It would appear to be David Blackmon's blog with a credited piece by LS.
Posted on 10/02/2019 10:34:57 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Yertle’s Quiet Effectiveness
Poor old Mitch McConnell. The Senate Majority Leader is frequently accused of being part of the “Swamp.” Perhaps he is, but he has been superbly effective for the last four years, and almost nobody notices. Indeed, Yertle (as I affectionately call him) has been a one-man Senate wrecking crew against liberals.
Yet he is constantly under fire, most recently from Rush Limbaugh who cited Yertle’s comment that if the House impeaches President Trump, the Senate must have a trial. Well, duh.
That’s the Constitution fer ya!
But I don’t think it means at all what it seems, and I think Nancy Pelosi (who I refer to as “Botoxic”) is realizing that. But let’s review Yertle’s record first, shall we?
In 2015, at no one’s urging, Yertle took it upon himself to block Barack Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, from receiving a vote, claiming (with no particular historical precedent) that because Zero (my nickname for Obama) was in the last year of his presidency, that would not be fair. Keeping Garland off the Court and preventing a Democrat 5-4 majority would have been huge, to say the least.
But Yertle didn’t stop there.
*Lucy Koh, nominated to the Ninth Circuit, was reported out of the Judiciary Committee but Yertle didn’t give her a floor vote. Instead that went to a Trump appointee, Daniel Collins.
*The same story was true of Donald Schott, a Seventh Circuit nominee. The seat ultimately went to Trump pick Michael Brennan.
*In the Eighth Circuit, the nominee Jennifer Puhl likewise was not given a vote. That went to. Trump pick Ralph Erickson.
*At the Supreme Court level, Yertle promised that both Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh would be confirmed. They were. (By the way, yesterday Russell Bucklew was executed: his appeal, Bucklew v. Precythe involved the issue of capital punishment, and the Court ruled against Bucklew. That very well may not have happened without Kavanaugh.)
*He promised to pass the tax cut. He did.
*He promised to bring Obamacare up for a vote (note: Yertle did NOT promise to pass it, as I think he knew John McCain would do his infamous “thumbs down.”)
So as best I can tell, every time Yertle says he will do something, it gets done. Let’s return to Yertle’s comment about holding a trial if Botoxic passes impeachment: I don’t think this was Yertle laying down at all (or, I guess, retreating into his shell). I don’t even think this was him absentmindedly saying he’d follow the Constitution.
This was a shot across Botoxic’s bow. This was Yertletalk for “Make my day.” This tells me Yertle knows he hsa 34 hard “acquits” in his caucus (and likely another 10 squish acquits—that is, RINOs who, when they see how the vote is going, will be on the winning side). Indeed, I think Yertle is right now just a couple of votes away from something that is rarely mentioned: a “dismissal.” The Senate must convene a trial, but in Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, two weeks in, Senator Robert “Sheets” Byrd filed a motion to dismiss.
It only failed by seven votes—for a president who had clearly lied and obstructed justice. Therefore, I think Yertle probably could count on about 45-47 votes to dismiss right now. If the impeachment charges from the House are lame (as almost certainly they will be), Yertle can reach 50, and Mike Pence breaks the tie. By saying “We’d have to have a trial,” Yertle was promising Botoxic and the Democrats would lose in a most embarrassing way, that there would be no stalling, and that it would be over before Ilhan Omar could marry another male relative.
Yertle knows his caucus, and he knows that other than Mitt (“Minion”) Romney, no one will vote to convict Trump of anything. I can almost hear Yertle, in his best Pedro Serrano voice (from “Major League”), “You bring dat chit to me, mon. Bring dat chit to me!”
Larry Schweikart, co-author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, A Patriot’s History of the United States with Michael Allen and author of Reagan: The American President, has regular court and political updates at his site www.wildworldofhistory.com on the VIP side. For a free “Reagan” webinar, email him at larry@wildworldofhistory.com.
I don’t think it will even get to the Senate. The Dems are scared to death of discovery.
The Dems want to do as much damage to DJT as they can, and, in the long run, it won’t work.
Blocking Garland was the ONLY thing I ever saw Yurtle man-up enough to do.
it would be over before Ilhan Omar could marry another male relative.
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LOL!
Good one.
These people are a bit slow. The entire Republican party was and much of it clearly still is part of the corrupt swamp.
I agree, he gets credit for that, but he’s not moved as fast as he could have on judicial appointees.
We need as many new judges as we can get.
The Kenyanesian Usurper put some really dangerous people on the bench.
I don’t think McConnell gets enough credit.
He’s very effective.
Cocaine Mitch isn’t a fool, Articles of Impeachment, not “Impeachment Inquiry” not “Orange Man Bad Impeachment Investigation” or anything like that so the Dems can dance around the terminology. Articles of Impeachment, properly drawn to the constitution, if not, throw it in the trash can.
The MSM and Dems were expecting Cocaine Mitch to say that he wouldn’t hold the trial/vote, but he called their bluff and said he would. They were not expecting that.
It would appear to be David Blackmon's blog with a credited piece by LS.
Getting 150 Trump Justices through wasn’t? Seriously, Cocaine Mitch is getting it done. And keeping that seat open was gutsy
I agree. The Democrats want it to continue being part of the media cycle without having to account for it.
Larry and I are Twitter friends. This is the second piece he has contributed to my blog in the past week. I hope to have more from him in the future.
Unlike others, I never plagiarize.
I decline to join the Yertle haters on these threads ... although I am curious about how closely is he willing to work with the White House.
One thing I learned from this column was that he held up other Obama judicial appointments besides that of Merrick Garland. Good to know.
Since the Legislature is dead with a Democrat house, the Judicial branch is even more important.
“Yertle” gets it done.
I agree. And he did a very good job with Kavanaugh.
With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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I am as well, I realized that in retrospect.
Amnesty would have been passed and we would have lost our country.
There would have been no way back.
With Trump we have a fighting chance still to keep it.
We have to start tossing out Amnesty Senators, though.
Re-electing them only emboldens them.
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