3419

If this is true, then there’s nothing really wrong with the GOP refusing to seat Garland. But i think that’s wrong.

3420

Strollen has gone full Armando!

(I like the image, though)

3421
3422

High school Brett considered him and his pals loud, obnoxious drunks and prolific pukers.

3423

I don’t know, the thing that steamed a lot of Dems’ clams was that they wouldn’t even give the guy the courtesy of a hearing. If after hearing him testify and answer questions they thought he was a radical anarchosyndicalist bomb-thrower they would have been within their rights to vote against him.

I’ll add that not giving Garland a hearing was not only direspectful of Garland, but of the President and his Office.

3424

The liberal complaint has never been that they refused to seat Garland, but they refused to vote on him… for no reason. There was no investigation, no reason to delay a vote.

3425

This. He can’t control himself and is openly partisan, as in favoring a political party, not an ideology. That’s horseshit. Look at Gorsuch and how he handled himself. Then look at Kavanaugh. I

Yep.

3426

Also:

3427
3428

While I agree that he is openly partisan and am very concerned about the conspiracy theory crap, I don’t buy the control issue much - I think his testimony was planned to be that way, because his actual audience was Trump, and that’s effectively what he wanted, and that Kavanaugh did it to make sure he stayed/stays on Trump’s good side so that his nomination wouldn’t be yanked. I don’t think Trump liked his Fox interview quite as much.

Of course, playing to Trump’s ego and preconceptions is not exactly what makes for a good Judge on the Highest Court in the Land.

3429

Exactly. This is not one of his lackey positions. If he wants to portray himself as a Trump lackey, he does not belong in that seat. He can go fill one of those hundreds of positions that aren’t filled if he wants that. No matter how you dice it, his testimony and conduct was completely unacceptable for that court. And I don’t know if he planned to throw snide teenage like whatabout you questions at the people asking him, but he held no respect for the process and that implies he has no respect for any process which is not what you want in a judge.

3430

Trump in Mississippi making fun of Dr. Ford. Crowd (and Trump) are laughing.

I am forced to painfully remember her testimony about the laughter she heard when she was being assaulted being the most indelible memory of her attack.

3431

See, i don’t really think that’s true.
If a Justice is qualified, then he should be confirmed. The president is the one who gets to decide what sort of Justice to seat, as long as they are qualified

I feel like if the GOP had just given him a show hearing, then voted against Garland (and essentially anyone Obama ever nominated), that would have been equally bad to me.

You shouldn’t need to control the Senate and the presidency to pick a supreme Court Justice.

3432

Thanks for sharing this @MrGrumpy.

3433

So then, according to you, the Senate back in the 1980s was wrong to reject Robert Bork?
I think the reason that McConnell wouldn’t give Garland a hearing was that the GOP would have been shown up as the extreme partisans they are by rejecting him, when by all accounts he was a perfectly moderate guy hand-picked to have broad appeal.

3434

He couldn’t even go a week without ripping into the victim. I just hope that Flake, Murkowski (sp?) and Collins are as upset by this as I am. It’d be perfect if they stuck it to this asshole byrejecting his nominee.

3435

No, because the argument could easily be made that Bork’s actions during the Saturday night massacre demonstrated a lack of adherence to the principles at the core of our Justice system.

3436

Man, i don’t think flake is going to vote for this guy.

3437

We simply can’t have it on the court, buuuuuuuut I have no choice but to vote Yes because, you know, I’m a Republican.

3438

That’s the most fucked up shit we’re living in this time.

…

Not that Trump is saying this, because stupid people have said stupid things since time immemorial, but that the crowd (or at least some of the crowd) is cheering.