Republicans vote to rebuke Elizabeth Warren, saying she impugned Sessions's character

[DonViejo]

By Paul Kane and Ed O'Keefe February 8 at 7:01 AM

Senate Republicans passed a party-line rebuke Tuesday night of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for a speech opposing attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions, striking down her words for impugning the Alabama senator’s character.

In an extraordinarily rare move, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) interrupted Warren’s speech in a near-empty chamber, as debate on Sessions’s nomination heads toward a Wednesday evening vote, and said that she had breached Senate rules by reading past statements against Sessions from figures such as the late senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and the late Coretta Scott King.

“The senator has impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague from Alabama,” McConnell said, then setting up a series of roll-call votes on Warren’s conduct.

It was the latest clash in the increasingly hostile debate over confirming President Trump’s Cabinet, during which Democrats have accused Republicans of trying to force through nominees without proper vetting. Democrats, unable to stop the confirmations that require simple majorities, have countered by using extreme delay tactics that have dragged out the process longer than any in history for a new president’s Cabinet.

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[dalton99a]

1. All you need to know about Republicans.

Fuck them. Every one of them.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. My mantra is now 'Damn them all to hell. Now.'

[madaboutharry]

2. All that Mitch McConnell actual accomplished

was impugning his own character and that of 49 other republicans.

[Initech]

4. Did Mitch McConnell have an operation on his middle finger? WTF!

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Once Again, Making Up Defintions

There was a young women lawyer on CSPAN WJ one weekend morning that kept accusing her coutnerpart of "slandering" Sessions.

Except, all the other woman was doing was reciting facts. That young lawyer had to know that part of the definition of slander is that the statement has to be untruthful. And, it has be known to be false and then repeating for the purpose of "impugning". If the statement is factual, it's not slander just because the truth is uncomfortable or unflattering.

She knew that but used the word "slander" at least 6 times. Making up their own definitions, like usual

[Cha]

6. But then Jeff Merkley read it.. so why did they single out Warren.. here are the

ones who voted to silence her.

Can you imagine?

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