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43 minutes ago, row_33 said:

Kiddos, you are not changing the Senate to Dem power in November, they have something like 25 of the 33 up for grabs, that's very bad news in a less-than-popular time....

 

That was my first thought.  I figured Kennedy would retire sometime within Trump's term and we'd have a Conservative court for the time being.  

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2 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

She will try to hold on through 2024... but considering she can't even remain conscious for a SOTU address, I'm not putting big money on her reaching that goal. 

 

Thomas will retire too before Trump's done. 

 

That (could) give him 4 picks in total. 

 

(Let's see if Gowdy and Lee are on Trump's lists)

 



Nope  - but Mike Lee is!

 

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12 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

Dude if you're really going for that debate strategy, at least do it with some style

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, you are always posting very childish stuff. Basically that's all you post. Just sayin 

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4 minutes ago, B-Man said:

LEFTIES ARE NOT HAVING A GOOD WEEK:

 

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But it's just harassment, not violence!

 

Side note: how awesome would it be if Trump, in his role of "Epic Troll in Chief," nominates Merrick Garland?  Just try to imagine the Democrats spinning that as "It's bad...but it was good when Obama did it!"

2 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

No, you are always posting very childish stuff. Basically that's all you post. Just sayin 

 

"Double dumbass on you!"

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1 minute ago, DC Tom said:

 

But it's just harassment, not violence!

 

Side note: how awesome would it be if Trump, in his role of "Epic Troll in Chief," nominates Merrick Garland?  Just try to imagine the Democrats spinning that as "It's bad...but it was good when Obama did it!"

 

"Double dumbass on you!"

And about half your posts are just rubbish like that. The other half are spin, obfuscation and pettifogging stuff. Nazis did that too. 

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5 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

Side note: how awesome would it be if Trump, in his role of "Epic Troll in Chief," nominates Merrick Garland?  Just try to imagine the Democrats spinning that as "It's bad...but it was good when Obama did it!"

They'd vote to confirm him asap because he was Obama's pick.  I really want him to nominate Judge Judy or Judge Jeanine.  

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 “They talk as if Mitch/GOP stonewalling of Garland came out of nowhere. In fact, it was richly-earned vengeance” for decades of unilateral Democratic escalations & power grabs. A brief history.

 

And from his 2017 column :

When Democrats continued their heretofore unforeseen practice of blocking up-or-down votes for majority-backed judicial nominees after the GOP regained the Senate in 2004, Republicans saber-rattled about invoking the so-called “nuclear option.” That fear led a bipartisan group of Senators, seven from each party, to forge the ‘Gang of 14′ compromise. The terms of that agreement survived a number of years until Democrats decided that they could not abide the GOP using the filibuster precedent they’d invented under Bush to thwart a limited number President Obama’s picks. For perspective, in their respective first terms, Obama had more of his circuit court nominees confirmed than Bush did — and enjoyed a better confirmation rate on district court selections than George H.W. Bush.

 

Nevertheless, Democrats decided that the deployment of their own tactics against a Democratic president constituted a fresh justification to abolish the very practice they’d pioneered, detonating the “nuclear” option that many of them had inveighed against when Republicans were merely considering it as a method of overcoming Democrats’ previous unprecedented escalation. Some Reid defenders have argued that the former Democratic leader did everything he could to reason with Republicans to avoid going nuclear very early in Obama’s second term. Not true:

When Reid broke the filibuster [in 2013], he claimed the GOP could have avoided the nuclear option if they’d simply confirmed the seven appointees they’d been blocking. According to Politico, McConnell conceded to those demands to save the filibuster. At the last moment, Reid insisted that Republicans surrender the threat of filibustering any Obama’s appointments in the future.

Democrats single-handedly and unilaterally introduced the concept of judicial filibusters against majority-supported nominees, then proceeded to unilaterally end it, all over the course of about a decade. They started the practice when they were in the minority, then blew it up when they were in the majority.

 

 

Well, that’s different because shut up.

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2017/04/04/unprecedented-make-senate-democrats-pay-for-their-toxic-partisanship-n2308081

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5 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

They'd vote to confirm him asap because he was Obama's pick.  I really want him to nominate Judge Judy or Judge Jeanine.  

 

I'm not sure they would, because then they'd be supporting Trump.  

 

it may actually drive them in to a catatonic state.

2 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 “They talk as if Mitch/GOP stonewalling of Garland came out of nowhere. In fact, it was richly-earned vengeance” for decades of unilateral Democratic escalations & power grabs. A brief history.

 

And from his 2017 column :

When Democrats continued their heretofore unforeseen practice of blocking up-or-down votes for majority-backed judicial nominees after the GOP regained the Senate in 2004, Republicans saber-rattled about invoking the so-called “nuclear option.” That fear led a bipartisan group of Senators, seven from each party, to forge the ‘Gang of 14′ compromise. The terms of that agreement survived a number of years until Democrats decided that they could not abide the GOP using the filibuster precedent they’d invented under Bush to thwart a limited number President Obama’s picks. For perspective, in their respective first terms, Obama had more of his circuit court nominees confirmed than Bush did — and enjoyed a better confirmation rate on district court selections than George H.W. Bush.

 

Nevertheless, Democrats decided that the deployment of their own tactics against a Democratic president constituted a fresh justification to abolish the very practice they’d pioneered, detonating the “nuclear” option that many of them had inveighed against when Republicans were merely considering it as a method of overcoming Democrats’ previous unprecedented escalation. Some Reid defenders have argued that the former Democratic leader did everything he could to reason with Republicans to avoid going nuclear very early in Obama’s second term. Not true:

When Reid broke the filibuster [in 2013], he claimed the GOP could have avoided the nuclear option if they’d simply confirmed the seven appointees they’d been blocking. According to Politico, McConnell conceded to those demands to save the filibuster. At the last moment, Reid insisted that Republicans surrender the threat of filibustering any Obama’s appointments in the future.

Democrats single-handedly and unilaterally introduced the concept of judicial filibusters against majority-supported nominees, then proceeded to unilaterally end it, all over the course of about a decade. They started the practice when they were in the minority, then blew it up when they were in the majority.

 

 

Well, that’s different because shut up.

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2017/04/04/unprecedented-make-senate-democrats-pay-for-their-toxic-partisanship-n2308081

 

The Reid senate existed solely to rubber-stamp Obama's every wish.  More than anyone, he's responsible for the current militant dysfunction in government.

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1 hour ago, row_33 said:

 

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Kennedy gone from the U.S. Supreme Court. Yup. Hillary and Trump were the same. Thank you Bernie types who sat out because of spite. All that white economic anxiety folks. Trump's Supreme Court will have their own version of the Dred Scott decision.

 

 

 

 

That is the best!!!  :D:D

 

 

 

How dare you Bernie types didn't just bend over and take it when Hillary rigged the primary!!!

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4 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

More than anyone, he's responsible for the current militant dysfunction in government.

 

 

and I thought it actually started when W abandoned every principle of conservatism and started porking out like LBJ....

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2 minutes ago, LaDexter said:

 

 

and I thought it actually started when W abandoned every principle of conservatism and started porking out like LBJ...

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There's the problem...................that 3rd word there................

 

That's why you went with the ?️ about "W"

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

Even "rational" progressives are exposing themselves today. It's wonderful. 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Tiberius said:

Could be political suicide putting a right wing nut bag on too. This will be a Trump pick, Flake and Corker might not care, they are not running again, and Heller might be afraid of losing his seat if he votes for the nominee. Then there is the filibuster...

 

hey, this is why we like politics, right? 

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/chris-matthews-hell-to-pay-if-democrats-dont-block-kennedy-replacement?ref=home

 

 

Dems don't have the teeth to stop it, though. One reason it'll be pushed hard to get through before any election results even give them the teeth needed. 

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1 minute ago, Paulus said:

Dems don't have the teeth to stop it, though. One reason it'll be pushed hard to get through before any election results even give them the teeth needed. 

 

Conversely, if they try to delay until after November, that only assures more Republicans will turn out in the midterms. It's lose-lose for the dems. 

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