Title. And who is getting fired for this.
This is what happens when you cram 90 noms into a single package and don’t bother checking them.
Oh no…we got played badly. Really badly.
Was this a calculated risk or did Leader’s office just straight up not do even a basic level of checks?
How would this be a calculated risk? Wouldn’t it just make the appointment invalid if someone found out down the line?
I don’t think so. It would technically just be setting new precedent I think (which opens up a whole different can of worms). But it wouldn’t have rendered the appointment invalid on a retroactive basis.
Leader’s office is freaking out right now. Heads are gonna roll.
This was not a calculated risk.
Who covers this for Leader’s office? I can’t remember any fuckup like this when McConnell was in charge.
I warned them about this but they didn’t want to listen to me because of who I am.
Ya’ll got played. That’s what happens when your entier party is just a cult of personality
Christiana does. I just texted her and she said that she didn’t bother looking into it.
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Why her
I thought this was a drug thing
They dumped it on her because they were swamped with all of the other noms.
Can someone tell me what just happened? I heard it got pulled but idk why
I kinda get saying that about the admin, but Thune’s office is typically very well run. This must be quite embarrassing for them.
Basically this new en bloc procedure was made to confirm nominees in a batch processing system with a simple majority. But Sara Bailey’s nomination for director of national drug control policy requires 60 votes. Dems let republicans burn the whole week and waited till the last minute to point this out, thereby scuttling the whole batch.
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In fairness to Thune’s team, this is a brand new process and they probably don’t have the review process nailed down yet.
Say what you will about it being a new process. Doesn’t change the fact that the Dems were able to figure it out but the team creating the process couldn’t. I’d be mortified if I was the one in charge.
What did the RPC product say about this? Don’t they usually include the vote threshold in the first paragraph? Seems like someone there also fucked up.
Did they salvage it just now? How did that happen?