Thom’s deal with the devil

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Raleigh GOPe types are praising Thom Tillis for an alleged singular act of party loyalty and basically doing the job he was elected to do.  Thank GOD señor Thom stopped lil’ Josh’s lawyer from being a federal judge, we’re told.

But hold the fiesta – at least until you learn the details of how Thom *made* it all happen:

Sen. Thom Tillis promised Majority Leader Chuck Schumer he couldn’t get the votes to push through President Joe Biden’s nomination of North Carolina Solicitor General Ryan Park to fill a judicial vacancy.

And late Wednesday night, Tillis says, Democrats struck a deal to throw out the nominations of Park and three other appellate court nominees, if Republicans would stop making other judicial Senate confirmations difficult. […]

First, our elected *Republican* senator is reporting to the Democrat leadership. (Where’s Grandpa Mitch?) Second, he’s striking deals to help Democrats get their stuff done. Show of hands: WHO voted for any of this? In 2014 or 2020?

It gets, um, *better*:

[…].Republicans took the deal, Tillis said.

That would mean President-elect Donald Trump gets to choose who replaces retiring Judge James Wynn on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.

And Tillis warned Wynn and his colleagues not to try any funny business in the meantime.

“I expect that judges who submitted their retirements will not play partisan politics with a presidential transition and a bipartisan Senate deal going back on their word to retire,” Tillis said in a written statement. “No judges did this during the previous lame duck because the judiciary needs to be above partisan politics.”[…]

It appears that Thommy Machiavelli got a bit of a comeuppance in return for all this grandstanding:

[…Tillis] warned his [Democrat] colleagues that if they took this vote and helped push through Park’s nomination, he would stop working across the aisle to help them block nominations they didn’t like. And he warned that Republicans are about to have control of both chambers and the executive office.

He fumed when they did it anyway. […] 

So, he stabs his party in the back, votes with the other guys, and then they just laugh at him and / or ignore him:

[…] Tillis said what Tillis did next, and how he worked with Democrats, depended on what Schumer did on the floor.

“I will be instructed by Schumer’s behavior, “ Tillis said. “Going forward, he gets to choose, and so do all the Judiciary Committee members who just enabled him with that vote. Elections and votes have consequences, and they’re about to see the consequences on this.”

Tillis did not say Thursday what this agreement meant to his future actions.[…]

Thom STILL has a voting record for this session that is to the LEFT OF BERNIE SANDERS.  He seems to be experiencing delusions that HE is the Republican leader in the chamber.

We didn’t send a Republican senator to DC to help get leftist judges confirmed. Killing one to four nominations in exchange for alllowing countless more liberals through is not a great deal for the party or the country.

(Ted Budd, you need to get off this man’s leash before he drags you down with him.)