Everyone knows that Democrats hate the American people because they make it their mission to prove it every day. Today they blocked the confirmation of John Ratcliffe as the head of the CIA. It delays his confirmation for seven days even though he has more than enough to win as he has support from Democrats as well as Republicans. What do they have to gain from this other than to give their middle fingers to those not stupid enough to vote for them?
Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy objected to a time agreement that would have expedited the confirmation of Ratcliffe, who was director of National Intelligence during the first Trump administration. Murphy’s refusal to give Ratcliffe a swift confirmation vote could be the first of many objections by Senate Democrats to drag out the confirmation process for Trump’s cabinet nominees.
Schumer said in a statement Monday:
“Democrats have been very clear about our approach to President Trump’s nominees. We will neither rubber stamp nominees we feel are grossly unqualified, nor will we reflexively oppose nominees that deserve serious consideration.”
Well, that promise didn’t age very well.
Tom Cotton said:
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“I don’t really understand the objection to Mr. Ratcliffe. He was confirmed by the Senate to be the director of National Intelligence. He was fully vetted by the bipartisan process on the Senate Intelligence Committee.”
“I hope nobody [senators] are making plans for the weekend or the evenings because we’re going to get these nominees confirmed starting with Mr. Ratcliffe, and then moving onto Mr. Hegseth and moving onto Ms. Noem — the easy way or the hard way. We tried to cooperate with the Democrats — the cooperation has not been forthcoming — so I guess it’s going to be the hard way.”
“Should we be denying the country a Senate-confirmed CIA director in such dangerous times for no good reason? What this is really about is trying to drag out all of these nominations to play procedural games as we’re about to with Pete Hegseth’s nomination to try to deny President Trump his cabinet in a prompt and timely fashion.”
Murphy said during debate on the Senate floor:
“He repeatedly politicized intelligence in a way that does raise for many of us real questions about whether he’s going to spin highly sensitive intelligence his agency will gather for political purposes. I don’t think it’s too much to ask that we have a full, real debate that lasts two days on the Senate floor given the serious questions that have arisen about his qualifications to do this job in an apolitical manner.”
I know why Murphy is doing this. Many people thinks he is an a@@and he just wants to erase all doubt.
In March 2021, the Senate voted unanimously to approve former President Joe Biden’s CIA director William Burns without a roll-call vote.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the only Trump cabinet nominee to receive a confirmation vote thus far.
A spokesperson for Schumer did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment about whether he believes Ratcliffe is “qualified” to helm the CIA.
