Anti-American Loretta Lynch Confirmed As New Attorney General, Here Are The 10 Rep. Who Voted To Approve Her

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The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Loretta Lynch as the next attorney general, with the help of 10 Republicans who ignored complaints that Lynch would use her new position to support what many say is President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional immigration plan.

The Senate voted 56–43 in favor of Lynch, approving her with help of Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

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While Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was in the Senate earlier in the day, he was the only member of the chamber not to vote. Cruz had opposed Lynch.

A spokeswoman for Cruz downplayed the missed vote by saying “if the Senate could get 60 votes for cloture, they could get 51 for final confirmation.” Cloture was the vote to end debate earlier in the day, when the Senate voted to end debate on the Lynch nomination by a 66-34 vote.

“Cloture is the only vote that mattered,” Cruz spokeswoman Amanda Carpenter tweeted.

Much of the GOP’s opposition to Lynch was due to her support for Obama’s executive action on immigration. During her confirmation hearing, Lynch said she believes Obama’s plan was consistent with the Constitution, drawing outrage from Republicans who have said it’s an end-run around Congress.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the most vocal Republican against Obama’s plan, said the Senate shouldn’t confirm Lynch to be the nation’s top law enforcement officer given her support for what he has called an illegal move by Obama.

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“The Senate must never confirm an individual to such an office as this who will support and advance a scheme that violates our Constitution and eviscerates established law and congressional authority,” he said Thursday. “No person who would do that should be confirmed. And we don’t need to be apologetic about it, colleagues.”

However, it became clear a few weeks ago that Lynch had just enough GOP support to pass the Senate by a simple majority.

The vote followed several months of delay in the Senate, prompting Democrats to argue that Lynch was the most-delayed attorney general nominee ever. Republicans argued that it was Democrats who agreed to start the confirmation process this year, instead of late 2014. 
The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Loretta Lynch as the next attorney general, with the help of 10 Republicans who ignored complaints that Lynch would use her new position to support what many say is President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional immigration plan.

The Senate voted 56–43 in favor of Lynch, approving her with help of Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

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While Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was in the Senate earlier in the day, he was the only member of the chamber not to vote. Cruz had opposed Lynch.

A spokeswoman for Cruz downplayed the missed vote by saying “if the Senate could get 60 votes for cloture, they could get 51 for final confirmation.” Cloture was the vote to end debate earlier in the day, when the Senate voted to end debate on the Lynch nomination by a 66-34 vote.

“Cloture is the only vote that mattered,” Cruz spokeswoman Amanda Carpenter tweeted.

Much of the GOP’s opposition to Lynch was due to her support for Obama’s executive action on immigration. During her confirmation hearing, Lynch said she believes Obama’s plan was consistent with the Constitution, drawing outrage from Republicans who have said it’s an end-run around Congress.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the most vocal Republican against Obama’s plan, said the Senate shouldn’t confirm Lynch to be the nation’s top law enforcement officer given her support for what he has called an illegal move by Obama.

“The Senate must never confirm an individual to such an office as this who will support and advance a scheme that violates our Constitution and eviscerates established law and congressional authority,” he said Thursday. “No person who would do that should be confirmed. And we don’t need to be apologetic about it, colleagues.”

However, it became clear a few weeks ago that Lynch had just enough GOP support to pass the Senate by a simple majority.

The vote followed several months of delay in the Senate, prompting Democrats to argue that Lynch was the most-delayed attorney general nominee ever. Republicans argued that it was Democrats who agreed to start the confirmation process this year, instead of late 2014. 

Conservative PAC helps House Republicans against Boehner-allied PAC

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A money and advertising war is underway between center-right Republicans and conservative Republicans, a hangover from last week’s vote in the House of Representatives to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

The Senate Conservatives Fund announced Tuesday that it’s raised more than $90,000 to help defend Reps. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., against television ads paid for by the American Action Network, a center-right political action committee allied with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

The three conservative House members were included in a $400,000 media campaign launched by AAN last week to pressure Republican lawmakers to support a bill that funded the Department of Homeland Security through fiscal 2015 without provisions reversing President Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration.

The House approved the so-called "clean" DHS bill last week after conservative Republicans failed in their attempt to move the bill through Congress with riders attacking Obama’s immigration moves.

In addition to the TV ads, AAN ran spots on the nationally-syndicated Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity radio shows and digital display ads urging nine other House Republicans to support the "clean" DHS bill.

"American Action Network attacked these conservatives to punish them for opposing Speaker John Boehner’s decision to fund the president’s executive amnesty," Senate Conservatives Fund President Ken Cuccinelli said in a statement. "Speaker Boehner and his allies may think they can use these attack ads to defeat these congressmen in a future primary, but they’re wrong."

In announcing the ads last week, American Action Network President Mike Shields said it was important that Congress fund “national security programs that keep America safe."

Hueslkamp said that rather than attacking Obama’s immigration policies, AAN decided to go after "those of us that are standing up for the Constitution."

"The establishment has attacked me and tried to cut of my fundraising, but it’s backfired," Huelskamp said in a statement. "People in my district are even more supportive now of my efforts and groups like SCF have helped me raise money to get my message out."

The Senate Conservatives Fund is a political action committee that was founded by former Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. He’s now president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

Email: wdouglas@mcclatchydc.com; Twitter: @williamgdouglas.

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BOEHNER RETALIATION HAUNTS REPUBLICANS WHO DEFENDED, VOTED FOR HIM

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Iran Nuclear Deal: Bad News To Republicans, Israel, North Korea

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Israel and Republicans in the U.S. Congress now share common cause with North Korea on one critical topic: they hate the nuclear deal that  negotiators from the U.S. and five other countries have struck with Iran.

While Israeli leaders and commentators denounce the agreement and Republicans vow to fight it in the U.S. Congress, North Korea has already stated that it will never give up its nuclear weapons. Six-party talks with North Korea, hosted by China, screeched to a halt nearly seven years ago and aren’t likely to resume as long as North Korea really has nothing to talk about.

That doesn’t mean, though, that North Korean leaders will not be watching closely to see how the deal works out even if they’re not going to follow Iran’s example.

President Barack Obama walks to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 2, 2015, to talk about the breakthrough in the Iranian nuclear talks. The president said the Iran nuclear deal _ if completed_ will make US, allies and the world safer. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

North Korea and Iran are not about to break off close ties forged in cooperation not only on nuclear technology but on missiles and other weaponry.  Iran has sent teams of advisers to North Korea to witness and assist on long-range missile development while North Korea has exported short and mid-range missiles to Iran along with both experts and laborers to work on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The huge difference, of course, is that Iran professes to be dedicated only to producing nuclear energy for industrial purposes while North Korea is interested only in making warheads.

Energy-poor North Korea, relying on China for all its oil, lost its chance to obtain twin nuclear energy reactors, promised under the 1994 agreed framework with the U.S., when revealed eight years later to be developing highly enriched uranium after having shut down its plutonium program under terms of the agreement. Construction of the twin energy reactors soon stopped, and North Korea resumed building warheads with plutonium and possibly uranium.

Skeptics of the Iranian pledge to downsize its number of centrifuges and stop enriching most of its uranium while agreeing to on-site inspections point out that Korea is now fabricating centrifuges with technology acquired from Iran and from A.Q. Khan when he was running Pakistan’s nuclear program. North Korea is believed to be gearing up for a fourth nuclear test — this one with a device powered by uranium.

The deal with Iran, though, is sure to give pause to North Korea’s nuclear ambitions for a number of reasons.

One is that China, North Korea’s only ally whether North Korean leaders like it or not, is fairly well committed to opposing their nuclear ambition and can slow the flow of oil, as well as food, any time.

Another is the nuclear deal with Iran calls for an end to sanctions if Iran really complies with the terms.  North Korea may not be ready to give up its nukes but might be amenable to an agreement to stop producing them in return for relaxation of sanctions imposed by the UN after its nuclear and missile tests.

Not that North Korea will be ready to resume six-party talks right away — or even in the near future. It does mean, however, that at some stage the North might agree to return to the table with a view to some sign of concessions — an understanding that the U.S. and South Korea demand in advance so the talks won’t be totally useless.

Experts in Washington seem just about unanimous in agreeing, no way will the Iran deal have an impact on North Korea.

Scott Snyder at the Council on Foreign Relations told South Korea’s Yonhap News that “North Korea is in a different situation from Iran, because it has shown no interest in coming back to talks on minimally acceptable terms to the administration.” Alan Romberg at the Stimson Center was quoted as saying “Iran has obviously shown a willingness to curtail its still-nascent program and forgo nuclear weapons” but “North Korea has not — so there really are no parallels.”

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, however, may be in a somewhat different mood after making his first trip outside the country next month — to see Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Russia has formed close ties with both Iran and North Korea — the former as a foil to U.S. aims in the middle east, the latter to counter Chinese influence in North Korea and the U.S. alliance with South Korea.

Putin could suggest to Kim  the advantages of putting on a show of conciliation. North Korea, like Iran, could be the recipient of Soviet arms and aircraft needed to replace its fleet of aging MiGs, gifts from the Soviet Union.

That might not be good news for the U.S., South Korea — or China — but could be persuasive when it comes to persuading North Korea to scale down its nuclear ambitions.  Would North Korea really want to remain the odd man out when offered all that — and maybe, some day, relaxation of onerous sanctions?

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POLL: EVEN JEB BUSH SUPPORTERS NOT ‘VERY ENTHUSIASTIC’ ABOUT CANDIDACY

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Not even Jeb Bush’s own supporters are “very enthusiastic” about supporting him in 2016.

A Washington Post/ABC News poll found that only 12% of Bush supporters are actually “very enthusiastic” about his candidacy while a whopping 32% of his own supporters are either “not so enthusiastic” or “not enthusiastic at all” about supporting him. Fifty-six percent of his own supporters are “somewhat enthusiastic” about supporting him.

The poll also discovered that 53% of Americans view Bush unfavorably while only 33% view him favorably. Bush, though, leads the GOP field in the national poll with 20%. He is followed by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at 13% and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at 12%. And 33% think Bush will win the nomination regardless of which candidate they support while 12% think Cruz will.

Bush, who has doubled down on his support for comprehensive amnesty legislation and Common Core, has the most support among “moderate and liberal” Republicans and those who are “somewhat conservative.” Bush receives 36% support from the former group and 31% from the latter.

In comparison, the poll found that 42% of Clinton supporters were “very enthusiastic” about supporting her while another 42% were “somewhat enthusiastic.” Seventeen percent were either “not so enthusiastic” or “not enthusiastic at all” about supporting Clinton.

Bush trails Clinton 54-40 in a potential head-to-head battle, and the poll shows exactly the dynamic that conservative scholar and talk radio host Mark Levin warned about last year when he urged conservative activists to nominate a conservative for president for the first time since Ronald Reagan.

“It’s very, very, important that we nominate a conservative for the first time since Ronald Reagan,” Levin said. “There are people under 50-years-old who have never had an opportunity to vote for a conservative president. We want to show them what it’s like. It’s our generation’s responsibility.”

Levin said that candidates like Bush who are preferred by the GOP establishment “are not appealing” because “their candidates don’t stand for anything.

“And when they do stand for something, they’re moving left; they’re not moving right,” he added.

Levin said Republicans will win the White House only when the party nominates a candidate who inspires the grassroots voters who stayed at home instead of holding their noses and voting for moderate Republicans like John McCain, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush (his second term–when he was running for H.W.’s first term instead of Reagan’s fourth), Bob Dole, and Mitt Romney. He said last year that “it’s invigorating, energizing” and “almost spiritual to get behind somebody with enthusiasm and excitement. To go door-to-door. That’s how you win elections.”

The poll of “Republicans and GOP-leaning independents” has a margin of error of +/- 5.5 percentage points.

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