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In reply to the discussion: McConnell: Democrats need to grow up and let Trump nominees get confirmed [View all]jmowreader
(50,447 posts)33. My dad was a surveyor, which doesn't mean I know how to run a transit
I looked at her bio on Wikipedia, and it appears she knows banking pretty well - but all she knows about transportation is being the agency head.
I guess it's too much to ask for another Deborah Hersman (the NTSB administrator with a commercial driver's license, who grew up investigating train derailments) but you'd think we'd get someone in any of these agencies who want to do something more with them than padlock the door.
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McConnell: Democrats need to grow up and let Trump nominees get confirmed [View all]
EricMaundry
Jan 2017
OP
I have a counter proposal Mitch, how about the Dems show Trumps the same level of respect you
cstanleytech
Jan 2017
#3
Look, Turtle Boy, these aren't "just little procedural complaints."
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jan 2017
#4
That's a very "If you're getting raped, lay back and enjoy it" attitude. Fuck You Mitch.
TeamPooka
Jan 2017
#7
Yeah, nothing should hold up nominations, the Muricans won't stand up for for it.
Thor_MN
Jan 2017
#10
Get out the rubber stamp, the pukes are running the show, so why are they worried about us?
FreeStateDemocrat
Jan 2017
#17
It would be convenient to just issue a flippant obscenity, but this calls for more than that
jmowreader
Jan 2017
#27
The Rush to Judgment indicates they are terrified of the resistance and the hacking aftermath
bucolic_frolic
Jan 2017
#37
Mitch McConnells wife is one of the 'trump picks'? Ds better question her connections in russia.
Sunlei
Jan 2017
#47