5839

Furrowed brow alert!

5840

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Sure

5841

I heard in the opening remarks from Lindsey Graham that he’s planning on holding the vote on October 22nd, so 10 days from now.

5842

The funny (sad?) thing is I can’t tell if that’s real but is so on-brand you could have made the tweet a month ago and it would’ve been believable.

5843

Huh, it didn’t occur to me that it might not be real. Stupid of me, really.

5844

I mean, it very well might be real! I don’t have the bandwidth to closely follow this particular dog and pony show, honestly. We all know what the outcome will be.

5845

Senator K’s opening statement. Damn good.

5846

I wish she didn’t suck so bad as a person, because she is very good at saying the right thing.

With the killer ending line.

This isn’t Donald Trump’s country, it is yours. This shouldn’t be Donald Trump’s nominee, it should be yours.

Very good.

5847

I personally think Dems should have boycotted the whole process, and refused to show up in the Senate. Say the process is illegitimate, and hint that it will be rectified later.

5848

Yes, maybe they should have boycotted it. There is some reason to be there — apparently participating gives them some specifics opportunity to force a delay in the ultimate vote? — but on the other hand, it’s an egregious process and also they’re sitting in a room with a bunch of potential plague dogs.

5849

Better to show up and speak out, I think. And trig had a good point that Democrats are running as the party of norms and traditional procedures so boycotting could well be the wrong look. I had a Trump-supporting cousin reach out to me on facebook with a long essay that claimed Dems started all this when they didn’t show up to Trump’s inauguration, so… yeah.

5850

If you even care enough to argue, there are plenty of photos out there from his inauguration, showing the Obamas, the Bidens, Pelosi, etc. all around the podium. Of does he mean we embarrassed Trump by allowing the smallest crowd anyone remembers? I know I personally had to tackle several people to keep them from going!

5851

Yeah, I was planning to reply with that kind of info but I politely ejected from the conversation after she wrote a long, revealing rant. She clearly doesn’t vote from a place of compassion but rather “I didn’t have those advantages so nobody should.” Entirely disheartening.

(Plus I thought she lived in MI but it turns out she lives in VA!)

5852

Haha then her vote counts about as much as mine does here in NY.

5853

I initially thought that, but Republicans showed up to the House impeachment hearings just to make political points even though they knew what the outcome would be.

5854

Good summary of the various techniques the Republicans have used to “stack” the court.

5855

Underestimating what McConnell and Senate Republicans would resort to is the fault of Democrats. As the article notes, they didn’t pack the courts, they just gambled big and won on Trump’s victory and maintaining the Senate in 2016.

Thanks to their precedent, it’ll now be the norm that a Senate of the opposite party of the President will slow-roll judge confirmations. And at some point a Republican Senate will refuse to confirm any judges nominated by a Democratic President ever, including Supreme Court nominations, because they have spent 30 years delivering the message that all elected Democrats are illegitimate.

5856

WTF is up with Judge Barrett’s little girl voice? She should go watch In a World…

5857

This doesn’t seem like a good sign?

5858

Nice recent history of court packing at the state level, almost all the efforts, were, you guessed it, by Republicans.