Does ANYBODY think the US Senate Republicans are going to roll over for Trump?

Please get REAL…..

Those in the US Senate have not busted their asses to get where they are to to let a guy come along and make them HIS servants….(Trump ain’t running again….These people ARE)

The US Constitution give the Senate the oversight and approval RIGHT OVER senior US Presidential Cabinet and other staff jobs, including senior military slots….

Kentucky US Senator McConnell made sure the body had it’s say….

The New incoming US Senate Majority Leader , John Thune of Utah spend time under McConnell…

Thune  is up front in that Trump will NOT get everything he wants from Congress….

Trump has already lost the Gaetz try…..

Recess appointements seem to be NOT a consideration ….

So?

Formal confirmation hearing’s in the Senate committeee’s involved WILL BE held….

More of Trump flame throwers will have to back away from the crazy stuff Trump wants and others simply will NOT make it….

Others will be fine……

So will the ‘System’….

 

With Mr. Trump putting forward a raft of contentious prospective nominees and threatening to challenge congressional authority in other ways, Republicans who will hold the majority come January could find themselves in the precarious position of having to choose between standing up for their institution or bowing to a president dismissive of government norms.

The clearest and most immediate point of tension is likely to be Mr. Trump’s efforts to skip the Senate’s traditional confirmation process to install loyalists, including some with checkered backgrounds, in his cabinet. But the president-elect has also signaled he expects Republicans on Capitol Hill to accede to his wishes on policy, even if that means ceding Congress’s control over federal spending. Both are powers explicitly given to the legislative branch in the Constitution.

Lawmakers and analysts say allowing Mr. Trump to erode the Senate’s authority to pass judgment on nominees by sidestepping it through recess appointments or watered-down background checks could do permanent damage to the Senate and undermine the constitutional system.

“It is the central pillar in the checks-and-balances system,” said Ira Shapiro, a former longtime Senate staffer and author of three books on the institution. “There is nothing more central to the Senate’s role than the advice and consent authority.”

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“Senators can vote any way they want, but we all take an oath to uphold the Constitution that includes the advice and consent provisions,” Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, said. “Some people may feel so strongly about this administration that they want to just vote ‘yes’ on all of them, and that’s their prerogative. That’s not my position.”

The divide among Senate Republicans over how far they will go in backing Mr. Trump has left Mr. Thune, who will take over on Jan. 3, walking a fine line. He has said that Mr. Trump has the right to choose who he wants for top positions, but Mr. Thune has also suggested he is committed to preserving the Senate’s role of vetting and voting on those tapped to fill the executive branch at the highest levels. Mr. Thune has said all options are open for doing so.

“I always believe that you defer to a president when it comes to the people they want in their cabinet to do a lot of these important jobs,” he said earlier this month on Fox News. “But obviously there is a process whereby we get down and scrub all these nominees and figure out, one, if they are qualified and are they people who are fit to hold these offices.”…

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Note…

Trump is four year wonder after LOSING four years ago….

Most of these Senator’s have been in their spots for a LOT LONGER….

And do NOT see themslves subservant to convicted felon that thinks he’s gonna ‘Take Over’ the US Government…

Note….

All this talk about ‘cutting government’ is also going to run right smack into the REALITY  of Congress oking the writing of Government checks….NOT the President,  who merely signs them…..

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