Nicole West steered her bulldozer through the smoldering forest, pushing logs into the underbrush and away from the wildfires ripping through Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. Her border collie, Oink, rode shotgun as West and a volunteer crew raced to clear a fire line.
Behind West, on the front lines of the 136,000-acre (55,000-hectare) Riverside fire, two young men pulled a water tank behind their pickup truck, struggling to douse the flames.
These are the men and women of the “Hillbilly Brigade” – about 1,200 in all who came together this past week to fight the state’s biggest fire in a century. They are credited with saving the mountain hamlet of Molalla, an hour’s drive south of Portland, after its 9,000 residents were forced to evacuate.
In a year when ferocious wildfires have killed at least 34 people and burned millions of acres in Oregon, Washington and California, the brigade has pulled off a miracle in the thick forests around Molalla in recent days, residents and fire officials say.
They organized and deployed themselves with little or no help from a small and overwhelmed local fire department – which focused on protecting the town center – or from state and federal agencies that were deployed elsewhere.
“We were left on our own to stop this,” said West, a 36-year-old ranch hand, as she briefly paused her dozer late Wednesday afternoon. “There wasn’t anybody coming from the state to save us. So we had to save ourselves.”
individual Americans, left to their own devices and ensconced in freedom and liberty, can always solve a problem more quickly and with a better result than the asshats calling for MOAR GOVERNMENT.
hillbilly brigade, cajun navy... examples are legion.
An embargoed and bankrupt Iran is teetering on the brink. Its international terrorist appendages, including Hezbollah, are broke.
China is increasingly being ostracized by much of the world.
The U.S. has cut its carbon emissions, often at a rate superior to those nations still adhering to the Paris climate accord targets.
Cross-border illegal immigration has been reduced, according to many metrics.
ISIS was bombed into near dissolution. Moderate regimes in the Middle East are ascendant; radical cliques like Hamas and al-Qaeda are not.
More NATO members are meeting their commitments. The alliance’s aggregate defense investments are way up.
Is any of that considered news? Not really.
Instead, every three or four days the public is fed a series of fantasy “bombshells” much like the daily hysterias of the Robert Mueller investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump team and Russia — a two-year, media-hyped dud.
In recent weeks the media warned us that Trump was dismantling the Post Office to disrupt mail-in balloting.
Trump, we are told, has decided never to concede his sure loss in November and might have to be forcibly removed, perhaps by the military.
We read that Trump defiled the memory of fallen American soldiers in cemeteries abroad. We are lectured that Trump supposedly never took COVID-19 seriously.
All of these stories were either demonstrably untrue, were supported only by anonymous sources, or were the sensationalism of authors hawking books.
Yet such concocted melodramas will continue each week up to Election Day, while fundamental geostrategic shifts abroad brought about by American diplomacy will by intent go unnoticed.
The front page of the New York times newspaper has a picture of Ruth Beta Ginsburg. Not the fraudulent picture you posted.
Her story is amazing!
She then earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University, and became a wife and mother before starting law school at Harvard, where she was one of the few women in her class. Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School, where she graduated tied for first in her class.
You want hypocritical media bias? Here's the @washingtonpost on Justice Scalia dying and the same paper on the death of Ginsburg. Seem slightly different?
Jonathan Chait: “A procession of former Trump administration officials, speaking both on and off the record, have depicted the president as fundamentally unfit for office. Yesterday, the latest addition to their ranks, former Mike Pence aide Olivia Troye, put an especially fine point on the indictment. President Trump displayed ‘flat-out disregard for human life.'”
“Even by the hyperinflated standards of the Trump era, disregard for human life is an extraordinarily serious charge. The most basic trait any president must have, below even simple competence and honesty, is a desire to safeguard the well-being of the public. Almost anybody would agree that a president who simply does not care if Americans die is morally disqualified from office. But there is plenty of available evidence to support it…”
“There’s a term for a person who views other humans purely as instruments for his own advancement, and is unable to conceive of the idea of caring about them independent of his own self-interest: sociopath. The United States has had some terrible presidents before, but probably never a sociopathic one. When his own aides warn the public that he does not care if the people he is tasked with helping live or die, we should take their warnings with the utmost seriousness.”
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
“The Trump administration is pushing the sale of seven large packages of weapons to Taiwan, including long-range missiles that would allow Taiwanese jets to hit distant Chinese targets in the event of a conflict,” the New York Times reports.
“If approved by Congress, the packages, valued in the billions, would be one of the largest weapons transfers in recent years to Taiwan. The administration plans to informally notify lawmakers of the sales within weeks.”
Bloomberg: China launches military drills in Taiwan straight.
SO WHAT DOES TRUMP DO? Trump Says Branstad Is Coming Home to Campaign
President Trump said that Terry Branstad is leaving his post as ambassador to China to help president’s re-election campaign, Radio Iowa reports.
Democrats Have Built a Vote-by-Mail Lead In Florida
Politico: “Democrats in Florida, a must-win state for President Trump, have requested roughly 730,000 more election ballots ahead of the general election than Republicans, who have seen their traditional vote-by-mail dominance eroded by the president’s efforts to brand it as a vehicle for widespread fraud.”
“That’s a departure from four years ago, when a million Republicans requested ballots compared to fewer than 882,000 Democrats… Top of mind for Democrats is one simple truth: A request for a mail ballot does not equate to a ballot cast.”
“If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process is started, we’ll wait to the next election.” — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), speaking in October 2018 on filling a Supreme Court vacancy just before an election.
The Aides and Former Allies Who Have Broken with Trump
Aaron Blake: “As the 2020 election draws near, it seems that every few days brings a new former Trump ally or adviser — or even, in a couple of cases, a family member — speaking out against him.
“Trump and the White House have continually dismissed these voices as disgruntled ones. But the sheer volume of them is without precedent in recent American history. Put plainly: You don’t see a bunch of former Joe Biden allies making similar cases again Trump’s 2020 opponent. Some of the critics such as Troye are making their first forays into the national spotlight and inviting attacks in ways that suggest they didn’t come to their decisions lightly.
“Given the growing onslaught of internal critics, it can be difficult to keep them all straight.” [the article goes on to recap them]
Ex-White House Aide Warns Trump Is a SOCIOPATH SEE ABOVE
if democrats had not been so explicit and vociferous in their intent to challenge the upcoming election no matter what, they would have a convincing case to delay RBG's replacement until after the election.
but as usual, democrats over-reach, and step on their own dicks. with golf shoes.
Ginsburg vacancy puts pressure on Trump-critic Republicans in Senate Senators Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski and others are not necessarily locks to support a Trump court nominee.
GRASSLEY, MERKLE AND ROMNEY SAY THEY WON'T VOTE A NOMINEE BEFORE ELECTION
wrong again, alky.
Here is a list of four Republicans senators who have said they will oppose a vote before the election:
Maine Sen. Susan Collins told the New York Times, “I think that’s too close, I really do."
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski in September said, "Fair is fair," and she would not vote to replace RBG before the election."
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham in October 2018 said, "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. And I've got a pretty good chance of being the Judiciary [Chairman]. Hold the tape."
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said in July he would follow the Biden rule, "I'm just following what was established by the Biden Rule in 1986 and then emphasized by him in 1992... They set the pattern. I didn't set the pattern. But it was very legitimate that you can't have one rule for Democratic presidents and another rule for Republican presidents."
Fox News 5 hours ago Ginsburg vacancy puts pressure on Trump-critic Republicans in Senate Senators Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski and others are not necessarily locks to support a Trump court nominee
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death Friday has put a spotlight on a handful of unpredictable Republican senators.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced, soon after Ginsburg's death, that the Senate would vote on a nominee put forward by President Trump to replace her. The maverick Republicans have sometimes opposed the president, calling into question whether they would support filling a court vacancy in the coming weeks.
One consideration for some of the senators: They are fighting for their political lives this November in their own elections.
The majority leader's decision to advocate for a vote just weeks before the 2020 presidential election is a stark reversal from his position in 2016 when Justice Antonin Scalia died in February that year. McConnell said then that November voters should have a say and that a new Supreme Court justice should be nominated by the new president.
McConnell didn’t allow a Senate confirmation hearing or vote on former President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland -- so President Trump's nominee, Neil Gorsuch, was confirmed soon after Trump’s inauguration in 2017.
Four years later, McConnell hopes to avoid any Republican defections as Democrats plan to try to peel off enough GOP senators to defeat a vote before Inauguration Day. (A tie would place the fate of a nominee in the hands of Vice President Mike Pence, in his role as Senate president.)
Here's a look at the Senate Republicans who could possibly oppose allowing President Trump to fill the court vacancy prior to the election or prior to Inauguration Day.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the maverick Republican from Alaska, said Friday before news broke of Ginsburg’s death that she would not vote for a new Supreme Court justice before the election. “We are 50 some days away from an election,” she said in an interview, according to Alaska Public Media.
In 2016, Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., said he believed Scalia’s February death was too close to the November election to not have voters weigh in, according to the Denver Post. “The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision,” he said at the time.
Gardner’s Democratic opponent, John Hickenlooper, who has consistently led in the polls, said Friday that Gardner must “uphold the commitment” from 2016 to delay a vote. Gardner didn’t answer the Post’s requests for comment Friday, the newspaper reported.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, in a July call with donors, said he wouldn’t advocate holding hearings for a Trump nominee. In 2016, Grassley, then the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, blocked hearings for Merrick Garland, citing the “Biden rule,” a 1992 speech in which then-Sen. Joe Biden said then-President George H.W. Bush should wait until after the election to appoint a Supreme Court pick. Grassley isn’t up for reelection.
Fellow GOP Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who is up for reelection, conversely said in July the Senate should hold hearings, according to the Des Moines Register.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, another vulnerable lawmaker in a state that isn’t deeply red, declined to comment Friday on whether she’d support a pre-election vote, the Portland Press Herald reported. Collins has been consistently running behind her Democratic challenger Sara Gideon, Maine’s speaker of the House, in what’s shaping up to be her most difficult reelection effort yet.
Finally, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, hasn’t weighed in yet, but he has already proven he isn’t afraid to defy his party: Romney was the only Republican senator to vote to impeach Trump in February, much to the ire of Trump supporters.
A pre-election Supreme Court vote could put vulnerable senators like Collins and Gardner – who need Democratic votes to win – in a difficult position and any newly elected senators will be sworn in Jan. 3.
Interestingly, astronaut Mark Kelly, a Democrat who is challenging Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., could be sworn in as early as Nov. 30 if he beats her in the race, experts say, according to the Arizona Republic. The Arizona race is technically a special election since McSally was appointed to her seat last year after Sen. John McCain’s death. Kelly has consistently led McSally in the polls.
McSally tweeted Friday night that "This U.S. Senate should vote on President Trump's next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court."
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham in October 2018 said, "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. And I've got a pretty good chance of being the Judiciary [Chairman]. Hold the tape."
Demand Congress Not Confirm Ruth Bader Ginsberg's Replacement Until After the Inauguration of Joe Biden
LOL.
precisely WHY the seat needs to be filled ASAP. democrats have promised a legal challenge to the 2020 election no matter the outcome. Trump could win a 50 state landslide and democrats will take it to court regardless.
therefore we cannot afford a constitutional crisis by virtue of an 8 seat USSC.
#ginsburg McConnell, R-KY – “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.” (last line of statement) #CBS’ John Nolen
“In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year,” McConnell said.
“By contrast, Americans reelected 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.
President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
“The Framers adopted life tenure at a time when people simply did not live as long as they do now. A judge insulated from the normal currents of life for twenty-five or thirty years was a rarity then, but is becoming commonplace today. Setting a term of, say, fifteen years would ensure that federal judges would not lose all touch with reality through decades of ivory tower existence. It would also provide a more regular and greater degree of turnover among the judges. Both developments would, in my view, be healthy ones.”
After making the Puerto Rican people- American citizens - suffer for almost four years without getting the aid they had been appropriated, Trump releases what has long been their emergency aid, and expects Puerto Rican’s to now vote for him? Humiliation, forced suffering and then insult . . . .
The Democrats can use the video of him throwing paper towels!
COUP KARMA: If the Left can impeach and try to remove a president during an election year, a Supreme Court justice can certainly be appointed during an election year.
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
The American people have spoken. They want Trump to select the judges.
After making the Puerto Rican people- American citizens - suffer for almost four years without getting the aid they had been appropriated, Trump releases what has long been their emergency aid, and expects Puerto Rican’s to now vote for him?
Actually Puerto Rican's can vote for him or anybody else. They are still a territory with no electoral votes.
Setting a term of, say, fifteen years would ensure that federal judges would not lose all touch with reality through decades of ivory tower existence. It would also provide a more regular and greater degree of turnover among the judges. Both developments would, in my view, be healthy ones.”
That would require a constitution amendment was well as capping the number of justices on the supreme court to nine.
Democrats should care however. Packing the court to achieve political ends was never popular with the American people, FDR tried it to get his new deal agenda passed but was smart enough to withdraw it once he saw how the political winds were blowing.
If they do pack the court they will pay a heavy price in the 2022 mid-terms.
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Nicole West steered her bulldozer through the smoldering forest, pushing logs into the underbrush and away from the wildfires ripping through Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. Her border collie, Oink, rode shotgun as West and a volunteer crew raced to clear a fire line.
Behind West, on the front lines of the 136,000-acre (55,000-hectare) Riverside fire, two young men pulled a water tank behind their pickup truck, struggling to douse the flames.
These are the men and women of the “Hillbilly Brigade” – about 1,200 in all who came together this past week to fight the state’s biggest fire in a century. They are credited with saving the mountain hamlet of Molalla, an hour’s drive south of Portland, after its 9,000 residents were forced to evacuate.
In a year when ferocious wildfires have killed at least 34 people and burned millions of acres in Oregon, Washington and California, the brigade has pulled off a miracle in the thick forests around Molalla in recent days, residents and fire officials say.
They organized and deployed themselves with little or no help from a small and overwhelmed local fire department – which focused on protecting the town center – or from state and federal agencies that were deployed elsewhere.
“We were left on our own to stop this,” said West, a 36-year-old ranch hand, as she briefly paused her dozer late Wednesday afternoon. “There wasn’t anybody coming from the state to save us. So we had to save ourselves.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wildfires-molalla/how-a-hillbilly-brigade-saved-an-oregon-town-from-raging-wildfires-idUSKBN2682OF
individual Americans, left to their own devices and ensconced in freedom and liberty, can always solve a problem more quickly and with a better result than the asshats calling for MOAR GOVERNMENT.
hillbilly brigade, cajun navy... examples are legion.
VDH:
An embargoed and bankrupt Iran is teetering on the brink. Its international terrorist appendages, including Hezbollah, are broke.
China is increasingly being ostracized by much of the world.
The U.S. has cut its carbon emissions, often at a rate superior to those nations still adhering to the Paris climate accord targets.
Cross-border illegal immigration has been reduced, according to many metrics.
ISIS was bombed into near dissolution. Moderate regimes in the Middle East are ascendant; radical cliques like Hamas and al-Qaeda are not.
More NATO members are meeting their commitments. The alliance’s aggregate defense investments are way up.
Is any of that considered news? Not really.
Instead, every three or four days the public is fed a series of fantasy “bombshells” much like the daily hysterias of the Robert Mueller investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump team and Russia — a two-year, media-hyped dud.
In recent weeks the media warned us that Trump was dismantling the Post Office to disrupt mail-in balloting.
Trump, we are told, has decided never to concede his sure loss in November and might have to be forcibly removed, perhaps by the military.
We read that Trump defiled the memory of fallen American soldiers in cemeteries abroad. We are lectured that Trump supposedly never took COVID-19 seriously.
All of these stories were either demonstrably untrue, were supported only by anonymous sources, or were the sensationalism of authors hawking books.
Yet such concocted melodramas will continue each week up to Election Day, while fundamental geostrategic shifts abroad brought about by American diplomacy will by intent go unnoticed.
The news as we once understood it is dead.
https://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/2020/09/17/the-news-as-we-once-knew-it-is-dead-n936292
VDH:
Another bankrupt asshole that the rat thinks is smart.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Amy
@MaybeAmes
Another “sane” reaction to RBG’s death.
https://twitter.com/MaybeAmes/status/1307181505572212736
The front page of the New York times newspaper has a picture of Ruth Beta Ginsburg. Not the fraudulent picture you posted.
Her story is amazing!
She then earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University, and became a wife and mother before starting law school at Harvard, where she was one of the few women in her class. Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School, where she graduated tied for first in her class.
https://images.app.goo.gl/Msx65aCba6SY75SFA
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The front page of the New York times newspaper has a picture of Ruth Beta Ginsburg. Not the fraudulent picture you posted.
Agolf,
CH never claimed that the pics he posted from the NYT were from TODAY'S edition.
and yes, we know RGB's bio. it's all over the fucking place. stop spamming the fucking blog with it.
Scott Whitlock
@ScottJW
You want hypocritical media bias? Here's the @washingtonpost on Justice Scalia dying and the same paper on the death of Ginsburg. Seem slightly different?
https://twitter.com/ScottJW/status/1307300030546665473
anybody who denies the leftwing bias of the media is not credible
Just like CHR's thread pictures proved.
Ex-White House Aide Warns Trump Is a Sociopath
Jonathan Chait: “A procession of former Trump administration officials, speaking both on and off the record, have depicted the president as fundamentally unfit for office. Yesterday, the latest addition to their ranks, former Mike Pence aide Olivia Troye, put an especially fine point on the indictment. President Trump displayed ‘flat-out disregard for human life.'”
“Even by the hyperinflated standards of the Trump era, disregard for human life is an extraordinarily serious charge. The most basic trait any president must have, below even simple competence and honesty, is a desire to safeguard the well-being of the public. Almost anybody would agree that a president who simply does not care if Americans die is morally disqualified from office. But there is plenty of available evidence to support it…”
“There’s a term for a person who views other humans purely as instruments for his own advancement, and is unable to conceive of the idea of caring about them independent of his own self-interest: sociopath. The United States has had some terrible presidents before, but probably never a sociopathic one. When his own aides warn the public that he does not care if the people he is tasked with helping live or die, we should take their warnings with the utmost seriousness.”
*CHT lol
WHAT THE FUCK is the lying POS "pastor" james even posting about in all "bold"
Plagiarized
Off-topic
FUCKING IDIOT
Hypocrisy squared.
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
— Mitch McConnell, March 2016.
Mitch was using his power of advise and consent.
With a divided Senate/president he punted until after the upcoming election.
Now he may advise to move forward. We shall see.
Last time Obama nominated as he should and Mitch advised.
Same thing should happen this time.
The Republicans fought to keep the first African American President to appoint a justice to the United States Supreme Court.
The underlying racism was evident.
a "titan" of the law. LOL.:
I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I guess the thread topic is democrats have their hair on fire.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Agolf,
only a complete fucking imbecile sees racism in mcconnell blocking 0linsky from a USSC appointment.
it was purely political.
and as usual, YOU'RE the racist in this particular case.
Racist roger the democrats fought to keep Justice Thomas off the supreme court
The underlying racism was evident.
He and the republicans would not kowtow.
Women are the majority of the voters, they will step forward and vote for Biden and Harris in November.
U.S. Pushes Large Arms Sale to Taiwan
“The Trump administration is pushing the sale of seven large packages of weapons to Taiwan, including long-range missiles that would allow Taiwanese jets to hit distant Chinese targets in the event of a conflict,” the New York Times reports.
“If approved by Congress, the packages, valued in the billions, would be one of the largest weapons transfers in recent years to Taiwan. The administration plans to informally notify lawmakers of the sales within weeks.”
Bloomberg: China launches military drills in Taiwan straight.
SO WHAT DOES TRUMP DO?
Trump Says Branstad Is Coming Home to Campaign
President Trump said that Terry Branstad is leaving his post as ambassador to China to help president’s re-election campaign, Radio Iowa reports.
Democrats Have Built a Vote-by-Mail Lead In Florida
Politico: “Democrats in Florida, a must-win state for President Trump, have requested roughly 730,000 more election ballots ahead of the general election than Republicans, who have seen their traditional vote-by-mail dominance eroded by the president’s efforts to brand it as a vehicle for widespread fraud.”
“That’s a departure from four years ago, when a million Republicans requested ballots compared to fewer than 882,000 Democrats… Top of mind for Democrats is one simple truth: A request for a mail ballot does not equate to a ballot cast.”
“If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process is started, we’ll wait to the next election.”
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), speaking in October 2018 on filling a Supreme Court vacancy just before an election.
The Aides and Former Allies Who Have Broken with Trump
Aaron Blake: “As the 2020 election draws near, it seems that every few days brings a new former Trump ally or adviser — or even, in a couple of cases, a family member — speaking out against him.
“Trump and the White House have continually dismissed these voices as disgruntled ones. But the sheer volume of them is without precedent in recent American history. Put plainly: You don’t see a bunch of former Joe Biden allies making similar cases again Trump’s 2020 opponent. Some of the critics such as Troye are making their first forays into the national spotlight and inviting attacks in ways that suggest they didn’t come to their decisions lightly.
“Given the growing onslaught of internal critics, it can be difficult to keep them all straight.” [the article goes on to recap them]
Ex-White House Aide Warns Trump Is a SOCIOPATH SEE ABOVE
Roberts was accused of sexual assault, that is why they opposed him.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Roberts was accused of sexual assault, that is why they opposed him.
and the restraining order that your pomeranian beauty queen sought remains in place.
Roger Amick said...
Roberts was accused of sexual assault, that is why they opposed him.
take your medication and go take a nap like Biden
You need both
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
Remember yesterday when Dems promised to screw tradition and dump the filibuster if and when they regain power?
Me too.
And somebody notify Roberts that he is now being accused of sexual assault too.
McConnell claims the situation is different this time.
What is the difference?
What is the difference, Mitch?
Why are some Republicans saying it is not different this time?
So what is the difference? What makes it different this time, Mitch?
Whisper: Could it be that the only real difference is, last time we had a n***** in the White House?
Whisper: Could it be that the only real difference is, last time we had a n***** in the White House?
and there's our house racist - the alky. thinking he could remain 'anonymous.'
irony -
if democrats had not been so explicit and vociferous in their intent to challenge the upcoming election no matter what, they would have a convincing case to delay RBG's replacement until after the election.
but as usual, democrats over-reach, and step on their own dicks. with golf shoes.
Ginsburg vacancy puts pressure on Trump-critic Republicans in Senate
Senators Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski and others are not necessarily locks to support a Trump court nominee.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ginsburg-vacancy-puts-pressure-on-trump-critic-republicans-in-senate
OK we all agree Trump should nominate someone like Obama did.
At least that is a good starting point.
Let's get to that soon
This will force Biden to put out his list of nominees. He didn't want to.
GRASSLEY, MERKLE AND ROMNEY SAY THEY WON'T VOTE A NOMINEE BEFORE ELECTION!
Old quotes are meaningless
GRASSLEY, MERKLE AND ROMNEY SAY THEY WON'T VOTE A NOMINEE BEFORE ELECTION
wrong again, alky.
Here is a list of four Republicans senators who have said they will oppose a vote before the election:
Maine Sen. Susan Collins told the New York Times, “I think that’s too close, I really do."
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski in September said, "Fair is fair," and she would not vote to replace RBG before the election."
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham in October 2018 said, "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. And I've got a pretty good chance of being the Judiciary [Chairman]. Hold the tape."
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said in July he would follow the Biden rule, "I'm just following what was established by the Biden Rule in 1986 and then emphasized by him in 1992... They set the pattern. I didn't set the pattern. But it was very legitimate that you can't have one rule for Democratic presidents and another rule for Republican presidents."
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ruth-bader-ginsburg-death-live-updates/h_73403b4eaf42724ec9db79154591d223
Lindsey Graham Earlier Vowed a President in Their Last Year Shouldn't Fill Supreme Court Vacancy. In 2016.
He's facing a tough challenge, if he decides to support the President, he will be unemployed forever!
Fox News
5 hours ago
Ginsburg vacancy puts pressure on Trump-critic Republicans in Senate
Senators Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski and others are not necessarily locks to support a Trump court nominee
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death Friday has put a spotlight on a handful of unpredictable Republican senators.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced, soon after Ginsburg's death, that the Senate would vote on a nominee put forward by President Trump to replace her. The maverick Republicans have sometimes opposed the president, calling into question whether they would support filling a court vacancy in the coming weeks.
One consideration for some of the senators: They are fighting for their political lives this November in their own elections.
The majority leader's decision to advocate for a vote just weeks before the 2020 presidential election is a stark reversal from his position in 2016 when Justice Antonin Scalia died in February that year. McConnell said then that November voters should have a say and that a new Supreme Court justice should be nominated by the new president.
McConnell didn’t allow a Senate confirmation hearing or vote on former President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland -- so President Trump's nominee, Neil Gorsuch, was confirmed soon after Trump’s inauguration in 2017.
Four years later, McConnell hopes to avoid any Republican defections as Democrats plan to try to peel off enough GOP senators to defeat a vote before Inauguration Day. (A tie would place the fate of a nominee in the hands of Vice President Mike Pence, in his role as Senate president.)
Here's a look at the Senate Republicans who could possibly oppose allowing President Trump to fill the court vacancy prior to the election or prior to Inauguration Day.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the maverick Republican from Alaska, said Friday before news broke of Ginsburg’s death that she would not vote for a new Supreme Court justice before the election. “We are 50 some days away from an election,” she said in an interview, according to Alaska Public Media.
In 2016, Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., said he believed Scalia’s February death was too close to the November election to not have voters weigh in, according to the Denver Post. “The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision,” he said at the time.
Gardner’s Democratic opponent, John Hickenlooper, who has consistently led in the polls, said Friday that Gardner must “uphold the commitment” from 2016 to delay a vote. Gardner didn’t answer the Post’s requests for comment Friday, the newspaper reported.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, in a July call with donors, said he wouldn’t advocate holding hearings for a Trump nominee. In 2016, Grassley, then the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, blocked hearings for Merrick Garland, citing the “Biden rule,” a 1992 speech in which then-Sen. Joe Biden said then-President George H.W. Bush should wait until after the election to appoint a Supreme Court pick. Grassley isn’t up for reelection.
and btw, the senate is currently 53-47 R-D.
4 abstentions takes it to 49-47. pence makes it 50.
cocaine mitch wins.
Fellow GOP Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who is up for reelection, conversely said in July the Senate should hold hearings, according to the Des Moines Register.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, another vulnerable lawmaker in a state that isn’t deeply red, declined to comment Friday on whether she’d support a pre-election vote, the Portland Press Herald reported. Collins has been consistently running behind her Democratic challenger Sara Gideon, Maine’s speaker of the House, in what’s shaping up to be her most difficult reelection effort yet.
Finally, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, hasn’t weighed in yet, but he has already proven he isn’t afraid to defy his party: Romney was the only Republican senator to vote to impeach Trump in February, much to the ire of Trump supporters.
A pre-election Supreme Court vote could put vulnerable senators like Collins and Gardner – who need Democratic votes to win – in a difficult position and any newly elected senators will be sworn in Jan. 3.
Interestingly, astronaut Mark Kelly, a Democrat who is challenging Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., could be sworn in as early as Nov. 30 if he beats her in the race, experts say, according to the Arizona Republic. The Arizona race is technically a special election since McSally was appointed to her seat last year after Sen. John McCain’s death. Kelly has consistently led McSally in the polls.
McSally tweeted Friday night that "This U.S. Senate should vote on President Trump's next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court."
You have used quotes from Joe Biden to attack him. Hypocrisy squared off
Lindsey Graham Earlier Vowed a President in Their Last Year Shouldn't Fill Supreme Court Vacancy. In 2016.
2018, moron.
McSally tweeted Friday night that "This U.S. Senate should vote on President Trump's next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court."
She's losing in the polls
so...
we should start a pool to predict when the pathological liberals attempt to set fire to the USSC.
Moron he opposed the nominee by President Obama in 2016.
XiNN:
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham in October 2018 said, "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. And I've got a pretty good chance of being the Judiciary [Chairman]. Hold the tape."
so take it up with XiNN, Agolf.
The Democrats should impose term limits on the SCOTUS.
Old quotes are meaningless
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The Democrats should impose term limits on the SCOTUS.
LOL.
always, always, always seeking to change the rules to game the system.
"the electoral college is fascist!"
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Agolf Twitler's link:
Demand Congress Not Confirm Ruth Bader Ginsberg's Replacement Until After the Inauguration of Joe Biden
LOL.
precisely WHY the seat needs to be filled ASAP. democrats have promised a legal challenge to the 2020 election no matter the outcome. Trump could win a 50 state landslide and democrats will take it to court regardless.
therefore we cannot afford a constitutional crisis by virtue of an 8 seat USSC.
NEW QUOTE
Catherine Herridge
@CBS_Herridge
#ginsburg McConnell, R-KY – “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.” (last line of statement) #CBS’ John Nolen
STATEMENT:
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1307121806038519811
“In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year,” McConnell said.
“By contrast, Americans reelected 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.
President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
Guess who said this?
“The Framers adopted life tenure at a time when people simply did not live as long as they do now. A judge insulated from the normal currents of life for twenty-five or thirty years was a rarity then, but is becoming commonplace today. Setting a term of, say, fifteen years would ensure that federal judges would not lose all touch with reality through decades of ivory tower existence. It would also provide a more regular and greater degree of turnover among the judges. Both developments would, in my view, be healthy ones.”
The only person who has said that he would not accept the request of the election was Donald Trump! Jimmy, your an idiot
The cowardly truthers didn't know who said that!
After making the Puerto Rican people- American citizens - suffer for almost four years without getting the aid they had been appropriated, Trump releases what has long been their emergency aid, and expects Puerto Rican’s to now vote for him? Humiliation, forced suffering and then insult . . . .
The Democrats can use the video of him throwing paper towels!
Tom Fitton
@TomFitton
COUP KARMA: If the Left can impeach and try to remove a president during an election year, a Supreme Court justice can certainly be appointed during an election year.
Only racists would disagree
5he aid wasd sent. The stupid Gov and Mayor had it sitting in warehouses.
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
The American people have spoken. They want Trump to select the judges.
After making the Puerto Rican people- American citizens - suffer for almost four years without getting the aid they had been appropriated, Trump releases what has long been their emergency aid, and expects Puerto Rican’s to now vote for him?
Actually Puerto Rican's can vote for him or anybody else. They are still a territory with no electoral votes.
Setting a term of, say, fifteen years would ensure that federal judges would not lose all touch with reality through decades of ivory tower existence. It would also provide a more regular and greater degree of turnover among the judges. Both developments would, in my view, be healthy ones.”
That would require a constitution amendment was well as capping the number of justices on the supreme court to nine.
Democrats should care however. Packing the court to achieve political ends was never popular with the American people, FDR tried it to get his new deal agenda passed but was smart enough to withdraw it once he saw how the political winds were blowing.
If they do pack the court they will pay a heavy price in the 2022 mid-terms.
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