The clown standing next to Senator Leahy is Senator, oh what's his name? Ah, Jefferson something. Oh, yeah, Senator Jefferson Sessions. I can't figure out why he keeps getting elected. Whether it is the Jefferson the people like, or the Sessions. Well, he is a lousy Senator at any rate.
Why is he lousy, because, he is too much of a coward, that's why.
NRA to Score Holder Contempt Vote (click here)
See, Senators like Sessions cower to the NRA and their 'scoring' of votes by the House and Senate. Sessions is scared of a bad score by the NRA, therefore, it is actually the NRA voting and not the Senator or any entity with conscience.
It would be one thing to think the NRA (National Rifle Association) was actually only interested in THEIR SPECIAL INTEREST, but, the voting for Justice Sotomayor was EVIDENCE to the power brokering the NRA does on every aspect of government.
The N.R.A. at the bench (click here)
December 26, 2012, 9:00 pm
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
...Back in 2009, when President Obama chose Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his first Supreme Court nominee, the White House expected that her compelling personal story, sterling credentials, and experience both as a prosecutor and, for 17 years, as a federal judge would win broad bipartisan support for her nomination. There was, in fact, no plausible reason for any senator to vote against her.
The president’s hope was Senator Mitch McConnell’s fear. In order to shore up his caucus, the Senate Republican leader asked a favor of his friends at the National Rifle Association: oppose the Sotomayor nomination and, furthermore, “score” the confirmation vote. An interest group “scores” a vote when it adds the vote on a particular issue to the legislative scorecard it gives each member of Congress at the end of the session. In many states, an N.R.A. score of less than 100 for an incumbent facing re-election is big trouble.
Note that the N.R.A. had never before scored a judicial confirmation vote. Note also that Sonia Sotomayor had no record on the N.R.A.’s issues. (True, she voted with an appeals court panel to uphold New York State’s ban on nunchucks, a martial-arts weapon consisting of two sticks held together with a chain or rope, commonly used by gang members and muggers. The appeals court didn’t even reach the interesting issue of whether the Second Amendment guaranteed the right to keep and bear nunchucks, ruling instead that the amendment didn’t apply to the states – which, before the Supreme Court later ruled otherwise by a vote of 5 to 4, it didn’t.)
Never mind. The N.R.A. had all the reason it needed to oppose Sonia Sotomayor: maintenance of its symbiotic relationship with the Republican Party. Once it announced its opposition and its intention to score the vote, Republican support for the nominee melted away. Only seven Republicans voted for confirmation.
One senator, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, said by way of explaining her “no” vote that her constituents had expressed “overwhelming concern” about Judge Sotomayor’s views on the Second Amendment. However, Senator Murkowski told the National Journal at the time, “I am a bit concerned that the N.R.A. weighed in and said they were going to score this.” She added, “I don’t think that was appropriate.”
The following year, after the N.R.A. opposed Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court and announced that “this vote matters and will be part of future candidate evaluations,” Republican support for another nominee without a record on gun issues shrank to five senators....
It is called corruption, if it weren't completely obvious.
I do believe McConnell needs to be relieved from his job. He is a partisan hack and one hell of a lousy Senator. McConnell is as corrupt as the day is long. Then again, considering EST can fluctuate, I take that back. McConnell is consistently corrupt. More than the length of any day could allow.
