Schumer Uses COVID to Claim It's 'Important' for Senate to Hold Hearings for Biden's Cabinet Prior to He's Inaugurated
On this episode of “Never Let an Excellent Crisis Go to Waste,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer trotted out to the Senate floor on Monday to declare it “essential” that the Senate begin confirmation hearings for Joe Biden’s cabinet picks instantly after the January 5 Senate overflow elections in Georgia– 2 weeks before Biden’s assumed inauguration.
Why the rush? Because, as the always-melodramatic senior senator from New york city said:
” In the midst of this once-in-a-century crisis, it’s imperative the next administration can count on the Senate to verify its cabinet without delay.”
I don’t wish to lose time going through the history of crises in America over the last 100 years, but c’mon, Chuck. #TryHarder
BREAKING: Sen. Schumer states Senate must begin confirmation hearings for Biden’s Cabinet BEFORE inauguration:
” In the middle of this once-in-a-century crisis, it’s vital the next administration can count on the Senate to confirm its cabinet without delay” pic.twitter.com/ZcFJXbwKSa
— Breaking911(@Breaking911) November 30, 2020
Schumer noted that the Senate began hearings in early January for presidents-elect Obama and Trump– excluding the reality that the elections of Barack Obama and Donald Trump had been licensed before the Senate leader of their respective celebrations called for confirmation hearings to start prior to the inauguration.
So why would Schumer have a requirement to require the hearings because they’ve happened with the last 2 administrations? Seems like SOP. Oh, wait– since he knows half of America doesn’t accept Biden as president-elect, with good reason: unlike Obama and Trump, Biden has not been licensed as president-elect.
Nonetheless, Schumer not just gotten in touch with the Senate to start verification hearings after the Georgia runoff elections; he torched Trump’s cabinet choices while doing so.
” President-elect Biden’s slate of nominees offers a plain contrast to the quality of nominees advanced by the existing Trump administration over the last four years.
” The early days of the Trump presidency were defined by high-level appointments of individuals who were manifestly unqualified, afflicted by ethical problems, or swimming in disputes of interest– in some cases all three.”
So Schumer believes that throwing the entirety of Trump’s four years of cabinet choices under the bus is going to help him win support from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republicans how? Why he would not just be grandstanding for the cameras, right?
” At the time, Republicans in the Senate lined up to verify President Trump’s appointments, Schumer continued, “arguing that a president deserves his cabinet in broad deference on his nominees.
” I would hope the very same deference will be reached president-elect Biden’s nominees, he included, before when again trying Trump’s cabinet choices, “especially considering the obvious gulf in quality, experience, [and] principles.”
I will not lose time protecting excellent individuals like Dr. Ben Carson, Steve Mnuchin, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, and others, however I will keep in mind the “quality” of a few of Biden’s selections.
Biden’s option for secretary of state, longtime aide Antony Blinken, slammed President Trump’s “America First” diplomacy as “a mix of nationalism, unilateralism, and xenophobia,” that would just “make the world even worse.” That didn’t age well, did it? (See: “The Middle East,” for instance.)
Biden’s choice for director of the Workplace of Management and Spending Plan is Neera Tandan, who in 2016 spread wild conspiracy theories about Russian vote-hackers, all the while denying that Hillary Clinton lost the election.
Successive, Biden’s pick for nationwide security advisor, Jake Sullivan, depended on his eyebrows in the Hillary Clinton email scandal, and likewise pushed the thoroughly-discredited Russian “collusion” scam.
Finally– for now, that is– Biden tapped Phil Washington, CEO of LA City, the firm that runs Greater Los Angeles’s trains, trains, and buses, to lead his transport shift group.
Hey, nobody’s best– right, Chucky?
#ProTip for Schumer: Return when Joe has his election certification card and then we’ll speak about it. Up until then, take a seat.
H/T ~ Twitchy
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