Biden Will Make Supreme Court Fight About Health Care
New York Times: “Now, confronted with a moment that many believe will upend the 2020 election — the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the prospect of a bitter Supreme Court confirmation battle — Mr. Biden’s campaign is sticking to what it believes is a winning strategy. Campaign aides said Saturday they would seek to link the court vacancy to the health emergency gripping the country and the future of health care in America.
“While confirmation fights have long centered on hot-button cultural divides such as guns and especially abortion, the Biden campaign, at least at the start, plans to chiefly focus on protecting the Affordable Care Act and its popular guarantee of coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.”
President Trump mocked an American news anchor for being shot with a rubber bullet during George Floyd protests in May, calling it a “beautiful sight” during a political rally in Minnesota, CNN reports.
Said Trump: “I remember this guy Velshi. He got hit in the knee with a canister of tear gas and he went down. He was down. ‘My knee, my knee.’ Nobody cared, these guys didn’t care, they moved him aside. And they just walked right through.”
He added: “It was the most beautiful thing. No, because after we take all that crap for weeks and weeks, and you finally see men get up there and go right through them, wasn’t it really a beautiful sight? It’s called law and order.” _____________
He got shot in the line of duty. That makes him a sucker and a loser, right?
Mr. Biden’s campaign is sticking to what it believes is a winning strategy
Winning strategy eh? If slow Joe was really in charge he should fire his entire campaign senior staff.
The American people are not going to buy the linking of abortion to "health-care" issues. This is a hanging curve ball right down the middle for Trump.
This is what happens when you are out of touch with people.
Big Majority Have No Confidence In Trump on Vaccine
As President Trump continues to tout the progress of coronavirus vaccine development, going so far this week as to promise delivery to everyone in the U.S. by next spring, 69% of Americans report having no confidence at all in him to confirm the safety of a potential inoculation, according to a ABC News/Ipsos poll. __________
He got shot with a tear gas canister because he put himself in the line of fire. That's why journalist should consult with police as to where they should setup to report the event and keep out of the way.
I don't feel sorry for him one bit. He should thank his lucky stars real gun fire didn't erupt.
It's only 15 k more americans feeling the impact of trumps failure as a leader!!!!!
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Be happy James your anti-vax rhetoric will cost many thousands of lives.
As for me, I'll will get it as soon as it is available. I have no doubt that it will be safe (safety was establish in the second trial) and effective (which is being established in the third trial).
Biden and Harris have been irresponsible on this subject as thus proved they are not fit to be president of the United States.
With the exception of the construction industry (or any industry where work by it's nature is temporary), unions are dead. They serve no useful purpose for the worker that the free market doesn't take care of and they are an unnecessary burden to workers.
God you really are dumber than shit!!!!! Anti Vaxers are generally dumb white uneducated trump followers,,,,the same group who think masks are for sissy's,,,,,,like you!!!!!!! bwaaaaaapaaaaaa!!!!! James is not anti vacs.....he is a realist and listens to experts unlike you who swallow every piece of trump bull with a smile...!!!!!!
GOP senators confront THEIR OWN past comments on Supreme Court vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators weighing what to do about the vacancy on the Supreme Court are facing questions about their own past comments amid complaints by Democrats that their views have shifted with changing political reality.
President Donald Trump on Saturday urged the GOP-run Senate to consider “without delay” his upcoming nomination to fill the seat vacated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday. The move comes just six weeks before the election.
A look at what key Republican senators were saying in the past — and what they are saying now — about filling a seat on the Supreme Court during an election year.
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH McCONNELL
McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, vowed in a statement Friday night, hours after Ginsburg’s death, to call a floor vote on Trump's nominee, although he did not specify a date. McConnell, who sets the calendar in the Senate, has made judicial appointments a top priority.
McConnell's statement on the latest vacancy stands in stark contrast to the position he took in 2016, when he refused to consider President Barack Obama’s choice for the high court months ahead of the election. McConnell blocked hearings for Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge, saying the choice should be left to voters in an election year.
Democrats said Republicans should follow the precedent they set in 2016 by not considering a Supreme Court choice in the run-up to an election, but McConnell's comments make it clear he has no intention of doing so.
"Americans re-elected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise,'' McConnell said.
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN LINDSEY GRAHAM
Graham, who will oversee the vetting of the nomination as Judiciary chairman, tweeted Saturday that he will support Trump "in any effort to move forward regarding the recent vacancy created by the passing of Justice Ginsburg.”
Graham's comment contradicts his statements in 2018 and 2016 that a Supreme Court nominee should not be considered in an election year.
"If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election,'' Graham said in 2018 at an event hosted by The Atlantic magazine. Reminded that he was speaking on the record, Graham said: “Yeah. Hold the tape.″
Two years earlier, in the midst of the Garland battle, the South Carolina senator was even more emphatic, urging listeners at a Judiciary Committee meeting to “use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president (elected) in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said, ‘Let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.’”
Despite those comments, Graham said Saturday that he supports moving forward on a new nomination because Democrats had changed the Senate rules to confirm more circuit court judges during Obama’s tenure, and because Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer "and his friends in the liberal media conspired to destroy the life of Brett Kavanaugh and hold that Supreme Court seat open.”
Kavananugh was narrowly confirmed to the Supreme Court in 2018 after a bitter, partisan fight in which Graham played a key role to advance Kavanaugh.
Collins, a Maine Republican who is considered a moderate, said Saturday that “in fairness to the American people,” the Senate should not vote on a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court until after the election and that the nomination "should be made by the president who is elected on November 3rd.”
Collins voted in favor of Kavanaugh in 2018 — a vote that has played a key role in her reelection campaign. Liberal groups have targeted Collins over her support for Kavanaugh, and she trails her Democratic opponent in publicly released opinion polls. Her statement seems to leave open the possibility of supporting Trump's nominee in the “lame duck” session after the election if Trump wins a second term.
SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY
Grassley, an Iowa Republican, drew condemnation from Democrats in 2016 when, as Judiciary chairman, he blocked confirmation hearings for Garland, who was nominated to the high court after Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly in February 2016.
At the time, Grassley cited “the Biden Rule” in holding up the process. The informal “rule” — never adopted by the Senate in any formal sense — stemmed from a speech given by then-Sen. Joe Biden in 1992 that the Senate should not fill a Supreme Court vacancy until after the presidential election. Biden, who served as Obama's vice president, is now the Democratic nominee for president.
More recently, Grassley told reporters in July that if he still chaired Judiciary and a vacancy occurred, "I would not have a hearing on it because that’s what I promised the people in 2016.”
Grassley issued a statement Friday night praising Ginsburg but did not comment on whether Trump should move forward with a replacement.
SEN. JONI ERNST
Ernst, an Iowa Republican up for reelection this year, serves on the Judiciary panel. She said in July that in the event of a Supreme Court vacancy, the Senate should hold hearings on Trump’s nominee, even if he loses the presidential election in November.
Ernst’s campaign sent out a fundraising email Friday night saying: "Our Conservative values and Constitutional rights are now on the line. The next Supreme Court nominee will shape major decisions for decades to come.”
Ernst issued a statement later Friday saying the email “never should have gone out.”
“Though I never saw it, it was sent out under my name and I take responsibility for it,” Ernst said. “Tonight, my prayers are with the family of Justice Ginsburg.”
Murkowski, an Alaska Republican who opposed Kavanaugh's confirmation, said in an interview hours before Ginsburg's death that she “would not vote to confirm” her replacement before the next president is inaugurated.
Her comments to Alaska Public Radio on Friday also occurred before McConnell said the Senate will vote on Trump's nominee to replace Ginsburg. Murkowski’s comment appeared to put her at odds with McConnell, who will need at least 50 votes to push a Trump nominee through the Senate, plus a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence.
Murkowski, like Collins, issued a statement after Ginsburg’s death that praised her but did not mention whether she’d favor voting on a Trump pick to replace her.
SEN. THOM TILLIS
Tillis, a North Carolina Republican who serves on the Judiciary panel, was among several GOP senators in tough reelection battles to join Trump in calling for a swift vote on a Supreme Court nominee. Arizona Sen. Martha McSally and Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler — both appointed to their seats — also called for a quick vote.
"There is a clear choice on the future of the Supreme Court between the well-qualified and conservative jurist President Trump will nominate and I will support, and the liberal activist Joe Biden will nominate and Cal Cunningham will support, who will legislate radical, left-wing policies from the bench,” Tillis said on Twitter, referring to his Democratic opponent, former state Sen. Cal Cunningham.
In 2016, Tillis opposed giving Merrick Garland a hearing, saying “the voice of the American people should be weighted heavily” in filling a Supreme Court vacancy, adding that the nomination "would be best left to the next president.''
Biden and Harris have been irresponsible on this subject as thus proved they are not fit to be president of the United States.
true, but the silver lining is more vaccine for those of us who are not insane, and potentially many dead liberals. dead from taking Harris/Biden's advice. fitting.
WASHINGTON — I used to feel pretty optimistic that the country would get through the Trump years intact.
In 2016, America got mad — and went mad. This administration has unleashed so many fresh hells that a portrait of the last four years looks very Hieronymus Bosch. But the idea of this country is so remarkable; surely it could withstand one cheesy con man who squeaked in.
Now we might have passed a point of no return. No matter who wins in November, can the harsh divisions abate?
The stunning news Friday night of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg guaranteed a political bonfire. President Trump is in a position to reshape the Supreme Court long past his time in office with a third justice, giving conservatives a 6-to-3 majority.
With Democrats still smarting over Republicans’ refusal to consider Barack Obama’s pick of Merrick Garland for the court, this will push them over the edge, and maybe to the polls, especially women. And Trump’s base could race to vote, because the president has talked about nominating Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz, aiming to have a court that would overturn Roe v. Wade. Mitch McConnell said Friday that Trump’s nominee — hopefully not Jeanine Pirro — will get a floor vote.
“We cannot have Election Day come and go with a 4-4 court,” Cruz told Sean Hannity. Imagine a Bush v. Gore scenario with a 4-4 court.
As it turned out, the founders created a country painfully vulnerable to whoever happens to be president. They assumed that future presidents would cherish what they had so painfully created, and continue to knit together different kinds of people from different areas with different economic interests.
But now that we have a president who takes those knitting needles and stabs the country mercilessly with them, we can see how fragile this whole thing really is.
All the stuff we took for granted — from presidential ethics to electoral integrity to a nonpolitical attorney general — is blown to smithereens. The president who does not believe in science has been conducting a science experiment for four years: What happens to a country when you have a president who is doing everything in his power to cleave it?
It wasn’t long ago that Obama started on the road to the White House with a stirring speech about ignoring those who would slice our nation into red states and blue states because this is the United States of America.
Now Trump blames the “badly run blue states” and “Democrat cities” for everything. He clearly doesn’t see himself as president of a majority of the country. Whenever he talks about the half of the country that didn’t vote for him, he paints a picture of a Scorsese urban hellscape the minute you cross state lines.
On Wednesday, the president offered the heinous hypothetical that the death toll from the coronavirus would not be as bad “if you take the blue states out.”
As the president of Red America, Trump “regularly divides the country into the parts that support him and the parts that do not, rewarding the former and reproving the latter,” The Times’s Peter Baker wrote.
The line between politics and governing can be blurry, certainly. But with Trump, there is no line.
Jared Kushner bragged to Bob Woodward that Trump can “trigger the other side by picking fights with them where he makes them take stupid positions.” Woodward writes that Kushner told an associate, “The Democrats are getting so crazy they’re basically defending Baltimore.” This gleeful assessment from Kushner, a Baltimore slumlord, is the height of cynicism.
The anxiety about our fractious nature was reflected in the question of Susan Connors at Joe Biden’s CNN Town Hall Thursday night. “Mr. Vice President,” she said, “I look out over my Biden sign in my front yard and I see a sea of Trump flags and yard signs. And my question is, what is your plan, to build a bridge, with voters from the opposing party, to lead us forward, toward a common future?”
Biden was soothing, reassuring that he could pick up those knitting needles once Trump was “out of the way, and his vitriolic attitude, and his way of just getting after people, revenge.”
But will it be so easy? The cultural ecosystem, and the fever swamps of social media that amplify Trump’s craziness, will remain. Fox News and Facebook will continue to validate the biases and conspiracy theories of a nation that’s increasingly proud of its ignorance, anti-intellectualism and denial of science.
Isn’t the simple fact that the race is this close, when Biden should be crushing Trump, given the president’s lethal negligence and willful subterfuge on the virus and his racial demagogy, proof that our realities are so disparate from one another that unifying will be akin to cleaning a dozen Augean stables?
After Woodward’s book revealed that Trump knew early on how dangerous the virus was but downplayed it, I heard from those two alternate universes.
“I can hardly breathe, it’s so incredible,” my friend Rita said angrily.
“He was just trying to buck people up,” my sister, Peggy, said placidly.
In Duluth, Minn., at a campaign stop on Friday, a man in a MAGA hat jeered at Biden and told him he could never win. Biden approached the man from the alternate reality, elbow bumped him, chuckled and assured him that if he does win, Biden would work for him, too.
If McConnell has his way, that work wouldn’t include replacing R.B.G.
As the president of Red America, Trump “regularly divides the country into the parts that support him and the parts that do not, rewarding the former and reproving the latter,” The Times’s Peter Baker wrote.
LOL... i can only assume that mr. baker must've been in a coma for the entirety of the 0linsky administration.
no President in the history of our nation was on the record with more hateful and divisive rhetoric than skeets hussein 0linsky.
Senseless thinks the Greens will vote for "environmentalist" Trump. Cold day in hell, they will.
OK a little bit of history, When Bernie Sanders was denied the nomination in 2016 a significant portion of his base abandoned the Democrat party and voted for Trump. It was one of the reasons for Clinton's "surprised" loss.
Never underestimate the raw feelings of a group of dedicated voters who feel shafted. They tend the punished the people who do the shafting. And in this case that would be the Democrats. They will vote for Trump regardless of their political difference. Trump is not the ome who is trying to silence them.
The Republican denial of science is a clear and present danger.
With the West Coast on fire, a pandemic spreading across the land, and a pathological liar in the White House as the Republican standard-bearer, I think we can consider that debate settled: It's not ignorance. It's malice.
Cramps thinks trump is the second coming!!!!!!!!! Ads here in Ga are doing nothing but scaring people to vote trump!!!!!! They sure are spending lots of money in a Red state......biden will take away SS, medicare, increase taxes and embrace the green deal to the detriment of all.....Kelly Loeffler looks like a scared kid while doug collins says ginsburg killed 35 million kids......sickening how the GOP is the group doing the scaring!!!
Dems being dangerously irresponsible on vaccines. They're not being developed in tbe Whitehouse basement. Researchers in medical centers around the country are working on it. University of Rochester medical Center is one of the top centers nationally. They're conducting phase three clinical trials.
A black male walked into a Louisville bar owned by a retired police officer and shot three random people at point blank range on Friday night — while wearing a Justice for Breonna Taylor shirt.
The suspect was smiling from ear to ear as he was arrested for the shooting at Bungalow Joe’s Bar and Grill.
“Nobody had ever seen this guy before,” the owner of the bar, Joe Bishop told WDRB, referring to the shooter. “It was a totally random act.” He explained that the men did not exchange words at any time prior to the shooting.
Two of the victims were white and one was black.
Toreon Jermaine Hudson, 26, and William Scott Smallwood, 48, were pronounced dead at the scene, while Steven Matthew Head, 24, died from his injuries at University Hospital.
Yeah, the wild fires in California were strictly due to mismanagement of the forest by not doing control burns and removing underbrush and dead trees.
Hell, I learn all this in my 10th grade ecology class. I lean how the pine tree's bark was uniquely fire resistant and that fire was a regular and necessary component to maintain a healthy forest.
This was science. Science that was ignored by the eco-freaks, media, NIMBY activist, and Democrat politicians in California, Oregon and Washington.
So tbe left are threatening to riot in the streets with arson, violence and destruction. Unless I'm missing something, they're already doing that with no intention of stopping. So Trump may ad well proceed.
It’s a popular sentiment on the left: Don’t mourn, organize. But with the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that won’t be enough. Ginsburg, a hero of female empowerment and of the Supreme Court, deserves much mourning. But Democrats and progressives can waste no time prepping for the battle royale that lies ahead. After all, it took Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell mere minutes after the news of RBG’s passing to declare that the GOP-controlled Senate will vote on whoever Donald Trump sends its way to fill the Supreme Court vacancy—a direct eff-you to the Democrats after McConnell in 2016 refused to consider President Barack Obama’s SCOTUS nominee Merrick Garland with the phony-baloney argument that the Senate should not consider new justices during an election year. So yes, Dems will have to organize, but they must do more: They have to get ready to rumble.
The lying POS "pastor" is bowing at the altar of GODdard and spamming like a crazed lunatic again without referring to his source at political_lire and devouring his every word, proud of his true master and with a hat tip to Joe Biden PLAGIARIZING.
roger is posting pages of crap thinking he who posts the longest article in full wins. Even if he is homeless. old and alone and lacking his old mental facilities, like Joe Biden.
VERY lo iq ??? unchanged. just VERY lo iq, like Joe Biden.
"The voters made their choice, sending Donald Trump to the White House with his list of prospective nominees and a Republican majority to the Senate. There’s no stalemate for the voters to break this time around."
Democrats: Give in to our demands on the Supreme Court or we'll do all the terrible things we're doing right now, and if we seize power we'll do the things were were talking about doing anyway
So yes, Dems will have to organize, but they must do more: They have to get ready to rumble.
i can just picture lil davey saying this, with that cute little lisp of his.
LOL.
good one alky.
and for the record alky, no one on our side is pining for a hot civil war. especially over something like a USSC seat. but be forewarned, if you assholes really do decide to start one, we will win. decisively.
slap some new tennis balls on that walker of your alky. you're gonna need 'em.
"Fewer than 1 in 10 (9%) Americans have a great deal of confidence in Trump to confirm vaccine effectiveness with another 18% reporting only a "good amount" of confidence in the poll conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using Ipsos' Knowledge Panel. In contrast, 69% don't have confidence in the president vouching for a vaccine, including 16% saying "not so much" and 53% saying "none at all.""
Reread my post. I was not debating days vs weeks vs months. I was addressing dems rhetoric to not take a vaccine. They're suggesting that it is not safe, I was pointing out that it is expert medical institutions doing the work. Got it?
It's his fault because nobody with an ounce of scene believes the President
"Fewer than 1 in 10 (9%) Americans have a great deal of confidence in Trump to confirm vaccine effectiveness with another 18% reporting only a "good amount" of confidence in the poll conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using Ipsos' Knowledge Panel. In contrast, 69% don't have confidence in the president vouching for a vaccine, including 16% saying "not so much" and 53% saying "none at all.""
This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by landline and cellular telephone May 25-28, 2020, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 1,001 adults. Results have a margin of sampling error of 3.5 points, including the design effect. Partisan divisions are 31-24-37%, Democrats-Republicans-independents.
Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.
It won't be the Trump family publishing the clinical results and data. It'll be the medical institutions. D3m rhetoric on this is irresponsible as hell.
The first Jewish woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, died Friday night as millions of American Jews were getting ready to celebrate the first night of Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish new year.
The Republicans effort to repeal Obamacare and Roe v Wade is going to solidify the Jewish community with the Democrats
There’s a bit of justice in all this. Reason Trump has a pretty good chance of replacing Ginsburg is because the Republicans expanded their majority in 2018. Reason Republicans expanded their majority in 2018 was because of the abysmal and obscene behavior of Democrats and the media during the Kavanaugh confirmation. Funny how that works.
Regardless of the outcome, what we have on our hands right now is a total 2020 game changer and one that is almost certainly going to benefit Trump. This isn’t me celebrating the death of a fellow human being. There was a lot to admire about Justice Ginsburg. But this is what it is, and what it is is a legitimate and breathtaking last-minute game changer.
The national media and Biden had planned to make 2020 a referendum on Trump’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic. Come hell or high water, they were not going to allow the subject to be changed from that. And it was a good plan. Kept Biden on offense, kept Trump on defense, and that’s how you win presidential elections in this country.
Well, the unfortunate passing of Ginsburg throws all that right over the side.
Whether, in the end, McConnell can or cannot cobble the votes together doesn’t matter. The news cycle is about to be swamped by this confirmation battle, which puts Trump on offense and Biden on defense.
All Biden’s going to be able to do is heckle helplessly from the cheap seats while everyone reminds him of all the things he has said in the past about it being okay to confirm Supreme Court justices during an election year — including when he himself was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Secondly, Biden is refusing to release a list of his own potential Supreme Court picks, a position that’s going to look weak now that there’s a vacancy to fill. How can the American people choose between two visions if Biden hides his draft picks?
Finally, there’s the coming left-wing violence and left-wing ugliness.
After nearly four months of nonstop left-wing riots at the hands of the domestic terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter, Democrats and their media allies were finally able to grab hold of the tiger they unleashed, but only by the tail.
The riots are about to return big-time and so is the off-putting ugliness we saw during the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And this is almost certainly what worries Democrats and the national media most…
WASHINGTON — After a month of political conventions, fresh controversies, more protests and additional deaths from the coronavirus, the 2020 presidential race remains where’s it’s been for months — with Joe Biden leading President Trump nationally by nearly double digits, and with a majority of voters opposing the president.
Those are the results of a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which finds Biden ahead by 8 points among registered voters, 51 percent to 43 percent, with more than 50 percent of voters disapproving of Trump’s job performance and with Trump holding the advantage on the economy and Biden holding the edge on the coronavirus.
What’s more, the poll shows that close to 90 percent of voters have firmly made up their minds, and that seven-in-10 believe the upcoming debates aren’t that important in deciding their vote.
“So far, despite major upheavals in the country, little has changed,” said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt, whose firm conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff.
“In 2020, the fundamentals of our country have been shaken to our core, while the fundamentals of the election have not,” Horwitt added.
Still, the poll finds that 11 percent of all voters are up for grabs, which is greater than Biden’s ballot advantage over Trump. It was 9% previously..
And Trump’s numbers have inched up in the poll since the summer, while Biden’s favorability rating has also improved in the past month.
“Trump’s summer swoon is over,” said McInturff, the GOP pollster.
The NBC News/WSJ poll — conducted Sept. 13-16 — comes after a turbulent and eventful month of news, including the Democratic and Republican conventions, the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, some 30,000 more deaths from the coronavirus, the Atlantic report alleging the president disparaged fallen military service members and the coverage of Bob Woodward’s new book on Trump.
But the poll was conducted before the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 18.
Now 18, the Minneapolis teenager registered to vote over the summer, joining a growing number of young people in Minnesota flocking to take part in the 2020 election between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
Youth voter registration in Minnesota is on the rise compared with previous election cycles, even as young people face more challenges to casting their ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since Election Day 2016, Pennsylvania has added 922,000 new voters to the rolls, according to data from TargetSmart, a Democratic political data company. Democrats have an edge of 132,000 over Republicans in new registrations. In addition, there are about 197,000 registered unaffiliated, that is without a political party.
That 132,000-registration edge for the Democrats is not insignificant. In 2016, Trump won Pennsylvania by less than 45,000 votes. The Democrats' new registration edge isn't definitive, of course: People don't always vote for their parties, and they can switch parties. And registered voters, whatever their parties, don't always vote.
But the Democrats' new registrant advantage in Pennsylvania sheds light on how Trump's fight for the state may have gotten a bit harder in the last four years — particularly considering how much the president has focused on his voting base rather than working to expand his supporters.
And other states show the same trend to varying degrees.
Florida has added 2.4 million new voters since Election Day 2016, with Democrats holding an edge of 59,000 in new registrants in the two-party split, with unaffiliateds clocking in at 858,000 new registrants. Trump won Florida by a more solid 112,000 votes in 2016, but 59,000 is not an inconsequential number.
In Arizona, more than a million new voters have registered since 2016, and there, things have been a bit closer. Democrats hold only an 11,000-person edge in new registrations. In addition, there have been 355,000 unaffiliated new registrants.
And North Carolina has added 1.3 million more voters to its rolls since 2016. Democrats had an edge of more than 56,000 in new registrations, while 583,000 others registered as unaffiliated.
In state after state, the story is the same: Democrats have the high ground among new registrants. Even in states like Wisconsin and Michigan, where voters don't register with parties, data modeled from existing demographic and geographic patterns shows that Democrats hold an edge among new voters.
Since most of the younger generation are Democratic supporters, they could fire the celebrity actor President
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The moral imperative to save our democracy from minority rule could not be clearer!
Written by David Atkins The passing of Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg has left a deep hole in the hearts of millions across the country. She was a giant of jurisprudence, one of the most consequential Americans to have ever lived, and an inspiration to so many for her intellect, her moral center, her trailblazing biography, her resilience and even her physical toughness.
But her passing also leaves a bleeding wound in American democracy, one that reinforces the crisis of legitimacy of conservative minority rule in America. It is a legitimacy crisis that Democrats must heal and rectify should they win power in November–especially if Republicans are shameless enough to force through a conservative to replace Bader-Ginsburg before the inauguration of the next president, against her dying wish. Democrats must, if they win, alter the composition of the Senate and the Court so that both reflect the will of the majority rather than the tyranny of a minority.
Consider the situation: a president who lost the popular vote by 3 million ballots has already stacked the lower courts and appointed two of the nine justices on the Supreme Court, shifting the balance of both the lower courts and the highest court in the land to the right, in the latter case by replacing a social moderate with a Federalist Society extremist. He was aided in doing so by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who ruthlessly and without precedent refused to allow President Obama to nominate a replacement to Justice Scalia for the entire final year of his term. McConnell cynically argued at the time that the American people should be able to decide on who would sit on the Court, hedging his bets for an outcome favorable to conservatives. Improbably, he got his wish.
Notably, though, the people didn’t decide: the majority of the people voted for Hillary Clinton. Just as the majority of Americans didn’t vote for the Republican Senators who currently constitute the Senate majority: the GOP Senate “majority” represents only 153 million Americans, while the Democratic “minority” represents 168 million. McConnell, of course, doesn’t care. Asked if he would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in the final year of Trump’s term despite the rank hypocrisy of such a move, McConnell smirked and said “oh, we would fill it” to a laughing audience. It’s also worth stressing that another two of the Court’s justices were appointed by George W. Bush in 2005 and 2006, who also lost the popular vote during his first election, and was confirmed by a conservative Senate majority that also represented a minority of Americans.
Nor has the reality of minority rule tempered the extremism of the rulers. Rather than compromise under the recognition of their precarious legitimacy, Republicans have behaved as if were elected with smashing mandates. Worse, they have governed time and again in a way that shows they literally do not care if the Democratic constituents who make up the majority of America live or die. The GOP base, meanwhile, has demonstrated in its fervent and continued support for Trump that they share equally in their contempt for their left-leaning fellow citizens. They view any impingement on their right to minority rule as a form of totalitarian oppression.
The most immediate steps Democrats must take are killing the filibuster, adding states to the union and expanding the courts.
The filibuster has historically helped conservatives far more than it has hurt them, and they know it. More importantly, in a country as divided along urban and rural lines as America is today and as polarized as the parties are, there is increasingly no way for either party to gain 60 Senate seats and no way for either party to govern to create real change as long as they fail to do so. Changing the composition of the courts, combined with executive orders, is almost the only change a ruling party can make. This leads to a dangerous sclerosis of the government and an incentive toward unitarian despotism in which executive orders increasingly become the sole functioning policy tool.
But the filibuster is also untenable morally. By 2040, under current trends only 30 percent of the Senate will be governing a full two-thirds of the American public. And that 30% is likely to be the most rural, most conservative 30%, while the two-thirds is likely to be in more urban, bluer states. This is a recipe for apartheid rule as long as 60 Senators are required for any legislative change. And yes: ending the filibuster carries downside risk should Republicans regain control of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives in the future. But if voters do decide to send Republicans to power en masse in 2024 or beyond, then the people should get the government they voted for–and the legislators they support should be held accountable accordingly, rather than have their stances disguised through legislative gridlock.
The Senate should also be expanded by adding Washington, DC and Puerto Rico to the union–at a minimum. It is appalling that the Washington, DC metro area has more people in it than some states and generates enormous economic activity, but has no effective representation in Congress. Puerto Ricans, meanwhile, are American citizens with all the responsibilities of citizenship but none of the representation. Assuming the residents of the island agree that they wish to become an American state, they should be allowed to do so. Republicans would call this a power grab, but it isn’t. Creating equal representation from a system of apartheid-style minority rule is not oppression, but justice. It’s also notable that the current make-up of states, including and especially the existence of a separate North and South Dakota, is due to an explicit 19th century Republican power grab designed to alter the composition of the Senate. It’s worth noting that the Republicans of their day were mostly the good guys and the Dixiecrats the bad guys, but still: turnabout is fair play.
Finally and most controversially, Democrats must consider expanding the court–particularly if Bader-Ginsburg is replaced by a conservative. A federal court system in which the majority are appointees of popular-vote-losing presidents who then proceed to stymie all popular legislation enacted by a duly elected majority of legislators is both immoral and untenable. The balance must be rectified. There is nothing in the Constitution outlining the number of judges on any given court. Indeed, the Supreme Court has been expanded before.
Would this potentially create an arms race in which each unitarian majority government proceeded to expand the courts to govern however they please? Perhaps. But the danger to democracy and, frankly, to the country and the planet from allowing minority-rule theft of power to prevent any significant action on the country’s pressing problems would be far greater.
Other countries’ electoral systems can and do survive with more flexible, majoritarian electoral systems and power structures. America can survive, too. What it cannot survive is the status quo of structurally racist minority rule. The departure of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg is a focal point for desperately needed reforms, and it will fall on Democrats to act on them.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Tropical Storm Beta was taking aim Sunday at the Gulf Coast of Texas, threatening to pound parts the region with damaging storm surge and drenching rains as the 2020 hurricane season continued to batter the region and the record books.
Beta already has made history as the earliest 23rd-named tropical storm in the Atlantic, replacing Alpha, nearly 15 years ago. Alpha, which formed on Oct. 22, 2005, was the first-ever storm to be assigned a Greek letter.
Climate change is a Democrat hoax according to the rrb
Steve Schmidt of The Lincoln Project Tweeted This:
Do Not Be Afraid. Do Not Tremble. Do Not Waiver. Do not doubt either the goodness of our people or the possibilities for our future. Do not let small men with tyranny and malice in their heart or of your countrymen and women. Do not let the fascists, racists and conspiracy theorists make you afraid of your neighbors or the strangers who could be your friend. We should all be grateful that we have been chosen by this rancid and dangerous hour to stand up and fight. What we do now matters. Our Capitol is occupied by a cabal of small and low men and women who have betrayed all of us, the American experiment, their oaths and basic decency in service of a corrupt and malignant cult of personality that is vandalizing our principles, ideals, Inheritance, future and fundamental goodness. 200,000 of our country men and women are dead. At least 150,000 of them could be alive but for Trump’s lethal lying and the immoral; supine complicity of his collaborators and enablers. Let us resolve to rise up and strike down Trumpism. Let us put it down with righteous anger and fury. Let us resolve to never let this happen again. Let us do our duty as American citizens. Let us be conscious that we are called to safe action when we consider the blood, sacrifice and courage of ordinary people who Stood their ground on a field in Lexington and Gettysburg. The men who stormed the beaches of Normandy and dropped from the skies over France to crush fascism are smiling at our cause. The men and women who taught the world the meaning of the words “human dignity” as they Protested segregation, absorbed the beatings and marched across the Edmund Pettus bridge are watching and judging us. We are in the right and for the right. We are fighting for the good. Trumpism is UNAMERICAN. It is illiberal, demagogic,dishonest, cruel, corrupt and disgusting Have joy in this fight. RBG is with her husband again. She is arguing with Scalia and meeting Washington and Lincoln. Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas are there. Susan b Anthony is there and so is Elise Wiesel. A great champion of freedom has arrived in heaven. Her work is done. Her burden is now our’s. Let us honor her legacy by doing our duty. FIGHT, REGISTER, VOTE. I DISSENT are the most American of words. Thank you Madame Justice. May your memory be a blessing. We all know that it is.
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Good grouping this Sunday.
I stand by what I said in Jan. 2019: Harry Reid & Chuck Schumer changed Senate rules to try and stack the courts for Obama. Now it's coming back to haunt them as I predicted. I'm dead set on confirming @realDonaldTrump’s nominee. If you stand with me: teamgraham.us/hc5lqgws
The hearings will begin next week.
Biden Will Make Supreme Court Fight About Health Care
New York Times:
“Now, confronted with a moment that many believe will upend the 2020 election — the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the prospect of a bitter Supreme Court confirmation battle — Mr. Biden’s campaign is sticking to what it believes is a winning strategy. Campaign aides said Saturday they would seek to link the court vacancy to the health emergency gripping the country and the future of health care in America.
“While confirmation fights have long centered on hot-button cultural divides such as guns and especially abortion, the Biden campaign, at least at the start, plans to chiefly focus on protecting the Affordable Care Act and its popular guarantee of coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.”
At no time before has there been a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies, & two agendas for the future. On November 3rd, Wisconsin will decide whether we will quickly return to record prosperity—or whether we allow Joe Biden to impose a $4 trillion dollar tax hike, ban American Energy, confiscate your guns, shutdown the economy, destroy the suburbs, erase your borders, and indoctrinate your children with poisonous anti-American lies.
Trump Mocks MSNBC Anchor for Getting Shot
President Trump mocked an American news anchor for being shot with a rubber bullet during George Floyd protests in May, calling it a “beautiful sight” during a political rally in Minnesota, CNN reports.
Said Trump: “I remember this guy Velshi. He got hit in the knee with a canister of tear gas and he went down. He was down. ‘My knee, my knee.’ Nobody cared, these guys didn’t care, they moved him aside. And they just walked right through.”
He added: “It was the most beautiful thing. No, because after we take all that crap for weeks and weeks, and you finally see men get up there and go right through them, wasn’t it really a beautiful sight? It’s called law and order.”
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He got shot in the line of duty. That makes him a sucker and a loser, right?
"--wasn’t it really a beautiful sight? It’s called law and order.”
We enjoyed it a lot more when you were standing there holding up that Bible and looking stupid.
Mr. Biden’s campaign is sticking to what it believes is a winning strategy
Winning strategy eh? If slow Joe was really in charge he should fire his entire campaign senior staff.
The American people are not going to buy the linking of abortion to "health-care" issues. This is a hanging curve ball right down the middle for Trump.
This is what happens when you are out of touch with people.
Big Majority Have No Confidence In Trump on Vaccine
As President Trump continues to tout the progress of coronavirus vaccine development, going so far this week as to promise delivery to everyone in the U.S. by next spring, 69% of Americans report having no confidence at all in him to confirm the safety of a potential inoculation, according to a ABC News/Ipsos poll.
__________
TRUMP: It's safe!
PUBLIC: What does Fauci say?
Keeping health care coverage polls high, very high.
He got shot in the line of duty.
He got shot with a tear gas canister because he put himself in the line of fire. That's why journalist should consult with police as to where they should setup to report the event and keep out of the way.
I don't feel sorry for him one bit. He should thank his lucky stars real gun fire didn't erupt.
Montana Senate Race Is Close
A new New York Times/Siena College poll in Montana shows Sen. Steve Daines (R) just ahead of Steve Bullock (D) in the U.S. Senate race, 45% to 44%.
The Green Party candidate got 3.5%, but he will no longer appear on the ballot.
___________
Another reason Mitch is losing sleep at night.
...real gun fire didn't erupt.
Oh, that would REALLY have pleased our military leaders who were already deeply upset with how Trump mishandled that whole thing.
Trump thinks soldiers who get shot in the line of duty are suckers and losers
It's only 15 k more americans feeling the impact of trumps failure as a leader!!!!!
Raytheon to cut more than 15,000 jobs
CBSNews 2 days ago
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Raytheon Technologies Corp. plans to eliminate more than 15,000 jobs this year at its corporate offices, jet engine-maker Pratt & Whitney and aviation and military equipment manufacturer Collins Aerospace amid a broad downturn in the airline industry.
Be happy James your anti-vax rhetoric will cost many thousands of lives.
As for me, I'll will get it as soon as it is available. I have no doubt that it will be safe (safety was establish in the second trial) and effective (which is being established in the third trial).
Biden and Harris have been irresponsible on this subject as thus proved they are not fit to be president of the United States.
We need to strengthen the Unions!
With the exception of the construction industry (or any industry where work by it's nature is temporary), unions are dead. They serve no useful purpose for the worker that the free market doesn't take care of and they are an unnecessary burden to workers.
Blogger Commonsense said...
Be happy James your anti-vac rhetoric
God you really are dumber than shit!!!!! Anti Vaxers are generally dumb white uneducated trump followers,,,,the same group who think masks are for sissy's,,,,,,like you!!!!!!! bwaaaaaapaaaaaa!!!!! James is not anti vacs.....he is a realist and listens to experts unlike you who swallow every piece of trump bull with a smile...!!!!!!
MORE SUNDAY FUNNIES
GOP senators confront THEIR OWN past comments on Supreme Court vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators weighing what to do about the vacancy on the Supreme Court are facing questions about their own past comments amid complaints by Democrats that their views have shifted with changing political reality.
President Donald Trump on Saturday urged the GOP-run Senate to consider “without delay” his upcoming nomination to fill the seat vacated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday. The move comes just six weeks before the election.
A look at what key Republican senators were saying in the past — and what they are saying now — about filling a seat on the Supreme Court during an election year.
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH McCONNELL
McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, vowed in a statement Friday night, hours after Ginsburg’s death, to call a floor vote on Trump's nominee, although he did not specify a date. McConnell, who sets the calendar in the Senate, has made judicial appointments a top priority.
McConnell's statement on the latest vacancy stands in stark contrast to the position he took in 2016, when he refused to consider President Barack Obama’s choice for the high court months ahead of the election. McConnell blocked hearings for Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge, saying the choice should be left to voters in an election year.
Democrats said Republicans should follow the precedent they set in 2016 by not considering a Supreme Court choice in the run-up to an election, but McConnell's comments make it clear he has no intention of doing so.
"Americans re-elected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise,'' McConnell said.
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN LINDSEY GRAHAM
Graham, who will oversee the vetting of the nomination as Judiciary chairman, tweeted Saturday that he will support Trump "in any effort to move forward regarding the recent vacancy created by the passing of Justice Ginsburg.”
Graham's comment contradicts his statements in 2018 and 2016 that a Supreme Court nominee should not be considered in an election year.
"If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election,'' Graham said in 2018 at an event hosted by The Atlantic magazine. Reminded that he was speaking on the record, Graham said: “Yeah. Hold the tape.″
Two years earlier, in the midst of the Garland battle, the South Carolina senator was even more emphatic, urging listeners at a Judiciary Committee meeting to “use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president (elected) in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said, ‘Let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.’”
Despite those comments, Graham said Saturday that he supports moving forward on a new nomination because Democrats had changed the Senate rules to confirm more circuit court judges during Obama’s tenure, and because Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer "and his friends in the liberal media conspired to destroy the life of Brett Kavanaugh and hold that Supreme Court seat open.”
Kavananugh was narrowly confirmed to the Supreme Court in 2018 after a bitter, partisan fight in which Graham played a key role to advance Kavanaugh.
Not allowing the Green Party on the Ballot is the most undemocratic move the Democratic party has ever done.
They believe these voters with vote for them now. But they are just as likely to vote for Trump out of spite or just stay home.
SEN. SUSAN COLLINS
Collins, a Maine Republican who is considered a moderate, said Saturday that “in fairness to the American people,” the Senate should not vote on a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court until after the election and that the nomination "should be made by the president who is elected on November 3rd.”
Collins voted in favor of Kavanaugh in 2018 — a vote that has played a key role in her reelection campaign. Liberal groups have targeted Collins over her support for Kavanaugh, and she trails her Democratic opponent in publicly released opinion polls. Her statement seems to leave open the possibility of supporting Trump's nominee in the “lame duck” session after the election if Trump wins a second term.
SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY
Grassley, an Iowa Republican, drew condemnation from Democrats in 2016 when, as Judiciary chairman, he blocked confirmation hearings for Garland, who was nominated to the high court after Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly in February 2016.
At the time, Grassley cited “the Biden Rule” in holding up the process. The informal “rule” — never adopted by the Senate in any formal sense — stemmed from a speech given by then-Sen. Joe Biden in 1992 that the Senate should not fill a Supreme Court vacancy until after the presidential election. Biden, who served as Obama's vice president, is now the Democratic nominee for president.
More recently, Grassley told reporters in July that if he still chaired Judiciary and a vacancy occurred, "I would not have a hearing on it because that’s what I promised the people in 2016.”
Grassley issued a statement Friday night praising Ginsburg but did not comment on whether Trump should move forward with a replacement.
SEN. JONI ERNST
Ernst, an Iowa Republican up for reelection this year, serves on the Judiciary panel. She said in July that in the event of a Supreme Court vacancy, the Senate should hold hearings on Trump’s nominee, even if he loses the presidential election in November.
Ernst’s campaign sent out a fundraising email Friday night saying: "Our Conservative values and Constitutional rights are now on the line. The next Supreme Court nominee will shape major decisions for decades to come.”
Ernst issued a statement later Friday saying the email “never should have gone out.”
“Though I never saw it, it was sent out under my name and I take responsibility for it,” Ernst said. “Tonight, my prayers are with the family of Justice Ginsburg.”
SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI
Murkowski, an Alaska Republican who opposed Kavanaugh's confirmation, said in an interview hours before Ginsburg's death that she “would not vote to confirm” her replacement before the next president is inaugurated.
Her comments to Alaska Public Radio on Friday also occurred before McConnell said the Senate will vote on Trump's nominee to replace Ginsburg. Murkowski’s comment appeared to put her at odds with McConnell, who will need at least 50 votes to push a Trump nominee through the Senate, plus a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence.
Murkowski, like Collins, issued a statement after Ginsburg’s death that praised her but did not mention whether she’d favor voting on a Trump pick to replace her.
SEN. THOM TILLIS
Tillis, a North Carolina Republican who serves on the Judiciary panel, was among several GOP senators in tough reelection battles to join Trump in calling for a swift vote on a Supreme Court nominee. Arizona Sen. Martha McSally and Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler — both appointed to their seats — also called for a quick vote.
"There is a clear choice on the future of the Supreme Court between the well-qualified and conservative jurist President Trump will nominate and I will support, and the liberal activist Joe Biden will nominate and Cal Cunningham will support, who will legislate radical, left-wing policies from the bench,” Tillis said on Twitter, referring to his Democratic opponent, former state Sen. Cal Cunningham.
In 2016, Tillis opposed giving Merrick Garland a hearing, saying “the voice of the American people should be weighted heavily” in filling a Supreme Court vacancy, adding that the nomination "would be best left to the next president.''
ANOTHER SUNDAY FUNNY
SENSELESS AT 7:27
Senseless thinks the Greens will vote for "environmentalist" Trump.
Cold day in hell, they will.
Biden and Harris have been irresponsible on this subject as thus proved they are not fit to be president of the United States.
true, but the silver lining is more vaccine for those of us who are not insane, and potentially many dead liberals. dead from taking Harris/Biden's advice. fitting.
Will the election turn on the death of RPG?
WASHINGTON — I used to feel pretty optimistic that the country would get through the Trump years intact.
In 2016, America got mad — and went mad. This administration has unleashed so many fresh hells that a portrait of the last four years looks very Hieronymus Bosch. But the idea of this country is so remarkable; surely it could withstand one cheesy con man who squeaked in.
Now we might have passed a point of no return. No matter who wins in November, can the harsh divisions abate?
The stunning news Friday night of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg guaranteed a political bonfire. President Trump is in a position to reshape the Supreme Court long past his time in office with a third justice, giving conservatives a 6-to-3 majority.
With Democrats still smarting over Republicans’ refusal to consider Barack Obama’s pick of Merrick Garland for the court, this will push them over the edge, and maybe to the polls, especially women. And Trump’s base could race to vote, because the president has talked about nominating Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz, aiming to have a court that would overturn Roe v. Wade. Mitch McConnell said Friday that Trump’s nominee — hopefully not Jeanine Pirro — will get a floor vote.
“We cannot have Election Day come and go with a 4-4 court,” Cruz told Sean Hannity. Imagine a Bush v. Gore scenario with a 4-4 court.
As it turned out, the founders created a country painfully vulnerable to whoever happens to be president. They assumed that future presidents would cherish what they had so painfully created, and continue to knit together different kinds of people from different areas with different economic interests.
But now that we have a president who takes those knitting needles and stabs the country mercilessly with them, we can see how fragile this whole thing really is.
All the stuff we took for granted — from presidential ethics to electoral integrity to a nonpolitical attorney general — is blown to smithereens. The president who does not believe in science has been conducting a science experiment for four years: What happens to a country when you have a president who is doing everything in his power to cleave it?
It wasn’t long ago that Obama started on the road to the White House with a stirring speech about ignoring those who would slice our nation into red states and blue states because this is the United States of America.
Now Trump blames the “badly run blue states” and “Democrat cities” for everything. He clearly doesn’t see himself as president of a majority of the country. Whenever he talks about the half of the country that didn’t vote for him, he paints a picture of a Scorsese urban hellscape the minute you cross state lines.
On Wednesday, the president offered the heinous hypothetical that the death toll from the coronavirus would not be as bad “if you take the blue states out.”
As the president of Red America, Trump “regularly divides the country into the parts that support him and the parts that do not, rewarding the former and reproving the latter,” The Times’s Peter Baker wrote.
The line between politics and governing can be blurry, certainly. But with Trump, there is no line.
Jared Kushner bragged to Bob Woodward that Trump can “trigger the other side by picking fights with them where he makes them take stupid positions.” Woodward writes that Kushner told an associate, “The Democrats are getting so crazy they’re basically defending Baltimore.” This gleeful assessment from Kushner, a Baltimore slumlord, is the height of cynicism.
The anxiety about our fractious nature was reflected in the question of Susan Connors at Joe Biden’s CNN Town Hall Thursday night. “Mr. Vice President,” she said, “I look out over my Biden sign in my front yard and I see a sea of Trump flags and yard signs. And my question is, what is your plan, to build a bridge, with voters from the opposing party, to lead us forward, toward a common future?”
Biden was soothing, reassuring that he could pick up those knitting needles once Trump was “out of the way, and his vitriolic attitude, and his way of just getting after people, revenge.”
But will it be so easy? The cultural ecosystem, and the fever swamps of social media that amplify Trump’s craziness, will remain. Fox News and Facebook will continue to validate the biases and conspiracy theories of a nation that’s increasingly proud of its ignorance, anti-intellectualism and denial of science.
Isn’t the simple fact that the race is this close, when Biden should be crushing Trump, given the president’s lethal negligence and willful subterfuge on the virus and his racial demagogy, proof that our realities are so disparate from one another that unifying will be akin to cleaning a dozen Augean stables?
After Woodward’s book revealed that Trump knew early on how dangerous the virus was but downplayed it, I heard from those two alternate universes.
“I can hardly breathe, it’s so incredible,” my friend Rita said angrily.
“He was just trying to buck people up,” my sister, Peggy, said placidly.
In Duluth, Minn., at a campaign stop on Friday, a man in a MAGA hat jeered at Biden and told him he could never win. Biden approached the man from the alternate reality, elbow bumped him, chuckled and assured him that if he does win, Biden would work for him, too.
If McConnell has his way, that work wouldn’t include replacing R.B.G.
Maureen Dowd
As the president of Red America, Trump “regularly divides the country into the parts that support him and the parts that do not, rewarding the former and reproving the latter,” The Times’s Peter Baker wrote.
LOL... i can only assume that mr. baker must've been in a coma for the entirety of the 0linsky administration.
no President in the history of our nation was on the record with more hateful and divisive rhetoric than skeets hussein 0linsky.
Senseless thinks the Greens will vote for "environmentalist" Trump.
Cold day in hell, they will.
OK a little bit of history, When Bernie Sanders was denied the nomination in 2016 a significant portion of his base abandoned the Democrat party and voted for Trump. It was one of the reasons for Clinton's "surprised" loss.
Never underestimate the raw feelings of a group of dedicated voters who feel shafted. They tend the punished the people who do the shafting. And in this case that would be the Democrats. They will vote for Trump regardless of their political difference. Trump is not the ome who is trying to silence them.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/2020_elections_electoral_college_map_no_toss_ups.html
YOU mean to tell us this STILL hasn't changed?
Not ONE SINGLE BIT?
That's right. Oh, except that Biden picked up one more electoral vote the other day from Maine.
Based on right of center leaning
RealClearPolitics' aggregate polling numbers:
BIDEN 353 ELECTORAL VOTES
TRUMP 185 ELECTORAL VOTES
Steep hill to climb for Devious Donald!
The Republican denial of science is a clear and present danger.
With the West Coast on fire, a pandemic spreading across the land, and a pathological liar in the White House as the Republican standard-bearer, I think we can consider that debate settled: It's not ignorance. It's malice.
Negligence of duty.
Another reason why to send him to Bar Lago.
Cramps thinks trump is the second coming!!!!!!!!! Ads here in Ga are doing nothing but scaring people to vote trump!!!!!! They sure are spending lots of money in a Red state......biden will take away SS, medicare, increase taxes and embrace the green deal to the detriment of all.....Kelly Loeffler looks like a scared kid while doug collins says ginsburg killed 35 million kids......sickening how the GOP is the group doing the scaring!!!
abandoned the Democrat party and voted for Trump
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Pure bullshit cramps!!!!!!! I am sure you cannot back that statement up as usual!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The Republican denial of science is a clear and present danger.
says the clown aligned with the party that recognizes 57 genders because science.
LOL @ Agolf Twitler.
Current RealClearPolitics'
Senate No Toss Ups Polling
Dem 51 vs Rep 49
Scott A**hole went nuts.
Minneapolis City Council approves renaming street after George Floyd.
Dems being dangerously irresponsible on vaccines. They're not being developed in tbe Whitehouse basement. Researchers in medical centers around the country are working on it. University of Rochester medical Center is one of the top centers nationally. They're conducting phase three clinical trials.
rrb got that from loony tunes
If they get Montana 52 48
"I'm Joe Biden and I approve this shooting."
A black male walked into a Louisville bar owned by a retired police officer and shot three random people at point blank range on Friday night — while wearing a Justice for Breonna Taylor shirt.
The suspect was smiling from ear to ear as he was arrested for the shooting at Bungalow Joe’s Bar and Grill.
“Nobody had ever seen this guy before,” the owner of the bar, Joe Bishop told WDRB, referring to the shooter. “It was a totally random act.” He explained that the men did not exchange words at any time prior to the shooting.
Two of the victims were white and one was black.
Toreon Jermaine Hudson, 26, and William Scott Smallwood, 48, were pronounced dead at the scene, while Steven Matthew Head, 24, died from his injuries at University Hospital.
One of the victims was the fiancΓ© of the bar manager and all three of the men worked together.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/black-lives-matter-activist-wearing-justice-beonna-taylor-shirt-walked-louisville-bar-murdered-three-people/
Yeah, the wild fires in California were strictly due to mismanagement of the forest by not doing control burns and removing underbrush and dead trees.
Hell, I learn all this in my 10th grade ecology class. I lean how the pine tree's bark was uniquely fire resistant and that fire was a regular and necessary component to maintain a healthy forest.
This was science. Science that was ignored by the eco-freaks, media, NIMBY activist, and Democrat politicians in California, Oregon and Washington.
So tbe left are threatening to riot in the streets with arson, violence and destruction. Unless I'm missing something, they're already doing that with no intention of stopping. So Trump may ad well proceed.
Minneapolis City Council approves renaming street after George Floyd.
is this the same city council who approved defunding the cops, and then couldn't understand why crime skyrocketed and the cops didn't respond?
LOL.brilliant
in a year no one will even remember who the fuck george floyd the junkie was.
To honor RGB The Democrats have to go nuclear.
It’s a popular sentiment on the left: Don’t mourn, organize. But with the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that won’t be enough. Ginsburg, a hero of female empowerment and of the Supreme Court, deserves much mourning. But Democrats and progressives can waste no time prepping for the battle royale that lies ahead. After all, it took Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell mere minutes after the news of RBG’s passing to declare that the GOP-controlled Senate will vote on whoever Donald Trump sends its way to fill the Supreme Court vacancy—a direct eff-you to the Democrats after McConnell in 2016 refused to consider President Barack Obama’s SCOTUS nominee Merrick Garland with the phony-baloney argument that the Senate should not consider new justices during an election year. So yes, Dems will have to organize, but they must do more: They have to get ready to rumble.
David Corn
Re Balls at 8:00AM:
No, you're right, Ballsy. Vaccine tests are not being performed in the White House basement.
But they don't seem to be on the verge of a Trump-touted breakthrough either, even at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
see for yourself:
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/coronavirus/coronavirus-research.aspx
FANTASTIC MORNING !!!
ONE DAY CLOSER TO A REAL SUPREME COURT AGAIN !!!
I see libs have gone batshit insane.
The lying POS "pastor" is bowing at the altar of GODdard and spamming like a crazed lunatic again without referring to his source at political_lire and devouring his every word, proud of his true master and with a hat tip to Joe Biden PLAGIARIZING.
roger is posting pages of crap thinking he who posts the longest article in full wins. Even if he is homeless. old and alone and lacking his old mental facilities, like Joe Biden.
VERY lo iq ??? unchanged. just VERY lo iq, like Joe Biden.
Wonder how they formed their support for Joe ?
ROFLMFAO !!!
Katharine Cooksey
@Cooksey__
"The voters made their choice, sending Donald Trump to the White House with his list of prospective nominees and a Republican majority to the Senate. There’s no stalemate for the voters to break this time around."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-biden-rule-doesnt-apply-in-2020-11600545795
URMC is conducting phase 3 clinical trials. That's the last phase before approval. These are facts.
And that's only one location.
Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
Democrats already know how they're going to vote on the Supreme Court nominee... skip the theater and send her straight to the floor of the Senate.
Get 'er done
Where is Biden's list of nominees?
John Hayward
@Doc_0
Democrats: Give in to our demands on the Supreme Court or we'll do all the terrible things we're doing right now, and if we seize power we'll do the things were were talking about doing anyway
We already voted, we won
Where is Biden's list of nominees?
He's still not POTUS......you dumb fuck!!!!!!!!! First guy IMHO should be Garland......!!!!!
These are facts.
The fact remains is that phase could take months to complete......asshole
Myballs said...
Where is Biden's list of nominees?
good question.
Though at this point Biden probably couldn't tell you who currently is on the Supreme Court.
So the major party presidential candidate should not tell 5he nation who he woyld nominate? Really??
So yes, Dems will have to organize, but they must do more: They have to get ready to rumble.
i can just picture lil davey saying this, with that cute little lisp of his.
LOL.
good one alky.
and for the record alky, no one on our side is pining for a hot civil war. especially over something like a USSC seat. but be forewarned, if you assholes really do decide to start one, we will win. decisively.
slap some new tennis balls on that walker of your alky. you're gonna need 'em.
"Fewer than 1 in 10 (9%) Americans have a great deal of confidence in Trump to confirm vaccine effectiveness with another 18% reporting only a "good amount" of confidence in the poll conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using Ipsos' Knowledge Panel. In contrast, 69% don't have confidence in the president vouching for a vaccine, including 16% saying "not so much" and 53% saying "none at all.""
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/majority-americans-report-confidence-trump-confirm-vaccine-safety/story?id=73121980
Reread my post. I was not debating days vs weeks vs months. I was addressing dems rhetoric to not take a vaccine. They're suggesting that it is not safe, I was pointing out that it is expert medical institutions doing the work. Got it?
It's his fault because nobody with an ounce of scene believes the President
"Fewer than 1 in 10 (9%) Americans have a great deal of confidence in Trump to confirm vaccine effectiveness with another 18% reporting only a "good amount" of confidence in the poll conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using Ipsos' Knowledge Panel. In contrast, 69% don't have confidence in the president vouching for a vaccine, including 16% saying "not so much" and 53% saying "none at all.""
awesome poll, Agolf.
under no circumstances do i want a single democrat to get the corona vaccine. none. absolutely not.
what will be interesting is watching them blame trump for those that die for not taking it.
that level of fucktardedness will be a sight to behold.
27% unlikely to be vaccinated; Republicans, conservatives especially: POLL
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/27-vaccinated-coronavirus-republicans-conservatives-poll/story?id=70962377
democrat logic:
"We refuse to take a potentially life-saving vaccine because Orange Man Bad."
now how does one argue with THAT?
LOL.
Methodology
This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by landline and cellular telephone May 25-28, 2020, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 1,001 adults. Results have a margin of sampling error of 3.5 points, including the design effect. Partisan divisions are 31-24-37%, Democrats-Republicans-independents.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/27-vaccinated-coronavirus-republicans-conservatives-poll/story?id=70962377
Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
It won't be the Trump family publishing the clinical results and data. It'll be the medical institutions. D3m rhetoric on this is irresponsible as hell.
The first Jewish woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, died Friday night as millions of American Jews were getting ready to celebrate the first night of Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish new year.
The Republicans effort to repeal Obamacare and Roe v Wade is going to solidify the Jewish community with the Democrats
The middle east peace agreements will have far more influence with Jewish voters. Not to mention moving the capital to Jerusalem.
The Republicans effort to repeal Obamacare and Roe v Wade is going to solidify the Jewish community with the Democrats
LOL.
alky, do you even KNOW a Jew? even one?
i know several and they are all maxxing out their donations to re-elect Trump. just like they did in 2016.
for chrissakes, you make these fucking proclamations as if you're some political sage, when in fact you're probably the most ignorant regular here.
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There’s a bit of justice in all this. Reason Trump has a pretty good chance of replacing Ginsburg is because the Republicans expanded their majority in 2018. Reason Republicans expanded their majority in 2018 was because of the abysmal and obscene behavior of Democrats and the media during the Kavanaugh confirmation. Funny how that works.
Regardless of the outcome, what we have on our hands right now is a total 2020 game changer and one that is almost certainly going to benefit Trump. This isn’t me celebrating the death of a fellow human being. There was a lot to admire about Justice Ginsburg. But this is what it is, and what it is is a legitimate and breathtaking last-minute game changer.
The national media and Biden had planned to make 2020 a referendum on Trump’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic. Come hell or high water, they were not going to allow the subject to be changed from that. And it was a good plan. Kept Biden on offense, kept Trump on defense, and that’s how you win presidential elections in this country.
Well, the unfortunate passing of Ginsburg throws all that right over the side.
Whether, in the end, McConnell can or cannot cobble the votes together doesn’t matter. The news cycle is about to be swamped by this confirmation battle, which puts Trump on offense and Biden on defense.
All Biden’s going to be able to do is heckle helplessly from the cheap seats while everyone reminds him of all the things he has said in the past about it being okay to confirm Supreme Court justices during an election year — including when he himself was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Secondly, Biden is refusing to release a list of his own potential Supreme Court picks, a position that’s going to look weak now that there’s a vacancy to fill. How can the American people choose between two visions if Biden hides his draft picks?
Finally, there’s the coming left-wing violence and left-wing ugliness.
After nearly four months of nonstop left-wing riots at the hands of the domestic terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter, Democrats and their media allies were finally able to grab hold of the tiger they unleashed, but only by the tail.
The riots are about to return big-time and so is the off-putting ugliness we saw during the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And this is almost certainly what worries Democrats and the national media most…
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/19/nolte-passing-of-ruth-bader-ginsburg-permanently-resets-2020-election/
"this the same city council who approved defunding the cops, and then couldn't understand why crime skyrocketed and the cops didn't respond?"
Yes!
WASHINGTON — After a month of political conventions, fresh controversies, more protests and additional deaths from the coronavirus, the 2020 presidential race remains where’s it’s been for months — with Joe Biden leading President Trump nationally by nearly double digits, and with a majority of voters opposing the president.
Those are the results of a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which finds Biden ahead by 8 points among registered voters, 51 percent to 43 percent, with more than 50 percent of voters disapproving of Trump’s job performance and with Trump holding the advantage on the economy and Biden holding the edge on the coronavirus.
What’s more, the poll shows that close to 90 percent of voters have firmly made up their minds, and that seven-in-10 believe the upcoming debates aren’t that important in deciding their vote.
“So far, despite major upheavals in the country, little has changed,” said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt, whose firm conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff.
“In 2020, the fundamentals of our country have been shaken to our core, while the fundamentals of the election have not,” Horwitt added.
Still, the poll finds that 11 percent of all voters are up for grabs, which is greater than Biden’s ballot advantage over Trump. It was 9% previously..
And Trump’s numbers have inched up in the poll since the summer, while Biden’s favorability rating has also improved in the past month.
“Trump’s summer swoon is over,” said McInturff, the GOP pollster.
The NBC News/WSJ poll — conducted Sept. 13-16 — comes after a turbulent and eventful month of news, including the Democratic and Republican conventions, the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, some 30,000 more deaths from the coronavirus, the Atlantic report alleging the president disparaged fallen military service members and the coverage of Bob Woodward’s new book on Trump.
But the poll was conducted before the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 18.
It's not Breitbart News etc.
The Lost Years Social Security Recipients received on average 1.1% raises, Three years they received 0 %.
Pres. Trump Those same social security recipients receive on average. 1.9%.
Alky, wrong again.
it's articles like this that have convinced me that liberalism truly is a mental illness:
Why White People Owning Dogs is Racist
https://unitedwildlifeunion.com/2020/08/01/why-white-people-owning-dogs-is-racist/
Something interesting in the NBC wsj poll just posted. 63% of respondents will be voting for president for the first time.
Heluva representation there.
Biden on the passing of RPG
https://youtu.be/knbwzRppZr0
The number of voters who are 18 to 29 are going to vote for the first time, and historically, the young voters usually vote Democratic.
The enthusiasm among the young people can have a big impact
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Biden on the passing of RPG
https://youtu.be/knbwzRppZr0
gee, i wonder which staffer had the honor of authoring THAT drivel.
Now 18, the Minneapolis teenager registered to vote over the summer, joining a growing number of young people in Minnesota flocking to take part in the 2020 election between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
Youth voter registration in Minnesota is on the rise compared with previous election cycles, even as young people face more challenges to casting their ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic.
gee, i wonder which staffer had the honor of authoring THAT drivel.
BWAAAQAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Drivel is all you ever post you dumb fucking loser!!!!!!!!! VDH, Ace, PJ........all bullshit of un imaginable proportions!!!!!!
Since Election Day 2016, Pennsylvania has added 922,000 new voters to the rolls, according to data from TargetSmart, a Democratic political data company. Democrats have an edge of 132,000 over Republicans in new registrations. In addition, there are about 197,000 registered unaffiliated, that is without a political party.
That 132,000-registration edge for the Democrats is not insignificant. In 2016, Trump won Pennsylvania by less than 45,000 votes. The Democrats' new registration edge isn't definitive, of course: People don't always vote for their parties, and they can switch parties. And registered voters, whatever their parties, don't always vote.
But the Democrats' new registrant advantage in Pennsylvania sheds light on how Trump's fight for the state may have gotten a bit harder in the last four years — particularly considering how much the president has focused on his voting base rather than working to expand his supporters.
And other states show the same trend to varying degrees.
Florida has added 2.4 million new voters since Election Day 2016, with Democrats holding an edge of 59,000 in new registrants in the two-party split, with unaffiliateds clocking in at 858,000 new registrants. Trump won Florida by a more solid 112,000 votes in 2016, but 59,000 is not an inconsequential number.
In Arizona, more than a million new voters have registered since 2016, and there, things have been a bit closer. Democrats hold only an 11,000-person edge in new registrations. In addition, there have been 355,000 unaffiliated new registrants.
And North Carolina has added 1.3 million more voters to its rolls since 2016. Democrats had an edge of more than 56,000 in new registrations, while 583,000 others registered as unaffiliated.
In state after state, the story is the same: Democrats have the high ground among new registrants. Even in states like Wisconsin and Michigan, where voters don't register with parties, data modeled from existing demographic and geographic patterns shows that Democrats hold an edge among new voters.
Since most of the younger generation are Democratic supporters, they could fire the celebrity actor President
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/democrats-have-voter-registration-advantage-four-states-n1238805
Joe Biden on Build Back Better, 4 million in infrastructure and renewable and solar energy jobs, High Paying Union Jobs, 1 million in Apprentice Skilled Labor Jobs, 1M jobs creating Energy efficient buildings and 4 M in Energy charging stations!
Roger is like Charlie Brown.
The "youth vote" is Lucy.
πBuild Back Betterπ
Wow, is that the HARRIS Campaign slogan?
Really?
"Build Back Better" Not shovel Ready
Wow, is that the HARRIS Campaign slogan?
Typical goat fucking stupidity a day late and a goat short!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
The moral imperative to save our democracy from minority rule could not be clearer!
Written by David Atkins
The passing of Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg has left a deep hole in the hearts of millions across the country. She was a giant of jurisprudence, one of the most consequential Americans to have ever lived, and an inspiration to so many for her intellect, her moral center, her trailblazing biography, her resilience and even her physical toughness.
But her passing also leaves a bleeding wound in American democracy, one that reinforces the crisis of legitimacy of conservative minority rule in America. It is a legitimacy crisis that Democrats must heal and rectify should they win power in November–especially if Republicans are shameless enough to force through a conservative to replace Bader-Ginsburg before the inauguration of the next president, against her dying wish. Democrats must, if they win, alter the composition of the Senate and the Court so that both reflect the will of the majority rather than the tyranny of a minority.
Consider the situation: a president who lost the popular vote by 3 million ballots has already stacked the lower courts and appointed two of the nine justices on the Supreme Court, shifting the balance of both the lower courts and the highest court in the land to the right, in the latter case by replacing a social moderate with a Federalist Society extremist. He was aided in doing so by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who ruthlessly and without precedent refused to allow President Obama to nominate a replacement to Justice Scalia for the entire final year of his term. McConnell cynically argued at the time that the American people should be able to decide on who would sit on the Court, hedging his bets for an outcome favorable to conservatives. Improbably, he got his wish.
Notably, though, the people didn’t decide: the majority of the people voted for Hillary Clinton. Just as the majority of Americans didn’t vote for the Republican Senators who currently constitute the Senate majority: the GOP Senate “majority” represents only 153 million Americans, while the Democratic “minority” represents 168 million. McConnell, of course, doesn’t care. Asked if he would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in the final year of Trump’s term despite the rank hypocrisy of such a move, McConnell smirked and said “oh, we would fill it” to a laughing audience. It’s also worth stressing that another two of the Court’s justices were appointed by George W. Bush in 2005 and 2006, who also lost the popular vote during his first election, and was confirmed by a conservative Senate majority that also represented a minority of Americans.
Nor has the reality of minority rule tempered the extremism of the rulers. Rather than compromise under the recognition of their precarious legitimacy, Republicans have behaved as if were elected with smashing mandates. Worse, they have governed time and again in a way that shows they literally do not care if the Democratic constituents who make up the majority of America live or die. The GOP base, meanwhile, has demonstrated in its fervent and continued support for Trump that they share equally in their contempt for their left-leaning fellow citizens. They view any impingement on their right to minority rule as a form of totalitarian oppression.
Roger's Anus speaking again.
The most immediate steps Democrats must take are killing the filibuster, adding states to the union and expanding the courts.
The filibuster has historically helped conservatives far more than it has hurt them, and they know it. More importantly, in a country as divided along urban and rural lines as America is today and as polarized as the parties are, there is increasingly no way for either party to gain 60 Senate seats and no way for either party to govern to create real change as long as they fail to do so. Changing the composition of the courts, combined with executive orders, is almost the only change a ruling party can make. This leads to a dangerous sclerosis of the government and an incentive toward unitarian despotism in which executive orders increasingly become the sole functioning policy tool.
But the filibuster is also untenable morally. By 2040, under current trends only 30 percent of the Senate will be governing a full two-thirds of the American public. And that 30% is likely to be the most rural, most conservative 30%, while the two-thirds is likely to be in more urban, bluer states. This is a recipe for apartheid rule as long as 60 Senators are required for any legislative change. And yes: ending the filibuster carries downside risk should Republicans regain control of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives in the future. But if voters do decide to send Republicans to power en masse in 2024 or beyond, then the people should get the government they voted for–and the legislators they support should be held accountable accordingly, rather than have their stances disguised through legislative gridlock.
The Senate should also be expanded by adding Washington, DC and Puerto Rico to the union–at a minimum. It is appalling that the Washington, DC metro area has more people in it than some states and generates enormous economic activity, but has no effective representation in Congress. Puerto Ricans, meanwhile, are American citizens with all the responsibilities of citizenship but none of the representation. Assuming the residents of the island agree that they wish to become an American state, they should be allowed to do so. Republicans would call this a power grab, but it isn’t. Creating equal representation from a system of apartheid-style minority rule is not oppression, but justice. It’s also notable that the current make-up of states, including and especially the existence of a separate North and South Dakota, is due to an explicit 19th century Republican power grab designed to alter the composition of the Senate. It’s worth noting that the Republicans of their day were mostly the good guys and the Dixiecrats the bad guys, but still: turnabout is fair play.
Finally and most controversially, Democrats must consider expanding the court–particularly if Bader-Ginsburg is replaced by a conservative. A federal court system in which the majority are appointees of popular-vote-losing presidents who then proceed to stymie all popular legislation enacted by a duly elected majority of legislators is both immoral and untenable. The balance must be rectified. There is nothing in the Constitution outlining the number of judges on any given court. Indeed, the Supreme Court has been expanded before.
Would this potentially create an arms race in which each unitarian majority government proceeded to expand the courts to govern however they please? Perhaps. But the danger to democracy and, frankly, to the country and the planet from allowing minority-rule theft of power to prevent any significant action on the country’s pressing problems would be far greater.
Other countries’ electoral systems can and do survive with more flexible, majoritarian electoral systems and power structures. America can survive, too. What it cannot survive is the status quo of structurally racist minority rule. The departure of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg is a focal point for desperately needed reforms, and it will fall on Democrats to act on them.
Build Back Better" Not shovel Ready
Biden did royally fuck up.the "green energy" job thingy before.
Obimbo Joked
" ‘Shovel-ready was not as … uh .. shovel-ready as we expected.’ " ππ
Today was the biggest online fundraising in the history of the Democratic Party.More than $80 million was raised in 24 hours.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Today was the biggest online fundraising in the history of the Democratic Party.More than $80 million was raised in 24 hours.
a fool and his money are soon parted.
Allowing a minority power party, to stack the Supreme Court with minority ideological justices is a threat to our democratic republic.
If the Democrats win in a landslide election,they need to make Washington DC and Puerto Rico states.
If they get the Senate they should add two seats in the Supreme Court.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Tropical Storm Beta was taking aim Sunday at the Gulf Coast of Texas, threatening to pound parts the region with damaging storm surge and drenching rains as the 2020 hurricane season continued to batter the region and the record books.
Beta already has made history as the earliest 23rd-named tropical storm in the Atlantic, replacing Alpha, nearly 15 years ago. Alpha, which formed on Oct. 22, 2005, was the first-ever storm to be assigned a Greek letter.
Climate change is a Democrat hoax according to the rrb
Steve Schmidt of The Lincoln Project Tweeted This:
Do Not Be Afraid. Do Not Tremble. Do Not Waiver. Do not doubt either the goodness of our people or the possibilities for our future. Do not let small men with tyranny and malice in their heart or of your countrymen and women. Do not let the fascists, racists and conspiracy theorists make you afraid of your neighbors or the strangers who could be your friend. We should all be grateful that we have been chosen by this rancid and dangerous hour to stand up and fight. What we do now matters. Our Capitol is occupied by a cabal of small and low men and women who have betrayed all of us, the American experiment, their oaths and basic decency in service of a corrupt and malignant cult of personality that is vandalizing our principles, ideals, Inheritance, future and fundamental goodness. 200,000 of our country men and women are dead. At least 150,000 of them could be alive but for Trump’s lethal lying and the immoral; supine complicity of his collaborators and enablers. Let us resolve to rise up and strike down Trumpism. Let us put it down with righteous anger and fury. Let us resolve to never let this happen again. Let us do our duty as American citizens. Let us be conscious that we are called to safe action when we consider the blood, sacrifice and courage of ordinary people who Stood their ground on a field in Lexington and Gettysburg. The men who stormed the beaches of Normandy and dropped from the skies over France to crush fascism are smiling at our cause. The men and women who taught the world the meaning of the words “human dignity” as they Protested segregation, absorbed the beatings and marched across the Edmund Pettus bridge are watching and judging us. We are in the right and for the right. We are fighting for the good. Trumpism is UNAMERICAN. It is illiberal, demagogic,dishonest, cruel, corrupt and disgusting Have joy in this fight. RBG is with her husband again. She is arguing with Scalia and meeting Washington and Lincoln. Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas are there. Susan b Anthony is there and so is Elise Wiesel. A great champion of freedom has arrived in heaven. Her work is done. Her burden is now our’s. Let us honor her legacy by doing our duty. FIGHT, REGISTER, VOTE. I DISSENT are the most American of words. Thank you Madame Justice. May your memory be a blessing. We all know that it is.
The most immediate steps Democrats must take are killing the filibuster, adding states to the union and expanding the courts.
Yeah, because a naked grab for power always charms the American voter. πππ
a fool and his money are soon parted.
You mean like trump and those who invested in his university and bankrupt casinos???????? BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
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