I think you meant "Their."
Posted on 07/08/2018 7:47:36 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Let's cut the crap. Every senator's mind is made up. There will be a Kabuki dance with Collins and Murkowski. They'll enjoy the attention. Senators from Indiana, ND, Montana and WV won't. November is first on their minds. Their job is to show why they are on that panel and you are not. So we will all go through the formalities and protocol that our 'process' requires. A simple drumroll will do. It's quicker.
No Borking this time?
If anyone thinks this is anything other than an ideological battle for the hearts, minds, and soul of Americans and America, they’re kidding themselves.
The Left has already made its stand: Destroy America to gain Global Totalitarian Government.
Will the Right make its stand to MAGA by the Recovery of our Free Constitutional Republic?
That is ONLY what ALL of this including these judicial nomimiations is all about.
Law suits, riots in the streets, the democrats and the swamp will bring out all their tentacles on this one.
Yup.
Hate to say it, but if “we” wanted to win, “we’d” be working a lot harder to replace some of them, like Collins.
Comforting a Progressive Liberal democrat:
There, they’re, their.
It’ll be OK.
“Law suits, riots in the streets, the democrats and the swamp will bring out all their tentacles on this one.”
They will never figure this out but they should hold their biggest weapons for the next one. Roberts has already shown he is going to be the next Kennedy. He saved Obongo care, he smacked AZ down when they tried to stop the invasion. Roberts is at best a moderate and I think he’s heading further left now. The should keep their powder dry for RBG’s replacement.
THEIR.
Sorry.
Wonder if McPain will be able to vote and give his signature thumbs down gesture (historically speaking, the thumbs down gesture in Roman times was to let the defeated live, not the other way around).
...Hearings? Will schmuckey even “allow” any...
Chuckie “the snake” Schumer can’t stop them.
Doesn’t mean he won’t try. LOL!
Close.
This is a battle for the (one side or the other’s) ability to gain and control the levers of power and money. To issue via Judaical fiat, laws and policy that would never pass an elected body of legislature.
The SCOTUS ceased to be a body solely for the deliberation of Constitutional Law a very long time ago.
I think you meant "Their."
The #1 priority for (almost) all senators is getting re-elected. Whether it’s this year or in 2 or 4 years. Those retiring care about a high-paying job after, and the most likely employers are usually affiliated with a party so many of the same considerations still matter.
They will need to do some polling once a name is announced to get one data point.
They will need to determine exactly how pissed off the RNC or DNC will be with a vote to determine if they will lose support (funds, endorsements, committed positions, etc).
They will calculate and estimated amount of donations gained/lost to their campaign and opponents from either vote.
Then they’ll pay a high priced consultant to add up all the data and tell them how to vote to best be reelected. For most of them, going with the party is best since party support is more important than almost anything else in most elections. But a few have a tricky situation and cannot make their decision without more information.
The things they have made up their minds about are
* What’s best for the country is irrelevant
* The qualifications of the nominee are irrelevant
* Any specific issues (e.g. Roe V Wade) are irrelevant except as they impact reelection probabilities and provide talking points in support of “their side” (which is a party, not America)
* They will try to confuse everyone with terms like “stare decisis”. Dems will demand the nominee follows precedent with Roe “like any qualified nominee would”. And they will avoid talking about Citizens United when they are absolutely against following precedent. Republicans have the opposite views on any “decided issue”
* The meaning of “advise and consent” and the authority of the president are irrelevant. These will change the next time a Dem president makes a nomination.
Close.
The issue is RECOVERY of our Free Constitutional Republic stolen by the Left including Leftist SCOTUS a very long time ago.
They say Kennedy was “in the middle”. No, he wasn’t. He either voted with the liberals or he voted with the conservatives. Now, if he voted “present” he’d have been in the middle.
Grandstanding Kabuki style outrage on top, rubber stamp below. Even a senator can figure this one out.
Trump recognizes the games they play and he does not count himself amongst them. He laid out his 25 possible nominees long before he was elected. It’s out there. No need for meandering thru the process. More time for drama. This country seems to enjoy it.
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