Rush Is Mad Republicans Stopped Kissing His Ring
Rush Limbaugh said today that unlike in past years, Republican leadership wants nothing to do with conservative media figures like him because they simply just do not like conservatives......
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Republicans Must Keep Our Promise to Stop Obama #39;s Amnesty
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The Republicans are letting us down. They lied
The Republicans are letting us down. They lied and they wanted immigration. Pulling the wool over Conservatives eyes for the last time!
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Senate Republicans are previewing the lines of attack theyll pursue in 2015 against President Barack Obamas immigration, foreign policy and gun regulation policies during this weeks debate on executive-branch nominees.
Today, Republicans anger over Obamas Nov. 20 order granting a temporary reprieve from deportation for undocumented immigrants translated into criticism of Sarah Saldana, Obamas nominee to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Senate confirmed her 55-39.
Yesterday, the Senate confirmed surgeon general nominee Vivek Murthy, a physician who has called gun violence a public health issue, on a 51-43 vote amid opposition from Republicans and the National Rifle Association.
This evening, the Senate will vote on confirming Antony Blinken as deputy secretary of state, though incoming Armed Services Chairman John McCain said hell fight Blinkens nomination on the floor. McCain has said that in hearings for defense secretary nominee Ashton Carter early next year he plans to highlight Obamas feckless foreign policy.
In an interview today, McCain said Blinken is the person whos been wrong on every single issue.
Incoming Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas is among the Republicans who said they would vote against Saldanas confirmation, though he said shes well qualified for the post.
Based on her qualifications alone, we would be hard pressed to find a person better suited for the job, Cornyn said of Saldana. But if she is determined to help the president implement this deeply flawed executive action and refuses to enforce the law that Congress has written and has been signed by previous presidents, I cant support her.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said in a statement, Her experience will be valuable as we continue to work to fix our broken immigration system and implement President Obamas executive action to keep families together.
Republicans in January will take control of the Senate for the final two years of Obamas presidency. In an attempt to install as many Obamas choices for executive and judicial posts as possible before ceding control of the chamber, Reid has teed up votes this week on about two dozen nominees.
Under a rules change that Reid pushed through late last year, Democrats can approve all of the nominees by a simple majority vote, meaning none will need Republican support as Democrats now control 55 seats in the chamber. Republicans will control 54 seats starting in January.
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Republicans Tip Hand on Obama Lines of Attack With Nominees
WASHINGTON Unhappy Republicans say Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has given President Barack Obama a present this holiday season a gift certificate good for confirmation of 12 judicial appointments, not long after the voters had delivered the Democrats a lump of coal in midterm elections.
Cruz, a tea party favorite and potential 2016 presidential contender, disputed the claim through his spokesman on Monday.
But there was no dissent that Democrats, who must turn over power to Republicans in January, were in position to confirm not only the judges, but 11 other appointees before the Senate wraps up work for the year.
Among them are nominees that Republicans have sought to block for two relatively high-profile posts. They are Vivek Murthy to become surgeon general and Sarah Saldaa to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that will oversee the new administration policy on immigration that Cruz wants to defund.
At the root of the dispute lay a combination of the Senate's all-but-indecipherable rules, Cruz's attempt to use their murky corners to his advantage, and a bipartisan desire of many lawmakers to finish work for the year and return home for the holidays.
"My concern about the strategy he employed is that it has a result he didn't intend," Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said of Cruz' maneuverings on Friday night, when he sought to force a vote on Obama's immigration policy. Among the consequences, she said, would be confirmation of a number of appointees who are controversial, including some to "lifetime judicial" posts.
Some officials said Cruz was personally informed by GOP aides that Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid was primed to take advantage if he went ahead.
Under the Senate's rules, Cruz's maneuver allowed Reid to begin the time-consuming process of confirming nominations on Saturday at noon when lawmakers had been scheduled to be home for the weekend.
Had Cruz not made his move when he did, according to officials in both parties, Reid would have had to wait until Monday night more than 48 hours later. Disgruntled Republicans said they felt confident that Reid's rank and file would not have been willing to remain in Washington in that case, and only four or five nominees would be confirmed instead of 23.
Other Republican lawmakers were far more forceful than Collins in their judgment of Cruz on Monday. They declined to speak on the record, possibly feeling they had already done so enough during the unplanned, 12-hour Senate session on Saturday.
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