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2020-10-22 Home Front: Politix
Chuck Schumer refuses to defend Feinstein as Dems call for her to be bumped
[NYPOST] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 44.87750 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
refused to defend Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein
...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator....
as consensus grows among Democrats against her leading the wildly influential panel.Speaking to news hounds during a presser Tuesday, Schumer (D-NY) would not say if he planned to make changes to the committee’s Democratic leadership. He did say, however, that he had a "serious talk" with Feinstein (D-Calif.).

"I had a long and serious talk with Sen. Feinstein. That’s all I’m going to say about it right now," Schumer told news hounds, adding a short "Nope" when asked if he could expand on their conversation.

During last week’s committee hearing on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Feinstein, 87, repeatedly infuriated Democrats with her conduct.

At one point during proceedings, the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democrat asked Barrett to explain her judicial view on the topic of severability — a provision allowing for parts of a law to remain in effect even if other parts are struck down — in relation to the Affordable Care Act.

Enlarge ImageDianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer
Dianne Feinstein and Chuck SchumerCQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
After the judge gave her answer, Feinstein praised Barrett, remarking, "That’s quite a definition. I’m really impressed. Thank you."

Feinstein also enraged the left with her praise of her Republican counterpart, Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham
...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems...
(R-SC), whom she hugged on Thursday while neither wore masks.

She also told the South Carolina Republican that this confirmation process had been "one of the best set of hearings that I have participated in."

Her handling of the hearings came under immediate scrutiny from Red Guards liberal groups including NARAL and MoveOn, as well as major progressive names like former New York Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Cynthia Nixon.

By the end of the week, multiple progressive groups had called on Democrats to remove the senator from her powerful position, in which she would have the ability to confirm or deny judicial appointments and have oversight authority over the Justice Department — if the party regains control of the upper house.



Posted by Fred 2020-10-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 Were I Feinstein, I know who I would vote for on my way out the door.
Posted by gorb 2020-10-22 00:59||   2020-10-22 00:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Committtee just voted to fwd ACB's nomination to the Senate with all 12 Pubs voting "Aye". All of teh Dems refused to attend and had pictures posted on their chairs to represent them - all "No-votes". So, 12-0
Posted by Frank G 2020-10-22 09:17||   2020-10-22 09:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Dem senators go autophagic—-they start eating their own.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-10-22 10:46||   2020-10-22 10:46|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Kilkenny cats?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-22 11:14||   2020-10-22 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Implosion..Trump lives rent-free in their little pea brains
Posted by Warthog 2020-10-22 11:34||   2020-10-22 11:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Dems call for her to be bumped (off)

Hillary still calling the "shots"?
Posted by Mercutio 2020-10-22 13:06||   2020-10-22 13:06|| Front Page Top

#7 All of teh Dems refused to attend and had pictures posted on their chairs to represent them - all "No-votes".

You know that the Soviet delegation was boycotting the UN when it voted to intervene in Korea. They haven't repeated that act since.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-22 15:18||   2020-10-22 15:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Sooner or later Schumer the Kapos will come for you.
Posted by b 2020-10-22 19:09||   2020-10-22 19:09|| Front Page Top

#9 "...came under immediate scrutiny from...as well as major progressive names like former New York Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Cynthia Nixon.."

Cynthia Nixon played the part of Miranda in Sex and the City. She lost big time to Cuomo in 2018 in the Dem primary.
Posted by Lord Garth 2020-10-22 19:22||   2020-10-22 19:22|| Front Page Top

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