Thune: Democrats’ Dangerous Precedent Could Disrupt Senate for Decades to Come

Pat Powers

Thune: Democrats’ Dangerous Precedent Could Disrupt Senate for Decades to Come

“Since President Trump took office, Democrats in the Senate have engaged in a systematic campaign of obstruction, pointlessly delaying qualified nominees for no reason other than the fact that Democrats dislike this president.”


WASHINGTON —U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today discussed Senate Democrats’ historic obstruction of noncontroversial, qualified nominees, simply because they were nominated by President Trump. For context, during President Obama’s first two years in office, his nominees were only subjected to 12 cloture votes. During Trump’s first two years in office, his nominees have faced 10 times as many cloture votes – a staggering 128!

Following Thune’s speech, Democrats rejected a common-sense proposal that mirrored a similar bipartisan proposal that was adopted in the 113th Congress, when Senate Republicans were in the minority and President Obama was in the White House, which streamlined the confirmation process.

16 thoughts on “Thune: Democrats’ Dangerous Precedent Could Disrupt Senate for Decades to Come”

    1. Just going by what crazy uncle Joe said about nominating a judge in the last year of a presidency. How anti-Constitution do you lefties want the SC anyway?

      1. Context is important. When Joe Biden said he’d prefer to wait until after the election season, he specifically noted that if President Bush were to put forth a nominee the day after the election, that the senate would then consider, vet, and vote before the president was sworn in in January. As it stood, there was no Supreme Court vacancy to fill, and there was no nominee to consider. Mr. Biden’s words were rhetorical, and to take them out of context with nearly a year left in Obama’s tenure was (an is) disingenuous, wrong, and stupid.

  3. Amazing how quick Republicans forget the obstruction of the prior 8 years with Obama. Heck, even McConnell said they would do everything they could to block Obama. I guess they don’t like when Democrats follow their lead.

    1. Big difference: the Democrats’ ideas are un-American and will ruin the country.

  4. Thune is really going all-in on this hyper-partisanship. He used to be better than this.

    1. Well, when the other side is all in for infanticide, socialized medicine, no borders, and free everything, you have to fight. Otherwise you don’t have a country left.

      1. “Well when” the trumpholes cannot post a comment without lies and ignorance, and juvenile hyperbole it pretty much proves we are dealing with the I.Q.s of doorknobs…

  5. Nice to see GOP getting some good judges in there, unlike the 3 liberals we have in SD.

    We need to make sure the President is reelected to continue to help on this front.

    I just read a story about how the liberal 9th circuit is nearly 50-50 because of the President’s latest nominees! keep up the good work!

    1. Agreed. Merrick Garland is not a SC Justice, Hillary Clinton is not the president. Everything else (liberals heads exploding, “collusion”, twitter storms inducing tears and rage) is just gravy.

      1. Is trump a liar? What would you be saying if this was a Dem. administration with all the lies, Russia connections, nepotism, emolument violations, farmers getting welfare etc.? We all know, we also know how deep into the sewer you people would slither if a Dem. had the lack of basic morals as trump and as you people would have been screeching every day— married to an illegal, porno hooker..

        1. Funny if not do serious…we did have a Democrat administration with lies (first and foremost is Obamacare) and Russian connections (Hillary and her lies regarding this and her Uranium One deal). But nevermind, these don’t matter is the annointed ones do it. And then of course there are slick Willy’s morals, but he is still loved by Dems.

        2. Russia connections

          Oh, we’ve gone from “collusion” to “connections”. How much uranium did he sell them again?

          …

          Yeah, I won’t even respond to most of this dribble. Springer addressed some of it. Nobody tried to illegally overthrow Barry’s “I have a phone and a pen” regime.

          married to an illegal, porno hooker

          Wow. If we’re going there, at least she appears to have been born, and still identify as, a woman.

  6. ““Since President Trump took office, Democrats in the Senate have engaged in a systematic campaign of obstruction, pointlessly delaying qualified nominees for no reason other than the fact that Democrats dislike this president.”——– For one to actually say that not realizing it describes exactly the 8 years of Obama is delusional hypocrisy or intentional pandering to a base he assumes is too stupid to see the lying hypocrisy…. I think he knows the base very well..

  7. Thank you, John! This is what we have been waiting for! President Trump seems to be out there all by himself. We need to see you and more Republicans standing up for our president. He knows what he is doing and the American people (the ones with any sense) want to see him get more support. These attacks by the Dems are just ridiculous so thank you, John, for pointing it out! Please keep speaking out get behind him (and get more Republicans to be with him) on the wall for all of our sakes.

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