Summary
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell reportedly warned that there will be no recess appointments, directly opposing Donald Trump’s plan to bypass Senate confirmation for controversial cabinet nominees, including Matt Gaetz.
Gaetz has faced allegations of drug use and sexual misconduct.
McConnell’s stance sparked widespread discussion about a looming constitutional showdown.
Critics argue recess appointments could undermine Senate authority and pose national security risks.
Observers question McConnell’s influence, noting potential leadership changes, while others see this as a critical test of Senate integrity against Trump-aligned Republicans.
If McConnell is saying this then I believe he’s planning on retiring VERY soon. Republicans o Lt grow a spine when their walking out the door.
Polymath probably taking bets on how long McConnell has left before suicide by defenestration+2 bullets to the back of the head
Also McConnell: Votes to confirm
He likes to be in the same room and watch while we all get fucked.
Fair chance that this has more to do with Gabbard than Gaetz. She’s close with Russian state media and was put in change of US Intelligence. Obviously a Trojan horse.
Why would Moscow Mitch have an issue with that?
Mitchell has more loyalty to American oligarchs than Russian ones. The lines are blurry because billionaires are multinational, and once a Russian spends money in his state, they become an American oligarch to him. Similar to Chinese oligarchs like his father in law.
The next 4(?) years:
Please tell me Trump isn’t Bugs.
My take is Bugs is the embodiment of society as a whole, but since Trump is bigger and heavier than Sam, the edge of the cliff will break off and we all go off the edge together.
Oh, yes. This makes sense.
The Senate can’t turn down too many Trump appointees until they are looked on as an obstruction to their own party. So, you’ll definitely lose Gaetz, but Trump has flooded the zone with incompetence.
I am starting to believe the theory Trump is putting up the worst possible people so when one gets rejected he can try to force Congress to adjourn and then appoint whomever he wants which will be 100% worse.
Not that Trump thought of this but someone, Miller, is pulling the strings
Senators are very different in many ways. They are very powerful, and feel a responsibility to their position for the most part. That includes advise and consent, part of the Constitution. It takes just as many Republican votes to call a recess as to confirm a nominee. Don’t forget, also, that until DeWine and DeSantis do their bit, they will be two votes short.
As shit as Roberts’ SCOTUS is, I don’t think even they’d go that far. Their entire argument hinges on one phrase from Article Two:
he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper;
Supposedly as long as neither the House nor the Senate alter their scheduled appointment dates this clause can’t be invoked.
It’s negotiating 101. Open with the hoop dream so the next option isn’t near as bad. If you get your first option, you win, and if you get the second option, you win a little less.
Donnie boy is always testing the waters, testing the limits. It’s an extreme version of what the GOPers have been doing for years. Ask for a 150% of what’s reasonable, and then act all butt hurt when they only get 125%. We’ve seen this game before. There’s nothing new coming out of the “grand” Old party. smh.
Well those are just basic negotiation skills.
If so then the Dems need to learn some basic negotiation skills. But I don’t agree. The two parties are supposed to represent all of the US, and what they should be negotiating for is those policies that are in the best interest of all US citizens. I hope you’ll agree that is not the case.
Very few things the federal government does has anything to do with helping people. It’s bowing to our corporate masters while trying to keep the masses from rioting
We can only hope for incompetence, the real danger is a malicious and competent appointment.
Fair point, however, incompetency at Secetary of Homeland, for instance, makes you less safe.
Incompetence in Trumps first term usually led to not much being done and retention of the status quo.
I said it was a fair point.
I also said there were exceptions.
You are correct in both points.
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“Donald, it has to at least look like we gave you some oversight.”
Right? McConnel has kinda always been the GOP’s fall guy in the senate. The one who takes all the heat for unpopular shit, when the entire party is actually on board. Donny probably just didn’t get the memo.
He got the memo, but he ate it before anyone was able to read it to him.
I’ll be more stunned if McConnel or other Republicans don’t cave and just go along with it.
We live in a world where we’re looking for Mitch McConnell to do the right thing? Oh yeah, we’re absolutely fucked.
This will mean nothing since McConnell is retiring or has retired already.
Either I see a challenge to a runaway Trump, or I see the death cry of McConnell’s political career destroyed by Trump psychopaths.
Silver linings.
GOP members with faces slowly waking up to the fact they got a hungry face eating leopard into the White House.
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell reportedly warned that there will be no recess appointments
Recess appointments stopped being a thing in 2016 altogether and really the water source was shut off back in Obama who only got 32 as Pro Forma became popular in Congress.
I am seriously doubtful that the House wants to get rid of Pro Forma nor would they risk a Section III dismissal to appease Trump.
As much as Trump is power hungry, so too are a ton of GOP members of Congress equally hungry.
Checks and balances are working.
LOL let’s see something actually get blocked before we conclude that. This is merely a delay.
We already did - McConnell blocked Trump’s pick for the next senate majority leader last week.
McConnell is leaving office and very soon will be irrelevant. Sure, it’s great that something was blocked before he’s in office, but it doesn’t tell us anything about what will happen after.
Ok ok I’ll acknowledge that you are right. It doesn’t feel like much of a check when gestures around but I’ll grant that you are the best kind of correct.
