{"id":60758,"date":"2025-09-05T13:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60758"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:55:07","slug":"the-real-roadblock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60758","title":{"rendered":"The Real Roadblock"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not a fan of Senator Thune. I firmly believe he only does the right thing when it is in his best interest. Otherwise, he is a tool of the Washington establishment. A recent article in The Federalist<\/a> confirmed my opinion.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, The Federalist reported:<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune wants GOP voters to believe that Senate Republicans have no ability to speed up confirmation of the more than 140 Trump nominees<\/a> languishing in the upper chamber. But that isn\u2019t entirely true.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After returning from Congress\u2019s month-long August vacation, Thune took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to pin the blame<\/a> for the continued confirmation delay of the president\u2019s appointees squarely on the shoulders of Senate Democrats. Verbally wagging his finger at his leftist colleagues, the majority leader said that \u201ctheir historic obstruction cannot continue.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAll it takes is a little behavioral change and a willingness to acknowledge President Trump won an election, the American people voted for him, and they expect him to be able to populate his administration with the people that he wants to serve in many of these positions,\u201d Thune said. \u201cThe Democrats can play ball \u2014 the way every Democrat and Republican Senate have, going back as far as we can find in the annals of history \u2014 or things are going to have to change around here. It\u2019s as simple as that. And the ball, I would say, Mr. President, is in the Democrats\u2019 court.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Except, the ball is not in Democrats\u2019 court \u2014 it\u2019s in Thune\u2019s. Contrary to his persistent narrative about Democrat obstruction, the Senate majority leader has always possessed the power to hold the upper chamber in session until confirmation of Trump\u2019s nominees are complete.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Of course, the key phrase in Bovard\u2019s remarks is \u201cwilling.\u201d Like when it comes to fulfilling issue-based promises they campaign on, many Republican senators have shown little to no appetite for doing what\u2019s necessary to get the president\u2019s nominees across the finish line. And that\u2019s especially true for Thune, who has seemingly recanted on his pledge<\/a> \u2014 which he made a day after Trump\u2019s inauguration \u2014 that Senate Republicans \u201care ready to work as long as needed to confirm President Trump\u2019s nominees,\u201d including \u201cNights. Weekends. Recesses.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bottom line is that Thune and the Senate GOP are not going to act out of the goodness of their hearts. It\u2019s going to take vocal, consistent, and continued pressure from Trump<\/a> and Republican voters to get them to actually do their jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article explains that there are ways to break the logjam, but the Republican elites are not interested in breaking the logjam. Somehow the idea of Republican unity and working toward a common purpose was thrown out the window by the Republican establishment when President Trump was elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not a fan of Senator Thune. I firmly believe he only does the right thing when it is in his best interest. Otherwise, he is a tool of the Washington establishment. A recent article in The Federalist confirmed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10589,18466,18465,11815],"class_list":["post-60758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-president-trump","tag-presidential-appointees","tag-senate-majority-leader-john-thune","tag-the-federalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60759,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60758\/revisions\/60759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}