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
I’m sure people with opinions become more clumsy under dictators. Mitch will probably fall out a window.
Well, at least McTurtle can hope his lack of a backbone to break will save him.
Good ol’ St. Petersburg Suicide
Just a reminder that Mitch McConnell could have prevented this not once but twice.
Good luck (seriously) trying to keep the monster you created and continuously enabled under control. I also hate that I’m implicitly rooting for McConnell here.
When the worst guy starts fighting a twice as worst guy, you have a relative good guy to root for.
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy, but I want to see the former hurt the latter first.
This enemy of my enemy is not my friend, the moment is merely a temporary truce for the greater good.
Don’t worry, Trump now will see him as The Enemy and use everything at his disposal against him.
McConnell just might be the first one to draw the ire this term.
Any chance McConnell will fall out a window in the near future?
Don’t worry, Trump now will see him as The Enemy and use everything at his disposal against him.
I mean, probably. Unfortunately, McConnell’s actually right for once. Whether he’s right for the right reasons is irrelevant at the moment.
Accidentally right is still right!
The enemy of my enemy.
We can agree with him and root for him. Just keep in mind who he is and what he’s done. Don’t allow a short memory to curb that perspective.
In the meantime, while the monsters fight we should be collectively working to shore up things in our communities. I’m working on mine.
We’re still pissing on his grave.
Oh 100%.
Just thinking back to how easy it would have been to never have Trump in our lives again, to get off this worst timeline, if just a handful of people had a tiny bit of courage at the impeachment trials.
Maybe they all thought he was cooked and they could once again forget about doing the right thing one more time, to endear themselves to his rabid supporters. It’s dizzying to think they could have protected the Constitution with a single word, and failed to do even that.
Stop depressing me with a historically accurate recounting of events that happened.
The impeachment vote shouldn’t have been a public ballot. If it had been private I have little to no doubt he’d have been gone the secondtime, possibly the first. Pence was middling but he knows the game.
Hear me out, people could not have voted for this bullshit.
We get what we deserve. I can only hope we manage to preserve our republic and we don’t become an autocracy. An oligarchy is bad enough as is.
The good news is in party fighting is s good sign that they won’t be able to consolidate power as quickly or completely as they wanted to. The bad news is, they now know who to come for on the night of long knives.
There is consensus that the current nominations for cabinet are heavily oriented to separating the disloyaistlls in order to define targets. McTurtle in his prime was a competitor, but I imagine it will be easy to move against him these days
Bad people can do good things sometimes, and you should never interrupt or shame them for doing it. Many people on the internet forget that.
Never thought I’d see the day where I hoped a McConnell plan would work in any capacity.
He’s allowed Trump to exist so project 2025 can happen.
Moscow Mitch will do anything to make project 2025 happen, maybe he was convinced the “normal” Republicans can mitigate Trump’s penchant for treason and sedition against America and that mitigation risk was worth the project 2025 payout.
Hopefully he is right about mitigating Trump. Otherwise, I hope McConnell is the first Republican publicly executed because Trump absolutely wants to be able to publicly execute anyone he doesn’t like.
As much as he probably wants to please Big Daddy Trump I think he also wants to assert himself a little by saying, “Here’s your McDonald’s. I took a few fries and yes, I’ll do it next time too.”
Also McConnell: Votes to confirm
He likes to be in the same room and watch while we all get fucked.
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.
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.
“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.
Yeah, republicans often find even a microscopic backbone once they no longer are running for reelection. In this case, it probably will be “I said no for a few weeks before I said yes.”
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.
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.
GOP members with faces slowly waking up to the fact they got a hungry face eating leopard into the White House.
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.
