Speaking to Politico reporters on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader John Thune says, “ask the White House,” when questioned about the status of Jay Clayton’s DNI nomination.
Apparently, Thune is in the dark as to what comes next.
POLITICO – […] Asked whether Clayton’s nomination was being withdrawn, Thune pointed to the White House for answers. “I’ve never been asked to slow a nomination down before,” he said.
Asked for a further explanation of why Trump effectively killed the Senate GOP’s hopes of quickly confirming Clayton and unlocking an extension of key surveillance law, Thune mentioned the acting director of national intelligence who is set to start Friday: “I think he’s very committed to Bill Pulte.”
“I don’t have good answers for these questions — those are probably better asked of the president and his team,” he added. “We are just executing or trying to execute on what they had asked us to.” (read more)
Whenever I’m listening to Thune’s litany of excuses, I hear my dear, departed father’s voice in my head. He answered our teenage justifications for stupid behavior with, “Oh, bullsh*t. Try to come up with a story I’ll believe”.
ROFLOL!!! Love it!!! Bet you miss him!
Love it / all my dad said was “ Really? Nothing else mattered -we KNEW we were caught 😱
While not yet a lame duck, President Trump is really 4 months from having that status legitimately ascribed to his presidency.
However, if he uses the veto again, and again, and again, he will never be a lame duck.
Bless your hearrrrrt
Lame duck for run of the mill presidents, but not this one…
The Force is strong in this one….
Yes Ed, a powerful force.
Lame duck never President Trump will have force always. He loves America and we do too.
Thune should open his eyes….. and heart.
I’m praying for Thune’s conversion.
God knows everything.
🙂
Becky E.
Not lame duck this one. He is father Goose with more surprises for the baby goslings in the senate. Wait and see…
Father Goose! LOL!
I hope The “Force” cools down substantially for the next six months at least. No more tariffs or wars to give the Democrats the ammunition to win the 2026 election. We really can’t put many wins in on “The Force” scoreboard.
So, PDJT should sit on his hands and do nothing for nearly the rest of the year. Good grief. 🙄
Thanks. You gave me a belly laugh!
Yes!
“Senator Thune Flummoxed”
And we all lived happily ever after.
Thune flummoxed….a daily occurrence.
Have you ever made friends with a new person and show them kindness, bring them into your family, then they stab you in the back?
I know the snake story…
We forgive them as God says but we no longer continue to let them poison our lives.
Hopefully President Trump will continue with Pulte…he’s a boat rocker for sure!
What a move by DJT!!
I think President Trump was teasing them out to reveal their true colors. He can bait and switch along with the best of them.
This reminds me of that gag with the dollar on the string yanked away right as the dupe reaches for it. Our very stable genius be like: Not. so. fast.
He’s Janus, the 2-faced mythical god. Can’t wait for Thune to go THUD!
Thune has one face– a corrupt, self-serving, anti-American POS face.
👹💩
It is on display 24-7.
McConnell degenerate protegee
and its planted firmly in bibis backside
He is a snake, just like McConnel.
The Turtle
and
The Snake…
Perfect together.
Trump sucker-punched the Senate. Good!
He would have kicked them in a sensitive area except that it doesn’t exist on the bodies of the good, ole boys of the GOPe RepubliCON Uniparty cucks.
He doesn’t need to be asked to slow down nominations. He’s quite capable of doing that on his own. How about those middle executive positions and judgeships still bogged down under his leadership?
Thune is NOT a LEADER!
He is still following McConnell’s’ ORDERS!
Look up the word SYCOPHANT in the dictionary. You’ll find Thune, Cornyn, and Barrasso’s (plus some others) pictures!
SUCK-UPS TO THE TURTLE! Traitors to their country!
Well, I’m SYCOPH-HIM. Thune needs to go!!
Or on the Epstein invite list
You can add his orders come from Schumer and Blumenthal, too.
A
Toady 🐸
To the
Turtle 🐢
How about impeaching the “judges” that are too dirty to ignore ?
Perzactly!!!! 👍 👍
Not executing on SAVE Act
My favorite Thine excuse is. “We have a math problem. We just don’t have the votes”
Using the majority leader position to twist arms to get the votes is literally the only job he has
Put them all on record.
We can get rid of them too.
Adios … YOYO
And he can’t even do that! SPIT!!!
Before replacing his sensei as majority leader, Thune was the GOP whip. He knows how to twist arms/whip up votes.
Re recess appointments-
I heard if the House calls for a recess, but the Senate refuses, the President has the authority to make the call- i.e. declare the recess.
I presume it’s in Article 2 of the Constitution.
I don’t remember who said as much- possibly Mike Davis.
Article II Section 3:
“…in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them, to such Time as he shall think proper”
This is true. But the House has also not been having actual recesses, even when they are in recess. Something to ask Speaker Johnson.
This! I heard that last year and been wondering why Speaker Johnson has not done this so maybe not accurate?
Pulte is Bigly, DOGE!!! They Fear him!!!
My hope is that he is more like Tulsi on steriods. So many secrets, such little time.
i’d love to hear from tulsi – not just in favor of pulte, but what she thinks of the other. scorched earth, baby
Muley you are reading my mind.
Becky here 🙂
Was just wondering if Tulsi stepped back in for a bit if that could/would help anything.
🙂
MAGA
Tulsi is still sort of in the game to help Pulte get a fast start. I hope so, too.
Like SD noted on docs of the Lawfare folks running up the counter on the FISA-NSA database searches from ‘contractors’ during the J6 witchhunt…..Sure hope Pulte has his FNMA & Freddie Mac crews ready to ping the hell out of the 4A ‘protected’ data on all sorts of various Felon actions taken by the Senate ‘Intelligence’ Cmte, their staff & the Sen’tors. See how many have ‘homestead exemptions’ on multiple homes with Govt financed 2% mortgages, MI6 collusions, etc….order some more printer toner cartridges & pallets of paper to print off copies and thumbdrives for distribution to MAGA ‘contractors’…..
Gabbard hands over all their big, fat SECRET files to Pulte ..and it’s party 🎉 time! This appears to be what Sundance has helped to facilitate: It is called bringing the receipts.
I absolutely see SD’s hands on this.
GOOD!!!
Good!
🙌 🙌 👏 👍
Nailed 🔨 it!!!
“We are just executing or trying to execute on what they had asked us to.”
Yes, Mr. Thune is most definitely executing what they have asked them to do, if your definition of execute or executing is to kill or killing the Trump agenda.
He is so snotty and smug. Yuck
The definition of a US Senator. 🙂
depends on who “they” are – but I think “we” know.
Prolly my favorite headline of all time! Thanks SD!
I haven’t anticipate a new pick like this since Kash Patel.
🤷♂️
I guess Thune hasn’t gotten any 2:00 am phone calls lately🤣🤣
Good strategy President Trump. Keep him in the dark!
“I’ve never been asked to slow a nomination down before,” he said……..bc all my nominations were extremely slow, except this one time when I wanted to confirm Clayton in 48 hrs so we could prevent Pulte becoming the acting DNI. So this slow down is definitely new for me! (I fixed it!)
👍 👍 👍
I hope Trumps done dinkin’ around with the Senate and gives Pulte just one order ….Sic’em !!!
Yes you have, all the previous judicial nominations you have sitting in the Q.
Who the F do you think your talking to Senator?
He thinks nobody is paying attention, I recon.
Could this guy Thune, possibly be any more anally retentive?
Such an insufferable slug.
Don’t insult slugs!
Thume incapable:
unable to behave rationally or manage one’s affairs:
We could salt him
Laughing, then he wouldn’t even have to crawl away in his slime.
Nice one 🙂
Becky E
Leave out aluminum pie pans of stale beer. My father used to do that to control slugs in our backyard garden. Thune could crawl into one and drown himself.
i would give an appendage to see trump campaign against him on his way out of the WH even though he would have no more skin in the game…. well, other than for the good of the former republic.
or imagine trump chose one of the worst GOPe incumbents and ran against him in 28… there are so many to choose from!
heck i might even move to SD just to work on his behalf if that happened.
BeckyE
Hear it is beautiful there 🙂
Apparently Thune doesn’t look at the President’s Truth Social account. He laid out EXACTLY what he’s doing.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116764370070279119
Thank you!
I’m betting on Trump !
They were setting him up. What a great Chess Move by President Trump.
Pass the SAVE Act, stop spying on Americans. The pretending isn’t fooling anyone.
If someone was to slap the stupid out of him would he have a brain left at all?? Good grief these traitors are thicker than thieves. Spit
The Discombobulator in Chief has struck again!!
Thune managed to call a bipartisan session at 3am with 5 people to pass legislation that was immediately stopped in the House. I don’t want to hear about how he needs any number of votes. He’s full of it.
He’s full of it, or full of sh**?
Quoting Ms Sunshine:
Same thing comes out in between both cheeks from Thune …
🙂
Try this: Do your job!!
You work for us not turtle.
Primary Thune. He’s a villain like McConnell.
I love to see these scumbags sweat!
The real McConnell is hiding in Thune’s ass. When Thune goes to the bathroom McConnell’s head pops out and issues further orders. The McConnell we see in public is an imposter, although a pretty good one. He has to fall or freeze from time to time so that people can believe it’s the actual McConnell.
Thune used the word Execute quite often. Maybe if he executed the terms that the Leader of the R party President Donald J. Trump requests then We The People wouldn’t want to use the same term on him.
FO, Thune!
As usual, Mitch-Bitch John is singing in the wrong thune.
We’re all better off when Thune is flummoxed.
crawling off in the slim ….GONE
Flummoxed: A scumbag’s (see Thune, John) natural state. See also “state of confusion “.
gutless weasel. make him pay dearly for being a traitor to America.
Winning.
Lib judge will force trump to nominate Clayton in day now.
No, the judge will just bypass Trump altogether and take over the nomination process going forward
Hey John, pretend time is over!
The other shoe is about to drop. They are all caught.
ThornThune thinks we are all Russian bots and or paid influencers…what an idiot
I doubt he even thinks + cares about us.
“I think he’s very committed to Bill Pulte.”
On Wednesday, President Trump offered clarity about several issues as he posted on TS.
I. “Blue slipping” of USASDNY nominee Jamie McDonald:
“I may not be able to get the extraordinary Sullivan & Cromwell Partner, Jamie, approved, and I don’t want to take Jay Clayton away from the great job he is doing until Jamie is in place. Therefore, to add a slight bit of intrigue but, for the Good of the Nation, and the People of our Country, I will not approve FISA without THE SAVE AMERICA ACT going along with it. Not complicated, actually, the Republicans fell into a trap.”
II. Find the votes to pass SAVE Act
During an appearance with Fox News’ Bret Baier, the host asked Thune how he would explain the matter to President Trump.
“The only way you can get this done is to nuke the legislative filibuster,” Thune replied. “And this is not something that we have anywhere close to the votes to do. So we have had votes… We will continue to put the Democrats on record. The Democrats are voting against an issue that 80 to 85% of the American people are for.”
What did the late Harry Reid (D-NV) do in situations like this?
Problem: The two differ greatly in terms of style and tactics!
Reid talked to the defectors to find the vote. He made it cristall clear to them what advantages they have if they secure a majority.
A good start: Susan Collins (R-ME).
John Thune Is in the Hot Seat Over SAVE America Act
Trump Lays Down the Law: No FISA Extension Without SAVE America Act
Let the gobsmacking begin.
hehe.
Still holding out hope that Tulsi is going to drop a bombshell on her way out the door tomorrow…
Spy world panic as Tulsi Gabbard prepares to unleash bombshell file dumps on secret CIA ‘mind control’ project and Dr. Fauci
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15904593/cia-tulsi-gabbard-bill-pulte-mkultra.html
Apparently she has dropped a Fauci bombshell. But, of course, Biden already vaccinated Fauci against prosecution with that last minute autopen pardon.
Senator Thune is “flummoxed” because he has never before witnessed a President who was firmly committed to the destruction of the UniParty business model and a return to the First Principles of the American Revolution and our nation’s founding.
To paraphrase the great Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday, “I’m afraid the strain is more than he can bear.”
PDJT is our huckleberry.
Thune is a Uni-party RINO. A McConnell Mafia hack only interested in stuffing his pockets with cash from globalist corporate donors.
Uniparty no longer suffices as a descriptor.
Anti-party perhaps as in anti America First.
All of the US Congress pleases themselves, their egos and the interests of everyone BUT the average American citizen.
A Scurge on freedom and the Congress doesn’t even seem to realize that we can see through them.
The presstitutes fool a smaller percentage of the populace as each day goes by.
Rise and rise again until sheep become lions.
God bless America.
Very well said 🙂
Becky E
Glad Trump told them to pound sand. His guy is running the show, which means SSCI can’t undermine him for a couple hundred days.
I’d rather they pound sticky feces than sand.
John Thune
Is a Looney Tune
Don said “See Ya Late June”
Then “pow” John went to da Moon.
— Ralph Kramden Longfellow
favorite headline title today!
The SAVE act requires proof of citizenship before being allowed to vote.
How bout we require congress to provide proof of citizenship before THEY are allowed to vote on the floor of congress?
Maybe require proof of life from congress.
Proof of mental competency