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Offline SirLinksALot

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Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« on: April 26, 2018, 05:25:19 pm »
SOURCE: HOTAIR

URL: https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2018/04/mike-pompeo-confirmed-secretary-state/


The split vote represents the political scrutiny Pompeo is likely to encounter as he moves from the CIA to the State Department, where he’ll face the simultaneous challenges of reinvigorating an agency beset by flagging morale and answering for a president who is prone to impulsiveness.

Pompeo, who grew close to President Trump as his CIA director, takes over at State as the United States faces a host of foreign policy challenges. Near term, a deadline looms for extending the Iran nuclear deal and for Trump’s historic denuclearization talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2018, 05:26:41 pm »
SOURCE: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/26/politics/mike-pompeo-senate-confirmation-vote-richard-grenell/index.html

The vote was 57-42.

Present Republicans approved Pompeo. In addition, independent Sen. Angus King of Maine had also announced his support as have several Democrats: Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Doug Jones of Alabama, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and Joe Donnelly of Indiana.

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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2018, 05:28:23 pm »
Good, he's gotta great resume and job experience.
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2018, 05:32:49 pm »
All that senseless, useless bullshit we've been fed for weeks.     :laugh:
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2018, 05:35:44 pm »
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Good, he's gotta great resume and job experience.

Hillary was confirmed 94-2

John Kerry was confirmed 94-3

.... and Pompeo just got 57-42 !!??

And what were the resumes of those other two clowns?
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2018, 05:42:43 pm »
Quote from: SirLinksALot on April 26, 2018, 05:35:44 pm
Hillary was confirmed 94-2

John Kerry was confirmed 94-3

.... and Pompeo just got 57-42 !!??

And what were the resumes of those other two clowns?

A Criminal and a war criminal.   
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2018, 05:49:44 pm »
There's something wrong when a criminal and a war criminal got significantly more votes than an obviously well qualified man.
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2018, 05:52:10 pm »
Quote from: SirLinksALot on April 26, 2018, 05:49:44 pm
There's something wrong when a criminal and a war criminal got significantly more votes than an obviously well qualified man.

That's because there's something wrong with Democrats.

They HATE qualified people.
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2018, 05:59:27 pm »
Didn't the MSM tell us he didn't have a chance in hell to get through the process?
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2018, 06:03:46 pm »
Quote from: musiclady on April 26, 2018, 05:52:10 pm
That's because there's something wrong with Democrats.

They HATE qualified people.

There's that media vaunted 'Bipartisan' again.

Every time Pubbies cross the aisle the Dems stop shooting just long enough to accept their surrender.

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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2018, 06:06:11 pm »
Joe Manchin and Heidi Heitkamp have been known to get things right, on occasion.
I'm a bit surprised by Doug Jones after all that Alabama fiasco, but, hey, I'll take it.

Looks like we finally got a good one after the train wrecks of HRC and Kerry.
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2018, 07:02:09 pm »
Quote from: SirLinksALot on April 26, 2018, 05:49:44 pm
There's something wrong when a criminal and a war criminal got significantly more votes than an obviously well qualified man.

You can say that again.
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2018, 08:17:27 pm »
Most of what people had against him, like his stance on metadata mining, was more important when he was being confirmed for CIA director.  Even so, he was still confirmed for that position with a 66-32 vote.
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2018, 10:11:59 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on April 26, 2018, 05:28:23 pm
Good, he's gotta great resume and job experience.

Exactly!  To say he was somehow unqualified was just partisan nonsense IMO.
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2018, 10:21:16 pm »
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2018, 11:51:03 pm »
Quote from: SirLinksALot on April 26, 2018, 05:35:44 pm
Hillary was confirmed 94-2

John Kerry was confirmed 94-3

.... and Pompeo just got 57-42 !!??

And what were the resumes of those other two clowns?

Not as hefty as Secretary Pompeo's.

And he won't want to play footsie with the world's dictators like Hillary and Horse Face.

I think that's why the vote was the way it was too.
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #16 on: April 27, 2018, 12:29:21 am »
SirLinks wrote:
"There's something wrong when a criminal and a war criminal got significantly more votes than an obviously well qualified man."

There is, but "what's wrong" was not the democrat-communists' fault.

The "wrong" was with the REPUBLICANS who voted for these two grifters simply for the sake of "being nice guys" and going along to get along.

The democrat-communists are smart enough to oppose those who they see as their enemies.
The Republicans are TOO STUPID to do the same.

And yes, if you put me in front of Mitch McConnell, I would say that right to his face.
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Re: Mike Pompeo Confirmed As Secretary Of State
« Reply #17 on: April 27, 2018, 02:58:23 pm »
DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED YEA:

Heitkamp (D-ND)
Jones (D-AL)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Nelson (D-FL)

INDEPENDENT WHO VOTED YEA:

King (I-ME)

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