Watch: Eric Schmitt Rips Senate Dems for
Blocking Vatican Ambassador's Confirmation
Posted By: ladydawgfan, 5/13/2025 8:01:29 PM
There's petty...and then there's party. The Democrats, as much as they may be in disarray of late, are nothing if not pros at lock-step voting, and they've shown that once again, blocking the confirmation vote of President Donald Trump's nominee as Ambassador to the Vatican. Trump announced he would nominate CatholicVote president Brian Burch for the role in late December. In early May, Burch cleared the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on a party-line vote, setting up a vote by the full Senate. In the meantime, Pope Leo XIV was named as the successor to Pope Francis, and his installation is set for this weekend.
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Watch: [Tweet, video]
“Whatever got you here Secretary Noem, I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify about why President Trump is seeking more taxpayer dollars, and what plan to do with that money if you get it,”
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Hillary Clinton Rips Trump Over Qatar
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Plane, Gets Slapped With Reminder of the
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Here she is smoking Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY). [Tweet, video]
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Episcopal Church refuses to resettle White
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South African refugees in clash with Trump administration 23 replies
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New Beard, Same Buttigieg
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I wish I could locate the Twitter wit who said, during the Biden administration, that "Pete Buttigieg is so bad at being Secretary of Transportation that people actually know the name of the Secretary of Transportation." (Snip) Nothing seems to stand in the way of the unaccomplished former Indiana mayor taking another stab at his party's presidential nomination — and he's so serious about rebranding himself that he's even grown a beard.
The beard jokes write themselves, but I'm not here to take cheap shots at Buttigieg; I'm here to take high-class, data-rich cheap shots.
Join me, won't you?
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Senate leftists are absolutely pathetic!!