Gaetz gets his own thread.
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https://hotair.com/generalissimo/2024/11/14/gaetz-crashing-in-the-senate-n3796974
The member to watch is Chuck Grassley. If he, maybe along with Lindsey Graham, make a trip to see President-Elect Trump in the next few days or weeks, you'll know the Gaetz nomination is indeed in real trouble. Grassley has always been supportive of Trump, is a legend in Iowa, putting up numbers equaling the President-Elect, and is one of the most respected members in the upper chamber on either side of the aisle. No one doesn't love and revere Chuck Grassley. If he, as is reported, was blindsided by the pick, that's an unforced error on Team Trump's part. It just is.
I'm all for entertaining the idea of this move being 4-D chess. The theory goes that Trump rewards the loyalty of Gaetz by picking him as AG. Gaetz can't afford to have the Ethics Committee report that's due Friday come out, so he resigns from Congress immediately, hopefully bottling that up forever. The House is overjoyed to be rid of the architect and ringleader of the Knucklehead Caucus that sent the House leadership into chaos last year, costing Kevin McCarthy his Speakership and eventually, his seat in Congress. And if Gaetz doesn't get confirmed in the end, Trump's hands are clean, because he can claim he was loyal to people loyal to him, and blames the Senate for not cooperating.
53 Republicans will be the majority in the United States Senate when they reconvene in early January. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are more than likely out on the Gaetz nomination. Markwayne Mullin is certainly no fan of Gaetz, has said so recently, but is hedging his bet until after the confirmation hearings. Lindsey Graham is certainly no fan. Thom Tillis is skeptical. There will be others if Gaetz doesn't dazzle in front of Senate Judiciary. He only has three strikes, and there seem to be two against him already before he makes his first visit to Judiciary members to campaign for the job.
I'm hopeful this is a speed bump, not a traffic fatality. If this nomination fails, which I believe it will, there are a ton of out-of-the-box people out there from which Donald Trump could accomplish his goal of draining the swamp that is the 5th floor of the Department of Justice. I mentioned former Solicitor General Paul Clement. There are few people more qualified who know the building intimately and whom needs to leave the 5th floor by the close of business his first day on the job. Senator John Kennedy would be a fabulous pick. Ted Cruz would be an inspired choice. I also mentioned Jason Miyares, the brilliant Latino Attorney General of Virginia, who would be a home run.
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Kennedy would be Hell-On-Wheels.
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@George-K said in Gaetz gets his own thread.:
@LuFins-Dad do you think Trump knew it was a non-starter from the beginning?
I think he knew Senate confirmation was a non-starter, so was hoping for a personal lackey to run the senate so he could slip him in as a recess appointment.
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From Politico:
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And... Is Trump smart enough to propose something outlandish, then go after the leakers?
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I dont think President Trump thought anything beyond nominating Rep Gaetz. He knows he would have a "yes man" in that position.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I realize that we are occasionally given to hyperbole about the untoward nature of politicians, but let me be clear: Matt Gaetz is a sex trafficking drug addicted piece of shit. He is abhorrent. His eyes are permanently rimmed with the red rings of chemical boosters. In person, he smells like overexposed Axe Body Spray and stale Astroglide. The fact that he boasted on the floor to multiple colleagues in the House of Representatives of his methods of crushing Viagra and high test Red Bull to maintain his erection through his orgiastic evenings is perhaps the least offensive of his many crimes against womanhood and Christian faith. The man has less principles than your average fentanyl addicted hobo. He likes them underage and he’s not ashamed about it. Matt Gaetz isn’t just your average extreme Florida MAGA Man, he’s a hypocritical ass with the worst Botox money can buy, pursuing an ever-thinner nose and higher cheekbones at every opportunity like a Real Housewife gone mad for fillers. Every Republican in Washington has an opinion about Matt Gaetz, and 99 percent of those opinions are “Keep Matt Gaetz away from my wife/daughter/friend and anyone I care about.” He is a walking genital, warts included as a bonus. If I was merely attempting to count the number of women I know who have had bad experiences with Matt Gaetz, I would run out of fingers and toes. If you vote for him to be the Attorney General of the United States, you don’t just need your head examined, you need to be committed to a mental institution. The man is absolutely vile. There are pools of vomit with more to offer the earth than this STD-riddled testament to the failure of fallen masculinity.
And the rest of the post is where he gets nasty.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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@Renauda said in Gaetz gets his own thread.:
I get the distinct impression the author is not at all impressed with having Gaetz put forward as a possible AG. In fact I don’t think he even likes Gaetz as a person.
Yeah, it's subtle, but if you read between the lines, you can see he is not 100% in.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Gaetz gets his own thread.:
@Renauda said in Gaetz gets his own thread.:
I get the distinct impression the author is not at all impressed with having Gaetz put forward as a possible AG. In fact I don’t think he even likes Gaetz as a person.
Yeah, it's subtle, but if you read between the lines, you can see he is not 100% in.
It breaks my heart when good friends grow distant. I hope, in time, they can patch things up.
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@George-K said in Gaetz gets his own thread.:
@Renauda said in Gaetz gets his own thread.:
I get the distinct impression the author is not at all impressed with having Gaetz put forward as a possible AG. In fact I don’t think he even likes Gaetz as a person.
Yeah, it's subtle, but if you read between the lines, you can see he is not 100% in.
I’d say about as subtle as a rock dash stucco bathtub.
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