100%... and raise the number of judges to 11For anyone interested, there is a great article at TownHall.com that bears the absolute truth of the matter, and shows the histrionics of the Left to be an example of the hate inspired, unconstitutional scum they really are with yet another self-inflicted wound: "Senate Dems: We're Horrified the GOP is Exploiting Our Power Grab on Judicial Confirmations" and there was a good thread started by Kaslin at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3654535/posts
I loved this excerpt:
The American people decided not to give Democrats the House or to restore the filibuster-proof majority they had in the Senate back in 2009, and our Democrat colleagues don’t like that one bit. So they’re trying to change the rules of the game to get their way...In short, unlike the first two years of the Obama Administration, there’s now a legislative check on the President. And the Administration doesn’t much like checks and balances...And get this: [Democrats] think they can change the rules of the Senate in a way that benefits only them. They want to do it in such a way that President Obama’s agenda gets enacted, but that a future Republican president couldn’t get his or her picks for the Supreme Court confirmed by a Republican Senate using the same precedent our Democrat friends want to set. So they want to have it both ways. But this sort of gerrymandered vision of the nuclear option is really just wishful thinking.
As the Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee put it yesterday: ‘If [the Majority Leader] changes the rules for some judicial nominees, he is effectively changing them for all judicial nominees, including the Supreme Court.’ Look: I realize this sort of wishful thinking might appeal to the uninitiated newcomers in the Democratic Conference who’ve served exactly zero days in the minority. But others in their conference should know better...if they want to play games and set yet another precedent that they will no doubt come to regret, well, that’s a choice only they can make.
He added, "you’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.” That warning fell on deaf ears, and Democrats marched forward with their power grab. President Obama, who'd enjoyed a 99 percent confirmation rate on his judicial picks prior to a partisan fight breaking out over his designs to pack the DC Circuit Court, prevailed. A flurry of post-nuclear confirmations allowed Obama to dramatically tilt the federal judiciary to the left, a development that was enthusiastically welcomed by liberals. But as McConnell presciently foresaw, the proverbial shoe is now on the other foot, and the American Left is looking on in horror as President Trump and Mitch McConnell use the Democrat-implemented new rules to confirm an avalanche of young conservative jurists..."
The Left must be taught a lesson, as hard as it is to get it through their thick skulls: If you want to play your political crap games, man up and be prepared to feel the pain when your oh-so-clever political hardball tactics boomerang around and nail you in the nuts. Perhaps next time, you might heed the advice of someone who understands that making laws that benefit you when you are in power may (and will) be used against you when you are NOT in power.
So we should push and abuse this rule THEY created to get as many conservatives in the judiciary as we can...and we can do it LEGALLY because THEY changed the rules.
And we should do the same with other abuses. They want to go after Dinesh D'Souza? Rosie O'Donnell should be prosecuted and convicted to the same extent for the same crime.
Want to go after Michael Flynn with the Logan Act? Let's go full tilt on John Kerry. Handcuff him when he gets off the plane, raid his mansion and search it, interview him until we catch him in a lie, and prosecute him for it.
If we don't start throwing it right back in their faces, they will continue to do it. If we use their "rules" against THEM, they may think twice, though that is doubtful.
You filthy pond scum. Drink a long draught of the polluted political waters you created. Do us all (and the Republic) a favor by CHOKING on those polluted waters you made.
“If we don’t start throwing it right back in their faces, they will continue to do it. If we use their “rules” against THEM, they may think twice, though that is doubtful.”
Totally agree. The Repugs in Congress are too afraid of the media (aka, the dems) to fight dirty like the Rats. What I love about Trump is that he has taken a wrecking ball to the media and he’s single handedly obliterating them. Wish the cowards in congress would learn from him.
thing is, with Hussein in office and majorities in Congress, they thought they had captured power for all time. The 2016 election convinced them they had taken over and the advent of the Clinton figurehead would be the end of that horrible reactionary Constitution and they could start personally neutralizing, probably even killing, all their enemies. Trump was the only Republican who could have won that election and the only one who could make a difference if he did win.
100%... and raise the number of judges to 11