GOP Senators Losing Their Cool Over White House Vetting Fails

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GOP Senators Losing Their Cool Over White House Vetting Fails
Ronny Jackson’s disastrous bid to be VA secretary has brought to the surface some intense frustrations.
Andrew Desiderio
04.25.18 10:02 PM ET


Republican senators are growing increasingly frustrated with the White House for foisting upon them a parade of controversial cabinet nominees whom they believe haven’t gone through a proper vetting process.

Throughout much of the Trump presidency, those frustrations have been shielded from public view out of deference to the president’s right to pick his own team. But a revolving door of high-level staff departures has forced GOP leaders to set aside valuable floor time—and expend already thin political capital—on tricky confirmation fights over controversial replacements. And not everyone is pleased.

“I understand that the president wants his people—and we want to be deferential as much as we can—but it would be nice to know some of the issues that come up after the fact, before the fact,” said Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the third-ranking Republican in the Senate

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The latest, most glaring pressure point—and the one to which Thune was alluding—emerged this week with the nomination of Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. Jackson, who currently serves as the top White House physician, has been accused of being drunk on the job, over-prescribing medications, and creating a hostile work environment.

He has either denied, or stressed his desire to explain away, those allegations. But an equally significant concern among Republican senators is that those allegations surfaced not from an internal White House review, but through a vetting process conducted by the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, which is overseeing the confirmation.

“In this case, I get the sense that there wasn’t any vetting, so I think that calls {the White House’s vetting process} into question,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) told The Daily Beast.

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[tanyev]

1. Hey! He showed himself very capable in flattering and sucking up to Trump.

What other kind of vetting do the GOP Senators think is happening?

[Freethinker65]

2. They only care when the atrociousness of the nominees gets out before they were able to confirm them

[jberryhill]

3. As if Harriet Miers or that jackass at Interior under Reagan were well-vetted

Vetted? The GOP? Vetted?

You betcha golly durned tootin'

[bronxiteforever]

4. No outrage that a substantially ethically impaired

person was going to be in charge of the VA. Sounds like he was physically impaired as well.
I have been told by GOP and trolls that they care more for the veteran than we do.
Nothing speaks more about the value the Commander in Chief puts on vets and their lives than having a creep in charge of their healthcare.

[calimary]

5. Feh - they could do something about this if they really wanted to.

NO sympathy for this spineless bunch if all they’re ever gonna do is bemoan how supposedly frustrated or, my current favorite, how “troubled” they are about the endless crap THEIR pResident keeps creating.

[gratuitous]

9. Yup

Every bit as credible as Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka saying, "No. Don't. Stop." in a bored monotone when one of the kids on his tour was about to do something really, really wrong.

[RockRaven]

6. Crocodile tears

They confirmed obviously unqualified, unvetted people to the Cabinet and elsewhere before on mostly party-line votes. They can't claim to have any principles now, it is too late.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. They had to have Pence break a tie-vote on DeVos

for crissakes!

[Scurrilous]

7. K&R

[Orsino]

10. Forces them "to set aside valuable floor time"...

...that could be spent not doing anything else good or decent.