Senator Chuck Grassley, March 16, 2016:
“Today the President has exercised his constitutional authority. A majority of the Senate has decided to fulfill its constitutional role of advice and consent by withholding support for the nomination during a presidential election year, with millions of votes having been cast in highly charged contests...“A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice..."
If this sounds like a repost of an earlier essay, well, it is.
Period. Full stop.
However over the longer term, one election will not be sufficient, because we are not faced with a dispute over policies or priorities. Instead we are faced with the genuinely existential problem of political party which has become entirely corrupt, depraved and sadistic.
By choice and from top to bottom.
And the reason that this gang of Republican criminals and monsters feel so free to commit their atrocities so openly and proudly -- the reason that they boast about it -- is because so much time, money and effort was expended last time to make sure that the last gang of Republican criminals and monsters and their media enablers --
-- were never brought to book for a god damn thing.
That's why we at the Professional Left say "Burn Their Lifeboats". Why we are extremely suspicious of Republican Never Trumpers who would have us believe that somehow, after a lifetime of professional service in he leadership of the Republican party, only noticed five minutes ago that their Republican party was full of Republicans.
Because if any of the architects of our present disaster or any of their media enablers are allowed to escape judgement this time and set up shop once again, before you can say "The Extremes on Both Sides!" they will have scurried through the Bush Off-Machine and be right back in business, rebuilding their same old monster factory with the backing of the same old plutocrats, promoted by the same old media corporations and staffed by the same old wingnut hobgoblins.
Behold, a Tip Jar!
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The current national disaster (as opposed to the ongoing disasters and ones we had 4 days ago, then a few days before that, and a few days before that...) is just making me feel so goddamned sad and angry. I remember thinking during the GW presidency that if this fucker, his cabinet and GOP enablers are allowed to get away with the elephant-in-the-room criminal behaviors then this country is truly going to be lost. If the rhetoric around right and wrong isn't honored and the rule of law is not applied to all the horseshit that happened during the George W Bush's administration then the final signal fires have been lit announcing power and money rules the day. Of all the criticisms I had with Obama, I was most disappointed within weeks of his presidency when it was clear he wasn't going to hold Bush and the Republicans responsible for the previous 8 years. In that regard I agree with the yutes that Democrats are too corrupt themselves and are institutionally incapable of representing the people of this republic. I'm ultimately an optimist but I don't see a light at the end of this tunnel and I don't think this is going to end well.
Nice touch with Spencer Tracy, judging the judges.
A movie that displayed the black robes of law and morals Can be susceptible to corruption.
What is in place to oversee them besides a corrupt congress that likes their corrupt judges they confirmed.
Just like the republicans that liked Saddam Hussein until the end, "Saddam is a dictator, killer and corrupt person. But he is our Saddam Dictator", proudly espoused by many republicans in the day.
Trivia. One of my senators recently wrote a story in the local paper. This has been his town Hall since in office before the COVID. Always talking at you never talking to you.
He has been working (long term) on repealing the 17th Amendment and change things to allow State legislators to choose Senators.
You may think this is a cost effective move for the future of his rich donors because buying state senators is much cheaper than funding a U.S. Senator. Which means he does not want me to vote for him or any senator. This is what he thinks about the people in his state.
That will not stop me from contacting him opposing what Sen Lindsey Graham said about he has the votes. Trump hasn't announced his SCOTUS pick and Lindsey already has his vote for SCOTUS.
This senator thanked me for my service and he must have meant I am a loser and a sucker for serving in the military.
Because he made his moral word of not confirming a SCOTUS so close to election.
Over 200 thousand dead, huge national debt, GDP in toilet, Unemployment high, lack of good paying jobs he promised with his tax cut. massive natural disasters, Russia interfering with our election, and much more . And my republican senator is working in the heritage Foundation secret lab to overturn the 17th Amendment because it is so urgent and important to not allow the people to vote for Senators.
I didn't think it was possible for me to be disappointed by a Republican at this late date, but I think I have just been disappointed by Lindsey Graham.
I'm not disappointed that he went back on his thrice stated in the very public word, he's a Republican, and everyone knows Republicans' words are worth their weight in rat turds.
No, I'm disappointed in him for his supposed reasoning behind going back on his word: the treatment of Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation.
Hear me out.
Lindsey Graham, or as he is called widely "Miss Lindsey" has had a long and storied career in Washington DC without one single credible accusation of sexual impropriety, despite the ongoing best efforts of god only knows how many people who would like nothing better than to take him down with one.
Two things about that: One, reports of having had sex are not reports of sexual impropriety, and two, I submit to you that merely failing to engage in such shenanigans is not, in fact, enough for someone like him to avoid such accusations.
Lindsey Graham knows what he's doing. He has skills at keeping himself above such scandal, and I don't imagine those skills to have come easily or to be a lot of fun to employ. Successfully. For decades.
So when he used the treatment of a goddamn gropey drunk fratboy at his confirmation hearings to be a justice on the supreme court as his reasoning for bailing on his promises, I did feel the slightest bit disappointed by him.
He is still a goddamn war mongering traitor who has measurably harmed the republic and a faithful worker on the monster assembly line, but since I am a Democrat, that does not interfere with my ability to empathize with him as a human being.
My fervent wish is that he loses his election and is thereby run out of the US government forever, and thus never has to worry about such things for the rest of his days.
There are plenty of other things for us to make him worry about, none of which have to do with his alleged sex life.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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