Hosting the expected parade of Biden nominees through the U.S. Senate, Republicans are being quite congenial, confirming them by margins unheard of when Donald Trump’s nominees faced a quite hostile panel of Democrats.
President Joe Biden’s newly confirmed secretary of state received the support of more than two dozen Republican senators on Tuesday – despite vowing during his confirmation hearing that under his leadership the Department of State would “take on immediately” a role in defending the LGBTQ agenda. In fact, Antony Blinken (pictured) – one of four Biden nominees confirmed thus far – explained that one of the ways he will support that agenda is by flying “gay pride” flags at U.S. embassies.
Blinken answered in the affirmative when he was asked by a Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee if he intended to appoint an “LGBTI envoy” – and consider raising it to an ambassadorial level:
“This is a matter, I think, of some real urgency. We’ve seen violence directed against LGBTQI people around the world increase. We’ve seen, I believe, the highest number of murders of transgender people, particularly women of color, that we’ve seen ever and so I think the United States playing the role that it should be playing in standing up for and defending the rights of LGBTQI people is something the Department is going to take on and take on immediately.”
The Senate vote confirming Blinken was 78-22. All votes against his confirmation were cast by Republicans – among them Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee), Tom Cotton (Arkansas), Ted Cruz (Texas), Josh Hawley (Missouri), and Tommy Tuberville (Alabama). But 28 Republicans joined with the 50 Democrats to put the former Clinton and Obama official in charge of the State Department.
In a press release, Cotton listed several missteps President Biden has taken in the last week regarding American jobs, energy policy, and illegal immigration. Because Blinken “deserves his share of the blame for these diplomatic errors [affecting Canada and Mexico] … I did not support his nomination,” states the Arkansas senator.
Cruz said he couldn’t support Blinken’s nomination because the nominee was committed to reentering the controversial Iran nuclear deal – a step the Texas lawmaker said “will dangerously erode America’s national security and put the Biden administration on a collision course with Congress.”
Prominent Republican senators supporting the Biden nominee included Lindsey Graham (South Carolina), Marco Rubio (Florida), and former Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky). Senator Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) was one of the more two dozen Republicans who voted to confirm Blinken.
“I believe Mr. Blinken has the knowledge and qualifications to take on the role of Secretary of State,” Wicker said in a press release. “I hope he will build upon the previous administration’s historic achievements, including the opening of diplomatic relations between Israel and five Arab countries.”
Wicker was joined in the “yea” category by his Mississippi colleague, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, along with three GOP lawmakers who have been described as “Republicans-in-name-only” (RINOs): Maine’s Susan Collins, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, and Utah’s Mitt Romney.
Three other prominent Biden nominees have been confirmed by even greater margins since Inauguration Day: Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence (confirmed 84-10); Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense (93-2); and Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury (84-15).
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Flying LGBTQ flags at embassies, will really help the foreign policy of the United States. What a joke our Country has become! Of course the Republicans In Name Only are in bed with the Democrats / communists.
Can’t wait to see the reaction of this flag in countries that do not support or recognize this class of people. In my opinion, this may result in demonstrations and possible violence to our men and women in these locations.
I’d love to see how bad the reaction would be, to a gay pride flag, on embassies in the mid east and africa.
Have you ever wondered why Tinkerbell Obama and his B. Buddy Biden are so obsessed with promoting the LGBTQ lifestyle?
Thursday, March 12, 2015. Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)
“Joe Biden went on to assure the pro-LGBT crowd that even though the Obama administration cannot enforce a thought police, people who stand for their religious convictions are in the process of being wiped out — as the White House’s homosexual agenda continues to proliferate across the nation. Carson and others who ascribe to the biblical view of homosexuality should be eradicated from the planet in the name of “equality” and “tolerance.” “
Taking Christ’s name in vain, Biden blasts biblical marriage ‘bigots’
While addressing one of the nation’s leading homosexual activist groups on Friday in the nation’s capital, Vice President Joe Biden used the name of Jesus Christ in vain while defending the claim of the LGBTQ community that homosexuality is hereditary.
Everyone needs to write and call their “republican” senators, and tell them to stop supporting ANY democrap nomination, legislation, executive order, or idea. We are watching. We are NOT happy. They will pay the price, one way or another.
These days, i honestly think they don’t GIVE A RATS BUTT< how many negative letters, calls, emails and the like, we send them… THEY ARE BEYOND what our opinions of them are..
I am from Florida and I want Rubio replaced with a person who will put American citizens first. He has supported amnesty and illegal ALIENS since the day he was sworn in, I want him GONE.
EVERY DAM one of those 28 so called republicans, need to get PUBLICLY named, shamed and if possible, RECALLED!
I am not allow to judge, but I have my doubts about Joe Biden claim to be a devoted Catholic.
Lev 20:13
13 “‘If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Rom 1:24-27
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Heb 13:7-8
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Read your bible again and ignore the Liberal translation half truths. YOU ARE allowed to judge, but as Jesus instructed, you to not judge until you first remove the anti-biblical liberal LGBTQ log the Deomcrats place with propaganda into your own Christian eyes, so you can see to remove the specs that are within our brother’s. How can we follow his instructions not to cast our pearls before swine if we call liberal pork barrel self-serving Congressman or neighbors. The Good Samaritan was our neighbor, not the LGBTQ minded people who would mug our minds and confuse our children in class, and outright molest our body parts out on the streets. Neither are those Priests and the Rabbi’s our neighbor who were the political powers of the day back when, who passed by the Good Samaitan’s mugged victim. Taxing and spending is their modern version of mugging.
America now Paying for overseas abortions and flagging LGBTQ power, will drive more people and nations into the hands of Putin, XI, and the Muslims than the arms of Democrat led Lad-Biden terrorists. You would think an age debilitated Presidential mind could no longer be led by his loins.
When successful and sane meets failure and pathology, history, not herstory, has shown who always wins in the end. Perhaps homosexuality is Nature’s cure for human overpopulation and thanks to the rebelling “Nature rebelling” Democrat socialists, now views, not the air, not the climate, not the oil and gas products, but the human species as a viral threat to the planet itself, and is promoting non-productive sex to control, if not ultimately destroy, the very human race that threatens it with an overpopulated environmental hazard. Insanity apparently is used by Nature every bit as often as pandemics to cull out the failures and deformed in Democrat Depleted DNA.
Can’t wait to see the LGBTQ flag hanging if front of our embassy in Saudi Arabia. And I’m sure Putin will love it!
The rate the left wants to ruin our nation, i wonder how long it will be, before the LGBTQ pride flag, REPLACES THE US flag on those embassies..