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of his own choosing, consisting of people he has confidence in. The founders fully appreciated that and in their wisdom decided that this must not be an arbitrary, unlimited power, but instead must meet the collective wisdom of the Senate. Article 2, Section 2 says:
This will be a moment of truth for the Republicans in the Senate.
* Of course, the President can choose an AG, but not one who is a sex offender and has practiced law only two years in his entire life.
* Of course, the President can choose a Director of National Intelligence who shares his philosophies, but he can't have an SNI who is effectively a Russian agent and could never get a security clearance in any normal administration.
* Of course, the President can choose a director of Health and Human Services, but not one who has no training whatsoever in any aspect of health, actively agitates against life-saving vaccines, and willingly spreads wild conspiracy theories that kill people.
* Of course, the President can choose a Secretary of Education, but not one whose only real claim to fame is giving a hand job in public.
We must put the maximum pressure on the Senate to do their job, just as the founders instructed them. Public hearings for every last one of them.
Dave Bowman
(3,775 posts)underpants
(187,107 posts)Scalise and Johnson already are trying to stop him from nominating House members. The count right now is 218-211 with 6 undecided. Gaetz quit and hes tapped 2 other House members for positions. Depending on how the last 6 turn out they cant have hardly any defections or absences on votes.
Bluetus
(252 posts)In the last session, there were always several dozen GOP House members who wouldn't go along with anything. I don't suppose it would be hard for Johnson to line up 100% support for billionaire tax cuts. But for any other substantive legislation, that looks pretty unlikely.
One thing that will be interesting is to see how many (if any) Republicans get courage now that Trump is a lame duck. We have seen amazing profiles of courage from Republicans, but except for Cheney and Kinzinger, that only happened once said Reps had already announcement they were leaving office. Well, now Trump can't run for anything more, so will any of them get some backbone?