Posted on 10/08/2018 1:49:37 AM PDT by T-Bird45
In this shameful season of partisan lies, it is nearly impossible to run down every deceit before it lands on the lips of some lusty mob, where it becomes a rallying cry to chase decency, dissent and free speech from the public square.
Look at this weekend’s mobs of protesters — many of them paid by hugely wealthy and powerful special interests — that thronged the streets around the Capitol and Supreme Court to shout down any difference of opinion.
Jackbooted hippies jeered, harassed and intimidated anyone who hesitated to swear fealty to their warped worldview and twisted lies.
No single lie has been more freely uttered — or is more profoundly dishonest — than the claim that Senate Democrats had every right to kill the Kavanaugh nomination as payback for Republicans’ refusal to take up President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland in the final months of his presidency.
Let’s set aside for the moment this insidious notion that it is somehow acceptable to publicly endorse revenge politics.
The fact that so many Democrats openly embrace this kind of “governing by revenge” reveals just how cynical and disingenuous the entire party has become. It also reveals just how unlikely they will ever be any part of a genuine effort to stop the insanity gripping Congress these days.
The biggest lie about Merrick Garland — one that is constantly peddled by Democrats and unquestioningly accepted by the press — is that Republicans’ treatment of him and his nomination is somehow on par with how Democrats treated Justice Kavanaugh and his nomination.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Democrats are masters of unintended consequences.
Garland was simply denied a confirmation hearing. Republicans never tried to destroy his reputation.
What was happened to him in no way justifies whaf the Democrats have done to Kavanaugh.
And to borrow from their position expressed in these past hearings, there is no entitlement to a seat on the Supreme Court.
Sounds fair to me and Garland is still a judge on the same appeals court as the one on which Kavanaugh served.
The biggest lie about Merrick Garland is only mentioned and that is he worked for Jamie Gorelick...you would like to think he got away clean.
bump
In the Garland case, had President Obama realized the various impacts of losing control of the House and Senate early on in his Presidency...then this Garland episode would have a minor issue, and he would have been easily approved by a majority Democratic Senate. From day one....President Obama had zero concern about the Democrats maintaining the House and Senate numbers.
He is not the person who Hillary Clinton would have nominated had she won.
A new President chooses their own pick and isn’t bound by someone a President departing from office named.
The Biden Rule simply said the Senate would not consider any executive or judicial nomination in a President’s last year in office.
Democrats followed it in 2008 and Republicans did the same in 2016.
bmp
Predictable in the era of the Imperial Presidency.
What is not sufficiently celebrated on the Left is that Mitch McConnell gave the them a lottery ticket by not confirming Garland. Now, the ticket did not pay off. But had Hillary won, she could have nominated someone much less mainstream than Garland.
That is exactly whaf she would have done.
She would have nominated someone in line with her judicial philosophy.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Democrats are only offended when Republicans do the same thing.
I hope Senate Republicans finally learned this lesson once and for all.
Democrats are not, and never were, honest partners in negotiating legislation in Congress. They were always out to dupe and sandbag Republicans at every turn.
-PJ
The republicans may have made the largest impact in recent politics. They stood up to the DNC and media temper-tantrum. Before the Kavanaugh process it was not known if the republicans would take the heat of a full tantrum. But with the help of Graham, Trump, Kavanaugh himself and Collins, the republicans stood strong in the middle of the storm, losing just one vote, and picking up one.
I am not sure if this will make the democrats think twice about throwing another hissy fit. But some on the left, and this includes the media, will remember that Trump is looking like a knight coming home victorious after battle. While democrats are looking like Lindsey Logan getting slapped down in a court room. This time the judge is public opinion.
When Buzzy finally says mo mas, Trump should leak that he is seriously considering Garland for SCOTUS. Then he should choose Barrett because of white male privilege.
That would fry the rats gizzards.
“Then he should choose Barrett because of white male privilege.”
Now you’re really talking some 4-D political chess...LOL!!
I have said over and over, ‘if the citizenry wanted Merrick Garland on the SCOTUS, Hillary would have won the Electoral College’! IIRC, while campaigning in 2016, she DID SAY she would put Garland on the SCOTUS. I guess she thought that was something important.......
The Biden Rule says a Senate controlled by one party will not confirm an executive or judicial nomination made by a President of the opposite party during that President’s last year in office.
My belief was that, if we lost the election, the republicans might have taken up Garland the day after the election, and Obama would have withdrawn his name the same day, because Garland, while liberal, was not the liberal they wanted.
I also believe that, if RBG had died in February, rather than Scalia, and Garland was the nominee, the GOP probably would have confirmed him.
Those are both good analyses of the politics. Agree with all. The failed Garland nomination had a potential upside for the Left. I haven’t had an opportunity to share that with the loudest screamers among my lefty friends.
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