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The Gaetz appointment is a masterstroke

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Posted By: DW626, 11/15/2024 6:31:48 AM

Lisa Murkowski is itching to vote against firebrand Matt Gaetz as attorney general. She may not get the chance. If the new Senate leadership recesses the Senate for three days, Gaetz can take office as a recess appointment, circumventing the confirmation process. It remains to be seen if Senate Majority Leader John Thune will play ball. The Gaetz appointment is a giant middle finger to those in the Justice Department who have harassed Trump since before he took office in 2017. It started with the Russia hoax, and it's been going on nonstop for eight years. The final straw came when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, including searching Melania's

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Venturer 11/15/2024 6:50:01 AM (No. 1835127)
Gaetz has a lot of people scared. Many of them deserve to be. I don't know what the hell they were thinking when they turned the Justice department into an agency to get Trump.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: 3XALADY 11/15/2024 7:38:01 AM (No. 1835172)
Scorched earth, PDJT. Scorched earth.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Northcross 11/15/2024 7:42:59 AM (No. 1835176)
A recess appointment of Gaetz will only be a "masterstroke" if your goal is to lose the House and Senate in the 2026 midterm elections. Be very cautious, Mr. President-elect.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: anniebc 11/15/2024 7:45:44 AM (No. 1835179)
The current shenanigans by RINOs is a reset opportunity to get the dragging going. If President Trump is going hard, we the MAGA people need to do our part and get rid of these traitorous obstructionists. Operation recall and replace! the people have spoken. We've declared loud and clear that "We are with him!" Hat tip failed kamala campaign; we can cut and paste too, Punchanella.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: singermom9 11/15/2024 7:58:25 AM (No. 1835191)
DEFUND LIB JUDGES. Don't try to FIRE them it will take years. Just DEFUND THEIR POSITION
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Reply 6 - Posted by: happywarrior 11/15/2024 9:44:08 AM (No. 1835247)
Thankfully, #3 and people like him are not advising President Trump anymore.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: bpl40 11/15/2024 9:58:16 AM (No. 1835256)
You mess with Melania's undies and you are playing with fire. I would say heads must roll ALL the way to the top.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: stablemoney 11/15/2024 10:15:35 AM (No. 1835278)
I despise the way conservatives automatically pick up the demonization language of the left, when referring to a fellow conservative, as in "firebrand" Matt Gaetz. Here is another option. Call people by their name, and leave off the adjectives ---- but diminutives before leftist's names can be excepted, because they have earned the disrespect, and Republicans are too weak to put any of them in jail for violating the law.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: readtheBook 11/15/2024 10:16:00 AM (No. 1835279)
I came across this radical idea yesterday posted in a comment in response to an article regarding the secret Republican Senate vote on Senate leadership. Sounds like "burnt earth" but maybe now is the time? Reply 14 - Posted by: DVC 11/13/2024 2:07:38 PM (No. 1833699) US Constitution, Article 1, Section 3. "The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided. The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States." OK, in recent history, the VP has just folded up and taken a nap and let the Senate Majority Leader run things. Keying off #12's excellent post, Vance should show up on day one and just RUN THE SENATE, and ignore Thune, work via Scott. Cut out the Deep State Uniparty folks. TAKE the power in the Senate and let them howl like the banshees that they are, and harumph all day. The Constitution says President of the Senate. I think the President of the Senate should decide exactly what powers that entails. And if you don't like it, phone up the Supreme Court who will probably not take the call. HARDBALL politics, all caps, and no slack. Cut Thune OUT, don't just let him run things. When you mean to shake up the game, break out the rule book and read it carefully, then follow those rules. All the Senate "rules" are just made up crap and they just all voted to agree to do it that way. I'll BET that the President of the Senate, if he was ballsy, could just say, "Yeah, well, I decided we won't do it that way any more." And they have NO Constitutional basis to bypass him.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Italiano 11/15/2024 11:28:25 AM (No. 1835350)
Eric Holder. Loretta Lynch. Merrick Garland. My Cousin Vinny would be a moral and ethical upgrade from those corrupt political hacks
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Reply 11 - Posted by: jayjeti 11/15/2024 12:50:06 PM (No. 1835406)
All Trump's picks, not just Gaetz, shows Trump is going to war against the deep state. The 2024 version of President Trump is leaner, meaner, and far more politically savvy than the 2016 version. After going through hell and learning his lessons the hard way, he’s back with a finely-tuned vengeance the Swamp has never seen.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: snakeoil 11/15/2024 1:13:15 PM (No. 1835431)
As usual I'm confused. None of President Trump's appointments can't take effect until he takes the Oath of Office in January 2025. What is all of the controversy about. None of his appointees can take office until President Trump does. Our President doesn't become The President until he is sworn in.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: TXknitter 11/15/2024 1:21:32 PM (No. 1835446)
Preach it #4. I know some of my fellow Texans are watching our Ted Cruz. It was very foolish to speak hesitantly in response to questions about Matt Gaetz. This stuff is why he doesn’t win reelection races by what he should. We are gonna be ON this boy !
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