[Jim W N]

Chris Wallace, the weasel.

[Political Junkie Too]

Mitch McConnell was following The Biden Rule...

An interesting thing about these so-called rules is that they are made by Democrats to hamstring Republicans. It's good that McConnell turned it back on Democrats.

An adept Republican (if there is such a thing) can play the hypocrisy both ways: 1) the Biden way was to declare that the people should decide the next SCOTUS nominee through the ballot box, and 2) the hypocritical spin would be to say that the President doesn't give up his Constitutional powers in an election year, and if the voters don't like his choice they can vote him and his party out of office afterwards.

The Democrats have been masters at after-the-fact apologies, such as giving back tainted campaign donations after the money was used to win the race. It's time for Republicans to show the same hubris by discarding Democrat so-called rules, get their justice appointed, and then tell the voters to approve or disapprove once it can't be undone.

-PJ

[loveliberty2]

"The subject of Abraham Lincoln's "Lyceum" speech was citizenship in a democratic republic and threats to American institutions. In the speech, Lincoln discussed in glowing terms the political system established by the founding fathers, but warned of a potential destructive force from within. He asked his listeners:

'Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.'- Abraham Lincoln, "Lyceum" Speech

Lincoln then warned of a destructive force from within which could overtake the American political system. He said:

'It is to deny what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion as others have done before them. The question then is, Can that gratification be found in supporting and maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others? Most certainly it cannot. Many great and good men, sufficiently qualified for any task they should undertake, may ever be found whose ambition would aspire to nothing beyond a seat in Congress, a gubernatorial or a presidential chair; but such belong not to the family of the lion or the tribe of the eagle. What! think you these places would satisfy an Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon? Never! Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. It sees no distinction in adding story to story upon the monuments of fame erected to the memory of others. It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freemen. Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? And when such an one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs. Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm, yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.'- Abraham Lincoln, "Lyceum" Speech

[TLI]

“it would make it look like a tea party”

Doesn’t he recall which side came out on top?

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[Conserv]

Sorry, dems, President Trump is not going to kowtow to your wishes....

and you fools damn well know it.

[Berosus]

Bah, next the Democrats will say that Trump can’t replace RBG now, because two dozen+ candidates are campaigning already.

[SpaceBar]

Ginsburg is a cancer. And when it dies the left want it replaced with another hideously diseased lump of tissue.

[jazusamo]

MAGA!

Let’s keep this Freepathon moving and git 'er done, Folks!

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[Erik Latranyi]

If an opening on the court occurs, McConnell should come out and say he was wrong to follow the Biden rule. Democrats were right....and then vote on Trump’s nominee.

[thoughtomator]

Democrats have lost the right to petition for fair treatment, for the same reason the boy who cried wolf was eventually no longer believed.

[Brian Griffin]

Here’s the Griffin rule:

No stupidity, please!

The Supreme Court is the ultimate decider in modern America.

No sane Republican (or other American) should allow Democrats to control the Supreme Court if Republicans (and others) legally can prevent it.

[Brian Griffin]

America has been kicked around by a leftist Supreme Court since FDR’s time.

When it’s time to set things judicially right, we’ll do what we might that is right.

[unlearner]

“If there is a SCOTUS vacancy next year and @senatemajldr carries through on his extraordinary promise to fill it-despite his own previous precedent in blocking Garland-it will tear this country apart.”

So will CW2.

[Bon mots]

There will be a Supreme Court vacancy in 2019. She's got final stage
pancreatic cancer, is 85 years old and her treatment is palliative.

3 months would be a long time to survive with this disease at any age,
never mind a frail woman over 80.

[qaz123]

2020 ..... what about the rest of 2019.

What will the women of the US do when Barrett is put up there for confirmation. Oh the horror...

[cdcdawg]

“it will tear this country apart”

This country is already torn apart. It’s been coming apart for nearly half a century.

[Billthedrill]

The demand of the Left is going to be “Merrick Garland or ELSE!” - this call for “bipartisanship” from people who have been in a hate-fueled, spittle-throwing tantrum for the last two years. Sorry, folks, that sort of behavior has consequences. And what is most amusing about their attitude is that not one of them will budge an inch on anything else in trade. Unlimited funding for The Wall? Deportation of illegals? Defunding Planned Parenthood, NPR, and PBS? Nope, not a chance, you get nothing, just give us our supreme court justice or else. That isn’t even politics, it’s the intransigence of spoiled brats.

[Bon mots]

[Joe Boucher]

I am sooo hoping she goes one way or the other in say Jan,2020.
The Donald nominates a very conservative very young woman.
Then Mitch sends the nomination up in say march sending the dems in to meltdown mode.
Gotta get more popcorn and some beer.

[Karoo]

Sounds like a threat, n’est-ce pas?