November 13, 2024
"Senate Republicans reacted with alarm and dismay to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s decision to nominate Representative Matt Gaetz... for attorney general..."
"... and several said they were skeptical that he would be able to secure enough votes for confirmation.... Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, raised his eyebrows when reporters informed him of Mr. Trump’s choice.
'I’m still trying to absorb all this,' he said, adding: 'I don’t really know him, other than his public persona.'
Mr. Gaetz, who has been one of Mr. Trump’s fiercest attack dogs on Capitol Hill, has routinely used his position on the House Judiciary Committee to question the motives of Justice Department officials and rail against what he has called the 'deep state.'... Mr. Trump has called on Senate Republicans to allow him to circumvent the confirmation process by calling recesses during which he could install personnel without Senate approval. It was not clear whether Senator John Thune, the South Dakota Republican elected as majority leader on Wednesday, would be willing to do so for Mr. Gaetz, or other nominees who might struggle to draw enough support to be confirmed...."
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 248 of 248This is a bad one. This guy has not practiced law and is ill-equipped to make prosecutorial decisions. He is also apparently unpopular among Republicans. Disappointing.
I am delighted by the pick. Nothing extreme enough can happen to the DC regulars to satisfy me. I want all senior Democrat homes raided at 6 a.m. just to see what can be found. I want all agencies moved to North Dakota and the current capitol reduced to a ceremonial role. Dump the District back into Maryland. Outrage the Democrats and Rinos at every turn. As the man said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
He's not the nominee to practice law. He's there to run thru the joint politically and clear out the corruption root and stem. They can put in a hundred Deputy AG's to oversee investigations and prosecutions.
This is a war and the New Soviet Democraticals are playing for complete and total annihilation of the republicans and all the "respectable" republicans are wringing their hands and weeping in their soup and hoping others dont think too ill of them and golly gee whiz just cant everything slow down and cant we just get along and isnt it just terrible who they're letting into the club these days and dearey me those folks just aren't our type, are they?
Sorry, the Romney era, strangled in its crib, are over.
Just go hang with the Bulwark and National Review crew already.
Careful. Your comment alone is enough to give the "respectable" Althouse republicans the vapors causing them to float effortlessly onto the nearest feinting couch.
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
Every swamp rat crying about Gaetz didn’t lift a finger while DOJ was running illegal coup after illegal coup against our elected government from 2016-2020. They didn’t say a word when DOJ illegally seized the phones of Rep. Scott Perry or Rep. Andy Ogles.
They were quiet as a church mouse when DOJ illegally spied on Trump. They were nowhere to be found when DOJ hatched and ran the entire fake kidnapping plot against Gretchen Whitmer. They did nothing when DOJ allowed violent threats against Supreme Court justices to continue.
And don’t even get me started on their paralysis regarding the insane DOJ J6 op.
So to everyone in Washington crying about Matt Gaetz: you are the reason he is necessary. Understand that it is happening because of your own fecklessness, or complicity.
You did nothing while the infection festered and the cancer spread at DOJ. You looked the other way as it nearly destroyed the country. And now you wonder why emergency medicine is necessary?
So as you cry at Capitol Grille over expensive wine bought for you by your corrupt K Street donors, just know that all of this is your fault, and that it’s not going to stop until the problems you deliberately ignored are finally solved.
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“'Gaetz won’t get confirmed, everybody knows that,' McCarthy said in an interview with Bloomberg Television at the Barclays Asia Forum in Singapore on Thursday."
Until Trump's selection of Gaetz as AG, I never fully appreciated Trump's genius. His opponents are playing checkers, he's playing three-dimensional chess. He's Brando at the end of "Apocalypse Now": "We went into a camp to innoculate the children. We left the camp after we had innoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every innoculated arm. There they were in a pile...A pile of little arms. And I remember...I...I...I cried...I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized...like I was shot...Like I was shot with a diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead...And I thought: My God...the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure." Trump doesn't need to arrest the hosts at MSNBC; he's letting them spontaneously combust. The genius of that. The will to do that. The horror, the horror!
Sessions sat by and let the deep state do the Mueller thing. If that demonstrates legal prowess we're screwed. Fuck off bitch!
I see lots of hand ringing above as if all of a sudden we should take NYT reporting on Republicans at face value. Mann-Gell amnesia is real.
Gaetz will be brought in as a recess appointment without any intention of going through a confirmation hearing.
You're calling someone "scum" based on one night in a bar with them? And we're the ones who need to grow the fck up...?
The whole strategy is to push him through on a recess appointment. Pay attention.
It reminds me of when the Quebec Nordiques moved to Denver in the 90s, and it was leaked that the team would be called "Rocky Mountain Xtreme". People were horrified, natch, so they went with their supposed second choice, "Colorado Avalanche".
Still think it's a dumb name, tho not as bad as Seattle Kraken.
Nobody wants to purge the DOJ more than I do. I have been working to do so since the Clinton years. But you need a credible, intelligent, and principled person to do it. I lobbied at the Florida legislature too. Gaetz daddy and son were considered low rent scum, and not very smart, by most conservatives. The night I spent in his company only confirmed this for me. We drove eight hours to give a speech to his constituents. He showed an hour late. His own constituents were embarrassed by his behavior. He was drinking and belligerent. Then he wanted to shut the meeting down and hit a bar, where he drank more and behaved inappropriately with young waitresses.
I knew all about his behavior at the Florida legislature before that night. It just confirmed his incompetence and vulnerability to scandal to me. He can’t purge and reform the DOJ. He can’t form the necessary coalitions. His personal behavior will make him vulnerable and weak. He doesn’t have the legal chops. Jesus wept, this isn’t rocket science. It’s just an incredibly stupid choice, and he’ll screw it up like he screws everything up, and the job won’t get done. There are scores of competent, sober people to choose. Gail Heriot and J Christian Adams come to mind. Heriot is a fearless critic of the very agencies she has been appointed to by conservatives. She has the institutional knowledge to get the job done. Try reading their work.
It’s really sad watching all of you throw away this opportunity, especially you.
I have no doubt that the plan is to blow the vast majority out of the “civil service staff” right out if there.
This idea has a lot of merit, I think. Trump throws the Gaetz grenade in just as Rubio seat becomes vacant. Gaetz has already resigned from Congress. Gaetz accepts Senate seat as Rubio replacement. The AG post will go to someone less shocking, and Senators will gratefully approve, recognizing anything’s better than what could have been…
Yancey, I did. It didn’t post, or post yet. Gail Heriot or J Christian Adams. And there are many other brilliant, brave, scandal-free and sober people.
I regularly support lousy RINOS. I’ll support this incompetent slattern if he gets in. But he won’t get the job done. And getting that job done, and done right, has been the focus of the last 27 years of my life, lost me my career, and put me on their watch list. So I know a hell of a lot about it. And Gaetz. If people want to just attack me personally, have at. God knows, that’s the really port ant thing. I’m not demanding anyone else’s credentials, ffs.
Garland would likely have stayed.
(snorting out my coffee)
Let's send in the FBI to raid the White House for those important documents. You know, prepping for impeachment trial #4. "He was up to something, Your Honor. I could feel it."
If Garland gets his ass arrested I will have zero sympathy. If his wife is distressed because the police are tossing her underwear onto the floor, I will have zero sympathy. People who start fights can't cry about losing them.
I would urge Trump to take the high road. But keeping Garland as AG is maybe the dumbest suggestion I've heard all year. It's like buying stock in Enron.
Take a moment to compare with what precedes Gaetz. At some level, that's the metric.
That's the metric? Garland litigates like a mafia hitman who uses his office to punish his enemies. I say that, but Garland is such a soft-spoken banana, I doubt very much he was the ax. Biden was the ax -- or Obama -- Garland was the squish who saw nothing, said nothing, did nothing.
The fucker said this after it was clear the DOJ lawfare had done nothing but help Trump.
"Justice Department prosecutors are nonpartisan. They don’t allow partisan considerations to play any role in their determinations,” Garland said.
It's like saying the Supreme Court always follows the Constitution. Like it's impossible for any bad actors to get that job. He's literally the first AG to arrest and prosecute a president for imaginary offenses, and he will go down in history as a political skunk. Suck on that, blue babies.
There’s no way for a dem to get that seat.
Fred. Say his name!
Act 1: Marco Rubio sails through the Senate and takes his position as Secretary of State.
Act 2: The Senate rejects Matt Gaetz as a dirty dog who is too low to sit as AG.
Act 3: Ron DeSantis appoints Gaetz to take Rubio's spot in the Senate.
ha ha ha ha ha
We would call that move the "mini comeback."
There are few things more insufferable than a bad winner.
Tina Trent: I know him.
Also Tina Trent: I met him once.
Jeff Sessions is Alabama’s version of Elmer Fudd.
Mike Davis would be a solid AGOTUS.
He'll do until someone else comes along.
Drago this is you, in the future
https://twitter.com/i/status/1854592297427517691
I've got a lot of respect for Tina, but This is the pick of the guy in charge and this is why I voted for him. Not everybody is going to like every appointment he makes. He's got a lot of ground to cover in a short amount of time and if anybody isn't working out you know Trump won't hesitate for minute to fire them.
I'm in this for the results. Not the personalities.
Jerry Colonna!
“Knows him” in teh biblical sense?
"Says a loon who knows squat about the Delaware Court of Chancery or much else"
LOL
Its quite obvious to everyone what is happening in your corrupted New Soviet Democratical McCormick Court of Kafkaesque Shenanigans.
But do go ahead and keep denying what is manifestly transparent. It just drives the point home ever more effectively.
So, Jeff Sessions is your guy then.
Figures.
Let's get him in there and he'll immediately recuse himself again and probably hand the reins directly to Weissmann.
Sounds like a solid plan from a "trumpy" gal like you.
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It's incredibly childish, not to forget irresponsible, to make significant political decisions and appointments on the basis of how much of a "FU to the swamp and the woke in DC." A responsible executive makes decisions and appointments based on the most considered and informed criteria as to what/who is the best choice for the persons being served, (namely, we, the people). But then, we all know Trump is childish and irresponsible and makes decisions childishly and irresponsibly. Trump's eternal operating guidance is pique and/or feeding his self-serving ends.
The carefully crafted comment that I worked on last night disappeared when I tried to post it, so I'll just say that this was a bad pick.
If you met him once and he showed you pictures of the babes he was having sex with, that would count as an intimate relationship.
Michael, I didn’t just meet him. He was supposed to host my speech. I drove eight hours. Then he wanted to party. Plus, I know his record, granularity, in the Florida legislature. Check yourself. This isn’t about impotent rage. It’s about getting the job done.
I recognize this old tune, it is called the one two switcheroo. First Trump presents as a nominee someone with absolutely zero chance of being confirmed, someone so horrible that everyone recoils in disgust. Then the nomination is withdrawn and someone else is nominated, and approved, because hey they can't just keep saying "No" to the nominees. And thus the SECOND nominee, the real nominee, can be as hard line an appointee as Trump wants. Genius move, gets Gaetz gone from the administration completely after he is savaged in the press and by his fellow senators some more, and leaves Trump able to nominate anyone else and get approval.
No, they aren’t. I shouldn’t be so pejorative. But my comments are blocked. I guess it’s OK to leave up slurs against me but not let me explain.
I guess this won’t get through either. Equal justice?
Polymarket Predicted Trump’s Victory, and Now the FBI Has Raided Its CEO’s Home.
The same FBI who faked the Whiter Kidnapping BS, Openly Used Ray Epps to incite violence at the Jan 6th capitol- and the same FBI who hired a patsy to kill Trump in Butler PA.
The FBI must be completely gutted.
Funny. I didn't vote for personality. I voted for results.
I wasn’t calling him stupid. These threads make it hard to reply.
His big problem will be that the rats in the Dept of Just US will be leaking lies and half truths via Wapo and NYT to further ruin his reputation before he even gets a senate hearing.
Maybe they can bring back Christine Ford for a repeat performance...that he raped her in a bar who's name and address has slipped her mind.
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