Senate Confirms Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence
The vote was 52-46. Of course, Mitch McConnell voted no.
The Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, 52-46.
Oh, look. Old man Mitch McConnell voted no on Gabbard.
I love it when politician don’t toe the party line, but this guy is doing it out of spite. He demanded loyalty from GOP senators during his time as majority leader.
Now he’s going against the grain. Unlike others who rebuffed him out of principle, McConnell is throwing a temper tantrum.
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Good. Next Kennedy.
Then Kash Patel!
“McConnell demanded loyalty from GOP senators during his time as majority leader.”
“Now he’s going against the grain.”
He not going against the grain. He’s a TRAITOR!!!!!!!!
Like Biden, he’s a China whore. It’s nothing new.
Unfortunately, we are stuck with Mitch for two years until his seat is up for re-election. Should Mitch resign or die right now, it would be a disaster for Republicans. Gov. Beshear would appoint a Democrat to Mitch’s seat in a nanosecond.
People should dare Bashear to do exactly that. It would be painting a great big target on his ass if he even considered it. His political career would be, and should be, over.
I believe Kentucky law is the governor has to appoint a member of the same party. Enacted precisely for this situation
rbj1, is that true? Goodness gracious, I hope you are right!
It’s correct but the governor claims that law is unconstitutional (KY constitution), and thus says he will ignore it. So it looks like there would be a legal fight if it happened.
The party of the senator has to put up three candidates and the governor picks one of them. So he would pick between three senators.
KY changed the law last year to require a special election and took away the Governor’s power to make an appointment. If Bershear tried to appoint someone, the GOP Senate would refuse to seat that person. But this means the seat would be vacant for more than 60 days.
No, the Kentucky Legislature change that rule. This year has to choose from three people that are nominated to him which will all be republicans. We’d be much better off to ditch Mitch
No. Beshear would be required to appoint a Republican. At least last time I checked, the state Republican Party would give him a list of three names, and he must appoint one of them.
Oops. I see the law changed two months ago. On Dec-4-2024 the legislature overrode Beshear’s veto and the new law took effect. Senate vacancies are now treated exactly like House vacancies; the governor is required to call a special election.
I haven’t been able to find how long he may delay the special election once the vacancy occurs.
If he challenges the law on the basis of the state constitution, he’ll run into the US constitution, which explicitly requires senate vacancies to be filled by special election unless the state legislature empowers the governor to make an appointment. Since the legislature has not so empowered him, his duty to call a special election overrides anything to the contrary in the state constitution.
I don’t know about him being a traitor. I think he is just a swampy Republican who has fed from the trough long enough that he likes the status quo of being in power, directing who gets what and acting like a king.
The typical media narrative would say that McConnell has “grown” while in office. Gag.
More like shrunk.
Not sure Tulsi is a good choice. I will be satisfied if she is able to clean house of all the Iran lovers.
Starting with Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett, et al.
Neither Rice nor Jarrett hold any office. Therefore they can’t be cleaned out.
As DNI she will be high performance. Who else has a racing stripe?
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Congratulations Madame Director!
Hottest DNI evah!
Hottest Cabinet ever and not just looks
I bet the turtle is more concerned about his next fall than the next vote. May be Hilary will give him a push.
McConnell couldn’t even get his eternal RINO gofer Murkowski to vote with him.
It is well and truly over for him.
He’s doing his level best to prove exactly why conservatives were SICK of the GOPe RINO scumbags who never did anything they were put in office to do, and picked Trump because he was at least willing to TRY to do SOME of what he promised.
TBH I’m far less interested in ‘conserving’ the status quo than shattering it, rendering it useless and replacing it with new paradigm that meets the aspirational goals of our Nation’s founding.
The only bigger fear for a leftist is Kash.
Kash knows where all the bodies are buried which is why Dems like Schiff are so apoplectic over his being in charge of the FBI.
I am looking forward to a through housecleaning. I remember the JFK assassination, while those who did it a dead, the deep state culture behind it is still there. CIA has a ream job coming to them.
I think she will be a good pick
Even Collins knows McConnell is toxic. She also knows, I suspect, that McConnell has not made is own decisions in a couple months. His staff is pure deep state.
Politically I disagree with Tulsi on quite a bit but I do think she is honest and will do a good job as DNI Director.
Mitch.. we need you to dona fillibuster…. just talk for 3 hours…. okay go.