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Title: Cornyn Blocks Hillary Confirmation
Post by: guido911 on January 20, 2009, 02:07:00 pm
Apparenlty this republican is behaving excessively unpatriotic by not supporting Hillary's SoS appointment:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/no-confirmation-vote-for-clinton/

Maybe he should leave the country.


Title: Cornyn Blocks Hillary Confirmation
Post by: sgrizzle on January 20, 2009, 03:18:39 pm
*feign surprise*


Title: Cornyn Blocks Hillary Confirmation
Post by: joiei on January 20, 2009, 05:54:32 pm
Just trying to get his name in the news on the day of the Inaugration.


Title: Cornyn Blocks Hillary Confirmation
Post by: we vs us on January 20, 2009, 10:26:37 pm
quote:
Originally posted by guido911

Apparenlty this republican is behaving excessively unpatriotic by not supporting Hillary's SoS appointment:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/no-confirmation-vote-for-clinton/

Maybe he should leave the country.



Cornyn is objecting so that the GOP is on record as having opposed at least one of Obama's appointees (6 others sailed through confirmation by unanimous consent today).  "A spokesman for Mr. Cornyn, Kevin McLaughlin, said, “this is not an effort to scuttle or block the nomination, but a legitimate policy difference. Senator Cornyn’s goal is to create transparency on all levels of government.” When Reid calls the roll call vote, she'll get through just fine, only after an additional three hours or so of obligatory teeth gnashing by the Senate minority.

It's all good, though.  Welcome to representative democracy, American style.  


Title: Cornyn Blocks Hillary Confirmation
Post by: joiei on January 20, 2009, 11:22:50 pm
quote:
Originally posted by we vs us

quote:
Originally posted by guido911

Apparenlty this republican is behaving excessively unpatriotic by not supporting Hillary's SoS appointment:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/no-confirmation-vote-for-clinton/

Maybe he should leave the country.



Cornyn is objecting so that the GOP is on record as having opposed at least one of Obama's appointees (6 others sailed through confirmation by unanimous consent today).  "A spokesman for Mr. Cornyn, Kevin McLaughlin, said, “this is not an effort to scuttle or block the nomination, but a legitimate policy difference. Senator Cornyn’s goal is to create transparency on all levels of government.” When Reid calls the roll call vote, she'll get through just fine, only after an additional three hours or so of obligatory teeth gnashing by the Senate minority.

It's all good, though.  Welcome to representative democracy, American style.  


Like I said before  
quote:
Just trying to get his name in the news on the day of the Inaugration.
I will wager that he is thinking he can run for the next president of the republican party.


Title: Cornyn Blocks Hillary Confirmation
Post by: we vs us on January 21, 2009, 09:14:05 am
quote:
Originally posted by joiei

quote:
Originally posted by we vs us

quote:
Originally posted by guido911

Apparenlty this republican is behaving excessively unpatriotic by not supporting Hillary's SoS appointment:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/no-confirmation-vote-for-clinton/

Maybe he should leave the country.



Cornyn is objecting so that the GOP is on record as having opposed at least one of Obama's appointees (6 others sailed through confirmation by unanimous consent today).  "A spokesman for Mr. Cornyn, Kevin McLaughlin, said, “this is not an effort to scuttle or block the nomination, but a legitimate policy difference. Senator Cornyn’s goal is to create transparency on all levels of government.” When Reid calls the roll call vote, she'll get through just fine, only after an additional three hours or so of obligatory teeth gnashing by the Senate minority.

It's all good, though.  Welcome to representative democracy, American style.  


Like I said before  
quote:
Just trying to get his name in the news on the day of the Inaugration.
I will wager that he is thinking he can run for the next president of the republican party.



I hope he gets in the ring.  There's a bit of a power vaccuum on the Right these days.  Someone's gonna have to step in start organizing things.