Posted on 02/20/2016 4:00:34 PM PST by Hojczyk
What was the 2014 election about, they say We won and got nothing. We were lied to and betrayed by a corrupt leadership beholden to the Washington cartel.
As it happens, under our Constitution, the opposition party cannot govern without the acquiescence of the President, which it will not get, or a two-thirds majority of the Congress, which it does not have.
But no matter. Things are different now. Appointing a Supreme Court justice is a two-key operation. The President proposes, the Senate
disposes. There is no reason McConnell cannot hold the line. And he must. The stakes here a radical generation-long reversal of direction of the Supreme Court are the highest this Senate will ever face.
If McConnell succeeds, he will have resoundingly answered the what did we get for 2014 question. Imagine if the Senate were now in Democratic hands. What we got in 2014 was the power to hold on to Scalias seat and to the courts conservative majority.
But only for now. Blocking an Obama nominee buys just a year. The final outcome depends on November 2016. If the GOP nominates an unelectable or unconservative candidate, a McConnell victory will be nothing more than a stay of execution.
In 2012, Scalia averred that he would not retire until there was a more ideologically congenial President in the White House. I would not like to be replaced, he explained, by someone who immediately sets about undoing everything that Ive tried to do for 25 years.
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Sauerkraut
It don’t matter. Go Trump!
The 2014 election was about stopping Obama’s destructive agenda.
Not only did the Republicans fail, they were shown to be complicit.
Add to that, the GOP has been steadily crapping on the conservative wing of the base for years.
No more—Go Trump!
Yes, but they can turn a corner by stopping Valerie's choice for SCOTUS.
Absolutely true.
If the Dems had the congress it would already be a communist court.
Eternal vigilance.
“It don’t matter. “
What doesn’t matter?
Ha, ha, ha!
And, may I add, Ho, ho, ho!
We did! Trump won. Nino would be thrilled.
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