Kentucky Turtle Pens Op-Ed: "Time to Stop the Democrat's Obstruction"
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Since January 2017, for the first time in memory, a minority has exploited procedure to systematically obstruct a president from staffing up his administration. This new, across-the-board obstruction is unfair to the president and, more importantly, to the American people. Left unchecked, it is guaranteed to create an unsustainable precedent that would see every future presidency of either party obstructed in the same mindless way.
The Senate needs to restore normalcy. And this week, we will vote to do just that.
Every presidential election since John Adams beat Thomas Jefferson in 1796 has undoubtedly left some senators disappointed. But never before has the unhappy side then built a systematic effort to keep the new president's administration unstaffed.
We aren’t talking about limited opposition to a few high-profile nominees or unusual circumstances. It’s mindless, undiscriminating obstruction for the sake of obstruction. Even uncontroversial lower-level nominees whom literally no senators oppose are not spared.
Moreover, if we let this partisan paralysis continue, it will define a new norm for the future. It’s hard to imagine any future presidency of either party would be spared.
Democrats overwhelmingly supported changes like these in 2013 when they helped President Obama. And privately, many of our Democratic colleagues tell us they’d be happy to support this new proposal, too — as long as we postpone its effective date until January 2021, when they hope there will be a Democrat occupying the White House.
Give me a break. A rules change is either a good idea or it isn’t. The answer cannot depend on whether you like the current occupant of the White House. Simple fairness dictates that there cannot be protections in place for Democratic administrations past and future that magically skip over Republican presidents. And this is especially true under the current extraordinary circumstances Senate Democrats have created.
Time to Stop the Democrats' Obstruction
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bold move for mitch mcconnell to write this on april fools day
Every single sentence makes me want to punch that rancid garbage heap in his fac.e
for the first time in memory,
I think Republicans are taking the Reagan RP a little too far.
But never before has the unhappy side then built a systematic effort to keep the new president's administration unstaffed.
Literally staffing criminals and nobody else is what did this. Plus his ego.
One of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, 'Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy.'
McConnell: Kavanaugh confirmation among my proudest moments
Go fuck yourself
Its appalling to me how he can be so blatantly hypocritical and doesn't bat an eye.
The absolute second we get these traitors out of office, we need to have Merrick Garland take his rightful seat just out of spite.
Traitor
Sounds like he needs some mental recalibration, aka a good kick in the head.
The GOP is waging a war on truth and I'm worried that truth may be losing.
Democrats overwhelmingly supported changes like these in 2013 when they helped President Obama.
Let's talk about Obama. Wasn't Bitch Mcconnell the one who pledged to make Obama "a one-term president"? That sounds a bit obstructionist, a little partisan even.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-A09a_gHJc
Oh yeah he DID say that. Wow crazy, never would've expected a republican to do the thing he accuses others of doing fucking constantly.
What an appalling, cretinous man this McConnell is. By god, if there's a pit in hell hot enough for him, it'd be a miracle.
ActBlue
Don't get mad, get even
mitch just gives no fucks about his life, just power.
This is what you inflicted on Obama for six years because of his mistake of attempting to compromise with you insects during his first two years even though we Democrats held the majority everywhere. He extended that olive branch instead of just pushing through everything he could like you and Trump did, and because of his kindness, you stole control by blaming us for your obstruction and rewrote the rules to single-handedly paralyze our Congress for more than half a decade.
This is what you deserve. And if you're really squealing and writhing this soon - only three months after we regained the House - when we endured your iron fist for eight years if we also include the two you co-ruled with Ryan and Trump, then by god in heaven are you a wimpy little bitch who can't take anywhere near what he gives out. I hope you never gain another major victory so long as you're in office and that your legacy is erased once you're gone. And even that is a fate that's honestly too kind for you, considering the damage you've inflicted on - let's be real here - the entire western world, if not on a global scale.
Enjoy the gridlock, you crusty old parasite. And kindly go suck a tailpipe.
A colostomy bag is less full of shit and has more humanity than Mitch McConnell.
Newt Gingrich and Mitch McConnell are the two worst things to happen to American democracy in the past couple decades.
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