Mark “Nick of Time” Kelly?
Actually, never mind.
It’s a forever, evergreen issue. Even if abortion gets banned in 50 states, it will be like the 2nd Amendment. They’re coming for your guns/babies! Better vote for us to make sure they don’t get 'em. It will be a fear-mongering issue the Republicans will use to mobilize their idiot base every election, over and over.
There will also be other tangents to push. Hey, you go to Canada to murder your baby? We are going to outlaw that too! You’ll be prosecuted when you come back!
Alstein
5374
We need to make it clear to the Dems that failure to expand the court means getting primaried in 2022.
Also, Dems could pass a bill legalizing it and I suspect that would counter any overturn of RvW.
There are two Democratic senators who say they’re against getting rid of the filibuster, which is the first step. One is Joe Manchin. You’re not gonna be able to primary the guy. He’ll flip to the Republican party and serve as long as he cares to.
The other is Dianne Feinstein. She’s almost certainly going to retire after her current term is up (she’ll be 91), but unfortunately, that term doesn’t end until January 3, 2025.
Timex
5376
Not even waiting until winning the election before turning the guns on ourselves is probably not the best plan.
Alstein
5377
If nothing else can be done, you have to get rid of one of two of your own to encourage the others.
CA can recall Feinstein I think, I’d start those efforts.
We can expel California from the union! That would solve the Feinstein Problem!
This is an excellent answer from Joe.
Fuck this guy. Minority rule is truly aweslum.
Well, the kabuki theater confirmation process where you pretend you aren’t asking / answering questions about settled cases was always quite silly.
Romney is a go. So that’s that.
Alstein
5384
At this point, win the Senate, respond in kind is only thing we can do.
But he voted to convict Trump at the impeachment trial! He’s really a good Republican!
Romney does one thing right and a thousand things wrong. He’s honorable and full of integrity, clearly!
Tortilla
5386
Judging politicians on a good-evil axis where good = “agrees with me” and evil = “disagrees with me” is going to leave you convinced that the whole world is swimming in evil.
Romney is principled, it’s just that we don’t all agree with his principles. His principles lead to him to vote for impeachment, which is admirable as he put his princples above the party line. But those same principles are clearly at play in confirming a supreme court nominee.
And how do his principles justify making a SCOTUS appointment less than two months before a presidential election? It’s simply party before country, which isn’t exactly an honorable principal.
I suspect that his vote to convict Trump was more of a fuck you to Trump than anything else.
Nobody said that. Nobody.
OK maybe somebody kind of said it.
Tortilla
5389
It’s completely legal for the president to make an appointment to any office that requires appointment at any point during his or her term. And if the senate confirms it, it stands.
The only reason people are arguing otherwise is that McConnell tried to claim that it was uncouth to do so during the Obama administration. But that was a complete fiction on his part, what he was really saying was “Republicans have the power in the senate right now and we will wield it to stymie the presidency.”
People complaining now that he is violating his own rule are being very naive. Yes, it’s galling that McConnell is willing to indulge in such outright hypocrisy but that’s doesn’t change the fact that what happened in 2016 was perfectly legal and an appointment right now is equally perfectly legal. A principled person can vote for a perfectly legal confirmation of a legal appointee with a clean conscience.
Rock8man
5390
I personally don’t feel there’s anything wrong with what the Republicans are doing this time around. They have the Presidency, there’s a seat to fill, they should fill it if they can by having a Senate hearing. I would hope Democrats would do the same thing in this situation.
What was wrong was what happened with Garland. He didn’t even get a hearing. What the combination of the two incidents sets up is just that if you have the Presidency AND the Senate, you go ahead and get a seat filled, but if you don’t have the Senate, only the Presidency, you don’t get a hearing. It sets up a new norm for this whole process, basically.
That’s going to be incredibly frustrating going forward if perpetual Republican Senate majorities really are in our future because of the rural/urban divide.
Evil is subjective, piece of shit is undebatable. Sir Romney the American strikes again.
