Elizabeth Warren Has Had It With Mitch McConnell’s ‘Petty’ Behavior

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Via HuffPo

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) accused Republicans of pure political obstruction of President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees Wednesday, prompting a shrug from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who objected to her attempt to expedite 15 long-stalled appointees.

Warren took to the Senate floor in the afternoon seeking unanimous consent to bring up all the noncontroversial judges who have passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, but have not received votes on the Senate floor.

Pointing to a report she released Monday, the Massachusetts senator noted that Republicans have been approving nominees at a glacial pace since taking over the Senate in 2014, approving just 18 judges in this Congress. Judicial vacancies have skyrocketed from 43 to 89.

“Instead of working to make government function, to make government more efficient, Senate Republicans have made it their priority to keep key positions empty for so long as possible, to hamstring efforts to protect consumers and workers, to delay efforts to hold large corporations accountable, to slow down work to promote equality,” Warren said. “The view of Senate Republicans seems to be pretty simple — if government isn’t working for them, for their rich friends or for their right-wing allies, then Senate Republicans won’t let it work for anyone.”

Unsurprisingly, McConnell denied her request. 

The majority leader has refused to even allow hearings for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland. Republicans say they will leave the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat vacant for at least a year so voters can weigh the vacancy as part of their choice for president. 

Warren summed up by accusing McConnell and the GOP of transparent and harmful partisanship.

“The Senate’s job is to provide advice and consent on the president’s judicial nominees,” Warren said. “There is no asterisk that says only when the majority leader has an embarrassing political problem or except when the president is named Barack Obama. It is not what the founders had in mind because it is small, it is petty and it is absurd.”

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Warren destroying as usual.

Another reason to prevent the Grand Obstructionist Party from maintaining their foothold on the Senate.

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for a moment I read it as Diane Warren  

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2 minutes ago, Derpplause said:

for a moment I read it as Diane Warren  

Ghehehe, me2

 

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She's entirely right.

The GOP in general is known to be petty when they don't get their way.

Just look @ Trump