There’s been a lot of recent media speculation about whether the Senate’s new Republican majority will confirm President Trump’s outsider nominees.
Let’s preface this examination of the confirmation environment by noting that so far, no Republican Senator has said definitively that he or she planned to vote against a Trump nominee – so far, it’s been all media speculation, or more properly media incitement to vote NO.
But the record of Mitch McConnell’s leadership of the Republican Senate majority during President Trump’s first term was such that the anti-Trump media and Washington DC establishment have every reason to believe at least a few Republican Senators might defect.
The question is, why would any Republican vote against confirming one of Trump’s more controversial “disruptor” nominees after they voted to confirm Joe Biden’s menagerie of lunatics and anti-American Marxists?
As our friend Robert Romano of Americans for Limited Government pointed out in a recent column in ALG’s must-read Daily Torch:
…dozens of Senate Republicans voted to confirm the nominees who enacted the worst policies — the very policies Trump and Congressional Republicans campaigned against in 2024, and who after winning, Trump is now designating his nominees to undo and reform the broken federal leviathan that operates of its own accord in the administrative state when a Democratic President is not in the White House.
Trump just won the popular vote and the Electoral College and Congressional Republicans
singularly owe their majorities to him, but they are threatening to torpedo the men and women he has designated to carry out the housecleaning voters endorsed when they voted for him?
Give us a break.
As Mr. Romano noted, moderate Senate Republicans deferred to every single cabinet choice by Biden. Every single one of them. Sure, there were some conservative members who opposed this selection or that, and some votes were closer than others, but the very members who are now refusing to confirm Trump’s cabinet gave Biden free reign to staff every department and agency. They are protecting the Washington, D.C. establishment, just like they did in 2017 when they willingly went along with the Russiagate hoax in its early days.
Here is list Mr. Romano compiled of Biden’s disastrous nominees and the vote counts that put them in charge of our Nation’s government:
Avril Danica Haines was confirmed for Director of National Intelligence 84 to 10, with 34 Senate Republicans deferring to President Biden’s choice.
Lloyd Austin, who completely messed up the withdrawal from Afghanistan and degraded U.S. military readiness and service member morale, was confirmed to Defense Secretary on Jan. 22, 2021, 93 to 2 as 43 Senate Republicans deferred to the executive.
Janet Yellen was confirmed as Treasury Secretary 84 to 15, with 34 Senate Republicans deferring to Biden.
Anthony Blinken, whose tenure finds the U.S. on the brink of a potential nuclear war with Russia and the Middle East in flames and who greenlit the Iran nuclear deal (again), was confirmed 78 to 22, with 28 Senate Republicans deferring to Biden.
Pete Buttigieg was confirmed as Transportation Secretary 86 to 13, with 36 Senate Republicans deferring to Biden’s choice.
Miguel Cardona, who imposed DEI mandates and radical gender ideology into the nation’s school system as Secretary of Education, was confirmed 64 to 33, with 14 Senate Republicans deferring.
Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security, who ended up leaving the U.S. border wide open and censoring millions of Americans on social media, was only confirmed 56 to 43, but with 6 Senate Republicans deferring to the executive: Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Bob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah and Dan Sullivan of Alaska.
Xavier Becerra, who oversaw the Biden-Harris unconstitutional and illegal vaccine mandates, was by far the most controversial pick as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, only getting confirmed 50 to 49, with only Susan Collins deferring to Biden.
Even Merrick Garland, who unleashed the Justice Department on Trump and his supporters even while Trump was running for president, sat on declassified Russiagate documents and also engaged in censorship, was confirmed 70 to 30, with 20 Senate Republicans deferring.
And it should not be forgotten that not one Democrat defected on any of those votes.
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