See This List of 10 RINOS Who Vote To Confirm Loretta Lynch As The New Attorney General
The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Loretta Lynch as the next attorney general, with the help of 10 Republicans
who ignored complaints that Lynch would use her new position to support
what many say is President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional immigration
plan.
The Senate voted 56–43 in favor of Lynch, approving her with help of Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
While Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was in the Senate earlier in the
day, he was the only member of the chamber not to vote. Cruz had opposed
Lynch.
A spokeswoman for Cruz downplayed the missed vote by saying “if the Senate could get 60 votes for cloture, they could get 51 for final confirmation.” Cloture was the vote to end debate earlier in the day, when the Senate voted to end debate on the Lynch nomination by a 66-34 vote.
“Cloture is the only vote that mattered,” Cruz spokeswoman Amanda Carpenter tweeted.
Much of the GOP’s opposition to Lynch was due to her support for Obama’s executive action on immigration. During her confirmation hearing, Lynch said she believes Obama’s plan was consistent with the Constitution, drawing outrage from Republicans who have said it’s an end-run around Congress.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the most vocal Republican against Obama’s plan, said the Senate shouldn’t confirm Lynch to be the nation’s top law enforcement officer given her support for what he has called an illegal move by Obama.
“The Senate must never confirm an individual to such an office as
this who will support and advance a scheme that violates our
Constitution and eviscerates established law and congressional
authority,” he said Thursday. “No person who would do that should be
confirmed. And we don’t need to be apologetic about it, colleagues.”
However, it became clear a few weeks ago that Lynch had just enough GOP support to pass the Senate by a simple majority.
The vote followed several months of delay in the Senate, prompting Democrats to argue that Lynch was the most-delayed attorney general nominee ever. Republicans argued that it was Democrats who agreed to start the confirmation process this year, instead of late 2014.
The Senate voted 56–43 in favor of Lynch, approving her with help of Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
A spokeswoman for Cruz downplayed the missed vote by saying “if the Senate could get 60 votes for cloture, they could get 51 for final confirmation.” Cloture was the vote to end debate earlier in the day, when the Senate voted to end debate on the Lynch nomination by a 66-34 vote.
Much of the GOP’s opposition to Lynch was due to her support for Obama’s executive action on immigration. During her confirmation hearing, Lynch said she believes Obama’s plan was consistent with the Constitution, drawing outrage from Republicans who have said it’s an end-run around Congress.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the most vocal Republican against Obama’s plan, said the Senate shouldn’t confirm Lynch to be the nation’s top law enforcement officer given her support for what he has called an illegal move by Obama.
However, it became clear a few weeks ago that Lynch had just enough GOP support to pass the Senate by a simple majority.
The vote followed several months of delay in the Senate, prompting Democrats to argue that Lynch was the most-delayed attorney general nominee ever. Republicans argued that it was Democrats who agreed to start the confirmation process this year, instead of late 2014.
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Malkin: Beware “Main Street” Republicans
These are some of the same groups and people who are attacking Malkin for asking the questions that need to be asked....
What
do George Soros, labor unions and money-grubbing former GOP Rep. Steven
LaTourette all have in common? Michelle Malkin answers the question and
you won't like the answer. Corporations, lobbyis...
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Beware the left-wing-funded “Main Street” Republicans
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LaTourette heads up the so-called “Main Street Partnership,” which claims to represent “thoughtful,” “pragmatic,” “common sense” and “centrist” Republican leadership. Reality check: The pro-bailout, pro-debt, pro-amnesty, anti-drilling group founded by former liberal New York GOP Congressman Amory Houghton includes three liberal Senate Republicans (John McCain, Mark Kirk and Susan Collins) and 52 center-left House Republicans. LaTourette himself is a self-serving Beltway barnacle who held office for nearly two decades. Now he’s leveraging his new tea party-bashing platform to benefit a family-operated lobbying business.
The Times notes that “corporations and lobbyists” fund the Main Street Partnership. But far-left donors provided seed money for these affiliated K Street fronts. Who’s behind the Defending Main Street SuperPAC? Big Labor. National Journal’s Scott Bland reported last month that “two labor organizations, the International Union of Operating Engineers and the Laborers’ International Union of North America, directed a combined $400,000 to the Republican group in September and October. Main Street says it has raised roughly $2 million total between its super PAC and an affiliated nonprofit group so far — and that means labor has supplied at least 20 percent of those funds.”
Along with the anti-tea party U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the “Main Street” fat cats and union leaders have banded together to help President Obama push through illegal alien amnesty. The payoff: cheap labor for big business, cheap votes for the Democratic Party.
Main Street Partnership’s chief operating and financial officer is Sarah Chamberlain Resnick. She also serves on the partnership’s board of directors and previously served as an officer of the soft-money-raising Main Street Individual Fund. The MSIF is yet another spinoff group that received $50,000 from progressive billionaire George Soros in 2002 soon after it was created. Soros also dangled a “seven-figure contribution” in front of the Main Street Partnership, but Resnick said the group declined that one. The MSIF accepted a separate $50,000 Soros donation during the 2004 election cycle. It was mysteriously returned in November 2005 after I called attention to it.
These various groups are legally independent entities on paper, but have shared staff and legal resources. When I reported on the “Main Street” farce eight years ago, the partnership’s counsel sent me a threatening letter baselessly claiming I had made “libelous” statements about its network. My sin? Exposing the radical environmental funders of “Main Street” Republicans who had sabotaged House conservative efforts to open up drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The “Main Street” Republicans back then gloated over their successful campaign to force squishy GOP leaders in D.C. to cave in to the left. There’s nothing principled about their agenda. It’s not about “common sense.” It’s about the Benjamins. These statists in populist clothing are running a Washington incumbency protection racket. Same as it ever was.
Michelle Malkin is the author of “Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies” (Regnery 2010).
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Repub Rep Cole Attacks Boehner Challengers Says They’re ‘Pretty Unprofessional, Very Disappointing’
How can I label Cole a progressive? Why not? Progressives are the dominant entity within Congress, they are not just a problem within the dems there are just as many republican progressives. Cole defends Boehner, a progressive, to no end who is not acting in the peoples best interests. Boehner says one thing but does another, and as you know actions speak louder than words. Those who support Rep Cole prove he isn’t for big government policies, please tells us about how he stood with the people by supporting Boehner!?
Conservative Review gives Cole an F rating while FreedomWorks scores him 68% (That’s a D- or F depending on what school you went to!).
Here are the Republicans who voted against John Boehner for speaker
In the biggest defection from an incumbent speaker in at least 100 years, 25 House Republicans voted for someone other than John Boehner to serve as speaker in the 114th Congress.
Here's the full list, in order:
- Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.) -- Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)
- Rep. Brian Babin (Tex.) -- “present”
- Rep. Rod Blum (Iowa) -- Rep. Dan Webster (R-Fla.)
- Rep. Dave Brat (Va.) -- Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.)
- Rep. Jim Bridenstine (Okla.) -- Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.)
- Rep. Curt Clawson (Fla.) -- Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
- Rep. Scott DesJarlais (Tenn.) -- Jordan
- Duncan -- Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.)
- Rep. Scott Garrett (N.J.) -- Webster
- Rep. Chris Gibson (N.Y.) -- House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
- Rep. Paul Gosar (Ariz.) -- Webster
- Gohmert -- Gohmert
- Rep. Tim Huelskamp (Kan.) -- Webster
- Rep. Walter Jones (N.C.) -- Webster
- Rep. Steve King -- Webster
- Rep. Tom Massie (Ky.) -- Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.)
- Rep. Mark Meadows (N.C.) -- Webster
- Rep. Rich Nugent (Fla.) -- Webster
- Rep. Gary Palmer (Ala.) -- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)
- Rep. Bill Posey (Fla.) -- Webster
- Rep. Scott Rigell (Va.) -- Webster
- Rep. Marlin Stutzman (Ind.) -- Webster
- Rep. Randy Weber (Tex.) -- Gohmert
- Webster -- Webster
- Yoho -- Yoho
- Webster: 12
- Gohmert: 3
- Yoho: 2
- Jordan: 2
- Others/"present": 6
- Rep. Jim Cooper (Tenn.) -- Colin Powell
- Rep. Gwen Graham (Fla.) -- Cooper
- Rep. Dan Lipinski (Ill.) -- Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.)
- Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) -- Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.)
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