Political Quotes

“the Republican leader and I have worked together in leadership capacities in the Senate for almost 20 years. He has been the whip and I was the whip. I was majority leader, he was minority leader, and vice versa. My presentations the last few weeks do not take away from the fact that Mitch McConnell and I are friends. We have worked together for a long time, and we have done our best to move the Senate forward. But that does not take away from my need as a Senator to pronounce publicly when he and I disagree. So I want to make sure the record is reflective of that. As each day passes, the Republican leader continues to transform his caucus into the party of Donald Trump. That is not good. You can see it in the Republicans' rhetoric. The Senators are using increasingly extreme and disturbing language in defending their unprecedented obstruction of President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, who yet is unnamed. The assistant Republican leader said the President's eventual nominee ``will bear some resemblance to a pinata.'' We talked about, in the past, what a pinata is. He is comparing a Supreme Court nominee to a children's party favor that gets smashed repeatedly with a baseball bat or something similar to a baseball bat. That is nothing more than a thinly veiled threat from Senator Cornyn, serving notice on the coming assault on the President's nominee. We should not forget that we don't know who this nominee will be.…”