That he wouldnt break the rules of the senate in order to change them. This was not an ancient promise. July 14, on meet the press, said were not touching judges. This year, july 14, meet the press, were not touching judges. Then there are the double standards. When democrats were in the minority, they argued strenuously for the very thing they now say we will have to do without. Namely, the right to extend a debate on Lifetime Appointments to extended debate on Lifetime Appointments. In other words, they believe that one set of rules should apply to them, to them and another set to everybody else. He may have just as well have said if you like the rules of the senate, you can keep them. Huh . If you like the rules of the senate, you can keep them. Just the way so Many Democrats in the administration and congress now believe that obamacare is good enough for their constituents, but then when it comes to them, their political allies, their staff, well, of course, thats different. And le
Today, an encore presentation of human day, with the chief of washington, d. C. s metropolitan police. She talked about Department Growth in the past 23 years she has been a police officer. A lot of things have happened. Decline fromnitial the 500 down to the 200 range the declined over about 10 years. That was the kind of burning out of the crack cocaine epidemic. It was a 20 year run of sheer hell for most cities. The Violence Associated with crack cocaine markets we had 200 openair markets in the city. There would be drive buys and six or seven people would be shot or killed in a single incident. The 400s downrom to 50, and stay there for some time. Why did that wayne . If you look at drug patterns, trucks tend to spike in popularity. Cycles and 20 year go down. The crack cocaine epidemic is no more. There are still people who use cocaine. There are still people who use crack cocaine. It is nowhere near what it used to be. Driving the violence that dropped us down into the 200 range
Involved in efforts to demonstrate are we replacing u. S. Jobs here . We are just not paying enough or something is wrong and therefore, we are turning to foreign workers. It has been proven time and time again, study after study, that is not the case. They will not do this work. Without this workforce, again, Food Production will go off seas and crops will be left unharvested in the u. S. Why are we tying the pathway to citizenship to a Guest Worker Program . I am not going to give 11 million Illegal Immigrants a path way until i get something i want. I want a new immigration system. I would not trust them to give it to me. Our democratic friends are not going to trust us to hold everything up until we are satisfied with Border Security. You live on the border. I know you are as sincere a this as possible. We have to talk about the elephant in the room. Every time we have this debate, theres always a reason the border is not quite secure enough. We spend billions of dollars and we got
Both houses. I would like to remind people of that. I forgot my second comment. My third comment will be my commentsow second now. I would like to thank god for the tea party. Without the tea party there are no laws. One last week. Tweet. Chris murphy suggest that the rules changes should apply to bills as well. Keeping in mind that just applies to executive and judicial nominees, not Supreme Court nominees. Peggy in washington is our last caller on the republican line. Ra, i would like to say that i think our country is in big trouble. Paulnk ted cruz and ron are the ones keeping things together. The africanamerican, black beple, in our country will crazy surprised when obama comes out with a turban on his head. I believe that this man is not black. You believe he is not black . I guess we will not find out. Thanks for your calls. Next i will tell you about tomorrow morning on washington journal. We start the day with a look at the 50th anniversary of the assassination of president jo
It, the senate would reach a point where we wouldnt be able to function. Well, i thought perhaps perhaps at that time i thought my words were a little apocalyptic. But as it turns out, they werent at all. And so this is a bright day for the United States senate and for our country to finally be able to move ahead on nominations so that any present not just this president , any president can put together his executive branch under our constitution. A president should have the people he or she wanted to form their executive branch. Every senator here gets to pick his or her own staff. We dont have to have the house vote on it or anybody else. Its true of every member of the house or senate. Its true of the judiciary, the third branch of government. They can hire their clerks, their staff without coming to us. And so now i think its appropriate that any president can now form their executive branch with only 51 votes needed in the United States senate, not a supermajority. So that is a hu