GOP senator: Biden Cabinet picks will be a 'discussion' with Republican Senate

[babylonsister]

Screw them and the horse they rode in on, seriously. Another reason to send $ to GA. And people outside of the political mainstream shouldn't be considered? Toomey, where did Ivanka and Jared fall? Delusional and so very hypocritical.




GOP senator: Biden Cabinet picks will be a 'discussion' with Republican Senate
By Jordain Carney - 11/11/20 02:23 PM EST


Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said on Wednesday that he expected the nomination process for President-elect Joe Biden's Cabinet to be an "ongoing discussion" with Senate Republicans, if they hold on to the majority.

Toomey's comments come as Democrats worry that a Republican Senate majority could force Biden to negotiate over his picks for top administration positions and block nominees they view as too progressive.

Toomey said during a Washington Post Live interview that Cabinet picks were a "shared responsibility" between the president and the Senate majority.

"The president should get significant deference ... and I think that is, that is important. Having said that, especially when you have divided government ... we've got to recognize we've got a responsibility: advice and consent," Toomey said.

"So I think people who are well outside of the political mainstream don't belong in really important, senior-level, Cabinet-type posts. And that's why that will be an ongoing discussion, I think, between a Republican Senate and Joe Biden," Toomey added.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/525517-gop-senator-biden-cabinet-will-be-a-discussion-with-republican-senate

[soothsayer]

1. Eff them so hard

[TheBlackAdder]

21. Install all of Obama's picks since they are already confirmed.

[hedda_foil]

25. They're not confirmed forever. They serve at the pleasure of the president who appointed them only.

[Iris]

2. They need to keep on talking - great incentive to get out blue votes in GA

[Binkie The Clown]

3. OMFG! Have they at long last no decency? nt

[SoonerPride]

6. No

[TruckFump]

4. Republicans truly are scum.

When I think they cannot go lower, they amaze me and find newer and further ways to be complete assholes.

[SoonerPride]

5. Biden can just apoint whomever he wants and tell the senate to fuck off.

Let them impeach him and see how that goes. That's their only check on the president. Otherwise he can do whatever the fuck he wants.

Rules can't apply to only one side.

Seriously, Toomey, fuck you.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

33. The House has the sole power of impeachment, so piss on Russiapublicans.

[SoonerPride]

34. Yes exactly

[In It to Win It]

7. Pardon me for not trusting their HR senses after approving every unqualified motherfucker for Trump

[Sherman A1]

8. Screw Them

[texasfiddler]

9. He just acknowledged the truth that Biden won the election

There is at least that

[lagomorph777]

17. "Oops! Damn! Can I rephrase that?"

[Boogiemack]

10. Just make all "Acting" appointments until we gain the Senate. It can be done on a rotating basis.

Trump has already done this so he has set the precedent.

[lagomorph777]

15. Yup - per McConnell/Trump Rules, confirmations are now optional.

[EndlessWire]

11. Bleah! n/t

[MagickMuffin]

12. Actually Sen Pat Toomey your party did away withe all the norms REMEMBER?

EO are now considered normal

Appointing and voting Supreme Court Justices in an election year now considered normal

There are more to consider but I am drained of all my thoughts thanks the your party.

[BGBD]

13. Just appoint interim secretaries

Who they want less than the nomine

[lagomorph777]

14. I guess Pat Tumor forgot that confirmations are optional now, per McConnell Rules.

[Bleacher Creature]

16. WIN GEORGIA.

That needs to be the #1 priority right now for all of us.

[Maven]

18. 'Political mainstream' is code for 'archconservative'

Fuck them. Joe should just appoint 'acting' department heads, same as Trump did.

[C_U_L8R]

19. Anyone who thinks Trump is a half-competent president

has no business judging anyone else's hiring plan.

[OAITW r.2.0]

20. Make them all "acting" cabinet heads and take out McConnell's chance to have sham hearings.

Joe Biden should invite the media to perform the oversight that the Senate used to do before the Republican Party destroyed this role. Make it prime time....I would trust the media to do the job more honestly than the hypocritical clowns in the Organized Crime Party who currently inhabit the Senate.

[Bayard]

22. Trying to appease these people

Won't work, and we don't have to. "Too Progressive" will be any Dem.

[crickets]

23. Toomey, take your attempt to dictate terms and spin the narrative,

fold it in five corners, and shove it where the sun don't shine. Your guy LOST. Biden won. He'll pick his cabinet however he damned well pleases.

[Vinca]

24. Really???? If all else fails, it's now okay for a POTUS to appoint "acting" secretaries.

The rules don't suddenly change back just because the criminal is gone.

[roamer65]

26. Appoint already confirmed people to the positions.

For Treasury...Tim Geithner, Jack Lew or JANET YELLEN.

Janet Yellen was confirmed for Federal Reserve Chair.

John Kerry for SoS, and HILLARY CLINTON for AG.

[babylonsister]

31. Biden needs to be able to appoint who he wants, period. nt

[Tarc]

32. It doesn't work like that. Confirmations do not come with a perpetual license

This dumb myth really needs to die.

[DeminPennswoods]

27. I hope the discussion

begins and ends with "this is who I'm appointing".

[GoCubsGo]

28. They will regret the day they looked the other way at all of Trump's "acting" secretaries.

He set a precedent. Biden is quite prepared to follow it, should they insist on pulling this shit. Go fuck yourself, Mr. Toomey.

[andym]

29. Only way to stop them is to win those two races

where the two Democratic candidates are slight underdogs according to the first poll. The election is winnable, especially if trump voters are too discouraged to vote.

[WyattKansas]

30. Kind of like the FUX NEWZ Propagandists & the Radical Right Wing Echo Chamber Crackpots Dumbass...

Demanded the Republican Fraud Party ram through as the Republicans twisted and perverted rules to approve while exempting the Dems from the process?

Hey Toomey, what about Ivanka and Jared running the White House for Fat Daddy along with all the temporary appointments and acting positions, while you Republican Shit Stains just laughed your asses off?