He’s back.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) moved on Saturday toward a vote on the nomination of Vivek Murthy to be the next U.S. surgeon general.
President Barack Obama’s nominee for the job was stymied earlier this year by opposition from the National Rifle Association. The influential group attacked his past remarks that gun violence was a public health issue, mobilizing its members against him.
The gun lobby’s objections scared away numerous Democrats early this year, Democratic sources said at the time, effectively stalling the nomination. But now that the election is over, many of those Democrats no longer have to worry about crossing the NRA. Democratic leaders hope to confirm Murthy before Republicans take over the Senate next month.
They’ll need just 51 votes to ensure his confirmation. Democrats have 55 caucusing members until the next Congress convenes in January 2015.
The Senate has not confirmed a surgeon general since the position was vacated in July 2013.
The Democrats plan to move toward a vote on the Murthy nomination while the Senate burns time ahead of a vote on the spending bill to avert a government shutdown.
If confirmed the first order of business for the good doctor will be prescribing adult Depends for the Democratic pants-wetters who blinked over the NRA’s objections to him.
Here’s your badge of malignorance…
I’m sure you and PantShitter TedNugent will wear it proudly!
Guns kill more people than they kill animals.
Some sport.
Some who lost re-electon anyway?
Make hay while the sun shines. Hope it doesn’t get too dark when the republicans take over.
I could look it up, but does a presidential line-item veto still exist? I’m thinking about that awful giveaway to the banks in the budget bill. I just can’t believe it after all the horrific damage to the economy when it was “lawful”.
I defer to greater minds than my own, but I believe the line item veto under the first Clinton administration was deemed unconstitutional, and the one proposed under Bush never passed.
Note: I didn’t look it up either …