Jack Kemp

Here is what your "moderate" Never Trump acquaintances (and their allies in the U.S. Senate) are doing to the rest of us who support Trump. Namely, they are keeping judgeships and other positions open and blocked from having pro-Trump officials who would work to Make America Great Again. It was moderates like this, such as the non-fighting Norm Coleman, that lead to Al Franken stealing his first election to the Senate with a "magical" group of last minute votes found in a car trunk or a closet or wherever.

Senate Republicans Are Blocking Trump Appointments

From the article:

"President Trump has hundreds of unfilled presidentially-appointed positions because Democrats have stalled the nominations process out as much as their diminished power in the post-nuclear Senate has allowed.

But it is the Republican majority that has placed a total blockade on the usual safety valve for temporary appointments - the recess appointment power - by refusing to go on recess for the last two years. And with Democrats set to take the House and be in position to deny the Senate consent to recess starting January 3, there is a real possibility that President Trump will go an entire presidential term without being able to make recess appointments.

It has been nearly eight years since the United States Senate officially recessed - a streak aided by the practice of holding so-called pro forma sessions every three days throughout every adjournment. Those sessions - which consist of nothing but gaveling in and out and where, by unanimous consent, no business is conducted - serve a single purpose: to deny the president of the United States the recess appointment power, which is a constitutionally authorized power to temporarily install nominees to executive and judicial posts without Senate advice and consent

Read the rest at Townhall.




A Slovo from Timophyea Yakovitch:

McConnell has no reason to want Trump to succeed, and he is clearly the one blocking Trump from making recess appointments. He's a snake in the grass and always has been. Oh, he talks a good game, but in the end most of Trump's agenda has been stalled because McConnell won't let it happen in the Senate. That's because the RINO's don't want anyone else to thinki they can accomplish anything without kissing the a, er, ring of the Republican establishment. Trump is a bad dream to them, and they want him to disappear come morning. Succeess on his part would breed imitators.

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