This has been the quiet buzz lurking in the background, all the while we have been forced to listen to the heavy metal sounds of the angry progressives who have their amplifiers turned up to 11 on this one. It doesn't matter how badly a certain subset of the Party wants something to happen, there would have to be total buy in by all Democrats in the Senate for a move so drastic as to basically change the way that the Senate has done business for nearly 200 years.
Obviously there are traditionalists on both sides who have a tendency to put a wrench in otherwise drastic moves demanded by certain partisans on both sides. The amount of Democrats in the Senate who are against it is said to be "several" and include senior leadership. Harry Reid is said to have opened the floodgates when he removed the filibuster from certain juridical nominees. Baby steps as it were. But removing it from legislation would only work to further a 50% plus one winner take all type of down your throat government that would lead to serious problems.
Most recently Diane Feinstein has openly expressed that she is both against the idea of killing the filibuster and packing the court. If Feinstein is against it, you can rest assured that other Democrats in the Senate are also against it. It's possible that someone like Chuck Schumer himself is actually against both moves and only sent out a thinly veiled threat as a bluff to try to prevent the process of replacing RBG from moving forward.
All that being said, Democrats are putting the cart before the horse on all of this, very similar to how they behaved in 2016 when they believed that they would also be running the table. There were a ton of suggestions about all that would get done with full control of all branches of government. We had more of the same in 2018 when there were a ton of red state Senators who were supposed to be in serious trouble, only to hang on in the end. Everyone expected the Democrats to take control of the Senate and send Trump a message and Democrats ended up losing two seats.
Those two seats won by Republicans in 2018 is the reason they have the votes to replace Ginsburg.
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I think when Trump puts a face on his Supreme Court nominee reasonable people will be fine with it.
And every effort by the dems to blow it up will backfire.
Trump can then very likely name more during his next 4 years.
What a FANTASTIC morning !!!
It is a Fantastic Morning. But, Noisey, with all the Radicalized Alky types heads exploding from sea to shining sea.
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Old and sickly
It's got a long history. The record for the longest individual speech goes to South Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
I strongly believe that if the Democrats get the majority next year, the Republicans will demand that the filibuster should be allowed again.
The grand jury in the Breoona Taylor case this afternoon.
The police officers are being deployed to control the demonstrations on both sides
I'm 5 years younger than the President
But his immune system isn’t suppressed
Senator Rand Paul is claiming that the Democrats cities are death traps.
It sounds familiar!
We can still see the look on Mrs. Kavanaugh's face as she walked side by side with her husband on the way to a hearing that was more like entering a torture chamber.
We remember a grown man crying and pleading for his name.
And we remember laughing Democrats without a shred of humanity sitting there, levying false and defamatory accusations at a man for daring to keep a calendar of his juvenile years and enjoying beer.
We were there. Did they forget?
This moment in time was so intensely unfair and maddening that I locked myself in my office for six months and pounded out a book about all the times in history women have lied to destroy men. Believe all women??? Ha! Tell that to the victims of the Salem witch trials or the Scottsboro boys...
Revenge.
This is for you, Kavanaugh family. Any other action than immediately filling and confirming that seat with the president's choice is a capitulation to the terror tactics the Democrats unleashed on the Kavanaughs. It would be an admission that what they did was legitimate and can be done again. There is no other way to see it. They will have gotten away with it if we do any less. Not only does this seat need to be filled (this week preferably) but it should be done while acknowledging that our entire motivation is payback for the disgusting attempt to destroy a man purely for political reasons.
As the late Andrew Breitbart famously said, "F*ck you. War."
And we are in a war, both a hot war on the streets of our cities nationwide and in the halls of Congress. Let's have it out already. Take off the gloves and fight to win. If GOP senators refuse to do their jobs and vote with the president at this unprecedented and dangerous time in America then they should be labeled as traitors and dealt with accordingly. This is not a joke. Our enemy is as serious as a Molotov cocktail through your window, so you better catch up...
https://pjmedia.com/columns/megan-fox/2020/09/22/do-it-for-brett-kavanaugh-why-the-gop-must-seat-a-new-supreme-court-justice-asap-n954147
Community immunity lol
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
But his immune system isn’t suppressed
nor is he on anti-rejection drugs for drinking his fucking liver to death.
LOL.
rrb said:
Revenge.
This is for you, Kavanaugh family. Any other action than immediately filling and confirming that seat with the president's choice is a capitulation to the terror tactics the Democrats unleashed on the Kavanaughs. It would be an admission that what they did was legitimate and can be done again. There is no other way to see it. They will have gotten away with it if we do any less. Not only does this seat need to be filled (this week preferably) but it should be done while acknowledging that our entire motivation is payback for the disgusting attempt to destroy a man purely for political reasons.
Just like the lying POS "pastor" james is trying to destroy the president with anonymous lies.
There will be hell to pay,
And the dem's are all-in
lie and wrong.
"The police officers are being deployed to control the demonstrations on both sides"
Support the Blue.
Existing Home Sales rocket up 14%⬆️
Those leaving .CA and NYC are in doer need of housing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/
I'm 5 years younger than the President
But you look about 20 years older.
CHT, really Roger does .
Roger, about that Rams/Chiefs game.
How is it you fucked that up so spectacularly?
Well Roger...
Had Harry Reid not changed the manner in which the Senate approves judicial appointments, there is no question that Trump would have a fraction of the Judges he got through and that they would all have been way more moderate.
But that is on Harry Reid...
Lisa Murkowski Reverses Position on Filling SCOTUS Vacancy, Won't Rule Out Vote to Confirm
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/09/23/lisa-murkowski-reverses-position-on-filling-scotus-vacancy-wont-rule-out-vote-to-confirm-n958661
If Democrats were counting on Lisa Murkowski to vote against President Trump’s next nominee to the Supreme Court, they should think again.
Sen. Murkowski said Tuesday she could not rule out that she would vote to confirm a Trump nominee if the Judiciary Committee approves one before the November election.
“I know everybody wants to ask the question, ‘will you confirm the nominee?’” she said outside the Capitol, as her Republican colleagues were gathering for their weekly policy lunch. “We don’t have a nominee yet. You and I don’t know who that is. And so I can’t confirm whether or not I can confirm a nominee when I don’t know who the nominee is.”
https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/09/22/alaskas-sen-murkowski-says-she-cant-rule-out-voting-for-trumps-supreme-court-pick/
HO-LEE FARKING SHEET!!!
Albany County confirms 16 new coronavirus cases Wednesday
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Albany-County-confirms-16-new-coronavirus-cases-15590840.php
oh noes. we're all gonna die-eeeeeeeeee.
right alky?
LOL.
There is a cohort of close observers of our presidential elections, scholars and lawyers and political strategists, who find themselves in the uneasy position of intelligence analysts in the months before 9/11. As November 3 approaches, their screens are blinking red, alight with warnings that the political system does not know how to absorb. They see the obvious signs that we all see, but they also know subtle things that most of us do not. Something dangerous has hove into view, and the nation is lurching into its path.
The danger is not merely that the 2020 election will bring discord. Those who fear something worse take turbulence and controversy for granted. The coronavirus pandemic, a reckless incumbent, a deluge of mail-in ballots, a vandalized Postal Service, a resurgent effort to suppress votes, and a trainload of lawsuits are bearing down on the nation’s creaky electoral machinery.
Something has to give, and many things will, when the time comes for casting, canvassing, and certifying the ballots. Anything is possible, including a landslide that leaves no doubt on Election Night. But even if one side takes a commanding early lead, tabulation and litigation of the “overtime count”—millions of mail-in and provisional ballots—could keep the outcome unsettled for days or weeks.
If we are lucky, this fraught and dysfunctional election cycle will reach a conventional stopping point in time to meet crucial deadlines in December and January. The contest will be decided with sufficient authority that the losing candidate will be forced to yield. Collectively we will have made our choice—a messy one, no doubt, but clear enough to arm the president-elect with a mandate to govern.
As a nation, we have never failed to clear that bar. But in this election year of plague and recession and catastrophized politics, the mechanisms of decision are at meaningful risk of breaking down. Close students of election law and procedure are warning that conditions are ripe for a constitutional crisis that would leave the nation without an authoritative result. We have no fail-safe against that calamity. Thus the blinking red lights.
That is an unsettling precedent for 2021. If our political institutions fail to produce a legitimate president, and if Trump maintains the stalemate into the new year, the chaos candidate and the commander in chief will be one and the same.
No I don't!
The rules of the Senate, make it impossible for the Democrats to delay the approval.
Albany County confirms 16 new coronavirus cases Wednesday
Meh! New York did it right, so this is a non-issue. The real story is that South Dakota went over 200 deaths and cost the country trillions because of Sturgis.
If our political institutions fail to produce a legitimate president, and if Trump maintains the stalemate into the new year, the chaos candidate and the commander in chief will be one and the same.
If the Electoral College does not produce a President due to Democratic lawsuits and a multitude of attempts to circumvent the law... then the House of Representatives (based on one vote per one state) will vote on the President and whoever wins that vote will become President.
Lolololol
The McCarthy President just said
"Today, we reaffirm our ironclad solidarity with the Cuban people and our eternal conviction that freedom will prevail over the sinister forces of Communism."
The bone spur draft dodging son of a bitch is a wannabe dictator just like Fidel Castro!
One vote per state could elect Trump, despite losing the majority vote.
You would cheer and pledge loyalty forever.
If you hadn't lost your mind you would not support the death of the American dream
The bone spur draft dodging son of a bitch is a wannabe dictator just like Fidel Castro!
Trump declared OUR solidarity with the Cuban PEOPLE.
0linsky declared HIS solidarity with the murderous Castro REGIME.
big difference, alky.
The list of people who worked for the President, who think that he's not qualified for the job, keeps growing!
News moves so fast in the Age of Trump that it’s hard to remember what happened last week. It is worth remembering in this case, because it is so important.
Last Thursday, Olivia Troye, a lifelong Republican who until two months ago had been Vice President Pence’s representative to the administration’s coronavirus task force, endorsed Joe Biden because President Trump had shown a “flat-out disregard for human life.” She blamed Trump for the failed pandemic response and said, “He doesn’t actually care about anyone else but himself.” She even reported that, early on, Trump said “maybe this covid thing is a good thing” because it meant he wouldn’t have to shake hands with “these disgusting people” — e.g. his supporters.
Troye joins a long line and growing list of former Trump aides — including former national security adviser John Bolton, former defense secretary Jim Mattis, former White House chief of staff John Kelly, former director of national intelligence Dan Coats, former Navy secretary Richard Spencer, former National Security Council staffer Alexander Vindman, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security Miles Taylor, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci and Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen — who have spoken out in scathing terms about Trump. All but Mattis, Coats and Kelly have publicly called for Trump’s defeat in November.
Bolton won't vote for Biden.
If you hadn't lost your mind you would not support the death of the American dream
you mean an American dream that cancels the Electoral College, makes Puerto Rico and Washington DC states for four more permanent Democrat Senators, and Democrats in the majority til the end of time, alky?
that's no American dream. that's a 52 state gulag.
President Obama, never declared solidarity with Fidel Castro.
You keep lying about him because he's not White. You believe that you have superior genes!
Blogger Roger Amick said...
President Obama, never declared solidarity with Fidel Castro.
he most certainly did. and he did in in front of a GIANT relief of Che Guevara.
President Obama inadvertently found the perfect photo op for his Cuba visit at a wreath-laying ceremony at the José Marti Memorial in Havana.
A news photo at Revolution Square caught Obama standing together with American and Cuban officials with an enormous mural of the iconic revolutionary Che Guevara looming over his shoulder on the adjacent Ministry of the Interior building.
https://nypost.com/2016/03/22/in-cuba-to-make-history-obama-stands-in-the-shadow-of-tyranny/
look at that preening piece of shit.
Alaska and Hawaii are not part of the lower 48.
The people in Washington DC and Puerto Rico, pay taxes and they should have representation in the Congress.
Roger, Wrong again.
Nice Job RRB.
To remove the electoral college would require an amendment, there is no way that would get enough states to approve the amendment.
The people of Washington DC and Puerto Rican should be able to vote for the President
That one picture doesn't mean that Obama is a Communist.
You are fucking crazy because he's not white.
Roger Amick is the only man I know who still calls black people Negroes and demands that white people and black people have different levels of "genes".
You are fucking crazy because he's not white.
huh. funny thing about that alky...
i never mention his complexion.
you bring it up every fucking time.
The people in Washington DC and Puerto Rico, pay taxes and they should have representation in the Congress.
you're not man enough or honest enough to admit that you don't give a fuck about the residents of PR or DC.
what you salivate over is four permanent democrat senate seats.
you're not man enough or honest enough to admit that you don't give a fuck about the residents of PR or DC.
And there isn’t a single living being in DC today that is unaware of this fact. It’s like people that move too close to an airport and complain about the noise
The people in Washington DC and Puerto Rico, pay taxes and they should have representation in the Congress.
Puerto Rico is still a predominantly Spanish speaking colony of the United States. The could just as easy a country of it's own.
It will require a constitutional amendment for DC to become a state. I'm sure the other states would love to give primacy to the seat if the US government over any other state,
And this is why it requires a constitutional for DC statehood.
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;
Article I Section 8.
Congress exercises exclusive authority over the federal district. (In fact they are not even requited to have a mayor and city council). It would actually be easier to cede most of the district back to Maryland just leaving the White House, Capitol Hill, The mall, and the Navy yard in the district.
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