nominees has been just as slow.

• With more than 1,000 additional positions still needing to be confirmed by the Senate, the bureaucracy will keep humming along without reforms and critical areas of the government will be compromised. Meanwhile, Democrats fill their election war chests and cause a political media frenzy.

Senate Democrats Are Delaying 'Drain the Swamp'

An op ed by Mike Lee is a news source?

I mean yeah the dems have held up some like the labor guy who liked robots, but please. Flynn Tilllerson Mattis ... that's on the Donald.

 

[IcebergSlim]

Wanna dispute the number, G?

And therein lies the broader point. Trump and his team have known for months they needed to prepare a vast executive-branch team to take the reigns of power this afternoon – and they blew it badly. The Republicans didn’t just ask dozens of Obama appointees to keep going to work because of the officials’ competence; Trump World is also scrambling because it’s desperate.
Washington Post is maintainingan online database on executive-branch offices that require Senate confirmation, and there are a total of 690 positions. As of now, Trump has nominated a grand total of 30 people to fill those posts.

And that doesn’t include other government offices that don’t require Senate confirmation – positions Trump simply can fill on his own – which also remain empty.

Republicans are eager to complain that Democrats are to blame for the fact that so few of Trump’s cabinet nominees are ready for confirmation, but it’s not Dems’ fault Trump hasn’t nominated anyone for 660 out of 690 executive-branch positions.

As power shifts, Trump's team remains unprepared to govern

So on 1/20/17 MSNBC thinks Trump was unprepared to govern because he didn't have 690 executive branch positions already named? That was the day after he was sworn in. If I can remind you buffoons on the left...Trump went right to work naming his Cabinet and Democrats went right to work stalling their confirmations. It's typical for Cabinet members to choose those that work beneath them something that Democrats have sabotaged because they've been holding up confirmations. Instead of dozens of Cabinet level people choosing hundreds of people...you're asking why Trump isn't choosing those 690 positions!

Please shit the fuck up....it's called a "transition team".

Governing is hard work.....T-rump doesn't like to work....

His administration is perfect reflection of his capacity.

Trump doesn't like to work? Trump is up before 6 AM everyday and works until after midnight typically! He's probably the hardest working President we've ever had. He's actively working on policy changes to fix things in the country. Compare what Trump does to what Barry DID why don't you? Barack Obama didn't come up with any of his Administration's legislation...that all came from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. What did Obama REALLY do? He flew around the country on Air Force One doing rallies to drum up support for the work that Reid and Pelosi were doing. Barack Obama doesn't have the faintest idea how to craft legislation or run a large organization. He was an empty suit relying on others to do the hard work of governing.

WTF??

So Obama didn't come up with the ARRA? And he didn't push it through the Congress just weeks after being sworn in? Trump says he inherited a mess ... nearly 2 months in office -- how many proposals has Trump pushed through Congress? How many bills has he signed?

Within a month of being sworn in, Obama was already reversing the Legacy of Supply Side Idiocy, Part Deux, aka The Great Recession...

T-rump's priorities?

Reinstating the ban on funding international public health efforts

Getting his Big EO tossed.....in a UNANIMOUS rejection..

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Democrats have vowed to delay and obstruct as much as they can grinding the wheels of government to a halt, then blame Trump and republicans. Democrats really don't care if the country is damaged. They hope it is damaged.

 

[IcebergSlim]

Looks like the Democrats are embracing being the party of "no" simply because they can't accept losing an election. Let's hope the American people make them pay for this during the 2018 midterms.

• Of the last seven administrations, three had a full Cabinet confirmed and in place within three weeks of the president’s inauguration.

• President Barack Obama had all but two nominees confirmed within two weeks of his inauguration. And President Bill Clinton had all but one nominee confirmed within one week after he took the oath of office.

• So, what about President Donald Trump? At four weeks into his presidency, a mere six of his 15 nominees had not yet been voted on. And at the end of week seven, two of those nominees haven’t even had a single committee hearing.

• How did this happen? Simple: Senate Democrats decided, as a conference, to block and obstruct Trump’s Cabinet nominees, carelessly smashing Senate norms of procedure and etiquette in the process.

• Senate Democrats have gone to such extraordinary lengths to sabotage the normal process of a new president staffing his administration that even The Washington Post called their obstruction “unprecedented.”

• Trump’s Cabinet remains unfilled nearly three months into his presidency. And the rate of confirmation for his other nominees has been just as slow.

• With more than 1,000 additional positions still needing to be confirmed by the Senate, the bureaucracy will keep humming along without reforms and critical areas of the government will be compromised. Meanwhile, Democrats fill their election war chests and cause a political media frenzy.

Senate Democrats Are Delaying 'Drain the Swamp'

An op ed by Mike Lee is a news source?

I mean yeah the dems have held up some like the labor guy who liked robots, but please. Flynn Tilllerson Mattis ... that's on the Donald.

Forget it, Jake, it's P@triot.....

 

[IcebergSlim]

Democrats have vowed to delay and obstruct as much as they can grinding the wheels of government to a halt, then blame Trump and republicans. Democrats really don't care if the country is damaged. They hope it is damaged.

Here’s John Boehner, the likely speaker if Republicans take the House, offering his plans for Obama’s agenda: “We're going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell summed up his plan to National Journal: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

The GOP's no-compromise pledge

 

[Faun]

Democrats have vowed to delay and obstruct as much as they can grinding the wheels of government to a halt, then blame Trump and republicans. Democrats really don't care if the country is damaged. They hope it is damaged.

Sounds like that's how politicians win elections. How'd Republicans do after playing that strategary?